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00:00:00are transferred to the consolidated revenue fund
00:00:03to you making those assets
00:00:07available for to agencies and for public use three
00:00:10restitution to victims who are directly
00:00:14affected by the crime and lastly deployment
00:00:18in of the funds you recovered or ass
00:00:21recovered for
00:00:23of developmental projects so what this means in essence
00:00:27of is
00:00:28in of poker that's a proceed of crimes act did not create a specific
00:00:31agency to manage uh forfitted
00:00:35assets, but creates directorate within each
00:00:38of these agencies to
00:00:40of oversee the management, it
00:00:42of means that to be accountable, one has to trace each
00:00:45of these agencies to get details of what they've recovered, what
00:00:49has the forfitted through their activities,
00:00:52and information on how those arts have been managed, but there are agencies
00:00:56that also oversee the activities
00:00:58of these agencies when the office
00:01:01of the attorney general
00:01:06in of of the federation, the socioeconomic rights and accountability project
00:01:06serap says the government continues to ignore requests
00:01:09surrounding the management of forfetted assets, while the federal
00:01:13director of public prosecution in the office
00:01:15of the attorney general
00:01:16of the federation, the
00:01:17of bonk claims of
00:01:19in relusing. we've had several times including the filing court
00:01:22processes against the president, particularly the attorney general
00:01:25of the federation, asking for details of how some
00:01:29of these assets have been used. the principal among which is the case we filed
00:01:32against um the attorney general
00:01:34of the federation for details of abachalut as we like to
00:01:38call it that is asking specifically and we sent out the freedom of
00:01:42information
00:01:43of request how much has recovered in total from my b from the various countries where
00:01:47these funds have been stated and how are those funds been
00:01:51spent without cost to go to court and the court
00:01:54ruled in our favor three years ago mandated the government to provide this
00:01:58information unfortunately as at now the Nigerian government is here to
00:02:02give us those details assets forfitted are always
00:02:05been uh relooted how assets
00:02:09are forfitted and before their
00:02:13forfitture is done
00:02:15of members
00:02:15of the public are aware there is publication so it is
00:02:19wrong for people to have opinion that uh maybe
00:02:23in officers are
00:02:24in using their member
00:02:25of their family to do that right so and I'm not
00:02:28even
00:02:29of I'm
00:02:29of where i'm coming from, from the commission, you are not even allowed, it's not
00:02:33even possible for you or to use member
00:02:36of your family to be part of that, exercise, so you can't, it's
00:02:40not possible to get that done, so i'm
00:02:42sure that we have, we have enough legal
00:02:46frameworks to protect the right
00:02:49of the public and to ensure that the government receives economic
00:02:53value and benefit from this recovered asset, i can guarantee you
00:02:57that, he also gives the assurance that plan are on the way for a
00:03:01central register of all forfitted assets and its
00:03:05management, each agencies or
00:03:08a relevant agen of government as stipulated or listed
00:03:12in the act has their individual
00:03:16register so but i'm also aware that
00:03:20in general
00:03:20is is taking uh serious
00:03:23of step to ensuring that at
00:03:24a click of a button everybody can see the list
00:03:28of
00:03:29of profitted and what and what is the value and what is
00:03:33in the work
00:03:33is in the works of course that
00:03:35of database could change the conversation because four future
00:03:39order may settle the question of ownership, but for the
00:03:42public accountability begins with knowing what
00:03:46happens next.
00:03:47a shayeli, channel's
00:03:50of television of news. so ahead on the news at 10,
00:03:54the Nigerian Exchange group is projecting that the total
00:03:57value of companies listed on exchange could hit
00:04:01230 trillion nara by the end of
00:04:042026. That's in the moment, join us
00:04:07again.
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00:05:30Welcome back, the benway state universal basic education board
00:05:33with the support of Unicef has unveiled project brace up
00:05:37implementation plan with the flag off the school a box
00:05:41kits and equipment, the deputy governor Mr.
