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10 — Vanguard, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019
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PENS DOWN: From
left—Lagos State
Deputy Governor, Dr.
Obafemi Hamzat
(middle), flanked by
Head of Service,
Hakeem Muri-
Okunola (5th left),
and Secretary to the
Lagos State
Government, Mrs.
Folashade Jaji (4th
right), with retired
P e r m a n e n t
Secretaries, during a
group photograph at
the Pens Down
Ceremony, held at
the Adeyemi-Bero
Auditorium in
Alausa, Ikeja,
yesterday.
Court jails oil thieves, orders
company to pay N100m fine
By Onozure Dania
LAGOS—A Federal
High Court sitting in
Lagos has ordered that a
vessel, MV Shirley, should
be forfeited to the Federal
Government for being used
for illegal conveyance of
145,000 litres of petroleum
products.
MV Shirley was
convicted of four counts
alongside a firm, Sagwe
International Limited, and
one Abednego Ogede, who
was said to be at large.
In a judgment delivered
on Wednesday by Justice
Rilwan Aikawa, the court
held that the Economic and
Financial Crimes
Commission was able to
prove the charges against
the convicts beyond
reasonable doubts.
The judge said MV
Shirley along with the
145,000 litres of petroleum
product found on it should
be forfeited to the Federal
Government.
Why Nigeria lost out of Super 6
emerging economic powers
—IHRSM
By Gabriel
Olawale
THE Institute of Human
Resources and
Strategic Management,
IHRSM, has expressed
displeasure over Nigeria’s
inability to live up to the
expectation of the economic
growth and development
predicted in 1970, despite
being endowed with
human, intellectual and
natural resources.
According to the
President and Institution
Chairman of Council,
Professor Ben Oghojafor,
Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, South Korea,
NCC supports three Nigerian
start-ups with N5m
By Juliet Umeh
THREE Nigerian startups,
yesterday,
received five million naira
after emerging winners at
the
Nigeria
Communications
Commission, NCC, pitch
programme titled:
Emerging Technologies
Competition and
Exhibition2019, ETR, held
in Lagos.
The three lucky winners
China and Nigeria were
the Super Six nations
predicted to be at par with
the First World countries in
terms of measures of
economic growth and
development.
“Obviously, Nigeria, our
dear country, has not lived
up to the expectation of the
economic growth and
development prediction.
Other nations, at present,
have surpassed us in all
measures, as we continues
to grope in the dark of
myriad of failed economic
policies and structural
imbalance that contradict all
attempts to pursue real
economic growth and
development.
emerged as first, second
and third out of the 25 startups
that pitched for the
programme and got three,
two and one million Naira
respectively.
They include a learning
contact firm from Lagos
State, Qatalog; WiFi
Hotspot Sharing project,
WICRYPT, from Enugu
State and a footfall energy
resource firm, Phaheem
Pharmaceuticals Ltd from
Kano State.
BLOCKED DRAINAGE: Amuwo Odofin
residents send SOS to Lagos govt
By Ebunoluwa
Sassou
L AGOS—RESIDENTS
of Amuwo Odofin area
of Lagos State have decried
what they described as
long years of neglect calling
on the state government to
rescue them from looming
epidemic as a result of
blockage of drainages.
Areas affected include
Green Estate Gate and
Corporation Estate and
Diamond Estate Gate,
Leadway Assurance and
Green Estate and Sweet
Sensation.
The story is ditto to the
Ago Bridge and ABC
terminal and Mile 2 Low
Cost Housing Estate to
Fagbems filling station. All
drainage networks are
completely blocked and this
is causing hazard in the
entire Amuwo Odofin
community
Lamenting their ordeal,
one of the residents in
Green Estate said: "For 25
years, the community has
continued to experience
flood during rainy season.
Road crashes top emergency
disasters in 11 months —LASEMA
By Olasunkanmi
Akoni
L AGOS—RECORDS
have revealed that of
959 emergency incidents
from January 1 to
November 30, 2019, road
accidents recorded the
highest, with 315 cases.
Director General, DG,
Lagos State Emergency
Appeal Court affirms lower court’s conviction
of former SAN, Nwobike
By Onozure Dania
LAGOS—THE Court of
Appeal, sitting in
Lagos, yesterday, upheld
the May 2018 conviction of
a former Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, SAN, Dr. Joseph
Nwobike, to one month
imprisonment for
attempting to pervert the
course of justice.
A three-man panel, led by
Justice Joseph Ikyegh and
Justices Jamilu Tukur and
Ebiowei Tobi, unanimously
held that the lower court
properly convicted the
lawyer in accordance with
Section 97(3) of the
…lament 25 years of abandonment
According to him, the
entire Amuwo Odofin is
under siege as a result of
blockage of drainages.
“The fear is that if this
problem persists, epidemic
might strike us and that will
be pathetic. There are lots
of cases of malaria due to
mosquitoes, and our
children and wives are
majorly affected.
Another eyewitness told
Vanguard that, most of the
houses in the area are
Criminal Law of Lagos
State.
It dismissed Nwobike’s
appeal for ‘mostly lacking
in merit’.
Meanwhile, the court,
discharged and acquitted
Nwobike of the charge of
offering gratification to a
Federal High Court Judge,
Justice Mohammed
Yinusa.
Nwobike’s counsel,
Olawale Akoni, SAN, after
the judgment was
delivered, said the lawyer
would appeal the
conviction to the Supreme
Court.
On May 18, 2018, Justice
submerged because of the
flood. There is no free flow
of water from drain to the
appropriate canal. When it
rains, most residents in
Amuwo Odofin use
pumping machine to drain
water from their
compounds, he said.
“Most houses are
submerged by water and if
care is not taken, most
houses in Green Estate will
sink. We have been doing
palliative measures on the
•Fire records its highest
•Collapsed buildings, 23
Management Agency,
LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-
Osanyintiolu, stated this,
while reeling out statistics
for emergency incidents
within the period under
review at a 2019 quarterly
stakeholders’ meeting, on
Raliat Adebiyi of the lower
court convicted Nwobike of
12 out of 18 counts
bordering on attempt to
pervert the course of justice.
She sentenced him to one
month imprisonment on
each of the 12 counts but
said the sentences would
run concurrently.
The judge had also said
the Economic and
Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, had
proved its case beyond
reasonable doubt that the
SAN was in constant
communication with court
officials to influence the
assignment of his cases to
his preferred judges.
drainages but it is not
enough. Personally, I have
taken time to talk to the
officials of Lagos state
government but all efforts
to fix the problem failed.
“I pointed out those
officials of Lagos State
Drainage Enforcement
Control, who came to
inspect the situation of
drains in Amuwo Odofin,
they served the concerned
people contravention order but,
despite the order, nothing positive
has happened."
Wednesday, in Alausa,
Ikeja, Lagos.
At the meeting, with the
theme: ‘Synergizing in the
Management of
Emergencies and Disasters
in Lagos State’, Oke-
Osanyintiolu explained he
intended to provide the
state with workable
strategies to renew the
confidence in the collective
ability, responsibility and
capacity to rise up to any
emergency and disaster
challenges in the state.
Areas of discourse in the
last quarter meeting
include dry season and the
dangers of fire outbreak,
climate change and its
resultant effects on fire
outbreak, causes, effects
and solutions to the cases
of collapsed buildings in
Lagos State, curbing the
spate of collapsed buildings
in Lagos State, effects of
articulated vehicles on the
road, a review of accidents
and injuries on the roads,
hazards identification and
control.