Slap saga: SAN decries Police treatment to Seun Kuti - ITREALMS

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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, representing the embattled Seun Kuti, has frowned at the treatment his client received despite self-reporting to the office of the Commissioner of Police at the Police Command, Ikeja, at 8 am today Monday May 15, 2023, reports ITREALMS..

Seun Kuti, ITREALMS recalled had encounter with a policeman on the Third Mainland Bridge on Saturday the 13th May, 2023, culminating in a viral video where Kuti slapped the Police officer.

Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, wife, son die in car tyre burst

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The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Barr. James Enojo Ocholi, a  Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has been pronounced dead alongside his wife and a son, reports ITRealms.

Ocholi, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain died in a car accident along Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Sunday afternoon, as a result of tyre burst which led to several somersaults of the vehicle in which they were traveling in.

An indigene of Dekina area of Kogi State, Ocholi, ITRealms gathered that the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) was a former governorship aspirant in Kogi State before his appointment as Minister in President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration.
 

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VP Osinbajo, Zinox chairman, Ekeh lead dignitaries to GOCOP launch

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The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has been confirmed to, this Thursday, lead high-powered delegation of corporate Nigeria to the formal launch of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) in Lagos, reports ITRealms.

In a press statement made available to ITRealms by the leadership of GOCOP indicated that all is now ready for the launch and that VP Osinbajo would be joined at the event slated for Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, by notable Nigerians.

According to the chairman, Launch Committee, Mr. Chijama Ogbu, the VP, Osinbajo would deliver the keynote address while other eminent corporate magnets would join him in the discussion thereafter.

These include the Chairman of Zinox Group, Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh, and the Chairman of Channels Television, Mr. John Momoh, as guest speakers, whereas the former Chairman, Punch Newspapers, Ajibola Ogunshola, would be the chairman of the occasion.

ITRealms recalls that GOCOP is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit making organization for the highest strata of working journalists who have attained the exalted position of editors in the journalism profession and have delved into online publishing.

The primary objectives of the organization are ensuring that online publishers uphold the tenets of journalism and provide a platform for peer review.

"It is our goal is to provide order in online media within Nigeria’s geographic space, which currently boasts of a high population of charlatans,” Ogbu said, stressing that GOCOP believes it is important to provide a platform for journalists in this business to come together to set barometers of compliance with the ethical codes of the journalism.

 
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Osibanjo in Ethiopia for South-Sudan mediation summit

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The Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on Sunday departed Abuja to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at a peace mediation summit on the situation in South Sudan tomorrow in Addis Ababa, reports ITRealms.

Confirming this, the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President, Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, told ITRealms in a press statement on Sunday that the summit would be on the platform of the Inter-Governmental Authority (IGAD) Plus. 

He explained that IGAD is the regional trade group of eight African countries from the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and the Great Lakes.

Akande also said that participating in IGAD for this important peace effort are a number of leading African nations including Nigeria, and others like the United States, China, United Nations, European Union, African Union among others in the international community.

The Vice President who will join other leaders from the continent and outside including the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Mr. Hailemariam Dessalegn, will return to Abuja later on Monday.

 
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Tunde Fashola’s N78m website divides APC

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The Lagos State Public Procurement Agency (LSPPA) has disclosed that the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) used the sum of N78.3 million to upgrade his personal website, www.tundefashola.com, ITRealms authoritatively revealed.

This is, ITRealms reports that the expose has divided the All Progressive Congress (APC) both in Lagos State and at the national office.

LSPPA, established on the 2nd of April, 2012 under the Lagos State Public procurement Law, 2011 ensures probity, accountability and transparency in Public Procurement throughout Lagos State.

Investigations by ITRealms, also showed that the upgrade of www.tundefashola.com was purportedly for post May 29, 2015 and was awarded to Info Access Plus Limited as the number 13 item in the LSPPA report on contracts awarded by the state in 2014.

Although, LSPPA certified the award, it did not indicate the month of the contract which has since its recent publication, ignited anger and surprise from Nigerians, who wondered what really went wrong with the supposed crusader of accountability and transparency, Mr. Fashola.

Some of those reactions, so far came from a social critic, Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi, who wondered how one could build “a WordPress website for 78 million naira? Are you mad? Or am I the mad one for thinking you might be mad?”

Alarmed by this revelation, Blossom Nnodim lamented that this Fashola’s website “must have been designed by @ArturoFirenze for @tundefashola.”

 

Nigeria's civic technology organisation, focusing on public finance, @BudgITng asked how exactly is that amount for a website justifiable? Wondering that “even Facebook didn't cost that much to build.”

According to BudgITng, "Corruption - the process of wasting or diverting public funds which are captured by private interests against the public gain" is the concern of the organisation

While Opeoluwa blamed his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) now infused into All Progressive Congress (APC) which seems to have developed blind eyes, because some of them do not want Fashola in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet and alleged sabotage for using N78m for a website.

For Larry Hover “It’s regrettably lugubrious that such an amount can be spent on building/ designing a mere website, in sooth it repugnant to natural justice equity and good convenience and inconsistent with spending policy. He should refund that balance money ASAP. Nigerians are not illiterates. We know what it will cost. Ahh. Fashola, U and your Opon imo brothers.”

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