Lagos-Calabar Highway: Stop distorting facts, applaud Tinubu, Presidency replies Atiku
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Presidency has on Monday replied former vice president and People’s Democratic Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku had yesterday said that foreign investors would avoid Nigeria as long as the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stuck to propaganda as a state policy, instead of focusing on attracting real investors.
He also said the fact that Tinubu’s son and his surrogates were on the board of companies owned by Gilbert Chagoury clearly constituted a conflict of interest.
But reacting in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy Bayo Onanuga, Presidency stated that Atiku is fast developing a reputation for distorting and manipulating facts for his self-serving objective.
Onanuga noted that the fact that Seyi Tinubu’s father (President Bola Tinubu) is now the President of Nigeria does not disqualify Seyi from pursuing legitimate business interests.
Obasanjo hails Air Peace for hitch free Lagos-London flight
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A Nigerian carrier, Air Peace, has received plaudits from former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his pleasant experience travelling with the airline from Lagos to London.
Obasanjo also hailed the airline for its customer satisfaction during the six-hour flight.
He told Nnenna Onyema, daughter of Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Dr Allen Onyema, in a video circulating on social media, that the journey was devoid of complaints.
ICYMI: ‘I can’t breathe,’ says UK lawyer Dele Johnson pinned down by security for refusing to remove shoes
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A duty solicitor recounted a harrowing experience where he was restrained by “four or five” court security staff, despite his plea that he couldn’t breathe.
Defence solicitor Dele Johnson, speaking with The Law Society Gazette, described how guards pinned him down with their knees after he refused a security search request to remove his shoes.
The incident took place as Johnson was fulfilling his duties in the Youth Court at Stratford Magistrates’ on Wednesday, May 1.
He told the Gazette he thought “for about 30 seconds that I was in danger.”
Johnson, 37, drew a parallel between his experience and the tragic incident involving George Floyd, whose death at the hands of Minneapolis police ignited the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I never thought I’d also be saying ‘I can’t breathe’,’ said Mr Johnson. ‘I was just trying to do my job.”
The London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association has raised concerns, stating that lawyers may boycott the court if the guards allegedly involved in the assault on Johnson are not suspended by the private company OCS.
PICTORIAL: Mother of four-year-old boy who died in Abuja school protests, alleges cover-up
The mother of the late four-year-old Miguel Ovoke, who recently died at the BrickHall School located in the Cadastral Zone B11, Kaura, in Abuja, on Monday, stormed the school in the company of others to protest the death of her son.
The mother of the deceased four-year-old Miguel protesting.
The lady alleged that the school authorities were covering up on the incident, which led to the death of their late pupil.
In clips making the rounds on social media, the bereaved mother, dressed in all-black, displayed a cardboard reading, ‘We Need Justice For Miguel, BrickHall School Kill Miguel.’
“18 students for one class where I dey pay N350,000,” she said in one of the videos.