Ekiti Govt Approved The Appointment Of Prince Adeagbo As The New Oore Of Otun-Ekiti

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has approved the appointment of Prince Adekunle Adeayo Adeagbo from Ile-Iyaba Ruling House as the new Oore of Otun-Ekiti, succeeding HRM Oba James Adeyemi Popoola who joined his ancestors on the 21st of October, 2019.

This announcement was contained in a press statement released in Ado-Ekiti on Friday by the state commissioner of Information and Values Orientation, Hon. Muyiwa Olumilua at the end of the State Executive Council meeting.

The statement reads; "The Council also approved the appointment of Prince Adekunle Adeagbo of the Adifagbade Ruling House, Ile-Iyaba, of Otun-

Ekiti as the new Oore of Otun-Ekiti, following his nomination by the Kingmakers".

Born 52 years ago in Ibadan to the family of Prince (Hon.) Samuel Adebowale and Lady Janet Adeagbo. He is a blue Economist, well travelled and globally exposed Oba (Elect) Adekunle Adeayo Adeagbo is happily married to Catherine. A. Adeagbo and blessed with three sons.

He attended All Saints Primary School, Jericho, Onireke, Ibadan, Oyo State between 1975-1980. He is a product of International School, the prestigious Imperial University of Ibadan, Oyo State for his Ordinary and advanced level certificate between 1980-1987. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where he obtained B.sc in Economics between 1987-1991. He did his NYSC at Rigom Oil Services/Shell Petroleum Development Company West Ogunu, Warri, Delta State after graduating in the year 1992.

Even though the he is not a politician, his father was a diehard follower of late Obafemi Awolowo and a former UPN Member, Federal House of Representatives between 1979 and 1983.

Oba(elect) Adeagbo is an International Dredging practitioner on sharp sand, aggregates, granite, gold, tourmaline and precious minerals. An Executive Director 

Mercury Dredging and Construction Ltd, Lagos & Mercury Dredging and Construction Inc, Canada. 

He has been involved in several successful projects like;

1. Successful supervision and completion Of Bush Clearing Works for Dangote Refinery 600,000 barrels a day refinery at Ibeju Lekki, Lekki Lagos, Lagos State between 2014 – 2018. 

2. Sand filling of SAHARA GROUP tank farm site at Onne Oil and gas free zone, Onne, Rivers State between 2014 -2018. 

3. Pioneer camp site for Olokola Liquefied Natural gas site at Odeomi, Ogun State for Chevron/Popham Walter Odusote Group between 2007 – 2009.

Defeating six other princes from the dame Ile-Eye Aba ruling house of Otun-Ekiti, Prince Adeagbo, a very close ally of the Arole Oodua and Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, was on 5th May, 2020 selected as the new Oore of Mobaland in Ekiti state by the kingmakers after due consultations of the IFA Oracle in line with the customs of the ancient town ss directed by the Ekiti State Government with respect to the 1961 chieftaincy declaration.

He is a member of;

1. International Western Dredging Association, Canada. 

2. Nigerian - Canada Association, Ottawa, Canada. 

3. The World Dredging Association.

4. Ibadan Golf Club, Ibadan.

Benue lady allegedly stabs her baby's father to death

A 22-year-old indigene of Benue State, Mrs Veronica Mohammed, who was alleged to have killed her husband over a trivial matter, had tear all over her face as she narrated her story in a broken voice.

Trying helplessly to hold back tears, Mohammed said, “My parents who brought me to this world have humiliated, cheated and frustrated my entire life. If I knew early enough that the people I stayed with weren’t my biological parents, I would have run away from them. I was deceived and introduced to fake parents by my own blood sister. What a wicked world!

“ My parents violated my human right and my late husband , Anyakwo Mohammed , who impregnated me without paying my bride price, deceived me. It was frustration and anger that pushed me to stab my late husband . The time he brought in another lady with pregnancy worsened the situation. 

"Since this incident happened, I have been unhappy. I called my husband’s brother working with the Nasarawa Broadcasting Service to plead on my behalf. I have sinned against them . My late husband ’s brother said I should not worry that it was how God wanted it for there was nothing they could do to bring their late brother back to life.

“ I am begging the commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to forgive me and help me to get out of my predicament . I was arrested by the NSCDC . I am being neglected by my family members even those I refer to as my parents have also abandoned me to my fate.’’

Veronica was said to have allegedly stabbed her husband to death for impregnating another woman.

