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AFCON: Eagles to get $250,000 if they lift trophy in Cameroon, Otedola promises

Billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola has promised the Super Eagles squad $250,000, if they lift the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, who represented CACOVID during a visit to the team’s camp in Cameroon, made the disclosure.

He also said the private sector-led platform established to assist the government in combating Coronavirus in the country, will also give the Super Eagles team $120,000 for the six goals they scored in the group stage of the tournament.

Recall, the Eagles finished the group stage with six goals, which amounted to $120,000.

Emefiele, who praised the team for their performance at the AFCON, also added that CACOVID has increased the amount for every goal scored to $50,000 in the round of 16.

“I came with a message from the CACOVID. The CACOVID is the coalition of private-sector companies that was set up to fight COVID-19 in Nigeria and they have been happy with the performance of the team,” Emefiele said.

“During the meeting, I had with the captain (Ahmed Musa) and the coach (Austin Eguavoen), I delivered a message from CACOVID and the message is that, for every goal that is scored, the team will receive the naira equivalent of $20,000 so far, you have earned for yourself the naira equivalent of $120,000.

“We held a CACOVID meeting again because everyone is overjoyed for everything you’ve done so far, CACOVID has asked me to raise the ante.

“From the round of 16, for every goal scored, you will earn for yourselves as a team the naira equivalent of $50,000.

“Also, Femi Otedola, who is a member of CACOVID, has asked me to tell you that if you lift the trophy, he has in the bank for you, the naira equivalent of $250,000. This is just the beginning and I can assure you that if you win your round of 16 games, another promise might be made,” Emefiele added.

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Osinbajo Launches $750m COVID-19 Recovery Initiative

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has on Thursday launched the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus, to be implemented with a $750m World Bank facility.

Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement he signed on Thursday titled, ‘World bank $750m support will complement FG’s social investment, job creation, poverty reduction programmes–Osinbajo’.

The inauguration was a prelude to the National Economic Council meeting chaired by the Vice President at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.

According to him, the NG-Cares, which would be for two years (2021-2023), will avail states with $20m, while the Federal Capital Territory would receive $15m.

“NG-Cares is a multi-sectoral programme designed to support vulnerable and poor Nigerians to provide essential emergency relief to smallholder farmers and MSMEs, especially those that were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Programme will build on the varied and extensive Federal Government interventions developed as part of the president’s plan for taking 100 million Nigerians out of poverty and in response to the severe socio-economic fallouts of the pandemic, especially those programmes and plans contained in the Economic Sustainability Plan.

“The essential addition to the Federal Government’s Programme is that the NG-Cares programme will leverage on existing programmes in the states, especially job creation programmes, wealth creation, poverty reduction programmes at the community level such as state cash transfer units, state Fadama or agriculture development agencies, state job creation units and MSME units. All of the support by Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme,” Osinbajo said.

The Vice President further explained that “the World Bank loan is in the order of $750m and this will be over two years (2021-2023); the intervention allocation to each state is $20m and $15m to the FCT; there is also $15m for the Federal Cares Support Unit.”

He noted that the states would drive the Programme, and there will be a programme for result-delivery mechanism type, in which case, performance must be shown.

He noted that “subsidy and grants to support individuals, households and MSMEs in the multi-year development plan for 2021-2024 was developed in the context of the response to the COVID-19 crisis and the ESP.

“That plan serves as a bridge to ensure successful programme implementation. The Federal Government will provide quality assurance, monitoring, capacity building and technical assistance to states and the FCT on project activities and results.

“Consequently, the Federal Government has inaugurated the Federal Cares Steering Committee, the Federal Cares Technical Committee and the Federal Cares Support Unit to provide overall policy direction, technical support to all the states and the FCT and to advise the president appropriately.”

Osinbajo, who urged stakeholders to deploy their wealth of experience and expertise to ensure successful take-off and implementation of the Programme, said he looks forward to prompt and effective implementation of the Programme both at the federal and state levels.

In attendance were State Governors, members of the Federal Executive Council, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and development partners, including the World Bank Country Director, Shubham Chaudhuri, who made a presentation on State Eligibility for the Programme.

