Twenty nine opposition parties in Lagos State on Thursday, 9 February, 2023, endorsed All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the elections of Saturday, 25 February and Saturday, 11 March, 2023, respectively. The Convener of ‘Coalition of Political Parties in Lagos State (COPPILS), Akinola Obadia, told reporters in Lagos that Tinubu was endorsed based on his track records as former Governor of the state. He said:”Based on his achievements, we openly endorse Asiwaju Tinubu today as the best man for the job, to govern Nigeria and take it out of the woods…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
If All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must record an overwhelming victory in the February 25 presidential elections, Lagos State must play a leading role in the candidate’s electoral success at the polls, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Thursday. Sanwo-Olu said the five million votes pledged by the APC supporters in Lagos to deliver the State to Tinubu were not impossible, given the strength and structure of the campaign employed by the party in Lagos. The Governor said it was time for the party’s canvassers to embark on mass voter enlightenment in order to minimise void…
President Muhammadu Buhari has yet again drummed support for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying the candidate is his long term ally. Speaking separately at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, and at the APC campaign rally in Sokoto, the President said Asiwaju had demonstrated capacity and would do well if elected to lead the country. “He understands Nigeria very well and he is ever supportive of people wherever they may have come from in Nigeria,” the President told the Sultan. “I have gone with…
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Thursday, 9 February, 2023, urged the people of Sokoto State to vote for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the forthcoming polls. Lawan also urged the Sokoto people to cast their votes for the APC Governorship Candidate in the state, Ahmed Aliyu and other APC candidates in the 2023 polls. The Senate President made the appeal at the APC Presidential Campaign Rally which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed at the township stadium in Sokoto. Lawan expressed…
Defying the harrowing fuel and new naira notes scarcity, textile traders in the popular Idumota Market have reaffirmed their unflinching support for the anticipated victory of the Presidential Candidate and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The traders gave the reassurance when they staged a solidarity walk on Thursday, 9 February, 2023 in the popular Lagos Island market. The solidarity walk which was organized by Alhaja Kudirat Oyinlomo Danmole kicked off from beneath the pedestrian bridge into the market as leaders and traders from 10 textile divisions of the market all donning APC-branded…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, 9 February, 2023, inaugurated a Committee to review the Civil and Public Service Rules and Regulations in the state for more effective and productive service delivery. The Governor while inaugurating the Committee at the Executive Council Chamber, Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, said that most of the rules and regulations guiding the activities of the workers are no longer effective compared to the emerging environment. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted the Governor as explaining that the Civil/Public Service Rules and Regulation Volume I and…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council, for facilitating and managing the 2023 transition programme. Members of the Committee to be chaired by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha are expected to ensure a smooth transition of power to a new President coming in after the general elections. A release by Director of Information in the Office of the SGF, Willie Bassey said members of the Council will be sworn-in by the SGF on Tuesday, 14 February, 2023. The statement also enjoined members of the Council to turn up physically…
The Nigeria Police Force has described the call for the sack and imprisonment of the Inspector-General of Police by some retired police officers who claimed to have got a judgment for their reinstatement into the Force as baseless and mischievous. It would be recalled that some retired police officers went to the National Industrial Court in April 2022 to challenge their retirement. Judgment was however delivered in their favour by the court. The said judgment, which has been appealed in suit number: NICN/AB/21M/2023 filed by the Nigeria Police legal team on Wednesday, 8 February, 2023, and is currently in court awaiting a hearing…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday, February 9, 2023, stated the Commission’s resolve to improve its collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, in areas of capacity building and advocacy to check tax fraud, among issues beneficial to both institutions. He made the pledge at the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja, when the President of the Institute, Chief Adesina Adedayo, led the institute’s management team to the EFCC on a courtesy visit. Bawa urged CITN to set up a technical committee that will come up with a Memorandum of Understanding…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 filed a motion before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, asking for a stay of execution of the judgment of the Kogi State High Court in Suit No: HCL/696/2022 between Ali Bello and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and Others, delivered on 12th of December, 2022 and the consequential order made on the 6th of February, 2023. Other reliefs sought in the motion on notice, include an Order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Appellants/Applicant from attempting to execute/ enforce the judgment of the trial Court pending the…