Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu is set to hand over more projects to Lagosians, with the opening of a network of five roads in Ikeja Government Reservation Area on Thursday, 9 January, 2025. Also to be commissioned are six major roads (4.7kms) across three Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas in Akoka, Bariga and Gbagada.The projects will be inaugurated on Thursday 9, and Friday, 10 January 2025.The commissioning further attests to Governor Sanwo-Olu’s resolve to sustain the delivery of modern and enduring infrastructure that will make transportation across Lagos easy and smooth.The 4.7-kilometre arterial roads to be commissioned on…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has cemented its position as a leading customer-centric institution, emerging among the Top 5 banks, in various survey’s segmentation, in the recently released KPMG 2024 West Africa Banking Industry Customer Experience Survey. The survey showed that the bank earned an impressive second place in SME Banking as well as a third place in Retail Banking, marking a significant leap in rankings that highlights UBA’s transformation under its Customer First (C1st) philosophy. Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has cemented its position as a leading customer-centric institution, emerging among…
In a monumental stride toward enhancing healthcare delivery in Lagos State, the Federal Government, through the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has inaugurated a modern 20-bed Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) in Oreta Community, Igbogbo-Baiyeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu, Lagos State. The state-of-the-art facility, commissioned by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, is fully equipped with essential amenities, including a labour room, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), maternity and behavioural health rooms, patient wards, and a consultant’s office. These provisions aim to address the critical…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has appealed to stakeholders in the Niger Delta region to unite, shun politics and support the efforts of the Commission to develop Niger Delta communities. Speaking at a Stakeholders Interactive Forum on the Borikiri-Okrika Bridge Project in Rivers State, the NDDC Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Alabo Boma Iyaye, urged Niger Deltans to work in harmony to drive the process of development for the well-being of the people of the region. He said that the project represented a significant initiative that would drive progress in Rivers State, noting that Borokiri and Okrika serve…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), on his 60th birthday which comes up on Wednesday 8 January, 2025. The President commended Kyari’s diligence in transforming the NNPCL into a profitable organisation. The President recalled that despite cynicism in some quarters, the NNPCL under Kyari’s leadership has recorded notable achievements, including the resuscitation of two refineries, an increase in domestic natural gas consumption and a boost in oil production to 1.8 million barrels per day. The President applauded Kyari’s dedication to service and the…
PROTOCOL It is always good when a friend and brother can visit the home of a close neighbour to celebrate his success and progress with him. We celebrate African Democracy today as Ghana and her beloved people mark the transition from one democratic government to another. This moment does more than symbolise another milestone in the evolution of Ghanaian democratic society. It lays to bed the question of whether Ghana and Africa are capable of democratic and productive endeavours. Ghana has answered that question resoundingly. It is time that Africa’s critics stop forgetting the strides your nation, Nigeria and others…
By Femi Ogbonnikan This is another assessment season for governments, corporate bodies, and individuals. For the administration of the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, the 2024 fiscal year was a year of great accomplishments in very many respects. From road infrastructure development projects to healthcare delivery service, human capital development, domestic and foreign investment inflow, security, Easy-of-Doing-business index, and economic growth, etcetera, achievements within the year have been quite tremendous. All these did not happen by accident. It’s the outcome of diligent planning, commitment, policy consistency, and prudent management of resources. To begin with infrastructure development, there is a…
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has commiserated with the Governor of Jigawa State, Mallam Umar Namadi over the death of his mother, Hajiya Maryam Namadi and son, Abdulwahab Namadi. The Senate President in a condolence message signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh said he is saddened by the successive deaths in the family of the Governor. According to Senator Akpabio, “I was deeply saddened to hear about the loss of your beloved mother, Hajiya Maryam Namadi and your eldest son, Abdulwahab Namadi in a car crash. “My heart goes out to…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commiserated with his Jigawa State counterpart, Umar Namadi, on the death of his eldest son, Abdulwahab, who died in a car accident on Thursday, 26 December, 2024. Sanwo-Olu also extended his condolences to the Namadi family and the entire people of Jigawa State over the demise of the Governor’s mother, Hajiya Maryam Namadi, who died from an illness on Wednesday, 25 December, 2024. Governor Sanwo-Olu, in a statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, expressed his heartfelt sympathy over the deaths of Maryam and Abdulwahab…
By Tunde Rahman Kemi Badenoch’s ill-advised denigration of Nigeria has refused to go away. Her belittlement of the country of her ancestry is still generating passionate public discourse within and outside the media space, and it appears the matter will not go away anytime soon. Exasperated by Kemi Badenoch’s misguided attacks on Nigeria, Vice President Kashim Shettima recently counseled her to drop the Kemi in her name and bleach her ebony skin to white to further appease her Tory party and British establishment. And perturbed and seemingly lost by all that, my daughter, Kemi Mushinat, who recently graduated in Communication…