00:05:45Sam Ode performed the ceremony at the chubeb headquarters in
00:05:48makadi, the state capital. It says the unveiling is a
00:05:52strategic framework for addressing barriers to school
00:05:55enrollment and retention through teacher capacity
00:05:59development, community engagement, advocacy and
00:06:02improved school
00:06:03infrastructure.
00:06:07Stakeholders in the education sector converged on ben state universal
00:06:11basic education. Macodi for the unveiling of projects
00:06:15brace up implementation plan and flag off the school a
00:06:19box kit and sporting equipment,
00:06:22officials from
00:06:23the universal basic education commission and the united nations
00:06:27children's education fund or supporting the state government with
00:06:31400 school a box kids expected to benefit
00:06:341600 learners alongside sport and equipment for
00:06:38public schools across the state's three cenatorial zones football.
00:06:44In her welcome address, the executive chairman of ben Sabeb says the
00:06:47interventions reflects the state government's commitment to transforming
00:06:51basic education through strategic partnerships and sustained
00:06:55investment. The project implemental plan is built
00:06:59around eight key thematic
00:07:01areas, including but not limited
00:07:05to strengthening the capacity of teachers, education
00:07:09stakeholders, deepning community and parent. and
00:07:12engagements conducting data driving mapping and
00:07:16enrollment of our school children. 824 schools
00:07:20will receive sport and equipment for football, volleyball, handball,
00:07:24badminton, table tennis, athletics, chess and
00:07:28io. the aim is to improve learning opportunities for
00:07:31vulnerable children in the state. UNICEF is providing 400
00:07:35school a box kids, which will benefit
00:07:38approximately 16,00 children in Benway.
00:07:42with essential teaching and learning materials, we are also
00:07:46providing 330 tablets to teachers trained on digital
00:07:50literacy to strengthen the use of nigerian learning
00:07:53passport. talking about out of school children and ensuring
00:07:57that they also uh partake in
00:08:01this uh formal education we are talking about so that they will not be left
00:08:04behind. in his remarks, the deputy governor notes that the
00:08:07implementation plan will address barriers to school enrollment
00:08:11and retention. while building teacher's capacity. this
00:08:15administration led by father
00:08:17aliar from its very foundation from
00:08:21its very initial days in office, treated
00:08:25the education of our children, particularly those who have
00:08:29been pushed to the margins by poverty,
00:08:32insecurity, displacement, as matter of
00:08:35urgent
00:08:36priority. project's brace-up
00:08:40is sponsored by UNICEF. covering eight thematic areas,
00:08:44targeting the eradication of out of school children, while also
00:08:48providing 303 additional Nigeria learning passport
00:08:51tablets for trained
00:08:53teachers. The legal state governor,
00:08:57Babajideson wolu has conducted an undersport
00:09:00assessment of vandalized bridge poll at Vin
00:09:03nainja along
00:09:04the busy Lagos Badag Expressway in Amwalhin,
00:09:08reassuring motoris that the vital corridor remains structurally
00:09:12safe. while confirming that the bridge itself has not been compromised,
00:09:15the governor disclosed that thieves had excavated and stripped
00:09:19key protective fittings, an act he described as shameful
00:09:23and unacceptable a time of heavy public investment in
00:09:27infrastructure. he also raised alarm over white bread infrastructure
00:09:31theft across festack town, pointing specifically to destroyed
00:09:34drainage slabs installing iron roads along
00:09:38second and seventh avenues. he valve that the state government will
00:09:42agressively hunts down both the vandals and the cartels by
00:09:46installing public property, warning that offenders will face the full
00:09:50weight the law regardless of this
00:09:53status. I want
00:09:56to assure Nigerians and licortions that the integrities
00:10:00the build bridges are intact, it is decompile
00:10:04and it's it's fully intact, there is nothing that is
00:10:08wrong with the bridges, unfortunately we also
00:10:12no is that some the filling that he
00:10:15used to hold the dead compile are some the things we saw in the video
00:10:19yesterday where they've been excavated and you can see that the place is
00:10:23empty all of those scrupulous people have run away, but they
00:10:27can only run for a while, because government will come back and come and deal
00:10:31ruthlessly with the people that will have done
00:10:35this, but so for
00:10:37our our strategy is not to be announced, but we'll come back,
00:10:40but the bottom line is to assure the residents and
00:10:44citizens that there is nothing wrong with our bridges, there's nothing
00:10:48wrong with the work that has been done here is perfectly in
00:10:51order, but it is unfair. "and it is
00:10:55a shame that citizens of a country
00:10:58will, I don't want to say ignorantly, but deliberately want
00:11:02to destroy public assets, the
00:11:06full arm the law will be anybody,
00:11:09anybody that has been caught, both the person that is buying
00:11:13and the person that is
00:11:14selling,
00:11:18saying with infrastructure in lagos, residents have
00:11:22appealed to the state government to repair a reconstruct
00:11:25inner city roads ease daily commuting across the
00:11:29metropolis. In this special report, channel's television visits
00:11:33Agege, Ogwa, Mushi and other communities shedding light on
00:11:37failing road infrastructure desperately begging for
00:11:40government
00:11:41intervention.
