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  • How my $2bn Nigeria’s biggest power plant got permit – Davido’s father

    How my $2bn Nigeria’s biggest power plant got permit – Davido’s father

    Nigerian billionaire Adedeji Adeleke, father of music sensation Davido, has revealed the story behind his $2 billion Nigeria power plant project.

    The billionaire industrialist disclosed this while speaking as a Layperson from the West-Central Africa Division during the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference Annual Council on Tuesday, which was held in Maryland, United States of America.

    Adeleke said his vision to generate 1,250 megawatts of electricity, accounting for 15% of Nigeria’s energy needs, was met with skepticism by government officials.

    According to him, one bureaucrat infamously declared the project “doomed to fail.”

    Adeleke said he turned to his faith, seeking divine intervention and his unwavering determination sparked a chain reaction of events that would ultimately secure the project’s approval.

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    “I am a businessman in Nigeria. I’m into the electricity business. I own a power plant, I generate about 15 percent of the electricity needs for Nigeria. I have Chinese engineering companies that work for me. I’m building the biggest power plant in Nigeria that will be completed in January 2025. It is a 1,250-megawatt power plant.

    “During the course of the design and getting the permit, we ran into difficult government officials. For environmental reasons, our permit was denied, and the particular government officials that I held a meeting with told me to my face that my project would never see the light of the day. But while he was saying that, I was saying in my mind that this guy is talking as if he is God. I was saying in my mind that God should listen to him; because he is not God, whatever he is saying is null and void.

    “So I left, disappointed and I told my Chinese friends that unfortunately we have difficulty and this project is going to stall. Meanwhile, the project is worth about $2 billion. In the process, a lot of money had already gone into the design and preliminaries. Before we get to the stage where we would need a permit and then break ground. So my Chinese friend was worried because the Afrexim Bank of China was involved so that meant bankruptcy for him. I told him not to worry,” he said.

  • Davido’s father launches Nigeria’s ‘biggest power plant’ January

    Davido’s father launches Nigeria’s ‘biggest power plant’ January

    Adedeji Adeleke, father of music sensation Davido, has unveiled plans to build Nigeria’s largest power plant. 

    Speaking at the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference Annual Council, Adeleke revealed that his current power plant generates approximately 15 percent of Nigeria’s electricity.

    Adeleke’s company is already a significant contributor to the country’s power supply. 

    He said he is collaborating with Chinese engineering companies to complete the new power plant, which is expected to become operational by January.

    The 1,250MW power plant, he said, will be the biggest thermal power plant in Nigeria.

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    “In Nigeria, I am in the electricity business; I own a power plant, and presently, I generate about 15% of the electricity needs for Nigeria. I have Chinese Engineering companies that work.

    ” I am building and almost completed in January by the grace of God my new power plant to be the biggest power plant in Nigeria. It is a 1,250MW power plant to become operational in January,” he said in part. 

  • Appeal court refuses ex-policeman’s bail application

    The Court of Appeal sitting in Bénin City has thrown out the fundamental human right bail application filed by a dismissed police officer, Adedeji Adeleke.

    Adedeji and four other policemen were arraigned for allegedly torturing and killing a car dealer, Benson Obode, in Benin City in 2015.

    The dismissed policemen, who were serving in the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State, were also accused of collecting the sum of N330,000 from late Benson’s bank account from an ATM in Port Harcourt.

    Names of other policemen are Constable Joseph Omotosho, Oniyo Musa, Abena John and Henry Shobowale.

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    In the bail application supported by a two paragraph affidavit filed by his counsel, Matthew Oghogho, Adedeji urged the court to grant him bail to enable him sought proper medical attention.

    He said he may not be alive when the lower court will deliver.

    But Justice J.O Bada in his ruling said the bail application was immature.

    He said the application lacked merit.

  • I don’t want to die in prison, ex-policeman begs Court

    A dismissed policeman, Adedeji Adeleke, who is standing trial for murder and stealing, has begged the Court of Appeal to grant him bail so that he would not die in prison custody.

    Adedeji and four other policemen were arraigned for allegedly torturing and killing a car dealer, Benson Obode, in Benin City in 2015.

    The dismissed policemen, who were serving in the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State were also accused of collecting the sum of N330,000 from late Benson’s bank account from an ATM in Port Harcourt.

    Names of other policemen are Constable Joseph Omotosho, Oniyo Musa, Abena John and Henry Shobowale.

    It however took the Benson’s family 63 days to locate the morgue where his corpse was deposited after he was allegedly killed.

    In his application for bail supported by a two-paragraph affidavit, counsel to Adedeji, Matthew Oghogho, urged the court to grant his client bail to enable him sought proper medical attention.

    Oghogho argued that what the prosecution has against his client was stealing and that the case of murder was yet to be established.

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    He said the accused used the deceased ATM to withdraw money to repair the vehicle being used to convey the deceased to Lagos State to face trial.

