BODE GEORGE IN CONTROL OF LAGOS STATE PDP

Chief Segun Adewale, the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, on Saturday handed over the state secretariat of the party to the Board of Trustees.

Adewale is the factional chairman of the PDP loyal to Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, recently sacked by the Supreme Court as the National Chairman of the party.

Adewale, addressing journalists shortly after moving his possession out of the secretariat, said this was in line with the directive from the national headquarters of the party.

He said a letter from the party headquarters had directed him to hand over to BoT members in the state.

Adewale explained that the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP had ordered that the state secretariat should be handed over to Chief Bode George and other members of the party’s BoT in Lagos.

He said that the order was contained in a letter signed by the Secretary, National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ben Obi, and addressed to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni.

The letter reads in part: “The attention of the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party has been drawn to the occupation of the PDP Secretariat at No. 56, Adekunle Fajuyi Crescent, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, by a group.

“Section 32(5) (e) of the PDP Constitution (2012 as amended) states that the Board of Trustees shall be vested with the assets of the party and shall serve as custodians of such assets

“This is to avoid negative consequences that may arise from the tussle for the secretariat and in keeping with the PDP Constitution.

“The National Caretaker Committee hereby requests that you hand over the secretariat to Chief Bode George and other members of PDP Board of Trustees in Lagos State.”

According to Adewale: “I am going to hand over the key to the BoT as instructed in the letter.

“As you can see me, I have packed out my things. I am going to drop the key now.”

He instructed all his supporters to stay away from the secretariat in the interest of peace, even if the key is given to someone else.

Adewale said: “It is quite unfortunate that those, who as at last week Saturday, were campaigning against PDP while in Labour Party; now want to take over the secretariat.

“I was the one mobilising for the party during last Saturday local government elections in the state.

“Even at that, I am ready to leave the secretariat, the police asked us to sign an undertaking that there will be peace in Ikeja.

“I am not fighting with anybody, because if we continue this way, we will continue to lose elections in Lagos.”

The crisis rocking the party at both the national and state levels made those loyal to Moshood Salvador to make an alliance with the Labour Party.

Salvador is the factional chairman loyal to Senator Ahmed Markafi, who was declared by the Supreme Court declared as the authentic chairman.

PDP ALLIANCE WITH LABOUR PARTY IS DISSOLVED

The state chairman of PDP, Moshood Salvador has called  on the party loyalist to be more discipline and obey the party constitution. 

The chairman made this call at press conference on the conduct of just concluded lagos state government election which he described  as worst in the history of election in lagos state. 

Salvador also explained that the political alliance with the Labour Party has come to an end “as explained at the previous conference that a political alliance in an agreement between two or more political parties for the purpose of election only. The council election has come and gone, and I hereby declare that the alliance is dissolved from this moment ”

He use this opportunity to thank the party faithful  for their set fast and commitment during the crisis and the just concluded lagos LG election 

LAGOS NUJ INAUGURATES-2017 -ELECTION COMMITTEE

A five- member Credentals Committee to conduct the 2017 election  of the Lagos Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has been inaugurated.
The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports  that the committee members are:Mr Jibola Ojesola, Mr Biodun Ajala and Mr Ayo Ojedokun.
Other members are: Ms Gladys Omamogho and Mr Wale Akodu.
The Chairman of the State Council, Mr Deji Elumoye, while inaugurating committee members on Saturday, urged them to discharge their duties diligently.
 Elumoye said: “Do not bend the rules on no condition.”
The chairman urged members of the committee to stick strictly to the constitution.
He said all.members of the committee met all conditions to serve.
Elumoye advised the committee members to abide by the rules and regulations of the union.
He handed over the Constitution of the union to the committee members for easy reference.
Elumoye told the committee members to meet and swing into action.
The chairman of the committee is Ojesola, who works with the  Lagos Television. 
The  election comes up in September. NAN)

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WORLD BANK TO FINANCE COMMUNITY PROJECTS

The World Bank has committed a total of $215m to the execution of rural community development projects across the country under its Community and Social Development Programme.

