Lagos Assembly set to amend law on okada

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <br /></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4459379581115159933" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3n-2fLDzMEC9oO5hQdkQz5CedQJoD8Z2FBUXxbjHMxDAWm2AZ3bDG2w0Aq55a1lR-8bQgQNixwfoZHU-bj_JMkY_e-PG0gyQ7VZ60e6bi97OQFHRPuLhYqmh3E4LA4d3H66VfDtDo2Xk/s1600/1+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3n-2fLDzMEC9oO5hQdkQz5CedQJoD8Z2FBUXxbjHMxDAWm2AZ3bDG2w0Aq55a1lR-8bQgQNixwfoZHU-bj_JMkY_e-PG0gyQ7VZ60e6bi97OQFHRPuLhYqmh3E4LA4d3H66VfDtDo2Xk/s1600/1+(1).jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Few days after Governor Babatunde Fashola reverted the fee paid by Lagos State University (LASU) students to its original N25,000, following series of protests, the Lagos State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, moved to amend the state Traffic Law, accusing the enforcement agencies, particularly the police, of poor implementation.<br /><br />The assembly made this observation while debating a motion sponsored by 10 lawmakers, including Honourable Sanai Agunbiade.<br /><br />While moving for a public hearing on the review exercise, the assembly urged Governor Fashola to urgently call on the state Commissioner of Police, Umaru Manko, to ensure his officers and men desist from indiscriminate arrest of okada riders, particularly outside the restricted areas.<br /><br />According to members, who maintained that the Traffic Law remained the best in terms of bringing sanity on the roads, curbing crime rate and reducing rate of accidents on Lagos roads, the police, they said, from personal observation and experience, had cultivated the habit of exploiting the okada riders through indiscriminate arrests.<br /><br />Members of the assembly noted that the response to the law had been negative, due to poor enforcement.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Governor Fashola has requested for the re-ordering of the 2014 Budget of the state to meet with demands for more public services.<br /><br />The governor’s request was contained in a letter, entitled: “Y2014 Budget Re-Ordering of Priorities,” addressed  to the speaker, Honourable Adeyemi Ikuforiji.<br /><br />According to Fashola, the re-ordering was to take care of emerging issues like the reversal of LASU school fees policy, Ebola virus epidemic, among others.</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); 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Lagos Assembly set to amend law on okada

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$1.5bn Lekki deep seaport project suffers setback

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="story-featured-image" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 15px; width: 368px;"> <img alt="Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib" class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="375" scale="0" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Abdullahi-Habib-360x375.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px; padding: 4px;" width="360" /><div class="featured-image-caption" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 5px 10px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib</span></div> </div> <div id="nrelate_flyout_placeholder"> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Disagreements over the equity contributions of partners in the Lekki deep seaport are currently threatening the takeoff of the project, </em>COMFORT OSEGHALE<em> writes</em></span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Disagreements over the value of land donated by the Lagos State Government for the establishment of the Lekki Deep Seaport have been identified as the cause of the delay in the takeoff of the project.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The deep seaport is a joint venture project of the Federal Government, which is being represented by the Nigerian Ports Authority, the Lagos State Government and a Singaporean based investor, the Tolaram Group.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The final document for the project, which is expected to begin operations in 2017, has yet to be signed as a result of the disagreements, with the NPA insisting on the revaluation of the land, which the Lagos State Government is contributing as its equity. The NPA and Tolaram Group are expected to provide the funds for the project.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Federal Government holds 20 per cent equity in the project; Lagos State Government, 18.5 per cent; and Tolaram Group, 61.5 per cent.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Upon completion, that deep seaport is expected to create over 162, 000 jobs and decongest the current ports in Lagos, which were built to handle 60,000 tonnes, but are now handling over 100,000 tonnes of cargo.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Assistant General Manager, Public Affairs, NPA, Mr. Musa Iliya, denied insinuations that the organisation was the cause of the delay in the takeoff of the project. He, however, confirmed that the value of the land was being investigated.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“There have been lots of discussions on this project. We have got committees, which are looking into many issues. One of them is to ascertain the actual value of the land that was given by the Lagos State Government for this project. Is the land equivalent to what the NPA is contributing?” he asked.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although Iliya admitted that the NPA was to put up its equity, he declined to say how much.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added, “The modalities are being worked out; it is much better to do things properly now instead of rushing issues and then dealing with problems in the future. We have held lots of discussions with the private investor involved and we are still holding discussions. However, the NPA is not delaying this project.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Of course, the NPA has some amount in dollars to put up as equity, but I don’t have the exact figure. I will have to check the documents and get back to you.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another issue being considered by the NPA is the verification of Tolaram’s claims that it has spent about $60m on the project so far.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Executive Director, Engineering and Technical, NPA, Alhaji Mohammed Saleh, was reported to have recently told the Senate Committee on Marine Transport that the organisation had refused to put up its share of the equity because it needed a technical auditor to confirm the claims by the Tolaram Group.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saleh reportedly told the committee that the NPA also had to be sure of the availability of Tolaram’s funds.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Although some amount was appropriated in the 2013 budget for this project, the NPA has to verify claims that Tolaram has spent $60m so far and has a balance of $152m on ground,” he was reported to have told the committee.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Attempts to get a response from the Director of Finance, Lekki Free Trade Zone Project, Mr. Kundan Suainani, proved abortive as he did not respond to calls made to his mobile telephone line, nor respond to a text message sent to the same number. Suainani did not also respond to emails sent to him.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At a press briefing last month, Suainani had said that the promoters of the project had received 805 hectares of land from the Lagos State Government.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He had said, “The LFTZ is divided into various sub zones of deep seaport, industrial zone, and areas for liquid storage, among others. We all know there is a big challenge of storing petroleum products in Apapa; so, about 25 hectares have been dedicated to the construction of tank farms in the zone.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Ninety hectares have been allocated from a total of 805 hectares to the deep seaport and another 40 hectares for expansion. For the first phase of the project, we have been able to complete sand filling and build our corporate headquarters. Land allocation to investors is ongoing.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“For the second phase, a lot of activities are going on concurrently. While internal road construction is in progress, we have also been working on the housing project, planning the liquid storage area as well as the power needs of the zone. By the time the port is operational in 2017; all other factories in the site would have been built.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was no response from the Lagos State Commissioner of Information, Mr. Lateef Ibiroga, as he did not respond to calls and a text message sent to his mobile telephone line.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His counterpart in the Ministry of Commerce, Mrs. Olusola Oworu, could not be reached as her mobile telephone line indicated that it was switched off.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