    His words, “All they kept saying is that the applicant withdrew money from the victim’s account. The statement did not establish murder. There is nothing to show that my client murdered the suspect.

    “The fact before the lower court is not in favour of our client. The man is ill. He may not be alive when judgment will be delivered. He needs treatment and the prison officials have said they don’t have the facilities to treat his ailment.”

    But Charity Ebosele who led the prosecution team said the lower court is waiting for Adeleke to open his defence.

    Ebosele informed the appellate court that previous bail applications for fundamental human rights filed by Adedeji were refused by other courts.

    She said the only bail application granted by a Federal High Court has been vacated.

    Ebosele said Adedeji as the leader of the police team that allegedly killed Benson want to run away and abandoned the case.

    According to her, “They withdrew the money in Lagos State three days after Benson was killed. The applicant had refused to enter his defence since 2017. He is hale and healthy.

    “Besides taking the deceased money, his vehicle the policemen took yet to be found. He has been complaining of ill-health since 2015.”

    Justice J.O Bada who led the three-man panel of judges advised the Counsel not to get emotionally involved in cases of their clients.

    He reserved ruling on the fundamental human right bail application filed Adeleke.

  • Adeleke’s family faults death inquest

    Adeleke’s family faults death inquest

    The family of late former Osun State Governor, Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, has denounced the coroner’s inquest ordered by the State government to determine the cause of death of the late politician.

    The family also advised the people of the State to discountenance “this kangaroo inquest into the death of our beloved Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke.”

    Speaking on behalf of the family on Sunday, the deceased’s younger brother, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, at a press briefing in the late senator’s Ede country home, described the coroner inquest as self-serving.

    In company of the late politiician’s son, Dele, and younger siblings, Dupe Adeleke-Sani, and Demola, Dr. Adeleke said: “We condemn in strictest terms the continuous politicization attempts by the state of this great loss to our family, particularly the ordering of this inquest at a time that we are still coming to terms with the harsh reality of his sudden departure and the pain and the grief therefrom.”

    “As part of our attempts to reach closure and commence our healing process, the family had earlier ordered an autopsy to be carried out. This is the only scientific and globally acceptable means of objectively determining the cause of his death and we look forward to the reports therefrom. This is irrespective of the obvious infrastructural and technogical limitations of medical laboratories in the country.

    “We have been reliably informed by credible sources that the outcome of the ‘kangaroo inquest’ is already predetermined by the state and designed to serve its own interest with distorted facts and misinformation which will clearly not be in the interest of the good people of Osun in general and the Adeleke family in particular.

    “We have, therefore, as a family resolved not to participate or cooperate with the ‘kangaroo’ styled panel set up by the state government as it was clearly to serve the state’s own political interests and ultimate establishment of its own self-serving ‘facts.’ While everyone including any government is entitled to his/her own opinion, the government inquest is an attempt to create its own ‘alternative facts.’ Facts are sacred and the truth is constant, alternative facts are nothing but falsehood.

    “We are therefore compelled to reject the inquest with its predetermined outcome. We also urge the peace-loving people of Osun State to discountenance this ‘kangaroo’ inquest into the death of our beloved Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke,” Dr Adeleke said.

    He challenged the state government to explain to the people of Osun why it was in a hurry to order a coroner’s inquest when report of the autopsy ordered by the Adeleke family is yet to be delivered to the family.

    He continued: “We wish to reiterate in te strongest terms that the report of the autopsy ordered by the family must be released to no one else other than the Adeleke family. To do otherwise by the medical team that is conducting the autopsy will be tantamount to gross professional misconduct actionable with appropriate sanctions in law.

    “We sincerely hope that the concerned pathologists, who we regard and recorgnize as eminent and thorough-bred practitioners would act according to their professional calling and oath by expeditiously concluding. The autopsy and deliver the report to the Adeleke family, who are the only one entitled to it.”

  • Four policemen arraigned for murder in Edo

    Four policemen attached to the Special Anti Robbery Squad, Lagos Police Command, have been remanded in Prison, in Benin City, Edo State, for allegedly killing a car dealer, Benson Obode.

    The four policemen – Adedeji Adeleke (33), Oniyo Musa (35), Abena John (33) and Henry Shobowale (32) came to Edo State to investigate a report on a stolen car and arrested the late Obode on May 21.

    The Nation gathered that it took the family of the deceased 63 days to locate the mortuary where his corpse was deposited.

    The ATM card of the deceased was collected and over N200,000 was withdrawn from the account.

    The state’s Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, who briefed journalists on the incident, said the four police were arrested after Homicide Detectives from Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department were ordered to take over the case.

    Ezike said the four policemen were tried, dismissed from the Force and charged for murder on October 19.

    He said the case file has been forwarded to the Department of Public Prosecution for legal advice.

    The commissioner who paraded 52 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists, urged a fleeing notorious kidnapper, Arikpo Nwagbara, to report to the nearest police station.