The Federal Government has stopped the Ilubirin Foreshore Housing Project being embarked upon by Governor Babatunde Fashola. Governor Fashola disclosed this Wednesday at an event marking his 2,500 days in office at the Lagos Television Ground, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. The governor said his administration had sandfilled the area to build about 1,800 housing units under the Lagos Homes Ownership Mortgage Scheme, HOMS. Fashola said he was informed that the land was invaded last Saturday by soldiers who erected a signboard that the land belonged to the Federal Government in a bid to stop the state government from developing its housing scheme on the land.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received new members from the All Progressives Congress (APC), African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Allied People’s Movement (APM) in Ogun State. Naija News learnt that the politicians, who came out from different political parties, are reportedly over 10,000. They pledged their allegiance to PDP on Friday, August 26, 2022. Amongst the defectors were also members of the Labour Party (LP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), and Social Democratic Party (SDP).

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Desmond Akawor on Thursday, spoke on the crisis rocking the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. According to Akawor, the source of the crisis is not the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Former vice president, Atiku and Governor Wike in the past few weeks had been at loggerheads over the failure of the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign.

Misao Okawa has become the world's oldest living person after hitting her 117th birthday and living through three centuries. A great-grandmother was born in Osaka, Japan, on March 5, 1898, before the invention of cars, planes and telephones. She was recognized as the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records in 2013. Asked the secret to her long life she answered that 117 years didn't seem like such a long time and she herself does not know how she managed to live for such a long time.

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