Parents Protest Boarding Fees Increase from N35,000 to N100,000 in Lagos

By Ayodele Ifasakin 

Some parents of students of Oriwu Model College in Ikorodu on Sunday protested the sudden increase of boarding fees by the Lagos state government.

The parents who carried out the peaceful protest at the gate of the college demanded the immediate reversal of the boarding fees which was increased from N35,000 to N100,000.

Kazeem Oladuni, chairman, Parent Forum Association (PFA), Oriwu College, appealed to the state ministry of education to reverse the increment to enable their wards resume school.

“Our children were supposed to resume on Sept. 9; then we received a memo that one week has been added, which expired today, Sept.15.

“To our surprise, another memo came out on Sept. 13, indicating that the boarding fees have been increased from N35,000 to N100,000

“We held a meeting with Lagos State Coordination of PFA and resolved that the fees are outrageous for any parent at this time of hardship in the country,” he said.

Also, Adedoyin Badmus, who spoke on behalf of parents in the Igbogbo Area, Ikorodu, said education was supposed to be free.

Mr Badmus, however, said the government was making it difficult for the children of many average Nigerians to acquire education with the sudden and astronomical increase in boarding fees.

Similarly, another parent, Mary Enaayi, appealed to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to consider the plights of many parents who are petty traders and struggle to ensure that their children access quality education.

Ms Enaayi urged the state government to urgently reverse the fees to allow dividends of democracy to cut across all strata of society.

“I am appealing to LASG to consider that some parents are traders, but because they want their children to have quality education, that is why they registered them as boarders.

“With this outrageous amount, the careers of those wards will be shattered because their parents can not afford to pay the N100,000.

“Some have two or three children in the school, which means they have to withdraw due to the sudden increment,” she said.

The parents carried placards with inscriptions like; ‘No reduction, No resumption’, ‘We need free education’, ‘Our government is wicked’, ‘N35,000 to N100,000 is too outrageous’, among others.

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How EndBadGovernance Protest Cost DSS, NIA Bosses Their Jobs

 By Ayodele Ifasakin 

The reasons the immediate past Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, and the DG of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar, resigned from their positions have been revealed.

Sources within the Presidency told Saturday PUNCH that President Bola Tinubu and the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, questioned the intelligence gathering mechanisms of the two agencies following the violent nature of the #EndBadGovernance protests in some northern states and the seizure of three presidential aircraft in France.

How EndBadGovernance Protest Cost DSS, NIA Bosses Their Jobs

While Bichi was held responsible for lack of functional intelligence on the protest, Abubakar was reportedly queried for the NIA’s inability to have reports ahead of the seizure of the jets by a Chinese company, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited.

A French court had sanctioned the seizure of three Nigerian presidential jets, including a newly purchased Airbus, amid a legal dispute between Zhongshan and the Ogun State Government.

The #EndBadGovernance protest, which began on August 1, turned violent in Kano, Gombe, Yobe, Borno and Bauchi states while demonstrations in the South-West were peaceful.

During the protests in some northern states, public and private facilities were destroyed, while hoodlums looted shops and caused mayhem. This led to the imposition of curfews in Kano, Bauchi, and Plateau states.

The protest was driven by widespread hardship resulting from the removal of fuel subsidy, electricity tariff hike and the high cost of living, among other issues.

Bichi, who hails from Kano State, where widespread destruction and looting occurred, was appointed on September 14, 2018, by former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Abubakar, from Katsina State, was also appointed by Buhari on January 10, 2018.

According to credible sources, Tinubu and Ribadu were embarrassed by the turn of events on the seizure of the presidential jets and the #EndBadGovernance demonstrations.

"The seizure of the presidential jets and violent nature of the #EndBadGovernance protest embarrassed the President nationally and internationally.

“The President was displeased with the NIA and DSS bosses. This was why he requested the resignation of the two security chiefs,” said one of the sources

Protest On Lagos-Ibadan Road As Truck Hits Stray Cows | AgegePulse Magazine

 

Motorists and residents around Onigari at the Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, have blocked the road after an accident involving a truck and some strayed cows.

Source gathered that some Fulani herders were leading the cows when they strayed onto the road and caused the accident.

An eyewitness at the scene of the incident told The PUNCH that the herders fled the scene after the accident.

