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Edo Polytechnic Student Commits Suicide, Wills Mobile Phone To Girlfriend
A 23-year-old student of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, identified only as Solomon, has committed suicide.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Solomon, who until his death a National Diploma 1 student of Public Administration, was discovered dangling from the ceiling of his room on Friday night.
He was said to have left a terse suicide note behind.
According to a source who pleaded anonymity, the victim ordered that his mobile phone be given to one Sandra whom he begged for forgiveness in the suicide note.
The source said that the Sandra was his girlfriend and that they were course mates.
“Solomon was in class on Friday and left for home after class. We only came home later in the evening to find him dangling from the ceiling of his room.
“He was a very quiet boy who took his academics very serious. He didn’t go out and never showed any sign of depression whatsoever,’’ the source said.
The polytechnic spokesman, Mr. Mustapha Oshiobugie, who confirmed the incident, said he was yet to be briefed on the details.
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Court Fixes Date For Trial Of Bureau De Change Operators Arrested For Financing Boko Haram Terrorism
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The court sitting for the trial of some Bureau De Change operators arrested in March 2021 for allegedly sponsoring the Boko Haram terrorism in the country has been scheduled for Friday, September 17, 2021.
SaharaReporters learnt from competent court sources that the hearing will hold at Court Room 4, Federal High Court Abuja at the Federal Capital Territory.
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A source said, “I just confirmed their next sitting. It will be on 17th September, Court Room No 4, Federal High Court Abuja, behind the Federal Ministry of Justice. Time: 10am.”
The court hearing comes six months after a letter written by the Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABDON) requested that those who are being detained by the Department of State Services be admitted on bail, pending the conclusion of the investigation.
The source who spoke to SaharaReporters said the court first sat on the 18th of August but the DSS refused to come to court with the defendants.
He said the lawyers of the operators requested that his clients appear in court during the next sitting which was on September 2.
However, the hearing could not hold due to the ailing health of the presiding judge. The defendants, it was gathered, were not brought to the court.
He noted, “The association of bureau de change operators hired a barrister for their members. They went for a court sitting and the barrister wanted the DSS to bring his clients for the next sitting.
“The judge asked the DSS to bring the clients. But even during the second court sitting, the operators were absent. The DSS asked the judge to give them extra days but he said no that they already had enough time to carry out an investigation.
“The hearing was scheduled for September 2 again but the DSS did not come to the court with the operators and the judge was not feeling well so it was rescheduled again.”
In March, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the Nigerian government arrested the Bureau De Change operators who were facilitating the transfer of money to Boko Haram terrorists.
He had said some Nigerians transferring money to the sect from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were working with the BDC operators.
“Bureaus de change are facilitating money to terrorists. We have already worked with the UAE. Convictions have been achieved of Nigerians who are transferring money to Boko Haram terrorists and this also happens domestically. And I tell you that by the time we finish this investigation, the shocking details will surprise many Nigerians,” Shehu had said.
Dozens of persons have been arrested by security agents in an ongoing nationwide crackdown on suspected financiers and collaborators of Boko Haram.
Those arrested are being kept in military and DSS facilities in Abuja and other places.
Multiple sources said the closely guarded operation is being coordinated by Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
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Nigeria: A House Divided Against Itself By David Abu
It is now pellucid to all well-meaning Nigerians that Nigeria has reached a point of no return; the President, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has reneged on his campaign promise and constitutional duty to protect the lives and property of Nigerians.
Since he was first elected president in 2015, Buhari has shown with a compelling lucidity that his main goal is the continuation of Uthman Dan Fodio’s jihad. He probably wrote the blueprint before he became president and tucked it away in his portmanteau.
In his first term in office, the content of the blueprint was inadvertently or deliberately revealed to Nigerians (to warn them about the forthcoming birth pangs?) by one of his subalterns, Femi Adesina, who, in his reply to a question on ancestral land on AIT interview said, as follows: “Ancestral attachment?
You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment if you are dead, how does it matter? The National Economic Council that recommended ranching didn’t just legislate it; there were recommendations.
So if your state does not have land for ranching, it is understandable. Not every state will have land for ranches. But, where you have land and can do something, please do for peace. What will the land be used for if those who own it are dead at the end of the day”?
And if we juxtapose this statement with what Buhari said in Benue about three years ago during a meeting with farmers, herders, government officials and stakeholders, namely that Benue people should exercise restraint and live in peace with their neighbours, without addressing the role of the herders in the conflict, we would agree that there is a common thread running through them. In other words, Benue people should not fight back when attacked by the Fulani herdsmen.
