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NYSC Director, Information and Public Relations To Retire Amidst Encomiums

Published

6 months ago

August 22, 2024

……tasks Press on objective reportage

Joel Ajayi

It was a moment of joy, satisfaction and reminiscence of fond memories for the outgoing NYSC Director of Information and Public Relations, Mr Eddy Megwa when he lauded members of the Press for prompt reportage of the Scheme’s activities.

During his valedictory session with members of the fourth estate of the realm, he tasked them to uphold the professional ethics of journalism as they continue to report NYSC programmes.

He enjoined them to make clarifications from the Scheme whenever the need arises, instead of rushing to press to publish incorrect and damaging stories about the Scheme

He added that their support contributed in no small measure to his success as the 28th image maker of the Scheme.

The outgoing Director also enjoined the youth corespondents to accord more support to his successor in order to succeed in the discharge of the statutory responsibilities as the next Director of Information and Public Relations of NYSC.

Mr Megwa is billed to meritoriously exit the public service on Sunday August 25, 2024 on the attainment of the mandatory retirement age of sixty years for public servants.

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Law & Crime

Court sentences killers of Ogun couple, son, to death by hanging

Published

8 hours ago

February 4, 2025

The Gleamer

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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