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  • Tobacco: Groups hail Senate, Senator Tinubu

    Tobacco: Groups hail Senate, Senator Tinubu

    Two major tobacco control groups, the Nigeria Tobacco Control Research Group (NTCRG) and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), have commended the Senate for passing  a resolution seeking total ban of the sale of tobacco products around schools.

    The groups also hailed Senator Oluremi Tinubu who sponsored the resolution, saying she has “demonstrated uncommon courage at this point that tobacco addiction is becoming an endemic problem among the youth.”

    The resolution, which was adopted at the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, urged  the Federal Ministries of Health, Education and Information to harmonise efforts at banning the advertisement and sales of tobacco within 100 metres of all schools in Nigeria.

    It also requested the Federal Ministry of Health and other relevant enforcement agencies to ensure the “comprehensive prohibition of Tobacco Advertising Promotion and Sponsorship; work with other agencies to ban advertisement and location of Point of Sales (POS) of tobacco products within 100m of all schools; create a framework for the monitoring of the implementation of the ban on single sticks and cigarette packs with less than 20 sticks as detailed in the National Tobacco Control Act, 2015.”

    The Coordinator NTCRG, Dr Akindele Adebiyi said: “we particularly applaud the the bold effort of the Senate, Senator Tinubu and other co-sponsors of this resolution. It is a giant step towards protecting our children from the deliberate marketing tactics of the tobacco companies aimed at luring our children to smoking. We want to plead with relevant agencies to put in place necessary mechanisms to ensure that this Resolution is given immediate attention and enforcement”.

  • Senator Tinubu seeks welfare schemes for the elderly

    Senator Tinubu seeks welfare schemes for the elderly

    THE SENATOR representing Lagos Senatorial District Mrs Oluremi Tinubu has called for support for the elderly. She said any nation that failed to take care of its elderly citizens is set to fail.

    She stated this at the weekend during 24th Town Hall and Sixth Elderly Citizens Assistance Scheme (ECAS). It coincided with 100 days in office celebration of Surulere Local Government Chairman Tajudeen Ajide.

    She said: “As a nation we must not leave our elderly, after years of service, without adequate retirement and elderly care schemes. Thus, we must ensure the establishment of welfare schemes that take care of our elderly citizens to prevent a situation whereby they are unappreciated and treated as though irrelevant in our modern society. While this is a core mandate of government, the government alone cannot cover the field, which is why we must all team up to lend a helping in this regard. It is my hope that more citizens and corporate organisations would join in this regard.’’

    Mrs Tinubu praised Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for ensuring the well-being of the elderly and for planning to build ultramodern elderly care centres in the state. “We can’t rest on our oars until our elderly citizens are fully catered for under an adequate welfare scheme and appreciated for their contributions over the years,’’ she said.

    She urged Lagosians to visit the homes for the elderly regularly to reconnect with their relatives, adding that they should spend time with them and treat them with respect. She said this was the only to demonstrate love for them.

  • Senator Tinubu warns against futile search for greener pastures

    Senator Tinubu warns against futile search for greener pastures

    Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos Central Senatorial District has urged young Nigerians intending to leave the country illegally in search of greener pastures to have a rethink, given recent developments in Libya.

    Senator Tinubu urged such restive Nigerians to be patient, saying the country would be great again.

    In her Maulid Nabiyy message, Senator Tinubu said:  “I celebrate with Muslim faithful on the celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad. The birth of the Holy Prophet marks the beginning of the great life of service and teaching which he led. It is a time that calls for reflection on the purpose of his birth, life, teachings and laid down tenets.

    “We must at this time, continue to pray for the peace and prosperity of our country. In the light of the recent spotlight on slave trade on the African continent, we must also pray for our brothers and sisters who are being held against their will in these far-away lands.

    “Thus, I enjoin you all at this time and always, to embody Prophet Muhammad’s teachings on love, peace, tolerance, faithfulness and holy living.”

  • Senator Tinubu, others to get anti-corruption award

    Senator Tinubu, others to get anti-corruption award

    A group, Youth Development and Moral Rebirth Initiative, is to give anti-corruption awards to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the Comptroller-General of Customs Service, Col. Ahmed Ali (retd), Minister of Communications, Abdulraheem Adebayo Shittu, among others.

    The body, in a statement yesterday to reporters in Kaduna by its President, Abdulwasiu Adebayo, said the awardees would be honoured in Kaduna on December 7.

    He said the essence of the award was to recognise people who had contributed to enforcing the anti-corruption crusade of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

    Adebayo said others to be honoured are Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Umar Garba Danbatta;  Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede and Director- General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dakuku Peterside.

    He said the group would also reward Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central, the Managing Director, Zenith Bank, Mr. Peter Amangbo; Managing Director, Nigeria Ports

    Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, among others, as part of activities to mark this year’s International Anti-Corruption Day.