#EndSARS: Gov. Sanwo-Olu Holds Strategic Meeting with Egunjobi, Other Council Chairs in Lagos

...Sets up N200m To Compensate Victims

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The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu today has set up about N200m fund as compensation for Lagos residents, who are victims of EndSars Protest in the state.

The governor revealed this while holding a zoom meeting with the Executive Chairman of Agege Local Government, Alhaji Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi  Jp and other Council chairmen in the state.

In a remark, Egunjobi briefed Mr. Governor about the peaceful protest in his community as residents trooped out enmasse to express their displeasure about police brutality and other burning issues.

"Today I attended a Zoom meeting with 56 other Council chairmen where we briefed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu about the activities of EndSARS protesters in our local government areas.

"Individually we took turn. 

"In my remark, I was effusive about Sunday’s peaceful protest in Agege, particularly the comportment of the protesters, who converged at the stadium marching through some parts of our area. 

"I explained to the governor that no ugly incident was recorded to his delight and that of my colleagues.

"It is imperative to reiterate that Governor Sanwo-Olu today inaugurated an eight-man judicial panel of Inquiry and Restitution, charged with the receipt of petitions and investigation of police brutality in Lagos. 

"His Excellency has also set up N200m fund as compensation for Lagos residents, who are victims and has demonstrated his commitment to meet protesters’ demands in no small measure.    

"I urge victims from Agege to avail themselves of the window for recompense, a journey am more than willing to take with them.

"Am begging protesters to give government the benefit of the doubt and vacate the streets". Egunjobi concluded.

God Bless Nigeria!

God Bless Lagos!

God Bless Agege!

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Egunjobi wants protection for EndSARs protesters | AgegePulse Magazine

...Reached out to Security Operatives for Protection

The Executive Chairman of Agege Local Government has appealed to security agencies in the community to ensure safety of EndSARs protesters in the area.

Egunjobi made this known against the backdrop of plans by youths from Agege to hold the EndSARs protest in the area on Sunday. 

In a social media post, the Council Chairman wrote: “Have been following the thread on the planned EndSARS protest scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday in Agege. 

“All along am in sync with the nationwide protest against police brutality. As a show of open support for Agege chapter of the protest, have reached out to security authorities in the council area to give peaceful protesters maximum protection and ensure that the occasion

is not used by criminal elements to perpetrate heinous acts.  God Bless Nigeria! God Bless Lagos! God Bless Agege!”

Agege Youth Protest Over Ikeja Electric Estimated Bill | AgegePulse Magazine

The Youth Wing of Dopemu Agege, on Thursday 15th of October, 2020, carried out a Peaceful Protest  against extortion and exorbitant electricity charges by the IKEDC, Dopemu Branch. 

The Youths numbering over 70, carried placards and peaceful protested the constant increase in electricity tariff at the branch office of Ikeja Electricity Distro in Dopemu, Lagos State. 

The Youths made it clear that the protest was aimed at “liberating Dopemu residents from monthly Electricity extortion.’

AgegePulse learnt that IKEDC kept increasing their monthly estimated bills from N3, 000 up to as much as 80,000 for apartments & Shop owners who reside in a low income Community. 

"We all have family financial responsibilities and cannot afford to be billed so exorbitantly each month. 

It is either they reduce the Electricity Charges or they disconnect their light," Concluded by the Youths. 

The Youths said the electricity bill kept increasing more than a 100 per cent every month.

"I believe that if they give us prepaid meter it will be best for us, but as long as they give us estimated billing, they will continue to exploit us", 

IKEDC is using us to enrich their pockets, that is why they have refused to give us prepaid meters upon several requests by some Residents. 

Dopemu Agege Youth Wing took the Peaceful Protest to  Oshodi Abeokuta Express way to Express their displeasure with IKEDC Dopemu branch for extorting innocent Nigerians of their hard earned money

#NotoCRAZYBill #ReduceElectricitytariff #ElectricityChargesistoohigh #WecantContinuetopayforwhatwedontuse.

BREAKING: One feared dead as residents protest Remo Stars footballer’s death

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One person was feared dead as scores of residents on Monday staged a protest in Sagamu, Ogun State, over the death of Remo Stars Football Club player, Tiyamiyu Kazeem.

The protesters, who took to the streets also stormed the Palace of the Akarigbo and the Paramount Ruler of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, demanding justice for the deceased.

However, the protest has allegedly claimed one life as it turned violent.

The protesters condemned the incessant brutality and indiscriminate arrests by law enforcement agencies in the town and its environs.

