LASU guarantees 50% refund of school fees to 4.5 CGPA students (Guardian)
The Management of Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo has put in place a policy to guarantee 50 per cent refund of school fees to students with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.50 in every session.
Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello Vice-Chancellor (VC) LASU gave this assurance on Monday during the matriculation ceremony of the 2020/2021 students.
She said the policy was to promote healthy competition among the students who consistently maintain average of the CGPA.
The News agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 6,648 students were matriculated into the academic programmes of the institution.
Olatunji-Bello said LASU had over the years remained on the path of academic excellence and distinguished itself in the comity of universities in the country. Read more
Poor development: Lagos seals over 40 structures in Eti-Osa (Punch)
The Lagos State Building Control Agency had sealed over 40 residential buildings in Sapata town in the Eti-Osa area of the state, due to poor development and planning.
This was made known in a statement on Monday titled, ‘LASBCA takes enforcement to Sapata town,’ which revealed that the sealed buildings were not developed according to physical planning laws and building codes of the State.
The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, who spoke at the enforcement activity, stated that most of the owners and developers in the axis indulge in indiscriminate development of buildings without necessary documentation and approvals.
According to him, such acts distort the layout of the area through haphazard construction without drainages, setbacks, and other major facilities. Read more
NDLEA drags man to court over alleged peddling of 250g Marijuana
(Guardian)
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Monday charged a 27-year-old man, Alfa Adamu before a Federal High Court Lagos, for alleged drug trafficking.
The defendant is facing a one-count charge of drug trafficking.
The prosecutor, Mr Jeremiah Aernan, alleged that the defendant committed the offence on Sept. 17.
He said that the accused was arrested at GO Bus stop in the Ajah area of Lagos, for unlawful dealing in Cannabis Sativa (hemp), weighing 250 g.
According to the prosecutor, cannabis is classified by the agency as a banned narcotic similar to Cocaine, Heroin and other restricted hard drugs. Read more
Abuja journalists storm Police HQ, protest mysterious disappearance of colleague (Leadership)
Journalists on the platform of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Council, on Monday, October 25, 2021, stormed the Police Headquarters in Abuja, to protest the mysterious disappearance of their colleague, Tordue Salem, who reports for Vanguard Newspapers.
The journalists carried placards with inscriptions such as ‘Free Tordue now’, ‘Enough is enough’, ‘Stop violence against journalists’, ‘Free the press,’ ‘Journalists’ lives matter’ among others, sang “We want Tordue back alive,” amongst others.
Chairman, NUJ, FCT council, Emmanuel Ogbeche, while addressing the journalists at the gate of the Police Headquarters, said all they wanted was for IGP Alkali Baba to come and state what the Force was doing about Tordue’s disappearance.
He said the Police boss must put all necessary apparatus in place to find Tordue Salem alive so he can reunite with his family. Read more
COVID-19 vaccination: NLC urges FG to use persuasion, not force on workers (Tribune)
The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress(NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba has urged the federal government to use the tool of persuasion and conviction rather than force to get workers and the general populace to take the vaccine.
Wabba while briefing journalists in Abuja on the need for workers to take the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, also urged the government and other employers of labour to make special arrangements for workers to access the vaccine at the workplace.
Wabba said COVID-1 9 pandemic has brought some of the biggest strains, stress and squeeze to the workplace as thousands of workers have died.
He noted that many of the dead from the global workforce were frontline workers. As of the third week of October 2021, more than 180,000 health workers across the world have lost their lives to COV1D-19. Read more
Court again discharges ex-SEC DG of corrupt practice charge (Guardian)
An FCT High Court sitting at Apo has discharged the former Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr Mounir Gwarzo, from the offence of conferring unfair and corrupt advantage on himself.
Delivering the ruling, which came by an application for a no-case submission, Justice Olukayode Adeniyi held that the law placed a duty on the prosecution to prove the essential elements of the offence in order to make out a prima facie case.
