Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, has cautioned members of opposition parties against politicising Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigations to blackmail President Bola Tinubu. Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, said this while speaking with newsmen on Sunday, 17 August, 2025 in Osogbo. He said that the investigations being carried out by the anti-graft agency on some former opposition party governors and political appointees, based on petitions against them, were purely a constitutional matter and in line with international best practices. Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC),…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
Continuous Voters Registration Exercise As part of efforts to support the rulling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Lagos businessman and philanthropist, Mr. Samuel Mawuyon Ajose has hit the ground running by donating logistics materials to the 57 Chairmen Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas of the APC in Lagos State to ease the exercise. The well attended and colourful presentation was made on Friday, 15 August, 2025, shortly after a brief meeting with the 57 chairmen at the prestigious Cathedral Church Primary School on Broad…
It was an unusual post on Facebook. It is not often that Nigerians have charitable or commendable things to say about occupants of public office. They are seen more as masters rather than servant leaders; more preoccupied with the pomp and grandeur of office as wealth acquisition rather than the opportunity it provides to add value to society and promote national development. There is a linkage between deficient leadership at all levels and an otherwise richly endowed country’s continued inexplicable romance with dehumanising underdevelopment. But on the 5th of July, 2025, Engineer S. O. Yusuf, from Kaduna, had a post…
The Head of the IGP Monitoring Team, Abuja, Commissioner of Police, Akin Fakorede, has made a controversial claim on the ownership of the disputed River Park Estate in Abuja — a step which undermines the ministerial committee recently inaugurated by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, on the matter. Fakorede’s ownership claim contained in a letter he wrote to some FCT agencies and obtained by SaharaReporters on Friday, 15 August, 2025, also flouted the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, who had directed a further probe into the matter. SaharaReporters learnt that the IGP Egbetokun in July ordered a…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has emphasised the importance of functional training workshops for Directors of the Commission to strengthen their leadership capacity and enhance institutional performance. Speaking at a two-day training Workshop for NDDC Directors in Port Harcourt, the Director of Administration and Human Resources, Mr. Patrick Ekade, stated that the training aligns with the vision of the Managing Director and the Board of the Commission, who have consistently championed human capital development within the organisation. He said the training was part of ongoing efforts by the Commission to reposition its directorates for effective service delivery, noting: “The…
By Bayo Onanuga We returned to Abuja on Saturday after a three-day working tour of Enugu and Ebonyi States as members of the National Communication Team, led by Alhaji Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation. During the visit, we engaged with the governors and key officials of both states, held town hall meetings with citizens, and delivered messages from President Bola Tinubu, highlighting his achievements and commitment to lifting Nigerians out of poverty, particularly through the Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme. We also inspected a range of federal and state projects, both completed and ongoing. Our first…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated all the winners of Saturday, 16 August, 2025, by-elections in 16 constituencies across 12 states. The President also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the hitch-free elections, mostly devoid of violence. Following the results declared by INEC, the All Progressives Congress (APC) won in 12 constituencies, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) won in two, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in one, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) won in one. President Tinubu congratulated the new APC National Chairman, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, for the emphatic first victory recorded under his…
By Akinlade Taofik There was an upbeat in the social media in the second week of August 2025 on a particular video made evidently by a young lad of Igbo extraction mocking the Yoruba and Lagosians for allegedly selling a large chunk of land to some prominent Igbo businessmen in the ongoing land development of the state. That video was followed by a second video made by a Lagosian who condemned the alleged transaction sale and dragged out the name of the present Oloto of Otto as the main character responsible for the act. He went on suggest that Yoruba…
By Musbau Rasak The expansive Ilupeju Central Mosque on the popular Ilupeju Road in Ieju area of Lagos was filled to the brim. There was no space for any late comer in the 2-storey building for both male and female sections of the mosque with many having no option than to pray outside the mosque. It was a special Jumat service to celebrate the birthday of Honourable Rasaq Olusola Ajala, the immediate past elected Chairman of Odiolowo-Ojuwoye Local Council Development Area. The gathering, the huge crowd of worshippers and the testimony by both the presiding Imams, Alfas and residents pointed…
By Farooq Kperogi I just learned that after months of painstaking intelligence work, authorities have apprehended Mahmud Muhammad Usman, the self-styled “Emir of Ansaru,” and his deputy Mahmud al-Nigeri, known as Malam Mahmuda, the man behind the Mahmuda terrorist group that has been tormenting my people in Borgu, a geo-cultural space that stretches from Kebbi through Niger and northern Kwara and spills into northern and central Benin Republic. Their arrest has effectively dismantled the command structure of the al-Qaeda-linked Ansaru group, notorious for audacious kidnappings, attacks, and terror campaigns across northern Nigeria. This is personal to me on so many…