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Ladies Of Nowaday Love Money, We Usually Lured Them With Fancy Things, Arrested Ritualists Confess In Osun

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that two ritualists were arrested by the Osun State Police Command with female body parts found with them.

The Osun State Police spokesman said at about 9:30pm, they recieved a distress call by a hotel management where they had lodged alerting the Police that a girl screamed twice and after that, no noise was heard again from the room. According to them the scream was like a girl calling for help.

According to the management when the guys were about going, they were asked to be escorted back to the room to see if everything was fine and why the girl they came with wasn’t leaving with them.

The ritualist said everything was fine and the girl was resting in the room, that she was going to be out.But the hotel management insisted, even though they tried to escape , the hotel management were smart enough to had locked the premises and pinned them down. That was when they were able to gain access in the room and saw a pool of blood with some body parts removed from the lifeless female body which they tried escaping with in a bag, the spokesman said.

That was when the distress call was made and the police force took emergency response, and they were arrested.

During some further investigation by the police, it was found that the names of the apprehended criminals are Ayodeji Saheed and Tunde Obadimeji who both confessed saying its not the first time they are committing such and that they have killed more than 70 girls. They specialized in getting female parts and one Abefe Sadiq pays them for each parts. #600:000:00 Six hundred thousand naira. for one girl killed for him ?

They were asked further how they get these girls?
“Getting the girls was so easy, we lured them with money and fancy things”. They went further saying that “girls of nowadays are easily lured with those things, all they need to do is to get or rent a fancy car with cash they would spend on the girls, and that is all these girls fall for. Then they are being taken to a hotel room where they are told that they would be having fun overnight but instead they are being slaughtered”, said the ritualists.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police said that efforts are being made to arrest Abefe Sadiq, the one who contracted them to commit the heinous crime.

The CP also went further saying that information should be passed round to all female friends, sisters and colleagues that they should all be careful not to fall for guys like this, there are some out there who are meant to destroy lives, he said.

He also sent a note of warning to all of these criminals out there to repent or the law will surely grab hold of them.

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Saraki Support Group Organizes Town-Hall Meeting, Constitutes Zonal Leadership

The National leadership of Grow Nigeria Youth Movement, a mobilisation unit of energetic and committed youths seeking for the election of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki organized a town-hall meeting at the NUJ Correspondent Chapel, Osogbo, the capital city of Osun State.

According to Kazeem Olalekan Israel, the Director of Publicity, Grow Nigeria Youth Movement, South West Region said that the town-hallmeeting was meant to constitute the Zonal leadership of the movement and to also preach the gospel of the movement to the good people of Osun State and South West region as a warm-up activity to intimate the people of the need to elect a visionary and productive person like Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki as the President of the country come 2023.

“The meeting had in attendance 151 persons carefully selected from across the South West region and the State excos of the movement in the six South West States of Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun and Lagos”

The Honourable representing Ede North Local Government Area, Hon. Niran Atidade in his address, charges the you to to their strength to mobilise heavily for the emergence of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki as the President of the country. According to him, “Dr. Bukola Saraki is the fittest person for the job because he has shown capacity over the years.” He called on the youths to eschew politics of bitterness and to ensure they do not vote for ‘old cargoes”

Also, Honourable representing Obokun Local Government Area at the Osun State House of Assembly, Hon. Adewumi Adeyemi says “there is an urgent to vote in youths for leadership post most especially that of Presidency because it requires someone that has the energy to perform.” In his remark, he says that a septuagenarian and above cannot deliver what is expected of him as the President of the country considering the task before him. He however called on everyone present to continue propagating the agenda of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to become the next President of the country.

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One Feared Dead, Others Injured As Youths Clash In Idumota, Lagos

ODUDUWA NEWS gathered that there was heavy gunshots and serious fight in Lagos Island yesterday evening resulting to the loss of one live leaving many others injured.

It was learnt that some hoodlums called Area boys engaged themselves in free for all where they were seen brandishing several harmful weapons.

The fiercely looking youths were also seeing throwing broken glasses and stones while commuters were scampering for sfatety.

It took several hours of fighting before Police were mobilized to the scene to ensure security of lives and properties.

An eyewitness who spoke to ODUDUWA NEWS under the condition of anonymity said, the fight had been like that for years where Idumota boys would group themselves to take on a fight with Kosoko/Oluwole/Martins/Balogun boys.

