Beg Tinubu, FFK advises Fashola!

A former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has advised the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to go and make peace with his former boss, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Fashola, who has been in the news for spending N78.3m of taxpayers’ money on a personal website, www.tundefashola.com, and for spending N139m on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja, is believed to be at loggerheads with Tinubu.

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress who are loyal to Tinubu were also absent at a book launch held in honour of Fashola last week, fuelling speculations that all was not well between Tinubu and Fashola.

However, Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election campaign, said in a Facebook post that Fashola should go and beg Tinubu before things get messy.

He wrote, “Things are getting messier by the day. My advice to Tunde Fashola is to go and make peace with his benefactor, Bola Tinubu, before it is too late.”

Meanwhile, a group, Lagos Indigenes Network Organisation, has dissociated Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, from the scandal rocking his predecessor.

Some groups loyal to Fashola had fingered Ambode as the brains behind the revelations especially since the information detailing the contract which has generated widespread criticisms from concerned Nigerians was made available by the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency.

But LINO’s Executive Secretary, Fouad Ade-Basorun, said in a statement that since his inauguration on May 29, Ambode had busied himself with developmental projects in the state and had no time in trying to tarnish the image of his predecessor.

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Warning: Deadly Flood Imminent in Lagos

Lagos State Government has alerted residents in the coastal and low-line areas to the looming over-flooding of the areas due to the release of water from the Lagco Dam in Cameroun.

The government, in  a statement  by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Mr. Oluwatoyin Onisarotu, said the warning became necessary because of the outcome of the 2015 Flood Management Stakeholders roundtable meeting organised by the Federal Ministry of Environment in Abuja, where preparations were made for the forecast of the 2015 flood management strategies.

The permanent secretary hinted of the possible consequences of the release of water from the Dam in Cameroun and its attendant effect on the coastal waters and the wetlands.

It was also disclosed at the Abuja meeting that the release of excess water from the Dam might cause flooding that will affect the Benue River Basin and States like Adamawa and the Niger-Delta region with flooding problems.

Onisarotu therefore, advised that residents within the coastal and low- line areas, which are prone to flooding to ensure that all canals and drains are properly cleared to ensure free flow of water.

Likewise,they should ensure discouragement of people from dumping waste and refuse into the canals and drainages that may cause havoc and flooding.

He assured that the State Government would ensure that several flood mitigating measures are put in place.

Residents along flood plains, low line areas and other coast lines, include Ajegunle, Owode-Onirin axis, Owode-Elelede, Kuramo Beach, Alpha Beach, Okun Ajah, Mende-Maryland, Ijora-Badia, Iwaya among others.