She told our correspondent that she was staying with her grandmother before she died and her uncle took her to Keana council area to live with him. Mohammed said it was while staying with her uncle that she met her late husband who impregnated her out of wedlock.

Veronica, who could not complete primary school from Army Children School , Makurdi , the Benue state capital , said she and her late husband dated for four years before he impregnated her with a promise that he would marry her if she converted to Islam.

“ I regret my action ; May his gentle soul rest in peace . I did not know that he would die. I have been having misunderstanding with my late husband over a woman he impregnated and it led to constant quarrels and fighting . I got tired of it all. I returned from my ‘parents’ house and was told that Mohammed was with another lady whom he impregnated and when I asked him if the pregnancy was his , he refuted. He only said the lady was his girlfriend but the pregnancy wasn’t his .

“ We stayed together with the lady but she left before this incident happened. My late husband promised to marry me if I could change my religion . But when we started having constant quarrels , I was discouraged to do that.’’

Narrating what led to the incident , she said she asked him to give her his phone and he refused thus a disagreement ensued.

She added that she roasted some yams on that day, adding that she went inside the bedroom to pick a knife to peel the yams.

Veronica stated that while peeling the yams, she told her late husband he wouldn’t share out of it but he insisted and stood up to fight her and in the process he held her hand and she didn’t know how the knife hit him. He said the incident happened in the night and before he could be rushed to a hospital , he had died.

She added, “My late husband visited my people twice and bought them some things. I have a two-year baby for him. The baby is in Lafia with my husband’s family.

“My sister told me that the man I thought was my father is not my biological father. I heard my sister telling her husband that my story is not a good one. I listened to their conversation and I didn’t say anything to interrupt them. I asked the man who I believed was my father if he was my biological father and he said I should not mind my sister. I just became confused.’’

The Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr Mahmud Fari, said the suspect would be charged to court upon completion of investigation.

Fari said the suspect stabbed her husband to death over an alleged dating of another woman, adding that the suspect claimed that the deceased only kept her without any legal marriage between them.

He added, “She confessed to the crime and pleaded that justice be tempered with mercy because she has a baby girl of two years and also two-month pregnant for the deceased.’’

Bribery: EFCC Arraigns Two Chinese For N100 Million

The EFCC, Sokoto Zonal  office on Friday, May 15, 2020  arraigned the duo of Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi, both Chinese, before Justice Mohammed Sa’idu Sifawa  of the State High Court Sokoto. 

They were arraigned on two-count charges of conspiracy and offering bribe to a public servant to the tune of N100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira). 

The defendants were docked for allegedly offering to bribe the EFCC Sokoto Zonal Head,  Mr. Abdullahi Lawal with the sum of one hundred  million naira (N100,  000.000.00) on behalf of a construction company:  China Zhonghao Nig. Ltd,  which is being investigated over contracts  awarded it  by the Zamfara State Government in the sum of over Fifty Billion Naira (N50, 000,000,000.00) between 2012 to 2019.

The EFCC is investigating the construction company in connection with the execution of contracts for the construction of township roads in Gummi, Bukkuyun, Anka and Nassarawa towns of Zamfara State; and also the construction of 168 (One Hundred And Sixty-eight)  solar-powered boreholes in the 14 local government areas of the state.

Count one read: ’That you Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Kuoi sometimes in May 2020 at Kasarawa area, Airport Road Sokoto, within the jurisdiction of  the High Court of Justice Sokoto State agreed to do an illegal act to wit; bribery and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 59 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019 and Punishable under Section 60 (2) of the same Law’’.

The second count read: ‘’That you Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Kuoi on the 11th of May 2020 at about 2200 hours at Kasarawa area, Airport Road Sokoto, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice Sokoto State,  being staff of China Zhonghao Nigeria Limited, offered a bribe of  fifty million naira as inducement to one Abdullahi Lawal a Public Servant (Zonal Head of Operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Sokoto Zonal Office) in order to compromise an ongoing investigation involving your company with regard to various contracts award/execution in parts of Zamfara State and thereby committed an offence of offering bribe to a Public servant contrary to Section 83 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019 and Punishable under Section 83 (2) of the same Law’’.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges when  read to them.

In view of their pleas,  prosecution counsel, Musa Mela Gwani who appeared with Habila Jonathan, asked for a date to commence trial and prayed the court for an accelerated hearing.

However, counsel to the defendants, A. A. Usman, told the court that he had filed an application of bail for his clients and urged the court to grant his prayers.

Justice Sifawa adjourned the matter to  May 18, 2020 for bail hearing and  June 15,  2020 for commencement of trial.