00:11:44Lagos, digeriaus bossling commercial hub houses over 20
00:11:48million people, and sees what on 3 million vehicles grinding through
00:11:52its atirror roads every single day.
00:11:59This relentless gridlog places immense pressure on the state's transport
00:12:03infrastructure, accelerating way and tier and leaving
00:12:06major corridors riddled with deep pot holes that strangle the
00:12:10floor of
00:12:11traffic. One
00:12:15prime bottleneck is the vital or Judgar corridor where motorus
00:12:19daily navigates an obstacle course of filled road sections
00:12:22enduring agonizing traffic. delays and blown
00:12:26commute
00:12:27times.
00:12:34back in march, the federal government announced ambitious plans to
00:12:37reconstruct and expand the 9th lamenta door carriage way in the
00:12:41gunusi road to unlock the choke point and boost regional
00:12:45connectivity. five months on the project
00:12:49remains untouched, yet optimism persists among
00:12:52officials at the lego state public work. Agency what we are
00:12:56doing is pallative maintenance to allow the
00:13:00federal ministry of works to finish their
00:13:03studies, conclude their designs and mobilize to
00:13:06site, and
00:13:07for fact, as we speak, the
00:13:11contractor that was awarded this project
00:13:14is already sourcing for siteyards
00:13:18and other logistics
00:13:20support.
00:13:26"the narrative is no different along the stretch from mobile filling station down to
00:13:30agege where crited asphalt forces traffic to
00:13:33crawl, driving up both travel times and vehicle
00:13:37maintenance costs for weary
00:13:39drivers.
00:13:43along our far inl road agege, desperate residents are
00:13:47demanding urgent intervention and point to the complete absence
00:13:51of a functional drainage about two months ago, three
00:13:54months ago. lot of have already sp, this road
00:13:58again, are you
00:14:00understand?
00:14:06like last two
00:14:07weeks,
00:14:12they came stone, but it's not enough, please we on are
00:14:15this,
00:14:15suffering
00:14:19suffering is too much, should
00:14:20but is not enough,
00:14:21please they do this so that everybody.
00:14:30Similar cries for help echo through the corridors of Mishing (Ejibur)
00:14:34and neighboring suburbs where frustrated commuters are pleading with
00:14:37authorities for rapid road rehabilitation back
00:14:41and at the same time and at the same time there are stopy people here
00:14:45to check vehicle license or whatever that is not good
00:14:48enough. talk the government to fix it for
00:14:52us that's all i have to say how does we affect?
