All roads lead to Beehive Hall, Dosunmu Street off Hakeem Balogun Street, CBD, Ikeja on Saturday, 29 July, 2023, as Deaconess Omowunmi Grace Otitoju, wife of popular journalist, Babajide Kolade-Otitoju celebrates her 50th birthday, reports thegazellenews.com. BOK as Babajide is popularly called is set to honour his wife with the birthday party to celebrate her golden age. The party takes place on Saturday, 29 July, 2023, and Deaconess Grace Omowunmi, who friends and associates of the Otitojus called Mama Beckham, is set to dazzle participants with graceful dancing steps. The colours for the day is Royal Blue and Gold and boss…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Barcelona striker, Asisat Oshoala mad history on Thursday, 27 July, 2023 as the Super Falcons of Nigeria defeated co-hosts of the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup, Australia 3-2, reports thegazellenews.com. Oshoala scored the third goal which turned out to be the winning goal, thus, becoming the first Nigerian footballer, male or female, to score in three different World Cup tournaments. The Nigerian team came from behind to win having conceded the first goal to the Australians in 45th minute of the match. Uchenna Kanu equalized in the fifth minute of first half added time. Osinachi Ohale scored the…
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the restructuring of key Ministries, Department and Agencies of government in line with the objective to ensure improved performance and effective service delivery. This was contained in a statewide circular dated 25th July, 2023 signed by the state Head of Service, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola. According to the circular seen by the Lagos Monitoring Team , the Ministry of Education has been divided into two. These are the Ministry of Tertiary Education and the Ministry of Basic Education. The former Office of Special Adviser on Education is now to be known and addressed…
Laolu Akande, a former spokesperson for ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, strongly suggested on Wednesday, 26 July, 2023 that the northern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) might have “tremendous influence” on President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list. Akande, who spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, 26 July, 2023, asserted that the governors fought for a balance in the party’s zoning arrangement during the 2022 presidential primaries. “The Governors of the APC, especially the Northern governors were able to stand for the right thing when we were almost on the verge of tweaking the zoning balance,”…
Chairmen of the North West States’ chapters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have endorsed former Governor of Kano, Abdullahi Ganduje for the National Chairmanship seat of the party, reports thegazellenews.com. Rising from their meeting which took place on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023, the Chairmen confirmed the decision to back Ganduje through a communique released at the end of the meeting. The Chairmen acknowledged the contributions of the former Kano Governor to the victory of the party during the last general elections which culminated in the party retaining the Presidency, its majority Governorship seats and the majority seats at…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has met the 60 days deadline for the submission of his list of Ministers to the Senate for screening. According to available information, the ministerial-nominees list arrived in the Senate in the early hours of Thursday, 27 July, 2023. The list was said to have been delivered to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (Senate), Abdullaahi Gumel. Akpabio is expected to unveil the ministerial-nominees during plenary on Thursday, 27 July, 2023. It will be recalled that the Leader of the Senate, Senator Michael Opeyemi…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Bola Tinubu, has described as unacceptable, the unfolding development in Niger Republic “All players in the Republic of Niger, the leadership of the ECOWAS Region and all lovers of democracy around the world will not tolerate any situation that incapacitates the democratically-elected government of the country,” Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, said in a swift reaction to the detainment of Niger President Mohamed Bazoum by members of the Presidential Guard, who have been given an “ultimatum” by the army. Earlier on Wednesday,26 July, 2023 disgruntled members…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023, has revealed that at least 1,618 civil servants with fake employment letters were uncovered by the government. Esan also noted that the government was working towards an upward review of the Duty Tour Allowances of civil servants.Speaking with selected journalists in Abuja ahead of the 2023 Civil Servants Week, she noted that a committee was working towards salary harmonization in the civil service. “The Presidential Committee on Salary Harmonization is working to review salaries to reduce the disparity. Earlier, 40 per cent…
Nigerian and South African anti narcotics agencies have met to forge stronger operational ties that will enhance the war on drug syndicates operating between the two countries. A signed press statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of the Nigerian anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi read that as part of efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking between Nigeria and South Africa, senior officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have held a two-day meeting with their South African counterparts in the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation popularly known as HAWKS to forge stronger operational ties that will herald tough times…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has put plans in place for a nationwide strike scheduled to begin August 2,2023, The PUNCH reports. Though a court order which barred the congress from going on strike in June still stands, our correspondent learnt that the congress noted that it could not fold its arms while Nigerians continued to suffer the effects of subsidy removal which has led to untold hardship. The medium reports that the Tinubu administration dragged the organised labour to court earlier in June to prevent a nationwide strike following the initial removal of the subsidy on…