Furthermore, Buhari pretended to be unaware of the refusal of Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police (IG), to relocate to Benue as he instructed. Hear him: “I am getting to know this in this meeting.
I am quite surprised.” He does not care if the people of Benue perished at the hands of his kinsmen, the Fulani herdsmen; his hatred for the people of Benue is palpable. In short, he would gladly welcome a pogrom against them, because he is a man who has honey dripping out of his mouth but a dagger concealed in his heart, à la Li Linfu, the 8th century Chancellor of China.
In April 2018, the Fulani herdsmen viciously attacked a church leaving 18 people dead, including 2 Priests. In an attempt to avoid public outcry and criticism of government, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, in a State House Press Release, wrote, inter alia: “The President reiterates that the government will not rest on its oars in its determination to fish out these barbarous mass murderers and their clandestine sponsors.”
Really? As I write, the government is yet to fish out those a*** retentive malcontents, aka Fulani herdsmen, who have turned Nigeria into a veritable abattoir of humanoid aberrations. And despite the fact that the DSS has a long list of their sponsors, as revealed by Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi (Rtd.), none of them has been invited for interrogation or arrested. They walk our streets free because they are the favoured boys of the establishment.
Could it be that the Commander-in-Chief is in the thick of it? Did Dr. Obadiah Mailafa get it right by accusing Buhari of pursuing an Islamization and Fulanization agenda? If Buhari’s past utterances about his support for Sharia are anything to go by, then one can safely conclude that he is monomaniac—He is stubbornly obsessed with Islamization, and a cursory look at his appointments would portray a man going ahead full throttle on the Fulanization of Nigeria.
Nigeria has been a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multi-cultural country from amalmagation to the present day. Therefore, Buhari’s deliberate promotion of ethnocentrism and religious bias is counterproductive; it breeds disunity. Together we stand, divided we fall. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Under Buhari, the South has also been subjected to incessant attacks by the Fulani herdsmen, who take delight in the savage killing of farmers, maiming, raping, pillaging, and torching houses, with impunity. Recently, they have made Edo State the main focus of their attack and incessant harassment, and as a direct consequence, Uromi women have abandoned their farms.
It seems they have effectively mapped out the whole country; they are now the occupants of forests in Southern Nigeria. But, how long will this sorry state of affairs continue? Not for long. The nefarious plan of the enemies is now well known. We will not sit idly by and allow a group of miscreants to kill us and confiscate our ancestral land. And we are also aware that our enemies would intensify their attack as 2023 draws nearer; their plan is to start a war.
In order to avoid plunging the country into another senseless civil war with its attendant bloodbath and human suffering, it is imperative for the South to act now before the situation gets out of hand by organizing a round-table discussion on how we should peacefully disengage from Nigeria.
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Day-Old Baby Stolen From Kano Government Hospital By Couple Longing For Male Child
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A newborn child was recently stolen from the Abdullahi Wase Hospital in Kano State.
One Abubakar Sadiq and his wife, Maryam Sadiq, stole the child, according to the police.
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The couple had thrown a party to celebrate the arrival of a male child, which triggered doubts since neighbours knew Maryam was not pregnant.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Kano command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said the police received a complaint on Wednesday from the father of the baby, Rabi’u Muhammad of Gayawa Quarters, Ungogo Local Government Area of the state, that on the same day one of his newly-born male twins was missing.
“He said his wife was delivered of the twins on the 07/09/2021 at Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital Kano and was admitted; that his sister-in-law, who was looking after the babies at the corridor of the Maternity ward slept off.
“She woke up and did not see the child,” Kiyawa said.
According to him, upon receiving the report, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, raised and instructed a team of detectives, led by SP Daniel Itse Amah, to rescue the victim and arrest the culprits.
“The team immediately stormed the scene and launched a search. The hospital was sealed off and thoroughly combed, but the child could not be found immediately.
“Sustained efforts, coupled with intelligence sharing, led to the arrest of one Maryam Sadiq, 22 years old, and her husband one Abubakar Sadiq, 50 years old, all of Rijiyar Zaki Quarters, Kano and the child was recovered from them in their home.”
He said Maryam confessed that the child was taken away from Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital Kano and that she carried out the act under the influence of her husband who had been longing for a male child.
Meanwhile, Kiyawa said that the newborn baby had been reunited with his parents.
He said that the suspects would be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.
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E2%80%93-human-rights%E2%80%99-lawyer Court Of Appeal Ruling Backed Rivers State To Collect Value-Added Tax – Human Rights’ Lawyer, Ozekhome Tells Federal Agency, FIRS
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Human rights’ lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has interpreted the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja in the favour of the Rivers State Government, saying the state government should collect the Value-Added Tax (VAT) as opposed to the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS).
