The State House of Assembly has ordered the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas in the state to call the PSP operators in their areas to go back to work with immediate effect.

Speaker of the House, MUDASHIRU OBASA, who gave this directive on Thursday on behalf of the lawmakers during plenary, also ordered the Clerk of the House, AZEEZ SANNI, to invite the Commissioner for the Environment, BABATUNDE DUROSINMI-ETTI to appear before the House on the matter next week.

This followed an Urgent Matter of Public Importance raised by Hon. GBOLAHAN YISHAWU on heaps of refuse scattered all over the state.

The Speaker emphasised that the Lagos State House of Assembly does not know about Visionscape insisting the state government ought to have consulted them before they started operation.

The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, AYODELE FAYOSE has being arraigned before Justice MOJISOLA OLATOREGUN of the Federal High Court in Lagos amid tight security.

FAYOSE arrived the court in a white Toyota Hiacebus in the company of EFCC officials for his trial.

The former governor who is facing an 11-count charge of conspiracy and money laundering pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.

FAYOSE is being defended by a former Attorney General of the Federation, KANU AGABI.

Already the anti-graft agency has assembled 22 witnesses to testify against FAYOSE, in court for an alleged fraud of N30.8bn.

Among the witnesses lined up to testify against the ex-governor is a former Minister of State for Defence, MUSILIU OBANIKORO, and a former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc, ALEX OTTI.

Also to testify is AYOTUNDE OWOPE, said to be FAYOSE’s account officer who is alleged to have transferred funds from one account to another for him.
OBANIKORO, who was listed as the second witness, is expected to testify about how he took N2.2bn from the then National Security Adviser, SAMBO DASUKI, for delivery to FAYOSE in June 2014.

Spokesman to the former Governor, LERE OLAYINKA spoke to TAIWO OLAPADE ahead of his day in court.

Our correspondent reports that Justice MOJISOLA OLATOREGUN has adjourned the case until October 24 for the hearing of the bail application for FAYOSE.

The court also ordered that FAYOSE should be remanded in custody of the EFCC pending the hearing on his bail.

The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, NNAMDI KANU, has vowed not to return to the Federal High Court in Abuja where he was standing trial before he left the country.

The Federal Government had charged him with treason but Justice BINTA NYAKO granted him bail after 18 months in detention.

KANU had flouted all the terms of the bail before the military invaded his Abia residence on September 14, 2017.

He fled afterwards and resurfaced in Jerusalem on Friday.

In a broadcast via Radio Biafra, KANU boasted that the Nigerian court lacked the capacity to try him.

He said the judge who asked his sureties to produce him should have asked the army why they invaded his residence.

The State government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state capital, two days after dozens of people were killed in Kasuwa Magani village.

Governor, NASIR EL-RUFAI, disclosed this via his verified Twitter account on Sunday.

This follows heightened tension over anticipated reprisal by a group of youths as residents reportedly scamper for safety.

Consequently, a combined team of security operatives including soldiers, police and operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have been deployed in the state capital.

The security personnel have taken over the major roads and flashpoints in the metropolis, to avert any form of breakdown of law and order.

No fewer than 55 lives were lost, and several others injured when some youths attacked the market on Thursday.