Sanwo-Olu Orders Demolition of 20 Buildings in Banana Island Says FG’s agencies reckless, culpable in building collapse Accuses Lagos State govt officials of collusion Segun James Miffed by the frequent incidents of building collapse in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the demolition of 20 houses in Banana Island, Ikoyi area of
the state. Speaking yesterday during a visit to the site of the recent building collapse on First Avenue in Banana Island, a visibly angry Sanwo-Olu accused some agencies of the federal government of being
culpable in the incidents of building collapse on the highbrow Island. The governor also described as reckless the way and manner officials of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), the promoters of the estate, issued
permission to sand fill the Lagos Lagoon without regard to the topography of the area. He stated that the site of the collapsed building was not originally part of the island's plan. "We are at the back of the land
that is abutting. You can see that the original line for Banana Island is not even here. It is way in front and you can see that there are several extensions granted by both the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and NIWA. These are
the two federal agencies that have been culpable for those extensions. They have done these extensions without our knowledge. "We have responsibility for Continued on page 5
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Senate Presidency: APC Senators-elect Polarised Along Regional, Religious Biases Lawan's silence over rumoured ambition unsettles aspirants
Deji Elumoye and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja There appears to be a sharp disagreement among the 70
Senators-elect of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the criteria for the zoning of the leadership of the 10th Senate, THISDAY has learnt.
THISDAY gathered that while many of the Senators-elect are pushing for a Christian Senate President to emerge from the South-east or South-south, others
are insisting that the position should be zoned to the North-west. This is coming as the refusal of the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan to confirm or deny
his rumoured ambition to re-contest for the position has created anxiety among other aspirants. THISDAY’s investigation revealed that two major issues, geopolitical
zone and religious leaning of the prospective aspirants, have sharply divided both the re-elected and fresh Continued on page 5
Ahead of Transition in 35 Days, Tinubu Returns Home To confront challenges of zoning of N’Assembly leadership, formation of cabinet, petrol subsidy, social cohesion, healing process and tribunal cases Ejiofor Alike in Lagos, Chuks Okocha and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja Exactly 35 days to his inauguration on May 29, the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, will arrive in Nigeria tomorrow after a one-month rest in France. Tinubu left the country for France on Tuesday, March 21 to rest and plan the transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29. One of his loyalists informed THISDAY yesterday that the president-elect would arrive in the country on Monday evening, barring any unforeseen circumstances. The source said: "Asiwaju is coming back on Monday. He will arrive Monday evening." His Media Office had in a statement in March, explained that he travelled to France to rest and plan his transition programme after a very exhaustive campaign and election season. The president-elect had left Continued on page 5
REWARDING COMMITMENT… L-R: President of Nigerian Gas Association and Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Gas, Mr. Ed Ubong; Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), Mrs Elohor Aiboni; Managing Director, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mr. Osagie Okunbor; and Shell’s General Manager, Commercial, Mr. Hans Nijkamp, while receiving the ‘Outstanding Commitment to Nigeria’s Decade of Gas’ Award during Nigerian Gas Association’s Gala Night in Abuja…weekend