The Senate President, Bukola Saraki is currently the number one Trending Topic on Twitter Nigeria at the moment.. and this is for two reasons.

1. The Senators on Tuesday had tried to declare him as president of the nation.

Senator Eyinanya Abaribe (Abia South), raised a motion that since President Muhammadu Buhari is on medical leave, and the vice (acting) president Yemi Osinbajo is in Addis Ababa for the African Union (AU) summit, the country has no leader and as such Saraki should be declared president.

Senator Kabiru Marafa, citing the constitution also said, “if the President is not around, the Vice President should act, and if the Vice President is not around, the Senate President, who is the number 3 citizen should become acting President.”

Saraki however interfered and ruled Marafa “out of order”.

The senators had earlier turned down Osinbajo’s letter seeking the confirmation of Lanre Gbajabiamila, as the Director General of National Lottery Regulatory Commission.

It said that since Osinbajo had earlier reportedly said the Senate had no power to confirm nominees, it is subjecting the letter to deliberations.

The second reason is as a result of a series of tweets from @SaharaReporters’ account over a plot to stop Osinbajo from becoming president.

A Muslim cleric Sakariyau Abdulrofiu; Ibrahim Ayuba and Yusuf Aliu have confessed that they killed UNIOSUN student, Oluwafemi Shonibare (pictured left).

The confession was made on Tuesday night when they were paraded at the Osun State Police Command headquarters in Osogbo.
The trio said they wanted to use the student for money ritual.

Abdulrofiu said that they hit Shonibare with a pestle on the head and later butchered him.

He stated that the deceased’s head was roasted but said that luck eventually ran out on them and they were apprehended by the police.

‎A 28-year-old self-acclaimed gospel musician arrested by the police for armed robbery has said that he took to crime to source money for the production of his maiden album.

The suspect, Nurudeen Ogundairo, made the explanation to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday at Eleweran police headquarters in Abeokuta, Ogun State where he was paraded alongside 36 others arrested for various crimes.

He said the proposed album was scheduled for launch on July 24.

Mr. Ogundairo, who confessed to involvement in a robbery operation at the private residence in Atan-Ota which led to his arrest, said he regretted his action.

“I am a gospel musician. I needed money to enable me produce my maiden album and I got involved in robbery to raise money for the project. In fact, I had picked a date of July 24 to release the album to the public after the production,” he said.

‎The suspect, who was arrested with two of his band boys, identified as Tunde Joseph and Ganiu Ajibode, who allegedly participated in the robbery operations, said he had learnt his lesson after spending over two months in detention.

“I hope I can still be forgiven by the police and God over my action. It was in a bid to make headway in my musical career that I took to robbery,” he stated.

Earlier while parading the suspects, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu, said a team of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS,had arrested Mr. Ogundairo and his alleged accomplices at their hideout at Joju in Ota.

He said exhibits recovered from them include a locally made pistol, a laptop and six Iphone‎ handsets, adding that the suspects was arrested based on information after they had robbed a couple resident in Atan-Ota.

Thirty six other suspects were paraded at the event for alleged offences ranging from kidnapping, robbery, murder to cultism.

The police chief said all the suspects would be arraigned in court after police investigations.

Mr. Ilyasu assured residents of the state that the command was ready to protect the peace of the state.

He appealed to members of the public to always assist the police with information whenever they noticed any strange face, gathering or movement within their areas.

Source: PremiumTimes

I want to first of all appreciate God for not allowing the devil take the glory as regards the incident of the Young boy who tried to harm his classmate with acid because of class position, I am glad the prestigious institution took some certain measures to make sure issues like this doesn’t occur again but I still believe these steps are very good but not really appropriate for this situation. I will make my points succinct for better and clear understanding from my own angle.

First of all, According to Punch, the young boy got the acid substance from the school’s laboratory, we all know that the laboratory in a secondary school setting is known as a special room because of it functions and what it contains.

Even when practical are carried out, the individuals involved are fully kitted to prevent any harmful experience because of the substances involved.

I believe you need to look at the safety measures of your school generally especially the special rooms,even if it needs you to call in the services of a safety expert to work this out.

What if the plan of the young boy was to drink the substance immediately,don’t you think it would have been a different story entirely? Godforbid!!! This is the first step that broke the hedge which gave the serpent the opportunity to bite,but thank God the devil lost the battle,but this should be a lesson.

So it will be very expedient the school upgrades their safety measures to guarantee student safety like having a constant and effective laboratory attendant who stays inside the lab and monitors activities within the laboratory and if there was a lab attendant during this incident,he should be seriously questioned.

Secondly, to a reasonable extent, I still insist that the young boy shouldn’t have been expelled and all the blames shouldn’t be on him. He should be disciplined and counseled. Let us get things straight, am not trying to defend his action, but am just trying to be non-sentimental in my views to be able to capture the best solution to the issue at hand.

According to the news, the girl had defeated the boy twice, is it not obvious that the young boy could have been under pressure maybe from his parent? we all went through this stage and we know how Parents behave especially African parents,the young boy could have been seriously pressurized by his parent for allowing a girl defeat him.

The boy may have obviously thought carrying out this devilish act was the best way, these are factors we should consider. i believe the Parent of the boy and all other parents and the students should be properly enlightened that education is not the true test of knowledge, not as if the students should not be studious, but they should have the mindset that coming out first, second or last in the class doesn’t mean that they are not intelligent and that they will not make it in life, it just means that they just need to put in more effort. Even adults in the University too need this orientation.

Finally, This is an eye opener for everybody and we thank God that nothing harmful happened. The Disciplinary Unit should discipline the boy based on their own disciplinary policy and the counseling Unit of the school should seriously counsel the young boy and every other students in the school, he should be closely monitored, they should take note of his associations what he exposes himself to.

They should continue to re-orientate him and all the students, Infact the re-orientation should be constant especially at the beginning of the term, before examination and when they are about to receive their results and also Parents should also be properly educated not to put pressures on their Children so that they will not be desperate. Expelling the Boy is not the Solution.

Akinmegha Kayode Oluwafemi
Director, Kayode Memorial Schools, Ajangbadi, Lagos
Girl Child Activist