The result of the placement test held on July 11 for primary six pupils for admission into public junior secondary schools in Lagos State has been released.
A statement signed by Mrs Adewunmi Okoh, Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) directed Head teachers of public schools to check results of their candidates at their Local Government Education Authorities (LGEA).
Approved private schools are to check the results at the Lagos State Examinations Board located in Iyana Ipaja.
Parents/guardians can check the results of their pupils/wards at their schools.
Meanwhile the board has disclaimed the rumour making rounds about recruitment into public primary schools and warned the public to beware of the scam.
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Lagos JSS1 placement test result released
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Photo: Ambode attends seminar for 2015 hajj pilgrims
L-R: Hon Dr Abdul Hakeem Abdullateef, Lagos State Hamirl-Hajj; Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State Governor; Dr Yaqub Bashorun, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Lagos State; Mrs Ebunola Oladimeji, Permanent secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Alhaji Bashir Braimah, Director, Home Affairs and Alhaji Muneer Bankole, Managing Director, Medview Airline during a one-day Seminar for the Lagos State 2015 intending Hajj Pilgrims held in Lagos on Monday. 
Cross section of Lagos 2015 intending Hajj Pilgrims during a one-day seminar organised by Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board on Monday -
Ambode approves treasury single account for Lagos’ transactions
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the operation of a single account in the state effective from September 1.
The development, it was learnt, was part of efforts to efficiently improve on the processes of revenue generation and collection as well as ensure proper accountability and transparency in all government accrued revenues.
A statement by the Permanent Secretary/Accountant General, Mrs. Abimbola Umar, said the government took the decision to address the challenges previously faced with the operation of the multiple account system.
Ambode said the operation of a Treasury Single Account (TSA), aside providing transparency and accountability, would also encourage tax payers to request for a single account before making their payments.
Mrs. Umar added that the development was in line with the objective of the move by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that all government revenue accrues to one consolidated account.
“All the affected revenue collecting banks have been mandated to immediately close all the existing multiple revenue accounts domiciled in their banks to give room for a single revenue accounting system in line with the Accountability and Transparency Policy of the current administration.
“With this development, it is expected that all parastatals, local governments and establishments will commence the operation of the TSA on September 1, 2015,” the governor was quoted as saying in the statement.
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How Lagos monarch, Elegbeda died, by wife
•Funeral holds on Friday
One of the wives of the late Lagos monarch, Elegbeda of Egbeda Kingdom, Olori Dele Balogun, yesterday relieved the last moments of the late Oba Samson Alade Balogun.
Oba Balogun, who is due to travel to United Kingdom died in the early hours of Friday, August 14.
He was 80.
According to Olori Dele, the late monarch just paid for the ticket and scheduled to travel on September 10.
She said: “The sickness started on Monday morning. Normally, I do bathe him after listening to news on radio station. That Monday morning, he said I should come and bathe him; I told him that the programme was still on but he insisted that he feel like having his bath immediately. When he was about to stand up, he said he was unable to lift his legs and when he tried lifting the legs, he fell down and was immediately attended to by his private doctor and another physician from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Tests were run on him and the result came out on Tuesday evening.
“On Thursday, I got really scared with the way he was breathing. He was later taken to the hospital so as to avoid emergency at midnight. He gave up the ghost exactly 9am on Friday. But before he gave up the ghost, he couldn’t talk. I tried to clean his mouth with cotton wool because he can’t open the mouth well and he bites my fingers. I became suspicious. I called him three times, he answered. As I and his personal Assistant (PA) tried to lay him down, he looked at us and gave up.”
The late monarch’s wife told The Nation that as at Tuesday, his voice was not audible, but continue to praise God, saying: “Thank you Jesus” repeatedly.
“I never gave it a second thought that he was going to die because that has been his usual habit,” she said.
The late monarch’s PA, Femi Ajolopo told The Nation that Oba Balogun fought to be alive.
“It is difficult for me, I don’t know how to explain it, he tried his best, he fought, he did not want to go, and was telling us he did not want to die, but as God would have it, we were supposed to travel to UK together, we were even planning to move when he was ill and his sickness started all of a sudden on Monday, it was indeed shocking, I can’t still believe he is gone, it is very difficult for me to bear, and not easy,” he said.
