NEW LAW: Beautify your premises or go to jail – Lagos State Government

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it was now mandatory for occupiers of houses in the state to beautify the perimeter areas of their buildings.

That a violation of this would attract N250, 000 or the amount the state would incur if it decides to carry out the beautification, or six months imprisonment or other non-custodian sentences.

It added that anyone caught felling trees in the state or trimming them without permission would be fined a minimum of N50, 000 or sent to one year imprisonment.
 

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Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, stated this at the inauguration of the Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency at Alausa, Ikeja.

 He said, “It is also an offence to walk on lawns and gardens. Urinating, defecating in any of the parks, gardens and open spaces; loitering or soliciting for illegal purposes, smoking and dumping refuse among others in the parks are also offences.”

 The commissioner said the government had demonstrated commitment to environmental transformation by its massive greening programmes and would not relent in making the environment more beautiful. He said the establishment of LASPARK was to create a structure for the beautification and landscaping of open spaces in the state as government had done with other agencies like LAWMA and LASAA.

 He added that the state’s Parks and Garden Law of 2011 would enable the agency to function and build on the solid foundation laid by the Conservative and Ecology Department of the ministry. He said, “As a matter of fact, we are structuring the state in such a way that ministries would formulate policies while agencies would implement and sustain them.

We have about 89 agencies in the state and they are all performing well. Other states in the country are understudying them. “LASPARK will maintain and manage all designated parks and gardens; carry out the general directives and policies of government in respect of parks and recreation centres among other duties. “We are going to make the law available so that everybody will know what is expected of them. But we will not enforce the law now.

 We will do so after the traffic law is up and running.” The General Manager of LASPARK, Olukunle Sotade, said the agency intended to collaborate with all sectors of the economy to build on the good foundation of the CE department.

He urged Lagosians to support the agency to succeed by obeying the parks and garden law

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FG signs $1.1 Billion Facility Agreement with Chinese Bank

The Federal Government on Tuesday in Beijing signed an agreement for a $1.1 billion facility with the China Exim Bank for three high priority projects expected to be completed by 2015.
The projects are the Abuja Light Rail project which will cost $500 million, four new Airport terminals expected to cost $500 million and the Galaxy Backbone ICT infrastructure which will be financed with $100 million.

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The commitment of the Chinese bank to the financing of the construction of four state-of-the-art airport terminals in four cities across the country – has also been obtained and the agreement is expected to be signed within the next few weeks.

The terminals which will cost $500 million will be located in Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu. The new airport terminals will help Nigeria achieve the status of a hub on the continent and deepen employment generation in the sector.

The terminals will also help to grow passenger capacity to over 50 million from the current 20 million and increase the number of direct and indirect jobs in the sector to 1.5 million from the current 60,000.

Cynthia Osokogu: Pathologists conclude autopsy

The postmortem examination on Cynthia Osokogu, carried out at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital has been concluded.

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A staff of the Hospital said on Tuesday that the Pathologists have finished the work and family members are yet to collect her body.

Cynthia’s burial was earlier scheduled for September 8th in her hometown in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State but was postponed pending the completion of her autopsy.

Cynthia's Osokogu who was killed on July 22 by friends she met through Facebook, was a post-graduate student of the Nasarrawa State University.

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Breaking News-US ambassador to Libya killed in attack on Benghazi consulate

The US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff killed by an armed Islamist mob that stormed and set fire to the United States consulate in Benghazi.

The death of the UE ambassador,Chris Steven and three other Americans, was confirmed by President Barack Obama.

Mr Stevens was killed after the US Consulate came under attack by a mob with guns and rocket propelled grenades. They were protesting about an American film called The Innocence of Muslims.

Sanusi says; Obasanjo is a bad Economist

Mr Obasanjo had on Thursday said the introduction of the N5000 note would kill production and affect small businesses negatively.

The former president, who disclosed this at a roundtable advocacy forum organised by the Institute of Directors, in Lagos, said the way, Mr Sanusi, was fighting inflation by removing money from circulation was improper.

However, speaking at the sixth annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Mr Sanusi said Mr Obasanjo had introduced more high denomination in Nigeria than any other Head of State. “General Obasanjo did N20; he did N100, N200, N500 and N1000. He has introduced more higher

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The CBN governor said that during the period Mr Obasanjo was introducing high denomination inflation in Nigeria was actually low.

 “General Obasanjo did N100 in 1999; then he did N200 in 2000; he did N500 I think two years later; and did N1000. In that period, inflation was coming down because it was accompanied by very tight monetary and fiscal policies during his reforms.

 “For somebody who have gone through that to come and stand up and say ‘introducing a higher denomination causes inflation’ I don’t know if somebody wrote his speech. I’m trying to see him or if he was misquoted.

“If he actually said that then he must be the single most important determinant of inflation in our history given the number of notes that he introduced,” he said Mr Sanusi said printing higher denomination without increasing the money supply in the economy will not increase inflation.

“This is simple economics,” he said. He said that the cost of printing and minting all denomination of currency in 2009 was N47 billion and that by 2011 the CBN brought this cost down to N32 billion.

He said that by 2014 the cost would further be reduced to N25 billion thereby saving about 50 percent of the total cost of printing and minting all denomination of currency.

President Jonathan makes a hasty departure from Botswana

His arrival ahead of schedule further increased the speculation over the state of health of his wife, Patience, who is believed to be undergoing treatment in a German hospital.

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The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, had in a statement on Saturday said the President would return to Abuja on Wednesday after his state visits to the two countries.

 Online reports had it that while in the middle of a luncheon in Gaborone, Bostwana, the President received a message which allegedly changed his countenance and forced him to leave the country.

The reports further insinuated that he left some members of his delegation behind in Bostwana and might have headed to Germany to see his ailing wife.

 Sources confirmed that Jonathan returned to Nigeria on Tuesday evening with members of his delegation.

Presidency Replaces Aides

The presidency has replaced security aids around first lady patience Jonathan in order to keep her affairs private at the Germany hospital.

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