Recall that Nyesom Wike-led Rivers State government has been at loggerheads with the nation’s federal tax agency, FIRS, which hitherto held the constitutional power to collect VAT from companies.
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A Federal High Court (FHC) holding in Port Harcourt had on August 10, 2021 ruled that Rivers State should collect VAT in the state, but the Court of Appeal on Friday, on the matter asked both parties to maintain status quo which the majority had inferred to be in the favour of FIRS.
The Haruna Tsanami three-man panel of the appellate court ordered “status quo ante bellum.”
However, Ozekhome argued on Saturday that the latest Appeal Court ruling on the matter upheld the Federal High Court’s judgment.
This was contained in a statement titled, “FIRS & Rivers State Government: Who Should Now Collect VAT?” made available to SaharaReporters on Saturday.
The human rights lawyer clarified that the subsisting law was that Rivers had overpowered FIRS to collect VAT, and as such should be maintained until the higher court rules otherwise.
Ozekhome said, “The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, has just ruled that both parties maintained the status quo in an appeal filed by the FIRS against the judgement of the FHC, Port Harcourt, validating the Rivers State law that empowered Rivers State Government to collect VAT, as against the FIRS that had hitherto collected VAT.
“Clearly, the status quo ante bellum was before the breakout of the hostilities. The hostilities broke out when the FIRS dragged the Rivers State Government to court, arguing that it cannot collect VAT based on its law.
“The said law was already duly passed and made operational by Rivers State House of Assembly that has the constitutional competency under section 4 of the Constitution to do so.
“The FHC, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had earlier held that it was the Rivers State Government that was competent to collect VAT, not the FIRS.
“Law was already therefore in operation before the FIRS challenged the validity of a FHC judgement, PH, that had given the Rivers State Government the power to collect the VAT.
“So, the status quo is that it is the Rivers State Government that has the power to collect VAT, until perhaps, the Court of Appeal rules otherwise and set aside the FHC judgment.
“However, the Court of Appeal ruled that all parties on the matter (including the FIRS, Attorney General of the Federation and the Lagos State Government that sought to be joined should maintain the status quo, so as to preserve the res and prevent the FHC judgment from being negatively affected.
“Consequently, to avoid unnecessary bickerings and needless head-on collision between the Attorney General of the Federation, the Federal Government ( which owns the FIRS) and the Rivers State Government in a matter that is already sudjudice, I will advise that both the Rivers State Government and the FIRS should both cease hostilities for now and maintain the status quo until the Court of Appeal finally pronounces on the matter.”
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Two Worshippers Dead As Taraba Church Collapses During Service
At least two persons have lost their lives when a worship centre located in the southern part of Taraba State collapsed.
The worship centre, which is known as the Holy Ghost Church, was said to have been brought down by a heavy downpour that lasted for several hours.
According to Daily Post, the church located in Abed Pave community in the Chachanji town of Takum Local Government, came down while a service was ongoing.
This came barely one week after the local government council was submerged by flood, which kept travellers stranded for several hours.
In addition to the two persons confirmed to have died as a result of the accident, several worshippers were also said to have escaped the scene with serious injuries.
Confirming the report, the council chairman, Shiban Tikari, said from the report made available to him, no fewer than two persons lost their lives in the process.
Though agreed that he is yet to visit the scene, he is, however, optimistic that the council would work out modalities to assist the church in question.
Also reacting, a former Supervisory Councilor of Chachanji ward, Mathew Adega, who also confirmed the incident, said the two victims are male and female.
Adega, who could ascertain the numbers of persons that sustained injuries as at the time of confirming the incident, however, agreed that several church members left with one form of injury and the other.
Some members of the community told our correspondent that the church building suddenly came down when it was raining cats and dogs in the community.
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E2%80%99s-sit-home-and-face-governments-wrath-%E2%80%93-anambra-governor-warns-residents-banks Obey IPOB’s Sit-at-home And Face Government’s Wrath – Anambra Governor Warns Residents, Banks
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano.
The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has warned the residents of the state to shun the sit-at-home directive declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for every Monday or face the wrath of his government.
The governor also ordered banks, traders and transporters to commence complete and uninterrupted economic and business activities from Monday.
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano.
The governor, on Saturday, maintained that his verdict came following discussions he had with security agents and relevant stakeholders in the state.
His directive was contained in a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Don Adinuba.
The statement reads partly: “All markets as well as motor parks and commercial vehicles are henceforth to operate fully every Monday and any other weekday except any day declared work-free by the appropriate authorities.