00:14:55years your movement
00:14:56on allways affect my cars in fact my car will be having
00:14:59issue so now now
00:15:01of we couple have been suffering on this same road every time they break stone there
00:15:05was a time container even
00:15:06fell down here but we give thanks to god you couldn't kill anybody more than 34 hours
00:15:10we are here soif movement nothing nothing in response the legal state public
00:15:14works agency maintains that repairs are actively on the way
00:15:18state-wide while urging residents to desist from dumping
00:15:22refuse into drainage channels on motor
00:15:25road a 100 meter
00:15:28stretch, we took over 40
00:15:32trucks of refuge
00:15:36between the lagos state public. Corporation and the Lagos
00:15:39State Waste Management Authority to effect a more
00:15:43lasting solution, will require us closing down the
00:15:47road or creating problems for the citizens, so
00:15:50instead of that we do a quick work of it, introduce
00:15:54politives so that a more clearment situation
00:15:58we can come back and do the full reconstruction. Residents are
00:16:02appealing to the government to take advantage the approaching dry season
00:16:05to deliver long solution and fully
00:16:09rehabilitate roads across the
00:16:11state. in
00:16:15Niger state the flash flood has destroyed parts the popular
00:16:18general MI, housing estate in mina, the state
00:16:22capital. Channel's television visited the affected area as
00:16:26residents are seen salvaging belongings from their
00:16:29homes. the state emergency management agency had
00:16:33war the residents living along waterways, canals and
00:16:37banks to relocate to higher grounds following the incident would
00:16:41displace residence and damaged
00:16:43properties. it came
00:16:47unexpectedly, even though we have had predictions that the rains
00:16:50will really cause lot of high vol state for this year. based on
00:16:54the predictions the SRP, SCP and the
00:16:58AFO, the seasonal climate prediction
00:17:01by uh Nimets and the annual flood outlook by
00:17:05NASA, so uh... Actually the
00:17:08agency has put in place mechanisms for the
00:17:12sensitization and the you know awareness
00:17:15campaigns for um
00:17:18residents of communities in Niger state all
00:17:22over for them to be cautious and be
00:17:26watchful and uh for those who live along canals like
00:17:29this and um river banks to move to higher ground
00:17:33because the rains are really really coming and they are going to
00:17:37do lot of damage, even though we know that this was just a
00:17:41one of, this came out of
00:17:45uh uh, this is just a one of flash flood, because we we we
00:17:49normally experience lot of flooding in september, late
00:17:53september early october around those areas, so this is coming in
00:17:56the first week of august and we we really took us by
00:18:00surprise a
00:18:01way, amid the
00:18:05rising demand for quality house. in Lagos,
00:18:08Couplag, a cooperative Investment and Thrift Society
00:18:12Limited, established by Stel and Renaissance Staff, as
00:18:16commissioned his luxury Q2 apartments in Laky phase
00:18:20one Lagos developed in partnership with Q
00:18:23construction, the modern architectural edifits reflects
00:18:26Couplak's commitment to providing high quality housing
00:18:30solutions for its members while advancing its broader vision
00:18:34of strategically positioning them in prime locations. across
00:18:38key cities in the
00:18:39country.
00:18:43Lagos Nigeria's bustling commercial and residential hub welcomes
00:18:47new modern architectural masterpiece in lucky phase one with a
00:18:51grand commissioning of Q2
00:18:53apartment.
00:19:00The masterpiece commission by Kooplag, a corporative investment and trip
00:19:04society limited established by Shell. and renaissance staff
00:19:08cooperative is delivered in partnership with q construction
00:19:12open in name the father, the son
00:19:15and the grand commissioning
00:19:18as home owners alongside the management of couplag and queue
00:19:22construction tick a tour the apartment. there c3
00:19:25is and you for coming up in vi and
00:19:28lucky and and as a cooperative we are
00:19:32also mean
00:19:35extending our, mean
00:19:39focus to other areas, we have um portar called and
00:19:43abuja in our frontiers now and cook plag, if you
00:19:47look at what we're doing now, you are very strong with real estate, i
00:19:50will continue to do more, because our vision
00:19:54is a time we come where we
00:19:57believe every member of our society
00:20:01must have a home they can call their own, i think one key thing which
00:20:05is fundamental for us "it's the
00:20:08safety and integrity the building, I
00:20:12mean that's we cannot compromise that, so that was very