The judge in addition said that however, in the instant case, the prosecution failed to discharge the said duty.
The court further held that of the 14-count charge, only 6- count, which were counts one, two, three, four, five and six referred to Gwarzo. Read more
NAPTIP calls on Nollywood to join hands in fighting human trafficking (Nation)
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has called on Nollywood celebrities to join hands in the fight against human trafficking as they play a vital role in the society.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in Abuja that the Director-General (DG), Dr Fatima Waziri, made the call at the premiere of the movie ‘Enslaved’, a film based on the fight against human trafficking and child labour in Nigeria.
Also, it was the premiere and the launch of the ‘One Community Campaign’.
The DG, represented by Mrs Jessica Arikpo, the Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer from the Public Enlightenment Department of NAPTIP, said that the film industry, both in Nigeria and across the world, had over the years played a vital role in the agency’s agenda of meeting its mandate. Read more
Anyone who wants to lead Nigeria must negotiate with north —Bakare (Punch)
The Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has said that anyone who wants to lead Nigeria must negotiate with the northern part of the country.
Bakare who spoke to ThisDay stated that the “north has a way of giving you the crown and holding the sceptre.”
The clergyman, however, said this can only change if the Nigerian Constitution, which he described as a “glorified death certificate,” goes through a rejig.
According to him, “The way our country is constituted right now, no matter who wants to lead this country. Anyone that wants to lead this country right now will have to negotiate with the north and the north has a way of giving you the crown and holding the sceptre and if that’s going to change, our glorified death certificate called the Nigerian constitution must have to go through a rejig.
“I honestly will say, almost all the things that were going for the north in the days of Ahmadu Bello are no longer there. The textile industries where they dominated are not there anymore. The groundnut pyramids, etc. And what they have is what they hold. They have power. Read more
Court unfreezes accounts blocked by CBN for cryptocurrency trading (Nation)
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has vacated with immediate effect an interim order through which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) froze the bank accounts in two banks of a firm that traded in cryptocurrency.
The firm, Rise Vest Technologies Ltd, is one of the firms offering brokerage services for Nigerians to invest in foreign stocks.
The CBN had claimed, among others, that some of such deals contravened its directive and were part of what was making the naira weaker to the United States Dollar.
But Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo held that the CBN could not rely on a mere circular to freeze the bank account of a company using its bank accounts to trade in cryptocurrency. Read more
Major Sudanese tribe plans to end port blockade in support of military coup (RT)
The Beja tribe, which had been blockading Port Sudan since September, has said it will withdraw in support of the military, according to regional TV, while doctors and academics have vowed to strike against the coup.
On Monday afternoon, the Al-Hadath TV channel reported that Sudan’s Beja tribe had announced that it would end its blockade of Port Sudan, which has seen the country’s fuel, medicines and wheat supplies pushed to the limit.
According to the Saudi-based TV network, the tribe expressed support for a military takeover staged earlier in the day. The reports are yet to be confirmed by the authorities.
The tribe had been blocking roads around Port Sudan and forced Red Sea ports to close, after criticizing a lack of power within Sudan’s new political settlement and poor economic conditions. Read more
US to begin UK appeal against Assange extradition block (Guardian)
The United States government will on Wednesday begin an appeal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face trial for publishing military secrets, after a British judge blocked a request earlier this year.
Washington said after the decision in January that it was “extremely disappointed” by District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision, which was made on the grounds of Assange being a suicide risk.
It is seeking to overturn that ruling at a two-day hearing from Wednesday, having argued during its request for an appeal that the judge “didn’t appreciate the weight” of expert evidence that said he was not at risk of taking his own life.
Instead, it claimed the judge was “misled” by relying on evidence presented by Assange’s psychiatric expert Michael Kopelman. Read more
London’s Ulez made 18 times bigger with thousands of drivers facing daily charge (Metro)
Owners of polluting vehicles in London are facing a £12.50 daily charge to drive in the capital from today.
The Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) has been made 18 times larger and now stretches from the north to south circular roads.
