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…….As VC urges Law School to increase its quota from 70 to 150 students per session

It was celebration galore as Akungba Law Clinic unveiled the Chief Registrar of National Industrial Court,Barr Olurotimi Daudu, as the patron of the Akungba Law Clinic.

The event, which took place at the Nelson Mandela Hall of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), saw the Vice Chancellor of the school,Prof. Olugbenga Ige declaring the event open.

The new Patron of the Law Clinic, Barr Olurotimi Daudu, in his acceptance speech said he was elated and happy to be bestowed with the role of patron.

Daudu said he would not take the opportunity for granted and would do anything to encourage and support the upcoming lawyers.

“Like I said, it is a humbling experience for me and it is one thing I will never take for granted, I appreciate you all. I am grateful to the people at the faculty of law for finding me worthy of this honour ,” he said.

Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Prof. Olugbenga Ige, at the event urged the council for legal education in Nigeria (law school) to increase the school’s current quota of 70 students to 150.

Ige said that the school’s faculty of law, which he said was one of the best in the country, has the human capacity to train more than the current number given to them.

He said the school would continue to improve infrastructural facilities in the faculty and other ones.

Ige urged the patron to help use his capacity to help as Chief Registrar of Industrial Court facilitate the increase in the numbers of students the law school could take from the school.

”We will appreciate whatever assistance you can do to help us increase the number from 70 every year. By the time I want to admit 71, JAMB will just cross the last one, they say your quota is 70.

“Our law faculty is doing exceptionally well,our students are doing great,our graduates are doing wonderfully fantastic.

“For us sir as university management, we will do everything possible to make sure that we provide infrastructure.

“Interms of human capacity in the faculty of law, we have enough, we have several professors there, we have associate professors, senior lecturers, nearly all the lecturers in the faculty of law have PhD,” he said.

Also, Dean of Faculty of Law, Barr. Olugbenga Oke,said Akungba Law Clinic was a project in the faculty of law.

Oke said that Daudu was brought because the faculty normally bring eminent people to mentor the young lawyers and to encourage them to look up to people like him.

“What we do is to train our student in practical and we make them to serve the community. Today’s occasion is to honour one of the leading light in the profession of law in Nigeria and that is the CR of Industrial Court as the patron of Akungba Law Clinic

“Because of our limited facility, the law school has pegged down our number of students we can send to law school every year to 70, so at the moment, we can only send 70 students.

“The campaign now is that law school should allow us to bring in more students Akungba Law is one of the best training grounds in Nigeria.

“The council for legal education regulate all law programme in Nigeria and our quota has remained 70, we have made concerted effort to make sure that our quota increased,but the 70 is still maintained and our students are doing very well.

“In Nigeria today people that want to read law prefer Akungba because we have the capacity and we are hoping that it will be moved to 150,” he said.

Director of Road Transport in the Ministry of Transportation, Ibrahim Musa, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government has approved the re-opening of the Seme border for the importation of vehicles.

Speaking at the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, meeting, organised between officials of Nigeria and Benin, Musa said the development followed complaints by freight forwarders operating at the Seme border.

The director, who spoke at the ECOWAS Monitoring Team’s visit to the Seme-Krake Joint Border Post, said: “I was here with the former Minister of State for Transportation when the Freight Forwarders pleaded that the border should be reactivated for the free movement of goods and services.

“The former minister made us prepare a memo to that effect. It was considered and sent to the government.”

Also speaking, the Customs Area Controller of Seme Border Command, Dera Nnadi said the service has noticed a reduction in its revenue since the importation of vehicles was banned from the land borders.

Nnadi said: “The former Minister of Transportation, responding to some of our requests and from the stakeholders, promised to take them to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, one of them is how to fully open this border.

“The Ministry has informed us that the memo has been written to FEC and it was adopted and that it would be given to the new government, he assured us that all the requests were adopted.”

The National Directorate of Asiwaju Media Team has praised their Principal and President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his prompt dissolution of the NDDC Board that was constituted through illegality, irregularity, monetary influence, and favoritism by the former president Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The group noted that despite several court orders restraining the Senate, the president, and the ministry of Niger Delta from proceeding with the constituting the board, the former president differed the court orders and petitions in that regard, and the board was constituted because those who favored had already bribed the former Chief of staff late Kyari.

Since the board was constituted over irregularities, the Chairman of the Board Mrs. Laureta Onochie and the MD started constituted disorderliness among themselves because the Board Chairman and some Directors were not from oil-producing local governments, which was a breach of the NDDC act, the board was constituted through pure stealing of the oil producing communities mandate.

The NDDC act stipulated that members of the NDDC Board, specifically the Board Chairman and Directors, and state representatives shall hail from the oil-producing local government, but the former president and the cabals in Aso Rock constituted the board despite Senators from the affected states’ rejection, court orders and several petitions that condemned the irregularity.

We appeal to our principal, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to critically look into the NDDC act and invite the former board Executives for questions on how they were constituted into the board. There are countless court injunctions, hearings, and petitions yet hanging in those regards.
And that when the president considers it necessary to constitute a new board, the act shouldn’t be breached to accommodate only people from the mandate areas being constituted, and experts both in the field of humanity.

We have never been regretting our confidence in Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we have been on this page before the primary election, we were with him during the primary election, and General election, we shall forever redeem his image, and we have been vindicated from our opposition’s now that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has kept to his promises for Nigerians and did within 21-days what a president cannot do in the past 12 years.

