News
FRSC Sector Commander lauds Corps Marshal on promotion exercise
The Lagos Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, has commended the Corps Marshal, management and Board for promoting over 6,000 officers across the country.
Ogungbemide said this during the decoration of newly promoted officers of RS2.1 Lagos Sector Command, held at the parade ground of FRSC, Ojodu, Lagos.
He appreciated the current management led by Corps Marshal Dauda Biu for promoting over 300 officers in Lagos.
“You can all see the mood of the promoted officers, very happy, which is also a reflection of what you are going to be seeing on the highways.
“Over 3,000 officers benefitted from this promotion, and the management had also promoted over 3,000 Marshal across the country last week, which brought the total of all the promoted officers to over 6,000.
“You are going to be seeing motivated officers that will be relating with the members of the public with joy because of the promotion,” he said.
The Commander said that in every establishment, when one is being promoted, it adds value to that organisation.
“Corps Marshal has given us a marching order on all the things that will need our intervention in ensuring drastic reduction on accidents caused by trucks and containers in the state.
“It is not just deploying the men at strategic points, it is about putting policies in place to stop the problem before getting to the highways.
“The current accidents by trucks and tankers is a child’s play to what would have happened if we had not put measures in place to curb the accidents by articulated vehicles.
“The policy was put in Lagos in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, Nigeria Ports Authority and other transport stakeholders,” Ogungbemide said.
He said Nigerians should be expecting smooth movement and more committed officers to ensure that the roads are safer for them.
The Lagos Sector Commander said their officers could not achieve much without the support of the public, urging the road users to continue to support them in achieving their mandate.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Lagos, Mr Abdulafiz Toriola, congratulated the promoted officers and charged them to discharge their duties with more commitment.
Toriola said that the State Government was considering implementing use of designated routes for articulated vehicles.
He said this was one of the strategies to checkmate the operations and activities of trucks plying the State roads.
Toriola said that the Government did not want to take unilateral decisions, hence, it called for a Stakeholders’ engagement to dialogue with relevant unions before taking necessary steps.
The Permanent Secretary also mentioned that the ministry was reviewing the Minimum Safety Standard Procedure (SSP) for trucks and articulated vehicles being implemented by the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA).
He said that modifying it would involve including the Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officials in the inspection process.
Speaking on behalf of the promoted officers, the Superintendent Route Commander, Olabisi Sonusi appreciated the Corps Marshal and his management team for considering them for the exercise.
Sonusi said that they would put in more effort in ensuring the roads are safer, while lives and properties are protected.
She said they would double efforts in educating the motoring public on importance of obeying the safety standard while moving from one place to the other.
Deputy Corps Commander, Joshua Abitomi, pleaded with other officers that were not promoted not to give up.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, have called on Nigerian authorities at all levels of government to stop using repressive and anti-media laws to target, intimidate and harass journalists, critics and media houses.
The groups made the demand after an interactive session on ‘the state of press freedom in Nigeria’ held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Ikeja.
In a joint statement, SERAP and NGE said that, “the government of President Bola Tinubu, the country’s 36 governors and FCT minister must now genuinely uphold press freedom, ensure access to information to all Nigerians, obey court judgments, and respect the rule of law”.
They expressed concerns about the escalating crackdown on the right to freedom of expression and media freedom and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law by authorities at all levels of government.
The groups note that the suppression of the press in recent times takes various forms ranging from extrajudicial to unlawful detentions, disappearances, malicious prosecutions and wrongful use of both legislation and law enforcement.
The statement read in part: “We would continue to speak truth to power and to hold authorities to account for their constitutional and international obligations including on freedom of expression and media freedom.
“Nigeria as a country has a long and unpleasant history of press gagging and clampdown on media freedom, which is evidence of extensive state censorship of media and in some cases, the utter control of state-owned media houses.
“This position has not changed considerably despite almost 25 years of unbroken democratic rule in the Fourth Republic.”
A Magistrate Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) to seal off a company, Ifedi A.K. Nigeria Ltd, over allegations bordering on non-filing of annual returns.
The Magistrate, Janada Balami, gave the order after lawyer to FCT-IRS, Michael Towolawi, moved the application to the effect.
Towolawi told the court that the company had failed to file its annual returns from 2019 to 2023 in breach of Section 81 of the Personal Income Tax Act, LFN, 2004, and amended in 2011.
He said all efforts to make the company comply with the law proved abortive.
The lawyer, therefore, applied that the company be compel to appear before the court to explain why it acted in breach of the law.
Balami, who held that the application by the agency against the company had merit, accordingly granted same to seal the No 6, Rudolph Close, Off Katsina-Ala Street, Maitama, Abuja.
She, consequently, ordered the company, the sole defendant in the matter, to appear before the court on May 16.
The Director, Legal Services of the FCT-IRS, Festus Tsavar, told journalists after the proceeding that the service would move against companies that do not file their annual returns as provided by law.
“You know that we have a new minister in FCT that is doing a lot of projects and that hinges on money.
“And of course, you are aware that FCT has come out of TSA.
“So it is the internally generated revenue that will make the government of FCT to be able to do those projects completely within required time,” he said.
Stop using repressive laws to intimidate journalists – SERAP, NGE tell FG
FG adds 625MW to national grid – Minister
Tax: Court orders FCT-IRS agency to seal off defaulting coys
Rt.briscoe, FBNH, Others halts negative performance of stock market
Court orders Sen. Victor Umeh to repay N136m bank debt to AMCON
UNDP, FG partnership needed to achieve inclusion, equity- Minister
-
capital market2 years ago
Rt.briscoe, FBNH, Others halts negative performance of stock market
-
Finance3 months ago
Court orders Sen. Victor Umeh to repay N136m bank debt to AMCON
-
Abuja Update2 months agoUNDP, FG partnership needed to achieve inclusion, equity- Minister
-
Abuja Update1 month ago
Banks drive stock market performance with N147bn gain
-
Business2 weeks ago
Tingo Group unveils Tingo Electric, Tingo Cola drink at Lagos launch
-
Health2 weeks ago
Capacity training will reduce migration of health workers- NPHCDA
-
News4 months ago
Oil thieves sponsoring malicious media campaign against Navy – Spokesman
-
Infotech1 month ago
World Backup Day: NITDA urges Nigerians to ensure backup of data
