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Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has stated that President Bola Tinubu will address the country’s justice system’s housing issue by 80%.

In addition to the 50 duplexes that were announced at the commissioning of a magistrates’ court in Abuja on Tuesday, Wisconsin also announced that the Federal Capital Territory High Court would receive them in July 2026.

He explained that 30 units would be handed over to the court in June 2026, compared to 20 units received in October 2025.

And let me assure you that, by the time your first housing issue was resolved, we would have finished providing for 80% of your housing needs.

At the commissioning, Wike said, “We are going to hand over 20 units of duplexes to the FCT High Court by October this year, and we will also hand over 30 units of duplexes to the FCT High Court by June next year,” Wike said.

He claimed that the landlords had a bearing on how justices who lived as tenants were treated.

Additionally, he criticized circumstances in which criminal justice practitioners reside in areas that are perceived as risky.

You go out and check out justices’ homes as tenants, the minister said. And then they occasionally have to rely on their landlords when they can’t pay on time.

Their landlords can drive their cars and shout, “Look, they haven’t paid us,” as they enter the gate. Leave now.

Senator Douye Diri, the governor of Bayelsa State, has appointed Dr. As the state’s head of the civil service, Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer.

His press secretary, Daniel Alabrah, made this known in a statement on Tuesday.

Following Barrister Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema’s retirement on August 31, 2025, Sawyer was appointed as a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health.

On June 8, 1998, the new HoS became a medical officer for the Bayelsa civil service.

He was born on May 14, 1970, in the Odi community in the state’s Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, and he began his education at Okrika Town School in Rivers State.

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He graduated from Okrika Grammar School in 1981 and studied there until 1986 to take the West African School Certificate exams.

Sawyer was accepted to the University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, in 1988, where he earned an MBBS degree in 1996.

He also earned a Part 2 Fellowship in Public Health at the same institution in 2010 while also studying for a Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of Lagos in 2000 and the National Post-Graduate Medical College, Lagos in 2005.

For a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Dr. Sawyer has already defended his dissertation on the faculty level. The state-owned Faculty of Clinical Sciences at Niger Delta University, Nigeria, offers a doctorate in both clinical and public health.

The publication of an unregistered product, known as the “fake registration number A4-9566,” has the attention of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

The organization revealed in a post on the company’s official X handle on Monday that the product had been produced in China and distributed in Enugu.
NAFDAC officers conducted the discovery through a risk-based sampling survey.

“The product is allegedly produced by Anhui Hongye Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a company based in Bengbu, China, and distributed by Gold Vision Medicals, No. Enugu, Nigeria’s Independence Layout, 4 Range Avenue.

During the 2023 RBPMS sampling, three falsified products, namely A-tocin injection, Extocin injection, and Claxitodin injection, were discovered. According to reports, the same company produced the products, and they all bear the same fake NAFDAC Registration Number A4-9566.

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The organization stated that it is important to take into account that the products identified in this alert are falsified because they are not included in the NAFDAC-registered products database.

NAFDAC issued a risk warning, stating that mothers and newborns are seriously harmed by using unregistered or fabricated oxytocin injections.

The organization warned against incorrect dosages, no active ingredients, or harmful contaminants in such products, which could result in maternal death, postpartum hemorrhage, and ineffective uterine contractions.

The organization warned that “poor-quality oxytocin may also delay or fail to stop bleeding after childbirth, making emergency interventions like blood transfusions or surgery necessary.”

NAFDAC urged consumers and healthcare professionals to remain alert and report any suspicion of a lack of authentic or fake medications to the NAFDAC office closest to them.

The development is a further development in the unregistered drug market.

Prior to now, the organization had raised concerns about the distribution of fake batches of the levonorgestrel-containing emergency contraceptive medication Postinor-2.

Abubakar Malami’s convoy was attacked on Monday by alleged thugs.

The African Democratic Congress’s head in the state is currently led by Malami.

One of the victims confirmed to Channels Television that the attack involved the destruction of roughly 10 vehicles, and that several former minister’s supporters suffered various injuries.

Malami responded to the incident by saying that he was only there to express his condolences to well-known people who had passed away while he was away and not to engage in political activism.

It’s a painful action that has a direct connection to politics. According to Malami, some thugs allegedly attacked and demolished our convoy after leaving the APC state headquarters, loaded with dangerous weapons and stones.

“There is no retreat, no surrender in Kebbi State politics,” the truth is.

Isa Assalafy, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Kebbi State Publicity Secretary, disputed the party’s involvement in the attack and vehemently condemned the incident.

“Kebbi is a peaceful state.” No government would want the state’s peace to be stifled, according to Assalafy, who has a sizable support base and is confident in its victory in 2027.

Senator Kabiru Marafa, the former All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has pledged to remove Bola Tinubu from the 2027 general elections by at least one million votes.

On Monday, the former Tinubu/Shettima 2023 Presidential Campaign Council Coordinator in Zamfara State made an interview for Channels Television’s Politics Today program.

“I want to assure you something today, but it’s up to you to decide whether Mr. President wins or not.” I’ll take one million of the votes that Mr. President received in 2023. Please remember my words. Who will be a featherweight will be determined in 2027, Marafa said on Monday on the program.

Senator Marafa had earlier given his APC resignation as of Sunday.

In a road accident at the Ibeju Bus Stop along the Lagos State Lekki-Epe Expressway, six people died and nine others were seriously hurt.

A truck struck a commercial bus, according to the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) in confirmation of the incident on Monday.

Two adult males, three adult females, and a child were among the victims. However, four of the other bus’s passengers escaped unharmed.

A blue Volvo FL6 truck loaded with wooden planks collided with a white commercial bus with the registration number AKD 336 YD, according to preliminary investigations.

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According to Adebayo Taofiq, LASTMA’s Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, “The nine injured survivors were quickly extricated by LASTMA officials with support from other emergency responders and immediately transported to the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Epe and Hammond Hospital for urgent medical attention.”

He added that their families would need to be formally identified as their skeletal remains had been deposited at the FMC morgue in Epe. The Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), which worked in partnership with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), immediately treated the four unhurt survivors.

The victims’ quick evacuation and normalcy at the accident site were assured by the coordinated emergency response.

Olalekan Bakare-Oki, the general manager of LASTMA, spoke with the families of the deceased while expressing concern about the persistent cases of reckless driving on Lagos highways. He cautioned drivers against speeding, saying that “speed thrills, but ultimately kills”.