The Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions , Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (APC Lagos East), has been conferred with ” Responsive Representation for Good Governance Award ” by the Senate Press Corps.

The Award as stated by the Chairman of the Corps , Mr Taiye Odewale , during presentation on Wednesday in Abuja, was in recognition of Senator Abiru’s quality membership in the Senate and responsive representation of people in Lagos East Senatorial District .

According to the SPC Chairman, “Senator Abiru’s legislative inputs in plenary and at committees’ level in the Senate over the last four years have contributed immensely to good governance – driven legislations at the federal level aside giving the people of Lagos East responsive representation .

“Responsiveness of Senator Abiru’s representation of people of Lagos East Senatorial District in the Senate since December 2020, cuts across human, capital and communities development through series of well conceptualized and envisioned empowerment programmes for different categories of constituents”

In his remarks after the award presentation , elated Senator Abiru who dedicated the award to his entire staff in Abuja and Lagos East Senatorial District, said is call for him to do more.

“I thank the entire members of the Senate Press Corps for confering this award on me based on their parameters of assessment and dedicate it to my entire staff from the Senior Legislative Aide (SLA) to other staff here in Abuja and down to Lagos East .

“I’m motivated by the award to do more for my constituents in Lagos East as their Senator and to Nigeria, by adding the required value to the Senate at all times, for good law making and good governance”, he said.

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, will appear before a new judge, Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on March 21, 2025 in Abuja.

Kanu’s lead Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said the legal team is primed and ready.

Ejimakor, however, disclosed that Kanu’s legal team has not been served with the charges he would face before Justice Omotosho.

Kanu has been facing charges over his pursuit for the actualization of Biafra.

Meanwhile, in September 2024, Kanu had challenged Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja to recuse herself from his trial.

Following his call, Justice Nyako recused herself but the Chief Judge of the Abuja Federal High Court rejected her decision.

In December, Justice Nyako adjourned Kanu’s case indefinitely.

Against this backdrop, Kanu vowed never to appear in court until an impartial judge is appointed to preside over his case.

Ejimakor said: “It’s now official that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shall appear before a new Judge on 21st March 2025.

It’s a milestone; and we are primed & ready.“He will appear before Justice James Omotosho of Federal High Court in court 7.

“The case will start new like it has never held before. Everything that was done from 2015 when he was arrested to the last time that he appeared before Justice Binta Nyako are gone including the appeals that are pending, they are gone out of the window.

“He would be rearraigned on charges that we have not seen, we can mention that we received a hearing notice but no charges have been sent to us.

“We really don’t know the charges we are facing on March 24. The government has a trick they always do, they will serve you a day before the hearing so that you don’t have time to study the charges.

“Sometimes they serve you will you are in court but the charges would have been in the court registry and we can’t start asking the court to give us copy.”

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has explained the rationale behind his administration’s economic reforms, saying the primary motive was protecting the interests of future generations.

A statement by spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said the president spoke on Thursday at the State House in Abuja while receiving a delegation of former National Assembly colleagues from the aborted Third Republic, during which he served as a Senator representing Lagos West.

The president said for 50 years, Nigeria was spending money of generations yet unborn and servicing the West coast of the nation’s subregion with fuel, adding that it was getting difficult to plan for the future of Nigeria’s children

He highlighted the challenges faced at the beginning of his administration, particularly economic and social issues, expressing gratitude for the delegation’s support in addressing the difficulties.

Tinubu declared that the administration had been able to stem the tide and expressed appreciation to Nigerians for their collective support in turning things around.

“We faced serious headwinds when I took over, very challenging times. Nigeria would have been bankrupt if we had not taken the actions that we took, and we had to prevent the economy’s collapse.

“Today, we are sitting pretty on a good foundation. We have reversed the problem; the Exchange rate is stabilising. Food prices are coming down, especially during Ramadan. We will have light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.

He reiterated that firm adherence to democratic tenets is the best route to economic, social, and political development.

“I am happy that you are holding to your belief in democracy. I thank you for keeping faith and remembering how we started. Some people missed the ball.

Some leadership failed, but we kept the faith with our democratic beliefs and freedom and the right to aspire to the highest office in the land. I am benefiting from it,” Tinubu added.