News
Ex-Corps Member Who Sponsored 18 projects, Others Bag NYSC DG’s CDS Awards …As DG launches CDS programmes
Joel Ajayi
An ex corps Members, Mr Wisdom Nduchika who carrying out 18 personal projects during his service year and workers of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Monday bagged 2024 NYSC D-G’s COmmunity Development Service Awards.
Also, others staff of the Scheme across the 36 states who contributed to the growth and development of the NYSC were equally rewarded for their sacrifices in different category.
Categorizes of the award for the staff, are Best Group CDS, Best CDS Schedule Officer and Best Collaborative Partners group.
Nduchika, represented by his mother, Mrs Winifred Nduchika, received the award and recognition for Best Individual CDS.
Among the projects carried out by Nduchika during his service year in Abuja were the construction and building from foundation to completion, a community primary healthcare facility in Jahi II, AMAC FCT.
Others are renovation of Jahi II, Chief Palace, drainage construction to reduce exposure and spread of diseases, food outreach for 400 less privileged persons at Jahi II, and 1,000 women road show cancer awareness at Jabi Lake amongst other.
While speaking at the Launching ceremony of new CDS programmes, and 2024 NYSC Director General’s CDS 2024 Award ceremon in Abuja, the Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General YD Ahmed said that, the award is to spur corps members and CDS officers to wake up from their slumber and realise that CDS is no longer business as usual.”The award ceremony has its Theme: “Excellence in Action: Celebrating NYSC CDS stories’’
The NYSC D-G said that he was elated by the steady and extraordinary display of selfless contributions to national development by successive batches of corps members.
According to him, the programme reinforces hope of a brighter future for the country in view of the immense sense of devotion to service and sacrifice for which the young men and women are being recognised.
“It is also yet another demonstration of the importance management attaches to the CDS.”
He implored serving and future generation of corps members to emulate their lofty gestures and always strive to leave their footsteps in the sand of times wherever they find themselves.
Ahmed also launched new CDS programmes. They include Traditional (Group) CDS, Year Round (personal) CDS, Collaborative CDS and Special Programmes. The D-G’s CDS award was instituted in 2021 to encourage and rekindle the interest of corps members, staff and collaborating partners in community development activities.
In her opening remarks, the Director of CDS and Special Projects Hajiya Zainab Isah, said the Director General’s CDS award was instituted in 2021 to encourage and rekindle the interest of corps members, staff and our collaborating partners in community development activities.
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Law & Crime
Court sentences killers of Ogun couple, son, to death by hanging
The Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta on Monday sentenced three persons to death for killing a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye and their son, Oreoluwa, on 1 January 2023.
Trial judge Basirat Adebowale sentenced the trio – Lekan Adekanbi, was the family’s driver, Odetola Ahmed and Adeniyi Waheed – in a judgement which lasted for more than three hours, DailyPost reports.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendants were charged with 24 counts of armed robbery, armed robbery, conspiracy to murder, murder, arson, escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice and receiving stolen property, among others.
Gruesome murder
The assailants reportedly trailed Mr Fatinoye, a former employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and his wife, Bukola, alongside their son, Oreoluwa, as they were returning home from the 2022/2023 crossover service at the Christ Anglican Church Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta.
The couple who lived at Oba Karunwi Road, a street behind former Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s residence, in Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, at about 1:30 a.m. were robbed, gruesomely murdered and their house set ablaze.
The assailants reportedly tied their son, Oreoluwa, and adopted son, Felix, with ropes and threw them into a river along Adigbe-Obada Road.
Penalties
Delivering judgement on Monday, the judge held that the prosecution proved its cases against the three defendants beyond reasonable doubt.
She found the three principal defendants guilty of murder.
The judge held that the convicts did not deserve mercy, as their lawyers had requested, because of the way they killed the couple and their son.
She convicted them of counts one to nine, handing them death by hanging or lethal injection, life imprisonment with hard labour, 14 years imprisonment among others for the various offences.
“The sentence of this court on Adekambi Lekan in respect of count II is that you be hanged by neck until you’re dead or by lethal injection.
“May God have mercy on your soul,” the court held.
The judge also convicted Ms Fadairo, the wife of Mr Adekanbi, to two years imprisonment for perverting the course of justice by hiding her husband.
Meanwhile, Mr Adekanbi’s mother, Adenike, was also sentenced to one year imprisonment for making false statements to police officers.
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