We will never compromise our loyalties and shall raise where necessary every injustice in the NDDC because it is our major region.

Prince Emorioloye Owolemi
Asiwaju Media Team
Director General
Ondo State

General Paul Boroh
Former Security Adviser and Amnesty Coordinator to Former President Buhari
Asiwaju Media Team
Board Directorate
Bayelsa State

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR,  has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of  Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service as well as their replacements with immediate effect.

The newly appointed Officers are:
S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Mallam Nuhu Ribadu National Security Adviser
2 Maj. Gen. C.G Musa Chief of Defence Staff
3 Maj. T. A Lagbaja Chief of Army Staff
4 Rear Admirral E. A Ogalla Chief of Naval Staff
5 AVM H.B Abubakar Chief of Air Staff
6 DIG Kayode Egbetokun  Acting Inspector-General of Police
7 Maj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye Chief of Defense Intelligence

Mr President has also approved the following appointments:
S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Col. Adebisi Onasanya  Brigade of Guards Commander
2 Lt. Col. Moshood Abiodun Yusuf  7 Guards Battalion, Asokoro, Abuja
3 Lt. Col. Auwalu Baba Inuwa 177, Guards Battalion, Keffi, Nasarawa State
4 Lt. Col. Mohammed J. Abdulkarim 102 Guards Battalion, Suleja, Niger
5 Lt. Col. Olumide A. Akingbesote  176 Guards Battalion, Gwagwalada, Abuja

Similarly, the President has approved the appointments of other Military Officers in the Presidential Villa as follows:
S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Maj.  Isa Farouk Audu
(N/14695) Commanding Officer State House Artillery
2 Capt. Kazeem Olalekan Sunmonu (N/16183) Second-in-Command, State House Artillery
3 Maj. Kamaru Koyejo Hamzat (N/14656) Commanding Officer, State House Military Intelligence
4 Maj. TS Adeola (N/12860) Commanding Officer, State House Armament
5 Lt. A. Aminu (N/18578) Second-in- Command, State House Armament

Mr. President has also approved the appointments of two (2) additional Special Advisers, and two (2) Senior Assistants, namely:

S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS
1 Hadiza Bala Usman Special Adviser, Policy Coordination
2 Hannatu  Musa Musawa Special Adviser, Culture and Entertainment Economy
3 Sen. Abdullahi Abubakar Gumel Senior Special Assistant , National Assembly Matters  (Senate)
4 Hon. (Barr) Olarewaju Kunle Ibrahim  Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters  (House of Representatives)

Finally, the President has approved the appointment of Adeniyi Bashir Adewale as the Ag. Comptroller General of Customs.

It is to be noted that the appointed Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police and the Comptroller General of Customs are to act in their positions, pending their confirmation in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Willie Bassey
Director, Information
For: Secretary to the Government of the Federation

The Federal Government on Monday resumed negotiations with organised labour presented by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on measures to take to alleviate the suffering associated with the withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Recall both the NLC and TUC a fortnight ago had suspended its planned nationwide indefinite strike action to protest last month’s withdrawal of fuel subsidy.

The meeting was suspended after meeting with representatives of government at the State House, Abuja.

Speaking to State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, said a steering committee has been set up, alongside technical committees that will help achieve the planned palliatives for Nigerians.

He said: “As we promised the last time we met; when labour called off their planned strike, we held a meeting today. We went through all the demands that labour had tabled, that is government and the labour unions and the last time, they said they were going to go back to their executives and make consultations so that we reconvene today.

“That is exactly what we did. 

At today’s meeting, both parties went through the list and we ticked off the viable ones which are now broken into three categories; those can be given immediate attention, and those that can be achieved medium term and long term.”

Alake explained that a steering committee was set up alongside technical committees that will help actualise the dream of providing the intervention that will cushion the effects of removal of subsidy.

“Work groups have been constituted at today’s meeting. 

There is a steering committee that will serve as a clearing house and there are other committees comprising both parties; government and labour. They will work together very harmoniously and efficiently to arrive at the final resolution of all the demands of labour and what we (government) call interventions,” he explained.

The President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joseph Ajero and his Trade Union Congress counterpart, Festus Osifo both confirmed the setting up of steering and technical committees that will commence work immediately and complete same within a maximum period of eight weeks.

Other government representatives at the meeting include Chief of Staff to the President, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila; and Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, Special Adviser for Revenue, Zachaeus Adedeji and the Special Adviser for Energy, Olu Verheijen and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kachallom Daju.

Others were the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, the CEO of Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed among others.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate dissolution of the Governing Boards of all Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies, Institutions, and Government-Owned Companies in the exercise of its Constitutional Powers and in the Public interest.

The dissolution does not, however, affect Boards, Commissions and Councils listed in the Third Schedule, Part 1, Section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

This is contained in a statement signed by Willie Bassey, Director, Information, office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

In view of this development and until such a time new boards are constituted, the Chief Executive Officers of the Parastatals, Agencies, Institutions, and Government-Owned Companies are directed to refer matters requiring the attention of their Boards to the President, through the Permanent Secretaries of their respective supervisory Ministries and Offices.

Permanent Secretaries are directed, also, to route such correspondences to Mr President through the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Consequently, all Ministries, Departments and Agencies are to ensure compliance to the provision of this directive which took effect from Friday 16th June, 2023.

Permanent Secretaries are particularly directed to inform the Chief Executive Officers of the affected Agencies under the supervision of their respective Ministries/Offices for immediate compliance.