A fair, credible election has been held and has been won. The honor of that victory and the steep responsibility it entails has fallen on me. I say this not to gloat or boast because there is no room for such behavior. I merely state the facts as they are. I realize many good and well-meaning Nigerians voted for other candidates. They are naturally disappointed that their favored candidate did not win. Other candidates have voiced their dissatisfaction, stating they will go to court to contest the election. This is inherent to the democratic process. We defend their right to…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
By Funke Cole Just as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the famous French playwright better known by his stage name, Molière, noted: “It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.” As the proactive governor that he is, Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu knows that feeding is a crucial item in the bouquet of services to the teeming electorates. It’s an essential democratic dividend. That explains why he did not hesitate to create a stable and functional template for food security, especially against the backdrop of the unprecedented influx of diverse ethnic groups making the state their abode, oblivious of consequential…
By Remi Adelowo Like all other sectors in the socio-economic life of Lagosians, the health component has been receiving the required massive push from the Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration. And the results have been phenomenal. Right from his first day in office, Governor Sanwo-Olu was conscious of consolidating on the achievements of his predecessors and sustaining the reputation of the state as a Centre of Excellence. The governor’s innate capacity to take the Lagos’ health sector to a new level built up progressively and hit a crescendo during the Covid-19 crisis, which reverberated across the world. More than anything else, his…
Scores of Anti-corruption Organisations and constitutional lawyers in Nigeria, on Thursday, 16 March, 2023, submitted a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, protesting what they described as brazen disobedience of court orders by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa; alleged reckless politicisation of the Commission under his watch and his continued stay in office, in spite of a court order committing him to prison for contempt. In a press statement signed by Spokesperson for the over 130 CSOs, including more than 20 Constitutional lawyers, Olufemi Lawson, the activists disclosed that they had also submitted a copy…
By Jide Olaniran On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at a historic UN Summit – came into force. One of the goals – the No 4 – is “to ensure inclusive and equitable quality of education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. This signposts the importance of education to the development of any society as it is evident in the gulf between developed and underdeveloped societies. When Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu campaigned for the exalted office in 2018, he unveiled…
By Uche Nnadozie As 2023 gets off on a smooth sail, the reality of the Blue and Red railway lines have begun to hit home. Everywhere you turn along the two rail corridors, it is construction and more construction. If it is not overpasses, it is massive train stations. The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), created by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, during his tenure as governor (1999-2007), conceptualised and is supervising the 37-kilometre and 27-kilometre red and blue lines. Residents are so eager to see the first train move our people…
Following several calls from well-meaning people on what action our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), is taking against the outgoing Senator for Ogun Central Senatorial District, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on his open disloyalty and anti-party activities, the APC has decided that “Senator Amosun is better ignored as he is going into political oblivion and perdition”. This was contained in a press statement issued on Thursday, 16 March, 2023 in Abeokuta and signed by the Ogun state APC Publicity Secretary, Tunde Oladunjoye. The statement reads in part, “We do not wish to join any issue with the man famous for…
The attention of the Gboyega Nasir Isiaka Media Office has been drawn to a politically induced publication in the early hours of Thursday, March 16, 2023, alleging that our Principal, a foremost Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Rep-elect for Yewa North/Imeko Afon Federal Constituency, has purportedly directed his followers statewide to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the forthcoming governorship election. In very clear terms, we wish to inform the public that this story is completely malicious and a fabricated tale planted to cause confusion within the ruling party. We wish…
By Akeem Lasisi The empires of the future are empires of the mind – Winston Churchill On the 21 December 2022, history was made as the sixth civilian governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu inaugurated the much anticipated first phase of the 27km Lagos Blue Line rail. This milestone project with a history that dates to the aborted Third Republic confirms the nexus between vision and continuity. Like history that connects the past with the present, let’s go down memory lane to see how the mass transit project moved from conception to actualisation. In the first year in office…
Kogi Polytechnic Sack Lecturers Over Sexual Harassment, Falsification Of Certificates, Other Offences By Abimbola Ogunnaike Four lecturers have been sacked by the Management of Kogi State Polytechnic has over alleged gross misconduct bordering on sexual harassment and victimization of female students, abscondment from duties, insubordination, falsification of records, disobedience to lawful order and diversion of TETFUND training grant, among others. The Head of the Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the Institution, Uredo Omale confirmed the sack of the lecturers in a statement issued on Thursday, 16 March, 2023. Omale said this forms part of the decisions of the Polytechnic…