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A LIST of 37 nominees was on Friday sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor Babatunde Fashola for screening and approval as commissioners and special advisers. Six women are among the nominees while four commissioners who served in the immediate past administration made the list, which also include the Managing Director of the Lagos State Signage and Advertising Agency (LASAA), Mr Tunji Bello. Bello was the Commissioner for the Environment between 2003 and 2007. The list also has four former special advisers who served under the Fashola administration between 2007 and May 29. The women nominees are: Mrs Adebule Oluranti, Mrs Adesina Yewande, Mrs Disu Aderinola, Oguntuase Florence, Mrs Oladunjoye Olayinka and Mrs Oworu Senakpon. Former Budget and Economic Planning Commissioner Benjamin Akabueze, his counterparts in the Health and Science & Technology Ministries, Dr Jide Idris and Dr Obafemi Hamzat, as well as Prince Adesegun Oniru, formerly of the Housing Ministry, are

Boko Haram sect stormed drinking joint in Maiduguri

It was another day of tragedy yesterday as members of the Boko Haram sect stormed a drinking joint in the Maiduguri metropolis killing no fewer than 30 people even as fears heightened in Bauchi over rumour of fresh attack. A source told Daily Sun that the members numbering about 10 had arrived at a popular drinking joint at Dala Kwamti around the Dala Alanderi area of the Borno State capital at about 6 pm in a convoy of two cars and started shooting sporadically.   Another source also claimed the men rode to the area on motorcycles from different direction, to beat the heavy security in the city. “I don’t think they came in a convoy of cars as suggested. They might have ridden on motorcycles from different directions to beat the soldiers and police at a junction close to the area. They started firing shots from different directions into the joint and there were many people there at that time because it was not dark yet,” a resident of the area told Daily Sun on telephone. It was

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