Ajolopo described the monarch’s last moment as painful.
“He was giving us hope that he won’t die, but until the last minute, he gave up. Olori Dele was trying to clean his mouth, she felt he bit her, so she shouted his name three times and Kabiyesi answered her, then she told me to take him back to his bed, before I knew it, he was gone. He looked at the two of us and that was it. It was very painful and difficult for me to bear,” he added.
Meanwhile, the funeral has been fixed for Thursday and Friday at the palace in Egbeda, Lagos.
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Lagos approves 112 emergency lines for gender-based violence
The Lagos State government has approved the use of 112 toll free emergency line to report cases of rape, defilement, domestic violence, child abuse, neglect maltreatment and other sexual assaults with an assurance that information provided will be passed across while the concerned agencies will be notified immediately.
According to the government, the decision is in line with its quest to ensure that victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence have a voice and concerned members of the public who wish to report acts of violence are able to do so with utmost confidentiality.
Meanwhile, the State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) has concluded training for 190 officials of the State Emergency Command And Control Centre on how to receive reports of Sexual and Gender Based Violence incidents.
DSVRT Coordinator Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi told journalists yesterday that the officials were trained on how to receive reports of Sexual and Gender Based Violence.
She said aside the dissemination of the information to the appropriate agencies for action, callers would be informed of relevant steps to be taken, depending on the nature of the call.
“They would also be given details, addresses and telephone numbers of the relevant agencies that would handle their issues; for cases of rape or defilement, they can report such to the Mirabel Centre or the Office of the Public Defender (OPD),” Vivour-Adeniyi said.
She said necessary steps have been put in place to help victims of domestic violence get help and counselling as well as free legal services from the OPD.
“The essence of this initiative is to encourage victims and members of the public to make use of the 112 toll free emergency lines to ensure access to justice irrespective of class and means,” she said.
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Robbery kingpin arrested, foreign currencies recovered
An accused armed robbery kingpin, Bolaji Oyekanmi has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command with foreign currencies recovered from his hideout.
Police detectives attached to Ilupeju Police Station led by Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Superintendent of police (SP), were said to have swooped on the kingpin whose gang specialises in attacking bullion vans.
It was learnt that the kingpin was nabbed after his gang successfully robbed a bullion van conveying cash.
According to a police source, $118 thousand and £50 thousand were allegedly recovered from a native doctor’s residence at Mushin, which serves as the gang’s hideout.
The foreign currencies had been returned to the owners.
Confirming the arrest, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni said the suspect was being interrogated and would soon be charged to court. -
RRS arrest 31 suspected cult members in Lagos
Personnel of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested 31 suspected members of the Awawa cult group.
The suspects were arrested in the Agege area of the state following the unleashing of terror on innocent residents by the gang.
It was gathered that the hoodlums were nabbed at Talisco Hotel along Dopemu road; Bakare Ipiasha Street; Ile-Zik and Mangoro, all within Agege.
The Nation gathered that the RRS team followed a tip-off from a radio programme, which reported how the cultists were making lives uneasy for residents.
Confirming the arrest, the RRS Commander, Tunji Disu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) said those arrested included four under-aged.
He said the under-aged were released after thorough interrogation on their mission at the point of arrest with the notorious group, adding that the remaining 27 would be charged to court.
Disu said: “Upon intelligence report received through the popular Yoruba programme, which was further confirmed and authenticated by notable individuals living within the area, our men immediately bursted the areas mentioned on the programme and its environs with 15 RRS patrol vans.
“31 suspects were apprehended including 4 under aged while others are still at large.
“On arrival at the Task Force office, the under-aged gave satisfactory account of themselves and were released.”
He warned parents and guardians to be watchful of their wards’ behaviours while they are still young, reiterating the commitment of the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni to free Lagos of criminals and miscreants. -
Judgment reserved in Agbaje’s appeal against Ambode
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, against Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The court also reserved verdict in cross-appeals filed by Ambode and APC against some aspects of the lower tribunal’s judgment.