Tens of thousands of motorists whose cars do not comply with emissions standards now face a choice between scrapping it or paying much more to drive.
The Ulez has operated since April 2019, but previously only covered the same area of central London as the Congestion Charge. Read more
Kristen Stewart thinks she’s only made five ‘really good’ films (Metro)
Kristen reckons she’s only made five good films (Picture: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
Kristen Stewart may be one of the most famous actresses in Hollywood, but she doesn’t have a very high opinion of her back catalogue.
The 31-year-old – best known for starring as Bella Swan in the Twilight Saga – has said that she has only made ‘five really good films’ out of 46 in her career, so cue writers and producers trawling her IMDB page to predict if they made the cut.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Kristen said: ‘It’s a total c**pshoot. I’ve probably made five really good films, out of 45 or 50 films? Ones that I go, “Wow, that person made a top-to-bottom beautiful piece of work!”’ Read more
German IS woman jailed for Yazidi girl’s death in Iraq (BBC)
A German Muslim convert who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq has been jailed for 10 years in Munich over the killing of a Yazidi girl she and her husband had bought as a slave.
Jennifer Wenisch was judged to have committed a crime against humanity, having stood by when her husband left the five-year-old to die of thirst, chained outside in the blazing sun.
Wenisch’s husband, an Iraqi jihadist, is on trial in Frankfurt.
The girl died in Fallujah in 2015. Read more
Greek parliament suspended after party leader’s death (France24)
Greek socialist party leader Fofi Gennimata has died aged 56.
Parliament speaker Constantinos Tassoulas said he had agreed with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to “suspend legislative work this week” and that political parties had also agreed to suspend parliamentary questions.
Mitsotakis said a national day of mourning would be held Wednesday for Gennimata, who died of cancer Monday in an Athens hospital.One of the first women in Greece to hold senior political posts, the 56-year-old led a successor party to the once-powerful PASOK movement of three-time Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.
The mother-of-three had survived a previous battle with cancer but was hospitalised on October 11 with intestinal trouble. Read more
Halyna Hutchins candlelight vigil draws hundreds of industry artisans (Variety)
Hundreds of entertainment industry artisans gathered on Sunday evening in the crowded parking lot of IATSE Local 80 Burbank headquarters to pay tribute to Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer killed by a prop gun on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust.”
For those in attendance, the spirit of “solidarity” was mentioned many times, along with a sense of frustration that the industry is still not paying attention to the impact of long hours, demanding deadlines and low pay among over-worked crew members.
“We’re dying at work,” said Local 44 property member Chela Fiorini, who attended the candlelight vigil with her spouse, DGA and SAG member David Coennen. “Solidarity with my workmates brought me out here. We’re fighting for a contract that includes meaningful rest, that this crew was not getting. And it’s completely unacceptable, and we have to put an end to this right now.”
The vigil, which took place as the sun set, included speeches and tributes from Local 600 national executive director Rebecca Rhine and president John Lindley, as well as Michael Miller, IATSE 4th international VP/department director, motion picture & TV production, and AFI instructor Stephen Lighthill, who was a mentor to Hutchins. Read more
Former Nigeria captain Ime Udoka thrilled after first NBA win as a coach (Guardian)
Former captain of Nigeria’s national men’s basketball team Ime Udoka is happy to have finally secured his first win as a head coach in the National Basketball Association after leading the Boston Celtics to their maiden win of the on-going season.
The Celtics, 17-time winners of the NBA championship, defeated the Rockets 107-97 on Sunday night in Houston to record their first win of the 2021/2022 season.
“It’s special,” Udoka told the media after the game. “Got the water shower in there from the guys and the game ball. I told the guys it’s overdue, it took you too long to get it.
