All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has re-echoed his message of economic prosperity to Nigerians at his campaign rallies in Anambra and Cross Rivers States. Speaking in Awka and Calabar, capital of Anambra and Cross Rivers States on Tuesday, 31 January, 2023, Tinubu said his focus as president would be to create jobs for the teeming unemployed people in Nigeria and take prosperity to every parts of the country. At Calabar Township Stadium, the APC Presidential candidate thanked the people for their rousing welcome and particularly praise the party leaders and Governor Ben Ayade for uniting the…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
By O’seun Ogunseitan Nigeria needs imports of more than $50 billion worth of paper, cards, and chipboards every year. It is worth some N35 trillion in local currency because forex for more than 60% of Nigeria’s paper needs are sourced from the black market. Local production of paper alone in Nigeria, will provide sustainable employment for up to 1.2 million Nigerians every year. Less than 2,000 acres of forest with the giant Bamboo species pictured below, will provide enough paper pulp to meet the newsprint need of Nigeria’s largest-circulating newspaper in a year, without needing any additional paper imports. Southern…
Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today, Tuesday, 31 January, 2023, rescued another four fatal accident victims inside mini commercial buses (tricycles) around Ikotun area of Lagos. The accident which occurred around 12:30 pm today, Tuesday, 31 January, 2023, involved a fully loaded container truck (JJJ 125) and four mini commercial buses (tricycles) with registration nos (LSD 83 QM), (AKD 690 QK) & (AKL 87 QF) The driver of one of the mini commercial bus (tricycle) with one passenger died instantly. The four rescued accident victims by LASTMA personnel were two pregnant women and two children. LASTMA…
Committee of Friends of Hon Justice Alaba Omolaye Ajileye, PhD, will on Friday, 17 February, 2023, make a public presentation of a compendium of selected judgments and rulings written and delivered by His Lordship over the years. A statement signed by Prof. Yemi Akinseye-George SAN, and Mela Nunghe, SAN said the compendium is considered by the Committee, as one of the ways to honour the erudite judge, who is set to retire from the judiciary on Wednesday, 15 February, 2023 when he attains the age of 65 years. The statement describes Hon. Justice A. O. Ajileye, a judge of the…
We were not suprised to read of the imaginary attack on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria being peddled by the Peoples Democratic Party since the party has nothing tangible to tell Nigerians from its crumbling Presidential Campaign. This invented attack on President Muhammadu Buhari must have happened only in the fertile imagination of PDP National Publicity Secretary, one Debo Ologunagba.. Nigerians should disregard this fake news from a party that has lost touch with reality and suffering the agony of violating its own rules on power rotation. Just as it has been masterminding fake news against the…
It gives me great pleasure to be here and be part of this pathbreaking event, the commissioning of the Alimosho Passport Front Desk Office. Earlier today, I commissioned the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Command Headquarters for Lagos at Ikoyi. This is one of the innumerable developmental strides the Ministry of Interior has undertaken in recent time, under the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration. The Ministry has ensured equitable distribution of resources and development programmes among the four paramilitary agencies within its purview. As we speak, massive infrastructural renewal is on-going at the NIS, Federal Fire Service (FFS), Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS)…
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has urged residents of Alimoso to show appreciation to the Federal Government by casting their votes for all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming general elections. Princess Orelope-Adefulire spoke in Akowonjo on Monday, 30 January, 2023, at the commissioning of the Alimoso Passport Front Desk Office. While acknowledging the good gesture of citing the project in Alimoso by the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Interior and the Nigerian Immigration Service championed by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf…
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has urged the people of the state to remain steadfast and vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming general elections, giving assurances the party will win the presidential polls and other elections across the country. Bello stated this, while flagging off the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential/National and state Assembly campaign in Anyingba, Kogi East, where he assured of an outstanding victory at the forthcoming polls. Thousands of supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stormed the venue of the Kogi East rally to show their support for the party. The Governor, who spoke…