“Before Governor Willie Obiano led a meeting yesterday between heads of security agencies and bank executives in the state, including those from the Awka branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria, he had personally held frank and rewarding discussions with a large spectrum of leaders of the transport union and market association in Anambra State on why they had for the past five weeks been shutting down their businesses every Monday.
“It is axiomatic that the good people of Anambra State and, indeed, the Southeast have for the past five weeks been grappling with a vicious cycle on a grand scale. Some pupils have missed terminal examinations, with all the grave implications for the competitiveness of the youngsters and for the future of our state.
“Since no responsible government can stand akimbo while the future of its people is destroyed gratuitously, Governor Obiano held useful discussions in the last couple of days with relevant groups with a view to freeing members to pursue their legitimate businesses.
“After all, the leadership of the organization on whose instructions some persons claim to enforce the stay-at-home order has since rescinded the order.
“The Anambra State Government directive to banks, traders, transporters, other groups and individuals to resume full economic activity throughout the week with effect from Monday, September 13, 2021, was informed by the yearnings of these stakeholders.”
The governor assured people of the state of adequate security across the state on Monday.
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C2%A0o%C3%B2du%C3%A0-nation-now-struggle-begins-remi-oyeyemi Oòduà Nation: Now The Struggle Begins By Remi Oyeyemi
Remi Oyeyemi
“To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends.”. — John F. Kennedy, Jan. 20, 1961
The real struggle to have a date with our destiny as Yorùbá is about to begin. The task to activate the exodus from the Babylonian Nigeria is about to begin. The real march to the promised land of Oòduà Nation is about to take off. The task to shake off the shackle of tyranny is about to commence. The duty to appropriate our inalienable right to freedom is about to be started. The exercise to exorcize barbarism from our land is about to be launched. The assignment to cleanse Oòduà land of defilement is about to get off the ground.
A couple of rehearsals have just been completed. As we have always known, power would concede nothing, especially predatory and corrupt power emblematic by the Fulani marauders and their backers, and their in-house traitors. We know that tyranny is already giddy and desperate. We have been proved right as earlier anticipated that the appurtenances of state force would be employed to murder, assassinate and disrupt. The signals have been properly decoded and understood. Nature is about to take its cause and course in the imminent defiance of oppression and tyranny.
It is a thing of beauty that our people are now more conscious than ever. They are more aware than ever. They are more alert than ever. Their lethargy has drastically receded and on its way to annihilation. Their docility is dissipating. Their conformity is cremating. Their obedience is discombobulated. Their romance with their own realities has become more intimate. Their existence has become threatened and they know that something had to be done. No more rubbing of hands in frustration. No more lackadaisical revulsion. Their encounters with their actualities is propelling them to counteractions.
Remi Oyeyemi
They now seek the issues and extrapolate on them more than ever. They pay attention to all the tits and bits. All the slices and the snippets. All the scraps and the shreds. All the dabs and the dashes. All the parcels and the particles. Everything now interests them. They are more aware of the strengths and weaknesses of tyranny. They are watching and waiting as the struggle for freedom is about to begin. They have become active and aggrieved citizenry. Our Yorùbá people are angered. Now they want to be free. Their spirit of revulsion to tyranny has been revitalized. It was Chairman Mao who insisted that all revolutionaries may not be angry men (and women), but every angry man (or woman) advances the revolution.
As we march on to OÒDUÀ NATION, there would be no room for intellectual tyranny. We would not tolerate intellectual dishonesty. We will not incubate half-baked intellectuality. We would not be miseducated. We would refuse to be cajoled against the train of liberty. We would reject being misinformed about our freedom. We would defy the demonization of our anchors and stay steadfast. We would deride fake values that are antithetical to our being free. We would ignore cowardly sermons seeking our acquiescence with misery, poverty, need, want and tragedy.
We would encourage openness and free discussion of ideas. We would incinerate, after careful review, any subversive and antagonistic idea to the existential survival of Yorùbá Nation, the Yorùbá race and our heritage as expressed through our culture, traditions and cosmological interpretations. We would protect and preserve what is ours by all means. While we encourage civility in all ramifications, we would not be blackmailed into charlatanised patriotism.
We appreciate pride in our Yorùbá ways of life but detest vacuous arrogance based on half-knowledge packaged as substantive message. The s’eku s’eye crowd would be discomforted. They would be sought after and exposed. Candid and constructive dissention would be encouraged, fueled, fostered and allowed to fester. We will de-robe vacuous righteous indignation and confront audacious obnoxiousness. We would tackle subversive elements working against the realization of our dream Oòduà Nation, expose them to ridicule and give them the treatment that traitors deserve.