The National Coordinator, CSDP, Dr. Abdulkarim Obaje, disclosed this at the opening of a two-day retreat for supervising ministries and Board of Directors of the CSPD in Abuja on Thursday.

In an implementation report presented at the retreat, Obaje said 31 states of the federation had signed subsidiary loan agreements for the funding mechanism, which is deducted at source through the Ministry of Finance.

According to him, Kaduna is the only state that has indicated interest in joining the CSDP, but has yet to sign the agreement; while Delta and Rivers states are implementing earlier programmes. Kano, Lagos and Jigawa have yet to indicate interest in the programme.

Sectors where the projects are executed to ensure impact on the poor members of the communities include education, water supply, health, rural electrification, transportation and environment.

Obaje listed the challenges facing the community development initiative to include slow pace of implementation of the 2017 budgets across the states, non-adherence to the use of the poverty map, inadequate security in some states, and delays in payment of government contributions by some states.

The Legal Specialist, Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, Nigeria, Mr. Foluso Okunmadewa, said the bank was open to extending funding to more states that want to join the programme.

He said the bank was excited to work with Nigeria on a mechanism that would work.

ATTENDANCE AT MESSI WEDDING

… In attendance are, Former Barcelona players Xavi Alonso, Cesc Fabregas and Carles Puyol and  wives, Manchester’s City footballer Argentine Sergio Aguero and his girlfriend, Jordi Alba and his wife, Uruguayan football player Luis Suarez and his wife Sofia Babington, Barcelona’s football player Javier Mascherano,Manchester’s United goalkeeper, Argentinian Sergio Romero and his wife,Paris Saint Germain’s footballer Argentine Angel di Maria and his wife, Paris Saint Germain’s footballer Angel di Maria, Boca Juniors’ footballer Fernando Gago (C), Sevilla’s and footballer Ever Banegas, to mention but few of them. 

Argentine football star Lionel Messi and bride Antonella Roccuzzo pose for photographers just after their wedding at the City Centre Complex in Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina on June 30, 2017.

GLITZ, FUN AND GLAMOUR AS MESSI WEDS HIS CHILDHOOD GIRLFRIEND

Four time world best and Argentine International , Lionel Messi  wed his childhood sweetheart, Antonella Roccuzzo recently  at  Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina. 

The celebration was graced  by Footballers, celebrities including pop singer Shakira gathered for the “wedding of the century”. above are guests of honour

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WE ARE EXPECTING OUR TWINS – JJC

Funke Akindele may be pregnant,going by her husband  post on Instagram during the week where he said, “Amen amen amen. God I receive your wonderful news in praise. To God be the glory you will be called a mother by your beautiful miraculous twins @funkejenifaakindele my queen and wonderful mother of my children to be.”

The singer explained that the twin genes run in his family“My elder sisters are twins, so it runs in the family. Expect our beautiful twins.”
When the question was pushed directly to him if his wife was truly pregnant, the singer with a cheerful laughter gave a cryptic reply, saying, “To God be the glory it would come to pass.”

JJC, further explained why he posted the message on Instagram, “My post on Instagram about my wife having twins was a prophecy from Olowogbogboro. Nathaniel Bassey came online and he had the prophecy, so I just tapped into it. If you look at my tweet, you would see what I wrote, I said I heard this news where he gave a big testimony, he gathered people around to pray for my wife and he said that he had a vision that she would have twins and that he will be invited to the naming ceremony next year. I received the good news and I pray it comes to pass”.

Besides expecting a baby, the couple already have ‘intellectual babies’ together. Aside shooting Jenifa’s Dairy together, the singer said that they already have a new joint project, Industreet.

“It is amazing working with my wife on the Industreet series because she is an amazing producer as well as a wonderful script writer. While we were shooting, we disagreed to agree but my wife has a wealth of experience, so I gain from that. If we both decided to do things that did not align, we had to come to a middle ground. We are both passionate about the project, so it was easier to come to a compromise. It is not every time we agreed on a subject but we always come up on a middle ground. Industreet was an idea I came up with about nine years ago and after we worked on Jenifer’s Dairy for a long time, we decided that we needed to do something different. I showed her the pilot for the television show and she fell in love with the idea and we started writing the scripts,” he said.