The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has re-arrested the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde, on Thursday, 26 January, 2023, in Abuja. Prof. Ojerinde’s re-arrest followed a warrant issued by the Federal High Court, Abuja. He is expected to face a team of investigators over new evidence uncovered in relation to his ongoing trial for diversion of funds while he was a public officer. ICPC operatives uncovered two accounts opened in the names of Trillium Learning Centre Ltd and Sapati International Schools Ltd into which funds were diverted using…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Cornellius Oyefolu Ojelabi, has urged market men and women in the state to ensure that they collect their PVCs so that they can vote massively for all the candidates of the party, particularly its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and Governorship Candidate in the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the coming general elections. Pastor Ojelabi stated this on Thursday, 26 January, 2023 in Ikeja during the voters’ sensitisation exercise organised by the Directorate of Mobilization of the Lagos APC Campaign Council. Pastor Ojelabi stated that there…
The Federal Government has revealed that the coming general elections will be conducted under a peaceful and secure atmosphere. This assurance was given by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday, 26 January, 2023, at a State House Press Briefing Series, highlighting the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari in the Ministry. According to the Minister, “peace and security are necessary conditions for election. All the security agencies in the country, including the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), are therefore on top of their game. They will leave no stone unturned to provide adequate security for the…
Nigerians should no longer be in doubt about those working in cahoots with fifth columnists in the system to inflict avoidable pains on our hapless people for political end. No sooner Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu empathised with the Nigerian people facing the dual crises of fuel and new Naira notes scarcity, than the opposition PDP and the Atiku camp issued a knee-jerk response, derailing from the issues, distorting Asiwaju’s statement and trying, in vain, to create a wedge between our presidential candidate and President Muhammadu Buhari. When the guilty are afraid of being uncovered, they try to push back with…
Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of sabotaging fuel supply in the country to blackmail the Federal Government for illicit political advantage. Speaking in Markurdi, Benue State capital, to a crowd of party supporters that graced the APC presidential campaign rally, Asiwaju Tinubu said that while in power, PDP administration gave fuel retail licenses to their supporters and sympathisers who are now hoarding fuel to create long queues across the country and making Nigerians suffer, adding that the party of his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar, is a Poverty…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District, Dr Idiat Adebule on Thursday, 26 January, 2023, urged women and youths to vote en masse for all APC candidates in the forthcoming election. She spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting with non-indigenes, artisans, traders and youths in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government and Ifelodun Local Council Development Area. She promised to take the developmental programmes up from where the outgoing Senator representing the district, Solomon Olamilekan, stops. According to her, more empowerment programmes would be introduced for the women to make them self-sustained. She solicited their support for women politicians to…
By Ali Precious Lydia Not all parents are ready to be a parent. In Nigeria, according to the National Population Commission, 23 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 years have started childbearing. Based on studies, about 400,000 unplanned births occur annually in Nigeria and half of these births are to teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years. (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996). Adolescent childbearing is more common in developing countries where about one in every six births is to women under twenty. Young girls in this situation have a high tendency of leaving their babies with…
By Olawale Osifeso The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has again received another boost to his campaign train. Northern Muslim clerics under the aegis of Al-Amaanah Global Islamic Foundation rose from a meeting on Tuesday, 24 January, 2023, and announced that it was giving its support and backing to the former Governor of Lagos in the upcoming elections. The body said its decision was based on the record of the APC Candidate while in office between 1999 to 2007 as Governor of Lagos State. It said the transformative prowess…
By Olawale Osifeso Kannywood Actor, Zaharadden Sani popularly known as Sarkin Yakin Atiku Abubakar,who before now, was a staunch supporter of Atiku Abubakar, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is a move widely seen as a plus for the APC in the northern part of the country, especially on the entertainment front, considering the wide acceptance of Zaharadden Sani in the Kannywood industry. His sobriquet “Sarkin Yakin Atiku Abubakar means Atiku Abubakar’s chief campaigner in the Kannywood Industry. Guess he would now be called “Sarkin…