Adapting these lines of President John F. Kennedy of the United States from his inaugural address of January 20, 1961 – We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution anchored by Oduduwa, reiterated by Obafemi Awolowo as encapsulated in AWOISM. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Oduduwa children, revitalized by AWOISM, tempered by the tyranny of Fulani oligarchy, disciplined by a hard and bitter patience in the name of peace but determined to ensure its corollary in Justice, proud of our heritage as Yorùbá — and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of our civilization to which our people, our Nation and our land have always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every ethnic nationality in the geographical expression called Nigeria know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival of our freedom and the success of our liberty as emblematic in the extant civilization of Oòduà Nation and would be edified by its Independence.
We shall raise the flag of our dear Oòduà Nation to represent freedom and liberty soon enough.
There is no stopping us now!
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.” – President John F. Kennedy Jan. 20, 1961
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E2%80%99-unpaid-salaries Four Abia College Of Education Workers Die Amid 32 Months’ Unpaid Salaries
Four workers of the Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu (ASCETA), have reportedly died in the past two weeks, with the latest of such deaths recorded on Wednesday night.
The chairman of ASCETA College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Mr. Kelvin Egesi who confirmed the deaths said they were attributed to the starvation as workers of the college are owed 32 months’ arrears of salary.
This is even as Egesi has alleged that the Provost of the College, Dr. Philip Nto, has threatened to sack him for demanding the payment of his colleagues’ salary arrears.
The COEASU chairman provided the names of the four staff who died in the past two weeks to include, Mr Stephen Amaraihu, Dr. Chioma Uchenna, Dr. Uchechi S. Chijioke and Mr. Johnbul Okpudo.
“The college staff are owed 32 months’ salary arrears and they are dying one after the other due to hunger and starvation.
“No money to feed, no money to pay hospital and other bills. The workers are planning to come to Umuahia to sit down at the Government House, Umuahia until they starve to death. They said, they would come with coffins.
“What again do we do? The governor made a firm promise in July that government will pay five months arrears In August and subsequently pay the rest, but nothing has happened till now. God have mercy,” Egesi lamented.
Meanwhile, the ASCETA COEASU chairman has alleged that the Provost, Dr. Nto has instructed the Registrar of the college, Iyke Odoemelam, to commence the process of sacking him.
Egesi in a statement said his offence was that he demanded the payment of the workers salary arrears.
“Information reaching me has it that the provost has instructed the Registrar to start the process of sacking me from next week because of my publications demanding the payment of salary arrears of the workers.”
The COEASU chairman alleged that the Provost said with such demands, he was embarrassing the Abia state government and the school management.
“What next after my sack? He wants our voice not to be heard and the staff to keep dying of hunger and starvation.”
When contacted Dr. Nto denied the allegation, adding there was no way he would sack the union leader unless he fails to do his job or do something to embarrass the governor who appointed him.
“Is ASCETA a private school where you wake up and sack someone for requesting for his salary? He queried.
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Senate President, Lawan Bags Chieftaincy Title In Ekiti Despite $2million Bribe
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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has bagged a chieftaincy title in Ekiti State, notwithstanding his scandalous involvement in a $2 million bribe to pass the disputed Petroleum Industry Bill.
Lawan and six other Nigerians are to be conferred with chieftaincy titles of Iyin-Ekiti, in the Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area.
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According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Oluyin of Iyin-Ekiti, Oba Adeola Ajakaiye made the disclosure at a news conference in Iyin-Ekiti on Friday, adding that the conferment of titles on the Senate President and others was in recognition of their contribution to the community and the country at large.
Lawan has endured abrupt allegations since he was exposed his role in denying oil-rich host communities in the South a fairer share of equity for the extraction of crude oil in their domains with attendant degradation of their environment.
Nonetheless, the Iyin Traditional Council has found him worthy of honour.
The honour will also commemorate his one year anniversary of ascending the throne for which a week-long activity has been scheduled.
A N500million fundraiser would also be held during the programme for palace development, medical and optical checks, the traditional ruler noted.
Opeyemi Arije, a chief and the secretary of the planning committee, said, “Our traditional ruler has given facelift to the palace by providing office for Oluyin in Council and mini conference hall.”
Arije praised the efforts of the monarch in developing Iyin town.
“Oba Ajakaiye has also facilitated and commissioned five motorised boreholes donated by indigenes, supported the creation of LCDA and its headquarters in Iyin-Ekiti as well as equipped its Secretariat.
“He also ensured that the only bank in the town was reopened six months after it was attacked by armed robbers,” Arije said.
Aside the Senate President, others to be conferred with titles include: former Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major-General Bamidele Olawumi and wife, an Israeli, Him Hille and wife, Ayodeji Adeosun and Veronica Ndanusa.
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