Former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has urged Lagosians to come out enmasse on Saturday, 11 March, 2023, to vote for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu adding that the Governor deserves the support of all and sundry to complete his good work. Speaking to members of the party in Epe on Monday, 6 March, 2023, Ikuforiji said that the Governor deserves to be re-elected going by his performance in the last three and half years. He said Sanwo-Olu has proved in the last four years that he possesses the administrative capability to govern a complex…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
The Leader of the Lagos State Arewa Community (LASACOM), Architect Ahmed Kabir Abdullahi has berated the Labour Party in the state for anchoring its campaign on ethnic and religious sentiment. Architect Abdullahi disclosed this on Monday, 6 March, 2023, at Ikorodu while addressing thousands of members of the group in Ikorodu Local Government Area of the state. According to the Lagos State Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure, the Labour Party’s ethno-religious campaign has created a dangerous Biafran irredentism and religious politics which are both inimical to the development and growth of true democracy. “This has has already created tension in the…
Candidate of the Labour Party in Ibadan North Federal Constituency in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections, Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu said on Monday, 6 March, 2023, that the party decided to support the re-election bid of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State for the Saturday, 11 March, 2023 Governorship and State Assembly Elections. He said that the leadership of the party are of the view that the Governor has shown capacity to lead Oyo State to greater heights. Akin-Alamu, in a statement made public in Ibadan, said that the Governor has shown vision and the desire to engineer…
By Adetutu Audu Few months ago, Henry Nwosu, a famous, former Nigerian football hero and legend, an Olympian, and distinguished Member of the Order of the Niger, MON, was at the mercy of death. However, God sent an Angel to rescue him and return him back to the world. The Angel was none other than the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwoolu. The Governor rose to his aid and brought him to Lagos from Asaba for medical care. For the uninitiated, Henry Nwosu was one of Nigeria’s greatest footballers. He came into the national team as a school boy while still…
By Teju Ajayi At the risk of sounding a tad over-confident, it is safe to say that there is no better, more qualified, and more experienced pair in the Lagos State governorship election holding Saturday, 11 March, than Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat. The facts are plain for all to see. Aside the fact that none of the other contestants can come close to even lacing the shoes of Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat in terms of educational and professional accomplishments, private and public service experience, and leadership and administrative skills, their antecedents recorded in the last three…
By Samuel Olatunji I am shocked when people say ‘what has Babajide Sanwo-Olu done’? I can recall several landmark achievements of Governor Sanwo-Olu within the blink of an eye. The Lagos State Polytechnic and Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education were upgraded to universities to solve the age-old dichotomy between Universities and Polytechnics. While universities all over Nigeria were on strike for eight months, no Lagos state-owned institution joined them for an hour, talk less of one day. Governor Sanwo-Olu has vowed that no public institution in Lagos will go on strike under his watch. The Governor has built over 1,000…
The Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, has pledged to support the Commission’s efforts to develop the capacity of women in the Niger Delta region. Onochie spoke in her office at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, when she received members of the Chairman’s team who won the MD’s Cup for female teams during the 5-day football tournament organized by the Commission in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The Chairman commended the team for participating in the tournament, stating: “It’s not about winning but about participating. The victory is for the whole Board members. “It is time…
Ahead of Saturday, 11 March, 2023, gubernatorial poll, Igbo leaders in Lagos State under the umbrella of Concerned Ndigbo Lagos on Monday, 6 March, 2023, appealed to all residents of the state to consider the experience and scorecard of each candidate vying to be governor before deciding on who to elect. The group disclosed that the credentials of all the governorship candidates have been reviewed but no one has what it takes to be governor of Lagos State, except the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent governor of the state, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Concerned Ndigbo Lagos, therefore, appealed…
By Wole Olujobi I never knew that infidelity in brotherhood and sisterhood in sectarian faith also existed in the christendom until the February 25, 2023 presidential election when people of the same Christian faith, in an act of betrayal, played the Iscariot by thrusting forth their malicious thumbs to damn one of their own in a contest that such a faith fraternity is most needed to create conditions that would allow one of their leaders to serve humanity, which, I suppose, is the cornerstone of the Christian faith as espoused by Jesus Christ. But by sheer Nigerianess in the church…
When the defeated Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar told the whole world last week that he would seek redress in court over the outcome of the Saturday, 25 February, 2023, Presidential election, little did we know that he did not plan to be guided by his own promise. Going by his political antecedents, it was rather not surprising that Atiku, days later, led a band of protesters, nay jesters in Abuja, to the Headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC). What was on display today by Alhaji Atiku and his motley crowd was a new low from the…