According to the chairman of Ikorodu local government, Hon Wasiu Adeshina, not less than 100 people will be empowered on the day of the forthcoming event.

Adeshina, who is also the chief host for the January 11 event, the need to empower people is a deliberate aim of helping to better the lives on Nigerians in this trying period of the country’s economy.

He noted that the Jinja Herbal Extract empowerment and summit would be staged in a special way to give the lucky beneficiaries a good take off plan for the New Year 2025.

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“All arrangements have been concluded and we are just waiting for the festivities to be over. The plan is for 100 beneficiaries and we have a committee working on the modalities to pick them,” he said.

The event is billed for O’Clean Events Place in Ikorodu on Saturday January 11 with Hon. Alex Obanla, Liaison Officer to Ogun State Government on Local Government Matters as Guest Speaker while Supervisor for Health, Ikorodu West LCDA, Hon. Morenike Osokoya, is special Guest.

The chairman of the summit, Barr. Biyi Otegbeye, stressed that the empowerment will make the beneficiaries financially stable.

“We will give them the Jinja products and after selling it and getting the money back, we will register them and then they move on from there because there will also be support from LG chairmen to boost the empowerment initiative,” Otegbeye said.

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Justice Oyindamola Ogala, while ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked No: D/16997MFHR/24 filed by Adeshina’s counsel, Mr Ben Okeke, held that detaining of Adeshina in prison without charge or trial was unjustifiable.

Ogala, in her ruling, said the arrest and continued detention of Adeshina in the custody of the Medium Correctional Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos without a trial was wrong, illegal and unjustifiable.

She added that it was a gross violation of the applicant’s fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification Enforcement Act, Cap.10).

“As afore-stated, there is unchallenged fact that this applicant has remained in custody for about 15 years and is yet to be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction.

“The presumption of innocence enshrined in our constitution remains sacrosanct and it is indeed a travesty of justice for this to occur without administration of criminal justice, no matter where the delay emanates from.

“Counsel to the first respondent has exhibited correspondence to the police to transfer the suspect for arraignment since 2003 which has remained unattended to and it appears that this applicant has fallen through the cracks and thus remained in custody for such years without trial.

“The presumption of innocence in our constitution remains sacrosanct and it is clear to this court that no good cause has been exhibited necessitating the continued remand of the applicant and therefore this court finds that the applicant is entitled to the declaratory order sought,” she said.

The judge, thereafter, ordered the immediate and unconditional release of the applicant from the custody of the Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre.

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The applicant’s counsel, Okeke, had filed the suit against the Lagos State Attorney-General, the Commissioner of Police and the Controller, Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos State as first to third respondent respectively.

The applicant had prayed the court for a declaration that the arrest and continued detention of Adeshina in custody without a formal charge or trial was wrongful, illegal, unjustifiable and a gross violation of the applicant’s fundamental human rights.

The applicant’s counsel said: “An order directing the immediate and unconditional release of the applicant from the custody of the third respondent, Medium Correctional Centre, Kirikiri Lagos.

“An injunction restraining the respondents, their agents or privies from further breach of the applicants’ fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended.

“An order admitting the applicant to bail pending his arraignment in court and for such further or other orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.

“The applicant filed in support of the application, the affidavit of urgency of six paragraphs as well as a supporting affidavit of 15 paragraphs deposed to by Joe Ameh, the Executive Coordinator in the office of Zarephath Aid dated the March 8.”

The applicant’s counsel referred the court to the provisions of Section 35 (1) of the Constitution and submitted that it was inferable that whenever a deprivation of right to personal liberty is sought pursuant thereto, such deprivation must satisfy two conditions to satisfy the approval of the constitution.

Source: NAN

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The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, said this in a statement signed by Mr Kunle Adeshina, Director, Public Affairs of the ministry, on Saturday in Lagos.

Wahab said enforcement officers from LAGESC/KAI, Environmental Health Officials and LAWMA, Police and the Ministry would go after all those with styrofoams in their shops, stores or outlets and confiscate them.

He stressed that styrofoam usage had caused enough damage to the health of residents and the state of the environment for so many years.

“The government is determined to encourage viable options for styrofoam containers across the metropolis,” Wahab said.

He reminded market leaders that cleanliness was next to godliness and as such they must ensure that clean environment remained a priority always.

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The commissioner added that the state government was disturbed about unsanitary habits in most of the markets, hence the closure of some markets across the state recently.

“The government derives no pleasure in closing peoples’ businesses, but some markets are in a sorry state because of the nonchalant attitude of the markets’ executives,” he said.

He also said there were recent reports that government officials were attacked whenever they visited markets to ascertain the sanitary levels and enforce environmental laws in markets.

“I will like to appeal to all our traders to desist from selling on the railway lines and all the roads. Also, we must stop littering our markets with wastes.

“We must segregate our wastes in our respective markets; bag our wastes and ensure we patronise PSP operators,” Wahab said.

He stated that in few weeks time, the state government would commission the Red Rail line, expected to operate from dusk till dawn.

He added that trading activities on the railway lines was very risky and could lead to loss of lives.

Source: NAN

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According to the spokesman of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested on May 6, 2022, following a report lodged at Owode Egbado divisional headquarters by the victim.

The victim reported that she met the suspect on Facebook sometime in 2021, and had since been chatting.

She stated further that her phone got spoilt along the line, and she couldn’t chat with the suspect any longer.

However, she said in the month of March this year, the suspect called her and asked why she didn’t chat with him anymore, and she informed him of her spoilt phone.

The suspect there and then asked her to come to his house to collect the sum of three thousand naira for the repair of the phone.

On getting there, the suspect offered her a drink which she took unknown to her that the drink had been laced with a sedative drug.

Immediately she took the drink, she became unconscious and the suspect used the opportunity to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her against her wish.

She said after having sex with her in the state of unconsciousness, the suspect took her nude pictures and started threatening to upload the pictures on social media if she didn’t pay him the sum of N50,000.00

Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO,  Owode Egbado division, CSP Muhammad S Baba, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect.

He was eventually apprehended and was said to have since confessed to the commission of the crime.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and possible prosecution.

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