She however called on government to find a lasting solution to the menace as they could no longer engage in their business activities peacefully.

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JUST IN: 3SC Football Club Loses General Manager, Rasheed Balogun

General Manager of 3SC Football Club of Oyo State, Alhaji Rasheed Balogun has passed away on Thursday night.

Rasheed Balogun died at age 62.

Before his death, Balogun was very hard-working and committed to the dream of bringing the lost glory of Shooting Stars Football Club back.

Friends and family members have been mourning the demise of the late football club manager.

Details later.

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Gov Sanwo-Olu Inspects Newly Acquired 330kmph High Speed Train In United States

The Lagos State Government has successfully acquired Talgo 330kmph speed train for the Red Line Metro project in Lagos.

This was disclosed yesterday by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as he inspected the newly acquired train in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

The visit of the Governor to United States is to complete the deal for the acquisition of two high speed trains for Lagos Metro project (Red Line) projected to be completed by the end of Year 2022.

The Governor said the 37 kilometres Red Line on completion will traverse eight stations and move passengers from Agbado to Oyingbo.

“We have completed the deal for the acquisition of the two high speed trains while we are ramping up the completion of the ancillary infrastructure like the train stations.

“We are irrevocably committed to completing the Red Line Metro rail project by the end of this year and bring a new lease of life to public transportation in Lagos,” the Governor said.

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2023: Niger Gov, Sani Bello Endorses Tinubu’s Presidential Ambition

The Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello, on Thursday, endorsed the presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

In a statement the governor made during Tinubu’s visit to the state, Bello stated that the national leader of the APC ‘is a candidate to reckon with.’

The governor said, “We saw the foundation you laid in Lagos and we look forward to seeing you replicate it for Nigeria.”

During his visit, Tinubu donated N50m to the victims of bandit attacks in Niger State.

Tinubu further stated that he believed the current security challenges facing the country would be addressed if efforts were intensified.

He said the APC led government has done much to curtail the security challenges but called on citizens to pray for the government to win the war against insurgency and banditry.

“We share in your grief, I am here for the people of Niger State. I have heard and read of the disasters, banditry and cattle rustling every day, just like what happened on Wednesday again,” Tinubu said.

During his visit, Tinubu was accompanied by Senator Abu Fari from Katsina; Hon Ibrahim Abdullahi, House of Representatives, Niger State and Hon James Falake representing Ikeja Federal constituency of Lagos State.

Moreso, Governor Bello seized the opportunity to for the adoption of new technologies in the ongoing war against banditry and terrorism rather than the use of conventional warfare.

“We don’t fight conventional warfare, let’s use technology even though it is expensive, the situation can be addressed that way. The era of sending soldiers to the forest is over when we can deploy drones to monitor the movement of bandits and hit target effortlessly,” he said.

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Women Coalition Asks Buhari, APC To Adopt Osinbajo As Consensus Presidential Candidate

The National Coalition of Women for Osinbajo (NCWO) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as their consensus presidential candidate.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, Rabi Dauda, NCWO chairperson, said Osinbajo has the intellectual capacity to make the country progress.

Dauda said the caretaker committee should ensure that the election of APC national leaders at the forthcoming convention is free and fair.

“We strongly affirm Nigerian women’s utmost confidence in the candidature of professor Yemi Osinbajo as a people-focused leader with the right intellectual capacity and innate leadership qualities to move Nigeria forward, with an emphatic attention to women’s progress and development,” she said.

“We demand the emergence of truly people-focused leadership at APC’s forthcoming convention and presidential primaries, either through consensus or voting processes as we look forward to the unfettered emergence of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as APC presidential flag bearer in 2023 elections.

“We strongly appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari, members of the federal executive council (FEC), state governors, party leaders at federal, state, local government levels and all genuine progressives among delegates to the APC presidential convention to ensure the actualization of an Osinbajo presidency in 2023.

“Without any iota of doubt, we believe that the emergence of Prof Yemi Osinbajo as the 2023 presidential flag-bearer of the APC will give Nigeria the opportunity to realize these lofty collective progressive aspirations.”

Dauda said the APC should ensure that women and youths are put in leadership positions in the party.

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