$1.5bn Lekki deep seaport project suffers setback

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Fashola bows, reverts LASU fees to N25,000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LAGOS — Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday reverted the school fees being paid by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, to the old rate of N25, 000.</span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This came as armed security operatives shot teargas canisters at the members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU-LASU, who gathered few metres away from the entrance gate to protest their unpaid salaries.</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_430604" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 422px;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/02/fashola-jonathan-will-hand-whether-like/govfashola1/" rel="attachment wp-att-430604" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="*Fashola" class="size-full wp-image-430604" height="270" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Govfashola1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*Fashola</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The administration of Fashola had in 2011 hiked the fees to between N193,000 to N350,000, which led to massive protests by students, leading to the reduction in the fees from between 34 and 60 percent few months ago.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But during the 19th convocation ceremony of the school at its campus in Ojo area of Lagos, Fashola succumbed and announced total reversal of the school fees to the old rate of N25, 000.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The total 100 percent reversal of the fees elicited wild jubilation among students and parents, who commended the governor for doing the right thing.</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_458549" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 422px;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-need-worry-sarabia-ban-pilgrims-muslims-leaders/lasu-19th-convo/" rel="attachment wp-att-458549" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Anniversary: Lagos State Governor, Visitor to Lagos State University, LASU, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (right); Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Mr. Olabode Agusto (2nd right); Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor John Obafunwa (2nd left), and the Special Adviser on Education to the Governor, Otunba Fatai Olukoga (left), during the 19th Convocation Ceremony and Congregation for Award of Higher Degrees as part of activities to mark the University’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, at the Main Auditorium, Ojo, Lagos, yesterday." class="size-full wp-image-458549" height="282" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/LASU-19TH-CONVO.gif" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anniversary: Lagos State Governor, Visitor to Lagos State University, LASU, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (right); Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Mr. Olabode Agusto (2nd right); Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor John Obafunwa (2nd left), and the Special Adviser on Education to the Governor, Otunba Fatai Olukoga (left), during the 19th Convocation Ceremony and Congregation for Award of Higher Degrees as part of activities to mark the University’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, at the Main Auditorium, Ojo, Lagos, yesterday.</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; 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Fashola bows, reverts LASU fees to N25,000

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Ebola situation extremely dire but no need for panic

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0xKxx-RKeMV6pFwApt6qJPs0tIw5vnChyphenhyphenMlldO3Nkefav5YE2dJ9cGvjRtBVuo0MrVTdAIIcddukfdaSObgLXwypoMh1-iPoAvEARxG06fCr86Rno06v7YO3CH2dulxNEA_uqC96YjuM/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0xKxx-RKeMV6pFwApt6qJPs0tIw5vnChyphenhyphenMlldO3Nkefav5YE2dJ9cGvjRtBVuo0MrVTdAIIcddukfdaSObgLXwypoMh1-iPoAvEARxG06fCr86Rno06v7YO3CH2dulxNEA_uqC96YjuM/s1600/unnamed.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris says Ebola situation in Lagos is 'extremely dire.'</span></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At a press briefing held in Lagos this afternoon, the Commissioner said the Nigerian nurse who died of the Ebola virus died at exactly 2.06pm yesterday in Lagos. He said Health officials have begun 'secondary contact tracing", that is, tracking down people who came in contact with people who had direct contact with the late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, the first case of Ebola virus in Lagos.</span></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said as at yesterday August 5th, 27 people who had secondary contacts with the Liberian man have been identified and are now been monitored. He said 6 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Lagos, 2 of which are in critical condition. He said the infected doctor who was confirmed on Monday August 4th to have contracted the virus is still alive. Continue...</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="" name="more"></a></span></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Idris appealed to religious bodies to temporarily put on hold all forms of activities that would require a large number of people to come together. As regards the ongoing Redeemed Christian Church of God National Convention at the redemption camp, Dr Idris said the church has fully educated its members with pamphlets and strategically positioned educational structures. He reiterated that the disease is not airborne, adding that it requires a physical contact with an infected person or corpse before it can be transmitted.</span></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Commissioner appealed for "volunteer" doctors, nurses, phlebotomists; promising that the state government would provide them with "life insurance" and protective clothing.</span></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile the Chairman of the Lagos state Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr Tope Ojo, yesterday said a matron who attended to the late Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer has shown symptoms of being infected by the deadly virus.</span></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Dr Ojo said this yesterday while addressing his members at the state's secretariat. He said 30 doctors have volunteered to stop their strike action and join in the fight against the deadly virus. Dr Ojo said fears by some doctors of getting infected by the disease is the reason for the low number of volunteers recorded. According to him, most doctors are uncertain of government's commitment to them should they get infected during the course of consulting with Ebola virus patients.</span></div> </div>

Ebola situation extremely dire but no need for panic

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris says Ebola situation in Lagos is 'extremely dire.' At a press briefing he...

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