     

  • Senator Tinubu unveils Montessori School

    Senator Tinubu unveils Montessori School

    Senator Oluremi Tinubu yesterday opened Lagos Island East Montessori School with a call to government to increase funding for education.

    She reiterated the need for government at all levels to provide needed infrastructure for socio-economic development.

    The school opening is one of the activities lined up by the Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Chairman Kamal Salau-Bashua to mark his 100 days in office.

    Senator Tinubu praised the council boss for his commitment to the well-being of the people.

    She said: “I have always been a crusader for quality education for all children in Nigeria and always quick to applaud individuals and government that are not relenting in making this dreams a reality for the Nigeria Child. I am, therefore, very pleased to see the structure the Lagos Island East LCDA put in place to house this Montessori School

    “Every parent irrespective of their social strata desires quality education for their children. It is therefore a thing of joy for me because the children of the less privileged, who ordinarily would not have access to a school with such standard of quality infrastructure would have an opportunity in this school.

    “I also want to congratulate the mothers in this council; your children will be getting at a modest cost what the elites are paying big money for. Ensure that you value this project and do all within your power to preserve it.

    “I thank this council for doing me the honour of commissioning  this project. Ensure you get qualified personnel to teach thereby perfecting the totality of the educational service to be rendered here.”

    Former Lagos State Deputy Governor Femi Pedro thanked God that the transformation of former police barracks and football field  into a modern school happened during his life time.

    Every youth, Pedro said, can do well in life if necessary environment is provided.

    Former Minister of State for Defence Demola Seriki, described the council chairman as a shining light for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Salau-Bashua said the edifice was to improve quality of education for tomorrow’s leaders.

    He said within his 100 days in office, many roads had been upgraded while the issue of flooding are being tackled with the clearing of canals and drainages.

    State Universal Basic Education Chairman Dr Ganiyu Sopeyin, urged other council chairmen to emulate Salau-Bashua.

  • Senator Tinubu to Nigerians: let’s remain united

    Senator Tinubu to Nigerians: let’s remain united

    Senator representing Lagos Central Oluremi Tinubu yesterday urged Nigerians to continue on the path of unity and eschew tendencies that may break up the country.

    In an independence anniversary message, entitled: ‘Nigeria @57: One People’, in Lagos, Tinubu said the country had remained united in spite of the daunting challenges facing it.

    She said: “We must continue on the path of oneness, putting national interests above ethnicity and self-interest.

    “We have set our hands on the plough; we cannot at this moment, give up. Thus, we must shun all attempts to cause disunity amongst us.

    “Never again should we as a nation go through conflict like we did with the civil war. For us, the odds are too huge.

    “I celebrate with Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora on the occasion of our Great Nation’s 57th independence anniversary.

    “This day, 57 years ago, we received liberation from colonial rule, deciding like other Nations that self-governance is the way forward.

    “In the years since then, we have dabbled in military rule, unitary system and now, democratic governance. We have had seasons of plenty as marked by the oil boom, and we have experienced lean years.

    “We have also been besieged with a civil war, ethnic conflicts, and rifts; and we have enjoyed relative peace as a nation.

    “Through it all, we have remained united and indivisible, pressing on to the Nigeria of our dreams. And for this, I must commend every Nigerian.

    “Therefore, I wish all the good people of Lagos Central Senatorial District, Lagos State and all Nigerians a happy celebration.”

     

  • It’s season to care for the poor —Senator Tinubu

    It’s season to care for the poor —Senator Tinubu

    The senator representing Lagos Central in the National Assembly, Senator Oluiremi Tinubu, has described the Eid-el-Kabir as an opportunity to remember the poor and the needy.

    Congratulating the Muslim faithful in the Lagos Central Senatorial District, Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole in a statement she issued in Lagos yesterday, the senator also called for peaceful co-existence among Nigerians irrespective of tribe of religion.

    She recalled that the Eid-el-Kabir, “otherwise known as the ‘festival of sacrifice’, in honour of Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, is symbolic of our willingness to give up the things we value in obedience to God’s will.

    “Marked by charitable giving, we must at this time, remember the poor and needy in our society.

    “This season is a reminder that we must put aside our personal interests, desires and ambitions, shunning divisive comments for the greater good of family, community and country.

    “Thus, I urge us all to adhere to the tenets of faith, living peacefully with all our brothers regardless of religion, in furtherance of the peace of our great nation.

    “May the blessings of the season remain with us now and always; and may Allah accept your good deeds,” she said.

  • Senator Tinubu seeks adoption of true federalism

    Senator representing Lagos Central Oluremi Tinubu has called for an amendment of the constitution to make Nigeria a true federal state.