00:20:15key to the design, and we ensure that we built
00:20:19this to a highest possible standard in terms of
00:20:23safety and the integrity the building. now what we also added
00:20:27top is the architectural look and the fill,
00:20:31and you this looking at this, you would a test that distance
00:20:35out, the completed development comprises. eight units of two bedroom
00:20:38apartments with boys quarters and six units of three bedroom
00:20:42apartments all equipped with modern lifestyle amenities
00:20:45including a swimming pool, standby generator, sit out
00:20:49lounge, recreation area and much more. in the life of
00:20:53every construction, there are two key um
00:20:57milestone, one is the ground breaking and the second
00:21:01which is the most important is actually commissioning. that's an
00:21:05evidence to show that the years and months of hard work, you back
00:21:09and forth, less night planning and all that has actually come to
00:21:12frution. q2 apartments have really met my
00:21:16expectation in terms of delivery. when i
00:21:20to this, I was expecting a quality living
00:21:23environment, and that is what they have delivered. With the
00:21:27completion and commissioning of Q2 apartment, Couplag is already
00:21:31setting its sites on its next big project, Q3 and
00:21:35Q4, as a cooperative looks to tickets luxury residential
00:21:38development beyond Lagos to Potakakat and
00:21:42Abuja. The Nigerian
00:21:45exchange is setting its sites even higher with
00:21:49NGX. CEO Tim Kupula projecting that the market
00:21:53value of listed companies may reach
00:21:55230 trillion nara by the end
00:21:59of 2026. The projection comes as the market has expanded
00:22:03significantly with listed equities now value at about
00:22:07160 trillion narra up from roughly 30 trillion
00:22:10narr in 2023. The major anticipated listings
00:22:14including dangute refiner alongside sustained investor
00:22:18interest could drive the next. leg of
00:22:20growth. Ninger's external debt service
00:22:24payment declined to $954 million dollars in the first
00:22:28quarter of this year representing a 31.5%
00:22:31drop from the $1.39 billion dollars recorded
00:22:35in the correspondent period of 2025. This is according to
00:22:39the latest data from the debt management office DMO. The
00:22:43reduction reflects lower debt service obligations during the
00:22:47period offering some relief to government's.
00:22:49foreign exchange position and fiscal
00:28:02international national scene, Oman says positive talks are on
00:28:06the way with Iran over a possible agreement to
00:28:09secure shipping through the straight of homos, but Teran is
00:28:13warning that any deal will not necessarily lead to the immediate
00:28:17reopening the vita waterway. Iranian foreign
00:28:20minister Abbas Arache says the discussions are in their final
00:28:24stages while oman's foreign ministry is urgent restraint to
00:28:28prevent further attacks on shipping. The straight which carries about the fifth
00:28:32the world. oil and natural gas supplies has remained
00:28:35effectively blocked since the United States and Israel began
00:28:38attacking Iran.
00:28:42Spain has imposed border controls on air and sea travel from
00:28:46Italy further escalating a dispute between the two European
00:28:50member states over migration and border security. The
00:28:54measures which took effect today will remain in place for about a month and comes
00:28:58a week after Italy introduced similar restrictions following the
00:29:01arrival of a about 78,000 migrants from
00:29:04Morocco into Spain's enclave Osota, Madrid
00:29:08had given Rome until Friday to reverse his border checks, but Italy
00:29:12says the measures will remain in place until at least the
00:29:1615th of this
00:29:17month.
00:29:22And the main news again, operatives
00:29:25the department of state services have arrested three more suspects
00:29:29allegedly linked to the kidnapping the dean of. agriculture at
00:29:33Nasarawa State University. Ado
00:29:37State Police Command said is intensifying operations against kidnappers and other
00:29:41criminal elements in the state by taking the fight deep into the forest
00:29:44suspected to be used as criminal
00:29:47hideout. That's the news attend tonight. I'm
00:29:51Melinda Akilami on behalf the team. Good
00:29:54night.
00:30:37Following the recent earth tremor recorded in Abuja on the 4th of August
00:30:41this year, the minister of solid mineral development is asking us to be
00:30:45calm. While we try to be calm, tonight, we go
00:30:48back and remind you of previous earth tremors
00:30:52experienced in Abuja, particularly at the mpappe area the Buari Areal
00:30:56Council. Also, tonight, we discuss infrastructure development.