The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal had, on July 1, upheld Ambode’s victory in the April 11 governorship election.
The three-man tribunal, led by Justice Muhammad Sirajo, struck out Agbaje’s petition seeking to nullify Ambode’s declaration as winner. Ambode polled 811,994 votes against Agbaje’s 659,788.
Justice Sirajo said the petition by Agbaje and the PDP were defective because they failed to pray for the conduct of a fresh election.
The tribunal, in a ruling on the consolidated preliminary objection by Ambode and APC, held: “In the instant petition, apart from seeking an order nullifying the election of the second respondent, the petitioner did not ask for an order for fresh election.
“So if, for instance, the election is nullified, the people of Lagos State will be left in anarchy as no order can validly be made for the conduct of fresh election, same having not been sought for.
“Where such a prayer is lacking, the petition will be incompetent and academic as even the resolution of such a petition in favour of the petitioner will not confer any utilitarian value on the petitioner(s).”
Arguing Ambode’s cross-appeal against Agbaje, PDP, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) said Agbaje and PDP’s petition was “irredeemably defective” because it raised an issue that had no relationship with the reliefs they sought.
He said the petitioners claimed there were “corrupt practices” during the election, which he said differed from what they pleaded.”
“There is no nexus between this particular ground and the reliefs being sought,” Olanipekun said, urging the court to allow the cross-appeal.
Olanipekun’s contention is that Agbaje and PDP’s petition was incompetent because, according to him, there was nothing in the petitioners’ papers directly challenging Ambode’s victory.
He said the reliefs they sought were in conflict with Section 285(2) of the Constitution as the grounds and particulars are in opposition to the facts and reliefs being sought.
Olanipekun contended there were no grounds challenging Ambode’s election as provided under Section 138(b)(c) of the Electoral Act 2010.
Opposing the cross-appeal, Agbaje’s lawyer Mr G.O Giwa-Amu said the fact that the election was peacefully conducted does not mean that there were no irregularities. “In the circumstance, we urge the court to dismiss the cross-appeal,” he said.
PDP’s counsel A.M Kotoye and Chief Richard Oma Ahonaruogho urged the court to dismiss the cross-appeal because Ambode was not qualified to contest the election in the first place.
Ahonaruogho added that the appeal should be dismissed for being unmeritorious
In the second cross-appeal by APC against Agbaje, PDP, INEC, Ambode and REC, APC’s lawyer Kunle Adegoke sought an order setting aside a part of the tribunal’s judgment, as well as an order striking out the petition for being incompetent having not been based on any ground recognised by the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).
APC said the tribunal was wrong to hold that Paragraphs 14 and 13(b) of the petition, which deal with nomination, are valid grounds for challenging Ambode’s election.
According to Adegoke, the tribunal erred in law when, having held that Paragraph 14 of the petition is a challenge against Ambode’s nomination, went ahead to hold that it is a valid ground for presenting a petition.
He argued that any complaint about invalid nomination is a pre-election issue, saying: “Only the Federal or State High Court has jurisdiction to entertain all pre-election matters and the tribunal ought to have declined jurisdiction in respect thereof…
“The tribunal ought to have held that Paragraph 14 of the petition containing a purported ground is a pre-election matter in respect of which the tribunal has no jurisdiction,” Adegoke said.
PDP, in its appeal, is contending that the tribunal was wrong to hear and rule on Ambode and APC’s consolidated preliminary objection without dealing with the merits of the substantive petition.
Kotoye urged the appellate court to dismiss preliminary objections raised by INEC and Ambode against the appeal.
“I urge your lordships to allow our appeal in the interest of justice,” he said.
INEC and REC’s lawyer Mr. E.R. Emukpoeruo urged the court to dismiss PDP’s appeal for lacking in merit.
“It is not enough to pray to nullify an election. There must be an order directing us to conduct a fresh one. The tribunal did nothing wrong. Their action cannot be faulted,” he said.
APC’s lead counsel, Chief Charles Edosomwan (SAN), also prayed the court to dismiss the appeal.
“They didn’t say whether they wanted Agbaje declared as governor or whether they wanted a rerun. There was nothing the tribunal could have done,” he said.
