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Woman gives birth to quadruplets in Badagry

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Mrs Mariam Akinkitan and her quadruplets in Badagry, Lagos State (NAN Photo)
Mrs Mariam Akinkitan and her quadruplets in Badagry, Lagos State (NAN Photo)
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A 28-year-old woman, Mrs Mariam Akinkitan, has given birth to a set of quadruplets in Badagry, Lagos State.

Chief Medical Director, Ajara Medical Centre, Dr Dauda Bioku told News Agency of Nigeria in Badagry that the quadruplets – three females and one male – were delivered safely on Friday.

“She has already delivered one out of the four babies in a private hospital but unfortunately the next baby was coming through line cross.

“This is what we call transverse line in medical terminology; so when she was rushed down to my hospital and I discovered it to be transverse line, we opted for Caesarean Delivery to save the mother and the babies.

“The three scan she did indicate three children, so with the belief that the babies would be triplets, we started operating her.

“We brought out the second baby at 6.16am, fortunately, she cried out immediately, so there was no problem of resuscitating her or time-wasting.

“The third baby was brought out at 6:17a.m, but after bringing her out, I discovered that I was feeling something hard when I wanted to bring out the placentae.

“I told the nurse that brought her that something was still inside the womb, but she said the scan read three babies.

“So at 6.18am, I brought out the fourth baby, the only male and with the highest weight among them. He was 1.7 kilograms,” the doctor said.

According to the medical director, the mother and the quadruplets are clinically alright.

Meanwhile, Mr Samson Akinkitan, father of the quadruplets, has appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to help him secure good accommodation to enable the children to grow up in a conducive environment.

Akinkitan, a 35-year-old tailor who lives at Iyana-Era, Lagos, said that his one-room apartment would not be conducive for the children.

“Before their birth, I have two children already; firstborn is six years old and second three years old, with my aged mother.

“The one-room apartment is not enough to bring them up because we are five, before their birth.

“The little amount I am getting from tailoring work is not enough to get a good accommodation for my quadruplets.

“I’m also begging Nigerian philanthropists and government at all levels to support me in upbringing the quadruplets.

“I am a tailor, I can’t further my education due to lack of money, I don’t want my children to have the same fate,” he said.

The mother of the quadruplets, Mariam, thanked the well-wishers that had been visiting her and her quadruplets with gifts in the hospital.

“The wife of the Chairman, Badagry Local Government, Mrs Ramota Onilude and the founder of Sesi Whingah Foundation, Mr Sesi Whingah, have come to visit us

“We are very grateful for their benevolence and I prayed that God will replenish their pockets,” she said. (NAN)

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Senate Amends N/W, S/E Development Commission Acts Over MD, Chairmanship Positions

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**South-South Development Commission Bill Scales  Second Reading

The Senate has commenced the process to amend the Northwest and Southeast Development Commission Acts, specifically addressing the allocation of Managing Director and Chairmanship positions.
Additionally, the Senate passed the South-South Development Commission Bill for second reading, further advancing efforts to establish the commission.

Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, while presenting the amendments, explained that the proposed changes to the Northwest Development Commission Act, 2024, aim to ensure fair geopolitical representation within the commission’s Governing Board. One key amendment is to prevent the appointment of both the Chairman and Managing Director from the same state in the zone, while also mandating Senate confirmation of these appointments, as required by the Nigerian Constitution.

“To uphold fairness and align with the federal character principle, it is necessary that the commission’s membership reflects other geopolitical zones, in line with the Acts governing federal commissions,” Bamidele said.

A similar rationale was provided for the proposed amendments to the Southeast Development Commission Act.

Following the second reading, Senate President Godswill Akpabio stressed the importance of the amendments, noting that they are essential for the smooth operation of the development commissions in both regions.

Meanwhile, the Senate also approved the South-South Development Commission Bill for second reading, just months after initially rejecting it. The bill, sponsored by Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong (APC, Cross River South) and supported by Senator Seriake Dickson (PDP, Bayelsa West), received overwhelming support across party lines.

During the debate, Senator Dickson clarified that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), often misconstrued as a zonal entity, is actually a resource-based commission addressing the environmental damage caused by oil exploration across several states. He noted that the NDDC serves not just the South-South, but parts of the Southeast and Southwest as well, while the proposed South-South Development Commission would be zonal.

With strong backing from the Senate, President Akpabio referred the bill to the Senate Committee on Special Duties and requested a report within one week.

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LG poll: Protest Rocks PDP Secretariat In Rivers

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There are reports that protests erupted at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday.

Recall, local Government election has been scheduled for October 5, 2024.

According to Channels TV report, the protesters arrived in large numbers at the party’s secretariat, forced security operatives to step in to control the crowd and manage traffic congestion in the area.

Specifically, the unrest followed growing concerns over the delay in the release of the 2023 Voters’ Register by the Independent National Electoral Commission to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission.

Further recall that Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, in a ruling delivered on September 30, 2024, barred INEC from releasing the voters’ register to RSIEC due to legal challenges.

Despite the court ruling, Governor Siminalayi Fubara maintained that the election would go on as planned.

Fubara expressed confidence that the Supreme Court’s earlier ruling, which mandated that all states in the federation must have democratically elected local government executives, supports his position.

 

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Constitution Review: I’m Not Working against Yoruba’s Interest – Bamidele

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The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele has faulted claims that he is working against the interests of the Yoruba in the National Assembly.

Bamidele, also, said the claims “are baseless, false and unfounded,” noting that he had been dutifully serving the interests of Ekiti Central, Ekiti State, South-west and Nigeria by extension since his election into the National Assembly.

He made this clarification in a statement by his Directorate of Media and Public Affairs on Wednesday, thereby challenging any person with audio-visual and documentary evidence to come out and present such.

Some media platforms had falsely attributed a statement to the senate leader that “If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.”

Faulting the statement on Wednesday, Bamidele said he never made such a statement, which he said, was an attempt to pitch him against the Yoruba and other ethnic nationalities in the federation.

He added that he did not make any statement about the regional government in line with the 1960 and 1963 Constitution at the 27th-28th September 2024 Senate Retreat on the Review of the 1999 Constitution.

“The claim is far from the truth. I never spoke about the return to the regional government at any forum; neither did I make a claim that ‘If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.’

“It is a sheer case of misinformation and deliberate fake news, which do not in any way represent my worldview about federal governance structure,” Bamidele said.

Bamidele, however, warned that he would not hesitate to legally challenge any individual or establishment fabricating and circulating fake news against his person and office.

Currently, according to the senate leader, there is no proposal for the return to the regional government before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution.

He further said: “How then can I oppose the proposal that is not currently before the Constitution Review Committee? I believe this statement is politically motivated to discredit me before Nigeria as a whole.

“Already, the 10th Senate Constitution Review Committee has received 37 fresh constitution alteration bills. The Committee is also considering 16 constitution alteration bills inherited from the 9th National Assembly, making 53 alteration bills altogether.

“None of these alteration bills proposed the return to the regional federal governance structure as practised in the First Republic. Linking me to an anti-regional government is a deliberate attempt to tarnish my image. I am not working against the interest of the Yoruba. I will never do so for any reason,” he said.

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