“Thank Jaylen (Brown) and Romeo (Langford) for helping, seeing as how they sat out tonight. It’s good to get a win, not just for the first, but to get us rolling on the right foot. Played the right way tonight, defended how we could after that first quarter,” added Udoka, a former NBA player himself, who paid his dues as an assistant coach for years, including stints with the Spurs, 76ers and Nets. Read more
Paul Pogba claims it’s time to ‘wake up’ less than 24 hours after getting sent off in match against Liverpool (Metro)
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba insists it’s time to ‘wake up’ and ‘step up’ after the side’s 5-0 defeat to Liverpool.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side were mauled on their home turf by their arch rivals, who effectively knocked United out of the title race and piled the pressure on the Norwegian’s position.
United fielded the same XI that came back to win 3-2 against Atalanta on Wednesday but they were behind within six minutes against Liverpool and failed to lay a glove on Jurgen Klopp’s men afterwards.
Naby Keita of Liverpool is fouled by Paul Pogba of Manchester United
Pogba went in with both feet on Naby Keita (Picture: Getty)
A Mohamed Salah brace before the break meant United were 4-0 down at half-time for the first time in Premier League history. Read more
Repair works on Obafemi Awolowo Stadium begins November (Vanguard)
The Federal Government has stated that repair works on the roof and fixing the grasses of the main bowl of the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium, formerly known as Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, will begin next week.
Mr Segun Oke, the Director of Procurement, Federal Ministry of Youths and Sport Development, gave the assurance when the House of Representatives Committee on Youths and Sports Development paid an assessment visit to the stadium.
The House Committee was led the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Sports, Hon. Olalekan Rasheed Afolabi. Other members of the committee on the visit were Hon. Taiwo Adewale representing Ibarapa East /Ido federal constituency and Hon. Ogene Egoh, from Amuwo Odofin federal constituency, Lagos.
Oke assured Nigerians that the repair works and fixing of the main bowl would begin in November adding that the process of the contractor would be completed within one week. Read more
Like Frank Lampard before him Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a reminder of the dangers of appointing former players (Eurosport)
It’s hard to know what the most embarrassing moment of Manchester United’s humiliating 5-0 hammering against Liverpool was.
For this writer it was the fact that many fans of other clubs were begging Liverpool to ease up on the goals to try and ensure that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stayed in his job. Not even David Moyes was thought of this poorly was he?
Hard to make an accurate judgement on that one, after all Moyes wasn’t even given a season to finish the job. We’re coming up to the third of year of the Solskjaer experiment and it’s hard to say they’ve really made much progress in that time.
If and when Solskjaer’s services are dispensed with there are two key lessons to take away. The first is that the leadership at United is cowardly, lazy and simply not fit for purpose. Ed Woodward, for some bizarre reason decided to stay on until the end of 2021 rather than hire a Director of Football over the summer, and if they do not fire Solskjaer after this then surely that has to be the only reason the Norwegian is staying, they are waiting for the new head of football to decide who he wants to take over. A shambles in of itself.
De Jong suffers Clasico thigh injury (Guardian)
Barcelona’s Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong has suffered a right thigh injury, the La Liga club announced on Monday.
De Jong, 24, was replaced after 77 minutes during Sunday’s Clasico defeat to Real Madrid.
He is likely to miss Wednesday’s trip to Rayo Vallecano but Barcelona did not specify how long he would be out for.
De Jong has started 11 games this season but has yet to score for Ronald Koeman’s side, who are ninth in the table six points adrift of leaders Real Sociedad. Read more
Enugu Sports Club mobilises support for Soludo (Sun)
The prestigious Enugu Sports Club yesterday hosted APGA candidate, Prof Chukwuma Soludo to a grand reception in support of his governorship ambition
Soludo was received warmly by the President of the club, J. C Nwosu and his co-members who are basically successful businessmen and professionals in various callings and of Anambra origin.
The Chairman of the occasion, Prof Ilochukwu Amucheasi described the APGA candidate as the right person for the job.
He said Soludo was eminently qualified to become the next Governor of Anambra State, adding that he possesses the right training and wealth of experience to take the State to a greater height. He therefore urged Ndi Anambra to come out and vote massively for the APGA candidate Read more