17 persons have been confirmed dead and 25 casualties are being treated for injuries from the pipeline explosion that rocked Abule-Ado area of Lagos state yesterday.

This is according to the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who gave preliminary reports in a statement.

He stated that the raging fire had displaced several residents who fled their abodes for fear of being caught up in the inferno.

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said he has nothing to do with the removal Of Muhammadu Sanusi the Second as Emir of Kano and his subsequent banishment to Nasarawa State.

Malami, in a statement by his media aide, Dr. Umar Gwandu, said all those allegedly involved have been compiled and submitted before the court to decide, adding that he cannot comment on an issue that is currently before the court.

But the deposed Emir Sanusi doesn’t seem to care who was involved or not as he says he would not be challenging his removal in court.

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC Bola Tinubu has said that the attack on National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, is based on 2023 ambitions of some party members.

TINUBU, who broke silence on the moves to oust Oshiomhole, in a statement on Sunday, stressed that those behind the move are suffering from a sickness he called “old Ambition-virus 2023”.

According to him, the primary symptom of their malady is the driving tendency to believe the events of 2023 will be decided before 2020 has run its course.

The APC national leader faulted the move, adding that it is recklessly undermining the party they claim to serve, and also, weaken the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The federal government has told Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), that it has no record of how $5 billion recovered loot of public funds stolen by former military head of State, Sani Abacha, was spent between 1999 and 2015.

The government also said it does not have the record of the exact amount of money stolen by Abacha.

The government’s response followed SERAP’s Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, sent to Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abukabar Malami and Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, requesting “Information on the exact amount of public funds stolen by Abacha, and details of spending of about $5 billion recovered loot since the return of democracy in 1999.

According to SERAP, only Malami has sent a reply to its FOI requests, in which he said the information on the exact amount of public funds stolen by Abacha and how recovered loot was spent from 1999–2015 is not held by the Ministry.
It would be recalled that SERAP’s FOI requests expressed concerns that substantial part of the estimated $5 billion returned Abacha loot since 1999 may have been diverted, re-stolen or mismanaged, and in any case remain unaccounted for.