Trouble started for the two Chinese when they offered the sum of N100,000, 000( One Hundred Million Naira only) as bribe to Abdulahhi Lawal, EFCC Sokoto Zonal Head,  in a desperate  bid to compromise ongoing investigations of a construction company,  China Zhonghao Nig. Ltd,  handling contracts awarded by the Zamfara State Government to the tune of N50billion  (Fifty  Billion Naira)  between 2012 to 2019. They were arrested and now facing prosecution for such an act of corruption.

(EFCC)

Nigeria records 288 new COVID-19 cases, total now 5,445

Nigeria has recorded 288 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to

5,445.

Announcing via its official Twitter handle on Friday night, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country recorded the new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.

Lagos State recorded 179 cases, Kano State had twenty cases, Katsina and Jigawa State recorded fifteen cases each, Borno State had thirteen cases, Ogun State recorded eleven cases and the Federal Capital Territory recorded seven cases.

The tweet further revealed that Niger and Ekiti State had four cases, Oyo, Delta and Bauchi State had three cases each, Kwara State had two cases and Edo State recorded one case.

The NCDC also said that four new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 171.

Till date, 5,445 cases have been confirmed, 3,959 are active cases, 1320 cases have been discharged and 171 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory

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Ekiti govt confirms 4 new cases of coronavirus

Ekiti State Government on Friday confirmed four new cases of Coronavirus disease in the state.

The State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade, disclosed this when members of the Covid-19 Taskforce gave an update on the spread of the virus in the state.

Yaya-Kolade said though the state has discharged some patients from the isolation centre, but hinted that three of the four new cases were those that have been quarantined having come to the state from places considered as epicentre of Covid-19.

“We have four new cases now. One of the cases is an old man that has been isolated in one of our tertiary health institutions for a while. He is an elderly person who is in a critical condition.

“Others included a 35-year-old female from Katsina and 32-year-old male from Ibadan, while the third one is a 38-year-old male from Lagos, who all sneaked into Ekiti during the lockdown.

“But despite all these, no community spread, because they all came from outside. We beg our people to always alert us when new people come into town, because this has been working.

“But we are begging that nobody should come to Ekiti now, it is an executive order given by Governor Kayode Fayemi that nobody should come at this precarious time.

“It constitutes financial burden to Ekiti for victims of Covid-19 to come from Lagos, Oyo, Katsina to our state for treatment,” she stated.

Yaya-Kolade added that the government has trained a total of 80 civil servants on how to test the people using infra red thermometer.

She added that a total of 234 blood samples had been taken and tested since the outbreak of the disease, adding that more will be done to safeguard the state from calamity.

The commissioner added that Ekiti has set up a molecular laboratory situated within the premises of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, which she said will be launched soon.

Also speaking, the Director General, Office of Transformation, Strategy and Delivery, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, stated that the state has received the sum of N631.083 million cash donations through the Covid-19 Fund Mobilisation Committee, headed by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN).

“We have received a sum of N631.08 million from 535 contributors which the breakdown includes 231 donors and 234 political appointees.

“About 50 private organisations had donated food items and other consumables to fight this scourge by way of cushioning the effect of lockdown on the people,” he said.

Aluko said the state government will continue to work with security agencies and border towns to make the borders safe and impenetrable by intruders.

The Commissioner for Environment, Hon Gbenga Agbeyo, said drone fumigation by Oodua fumigating team being powered by Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, will soon commence as part of the measures to curb the menace.

FAAC Shares N606.196 Billion April Allocation To FG, States, LGs ...

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total sum of N606.196 billion  as April allocation to the Federal, States, Local 

Governments and relevant agencies in the country.

This amount, includes revenue from Value Added Tax (VAT), Exchange Gain, Solid Mineral Revenue, Excess Bank Charges and Excess Oil Revenue.

The Federal Government received N169.831 billon, the States received N86.140 billion, Local Government councils got N66.411 billion, while the oil producing states received N32.895 billion as derivation (13% Mineral Revenue).

Cost of collection, FIRS Refund, Allocation to North East Development Commission and Transfer to Excess Oil Revenue was put at N15.134 billion.

Hassan Dodo, Director of Information at the Federal Ministry of Finance said “the Gross Revenue available from the Value Added Tax (VAT) for April 2020 was N94.495 billion as against the N120.268 billion distributed in the preceding month of March 2020, resulting in a decrease of N25.772 billion.

The VAT distribution for April shows that the Federal Government got N13.182 billion, the States received N43.941 billion, Local Government Councils got N30.758 billon.