A former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel, was sighted at the palace where he was said to have calmed frayed nerves.

The PUNCH gathered that a member of the House of Representatives representing Remo Federal Constituency, Mrs Adewunmi Onanuga, and the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Funmi Efuwape, were also at the palace to appeal to the protesters.

Kazeem, popularly known as Kaka, was reportedly killed on Saturday along the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway after he was arrested by operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad in the Obada area of the state.

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Protest as SARS officer kills Remo Stars captain

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By ‘Dare Odufowokan, Assistant Editor and Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta

There is palpable tension in Sagamu town, Ogun State, following the alleged killing of a footballer, Tiyamiyu Kazeem, the Assistant Captain of Remo Stars Football Club, a Nigerian National League side, by policemen attached to the State Anti-Robbery yesterday afternoon while returning home from the club’s weekend training session in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. Eyewitness accounts at the scene of the incident alleged that the footballer, popularly known as Kaka, was allegedly chased by the SARS operatives before he was shot.

“The SARS operative labelled him as a Yahoo boy and started chasing him. Even when people who know him intervened and told them he is a footballer, they refused to let him be. They chased him until they shot him, wounding him fatally,” an eyewitness claimed. After shooting him, the officials ran away, leaving Kazeem to his fate. He was later rushed to Fakoya Hospital, Sagamu, by sympathisers, where he was pronounced dead.


The Remo Stars Football club announced Kazeem’s sudden passing away on their official Twitter handle. The Nigerian National League side stated that they are doing everything to investigate the cause of his death. “We regret to announce the departure of our assistant captain and defender, Tiyamiyu Kazeem (Kaka). The club is doing everything possible to investigate his ultimately death. May his soul rest in perfect peace.”

Angry residents took to the streets across the town to protest the murder of the footballer who many described as talented and hard working. A close friend of the deceased, Bolaji Soluade, who spoke with our correspondent, confirmed his untimely death and blamed the SARS operatives for the incident. According to him, one of the officers was apprehended by residents after the shooting but was rescued by other policemen before the mob could do him much harm.

Youths in Sagamu went wild with rage when the news filtered to them that the young man who was earlier in the day arrested in Sagamu alive without resistance, and taken to Abeokuta, was allegedly shot dead later by the police halfway into their journey to Abeokuta. It was learnt that quick intervention of senior police officers who moved in quickly to douse the tension saved Sagamu from turning into chaos. This is coming barely 48 hours after a similar protest broke out in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Thursday following the shooting of two Hausa traders in Olomoore Market by operatives of the Anti – Cultism Unit of the Ogun State Police Command.

Condemning what it called the unbearable excesses of the SARS operatives in Sagamu, the Pan Remo Forum (PRF), an umbrella body for socio-political groups in Remoland, said the death of Kazeem was “avoidable and needless.” In a release signed by its Organising Secretary, Lookman Banjoko, the forum called on concerned authorities to ensure that the killers of the promising footballer are fished out and punished appropriately.

The forum also condemned what it described as the tiring excesses of the SARS officers, who it accused of always oppressing the people of the town under the pretense of fighting crime and cultism. “This is just as we can categorically tell you that their interest lies more in the financial gratifications and exploitation they enjoy in the course of chasing Yahoo boys, real and imagined. We call on the governor and the police commissioner to rid Sagamu of these killers in uniform before it is too late,” PRF warned.

When contacted, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said nobody was shot dead by policemen. He, however, confirmed the death of a young man in Sagamu who he claimed was accosted by policemen on suspicion of a crime. According to the police spokesperson, the deceased was knocked down by an oncoming vehicle while trying to escape from the officers who arrested him.

The police spokesperson said the young man, whose identity he did not disclose, was accused of always kitting himself in full military uniform to harass and intimidate unsuspecting members of the public in Sagamu, which prompted a police inspector attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Abeokuta, to storm Sagamu alone and effected his arrest but while he was being taken to Abeokuta, the vehicle developed fault and had to park it by the roadside.

He explained that while the faulty car was being fixed, the suspect jumped out of the car and tried to run across the road, but a speeding vehicle, unfortunately, knocked him down and he died in the process. He also disclosed that the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, had given directive for the arrest of the allegedly erring inspector for investigation to ascertain the level of unprofessionalism exhibited in his conduct towards the victim and recommend appropriate disciplinary action.

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