Oga a o o ''The renewed hope is here”- Presidential aide, Abiodun Essiet, writes as she releases photos of ongoing toilet projects in a Plateau community

The Senior Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Community Engagement North Central. Abiola Essient has caused a stir online after she shared photos of the toilet projects she is embarking on in a community in Plateau State. Abiola posted the images online and stated that the toilet project will help solve young girls' difficulties while experiencing their monthly flow.

Describing the projects as ‘’the renewed hope', Abiola wrote;

‘’The first toilet in Nagohom Community, Mazah Ward, Plateau State is almost completed. It is built within the school compound.

When it is completed

Our Girls will have a place to change their sanitary pads.

Our girls will not miss classes again when they are having their menstrual cycle

I have contributed to ending open Defecation in Nigeria.

I have contributed to the development of the Nagohom community.

The renewed hope is here

 ‘’

Yoruba person willn't go against Ayelala or doubt the efficacy of Ogun''- Ondo traditionalists call for traditional oath swearing for politicians

Traditionalists in Ondo state have advocated for oath-taking traditionally by political office holders as a panacea to corruption and arbitrary use of power. The traditionalists made this suggestion after four days of celebrating the Isese festival in Akure, the state capital. Speaking to newsmen, the leader of the traditionalists and the Araba Awo of Okeagbe, Ayobami Ogedemgbe, said;

‘’Isese path is one we know that the Irunmoles uphold the integrity and if people say that this is what I will do, naturally, I do not think any Yoruba person will go against Ayelala or doubt the efficacy of Ogun. So if our politicians want us to fix this country and rid this country of thieves, I think one of the steps is to go through the Isese route to install them into office.''

Insecurity is weaponised for political purposes in Nigeria - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated that insecurity in Nigeria is being weaponised for political reasons. The WTO director-general said there would only be development in the country with adequate security. “We cannot have socio-economic development without security,” she said at the 2024 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos state on Sunday, August 25. “We certainly cannot have security without development. We all know that security has been weaponised in our country for political purposes by political actors, which has partly led to our current situation. 

“We have politicians who believe that the best way to make their opponents look bad is to instigate insecurity making it look like they can’t govern, regardless of whether this leads to loss of lives and property of innocent Nigerians. “This has to stop.”“Nigerians have seen for years how organised crude oil theft on a massive scale seriously undermines the economic and financial health of the country,”“All Nigerians must agree that stealing of our national assets of any type is intolerable and must be stopped.”Okonjo added that there is so “much technology” to track crude oil theft and there should not be any excuses not to do so.

Nigeria Turning Into Gov’t of Tinubu, By Tinubu, For Tinubu; Citizens’ Future Mortgaged To Him, His Family And Associates –Atiku.

The former Vice President said, “Just as Alpha Beta, Primero, and others act as Tinubu’s proxies in Lagos, managing critical sectors and generating revenue for him and his family, he has begun to replicate this at the federal level." Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, asserts that the future of Nigerians has been effectively mortgaged to President Bola Tinubu, his family, and associates.

Court orders substituted service on Naira Marley, Sam Larry

A Coroner’s Court in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State has ordered substituted service on key witnesses in the ongoing inquest into the death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. These include Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley; Samson Eletu aka Sam Larry; Mohbad’s sister-in-law, Karimot Ogunbayo; Boluwatife Adeyemo aka Darosha and Mohbad’s lawyer, Oluwasanmi Falade.