    She said while the nation’s laws and constitution expressly declare that Nigeria is a federal state, the practical application of most of the laws effectively makes Nigeria more a unitary state.

    Speaking on the theme: “Governance and National Development: Issues and Implications” at the University of Lagos 12th Annual Research Conference and Fair yesterday in Lagos, Senator Tinubu defended the clamour for true federalism in some quarters.

    She said the different ethnic tribes were independent and relatively politically-sophisticated before the advent of the colonialists.

    She lamented that the incursion of the military into politics in 1966 upended the near-perfect fiscal arrangements agreed to by the founding fathers at independence in 1960 and that subsequent constitutions have tended to perpetuate the anomaly.

    “For a country as diverse and large as Nigeria, only the practice of true and fiscal federalism can engender equitable development of the constituent units and make effective governance easy,” she said.

    The senator recommended that the power over some of the items listed in the Concurrent Legislative List in Part II of the Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution (as amended) like prisons, antiquities and monuments, archives and public records, university and technology as well as some of the items in the Exclusive List should be exclusively vested in the states of the federation.

    According to her, this will bring development closer to the people and ensure that policies formulated for the execution of these functions are those that are informed by the local conditions of the people.

    Tinubu urged governments at all levels to endeavour to work in the interest of the people, saying all government’s policies must ultimately be judged by whether they deliver on the promise of the government to the people under the “Social Contract”.

    In attendance at the conference were the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahamon Bello, Registrar of the university Dr. (Mrs) Taiwo Folashade Ipaye and Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, among others.

  • Senator Tinubu seeks Police Act amendment

    Senator Tinubu seeks Police Act amendment

    Senator Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central) has argued the need to amend the Police Act to provide for enlistment requirements, improve welfare of personnel, align punishment and deal with related matters in line with the present realities.

    She spoke yesterday on the floor of the Senate while leading debate on the Police (Amendment) Bill as its sponsor.

    Senator Tinubu reminded her colleagues that the Police Force is the agency of government tasked with the maintenance of peace, law and order within the country’s borders.

    She said the Police Act empowers the agency to preserve law and order, enforce laws, occasionally perform military duties among others. “Thus, the importance of its role cannot be underscored,” she said.

    The lawmaker noted that the country must strengthen its Institutions.

    She said: “To do this, their enabling laws must be effective, efficient and functional. In a world that is fraught with so much crime and evil, the police should be dependable.”

    The Police, she noted, was established in 1930 and the Police Act was promulgated in 1943.

    She said: “I must however bring to your attention that despite the steady moving train that is the world we live in, the Nigeria Police Act and Police Regulations have remained transfixed, unmoving and unyielding. The result is provisions that have become counterproductive and are failing in the purpose for which they were initially put in place.

    “Case in point, Section 42 of the extant law provides a fine of N200 or imprisonment for a term of one year for personation of a police officer. The punishment (in this case, the fine) no longer matches the offence. In other jurisdictions, impersonation of a person is a grievous offence, impersonation of a police officer, even more so.

    “There are other provisions such as Section 40 which punishes refusal to aid an assaulted Police officer by the imposition of a mere N50; Section 41 which imposes a fine of N10 for an offence of harbouring or giving intoxicating liquor to an officer, who is on duty. This amendment bill seeks to bring the fines and punishments contained in the act to parity with the present realities in Nigeria.

    “Even more disturbing is the enlistment requirements as contained in the Police Regulations. The Regulation allows for enlistment of men who have attained age 17 but sets enlistment age for women at 19.

    She insisted that Nigeria as a nation will do well not to promote or encourage the repression of women through legislation.

    The bill was unanimously and adopted to pass the crucial second reading.

    Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki referred it to the committee on Police Affairs for further legislative work.

  • Senator Tinubu bags chieftaincy title

    Senator Tinubu bags chieftaincy title

    Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who represents Lagos Central in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, will on Saturday be conferred with a chieftancy title in Kweme, Badagry.

    AholuHenwa of Kweme, Oba  Sejiro James, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that Mrs Tinubu would be honoured as part of his 10th coronation anniversary.

    “Senator Oluremi Tinubu would be conferred with the chieftaincy title of Yeye Oba (King’s Mother) of Kweme Kingdom.

    “This is part of the activities to mark my 10th anniversary on the throne.

    “I intend to use this anniversary to affect the lives of my people in a positive way by providing working tools for some artisans to reduce poverty in my domain,” the monarch said.

    He urged the government to intensify its focus on rural development to improve lives at the grassroots.

    “The rural areas are badly affected by the rains as the roads have become inaccessible,” said the king of Kweme, a coastal rural town on Nigeria – Benin Republic border.’’

    Oba James also urged government to address the development deficit in rural areas.