The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, on Tuesday, 29 August, 2023, announced the suspension of its Presidential Candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, over alleged anti-party activities. BoT also suspended the National Working Committee, NWC, members of the party, just as it also appointed new national officers headed by Dr Agbo Major as acting National Chairman and Mr Ogini Olaposi as the Acting National Secretary. Their suspension, according to BoT, is for six months. BoT Secretary, Babayo Muhammed Abdulahi, stated this to newsmen at the end of the party’s meeting…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has described as “uninformed muckracking” a call by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its defeated candidate in the last governorship election over unsubstantiated allegations on LG fund. In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday, 29 August, 2023, and signed, APC said, “a sinking man in the sea who will jump at anything, including a straw, the PDP Ogun State has jumped into the fray of the current discussion on Local Government allocation in the state. The statement reads: “One would have expected a serious party to make investigation and access…
The Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima has charged members of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy, Tax Reforms to develop a robust roadmap that will transform the economy of the country. The Vice President gave the charge Monday, 28 August, 2023 when he received in audience members of the Committee led by the Chairman, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to Vice President Shettima, “the task before you is enormous, I believe you have the best brains to come up with a robust roadmap that will reposition our economy addressing some of the fundamental issues underlying our…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has summoned the Chairmen of the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Area (LCDAs) in the state to a meeting, thegazellenews.com can exclusively revealed. Investigations by this medium revealed further that the meeting is fixed for Tuesday, 29 August, 2023 at the Lateef Jakande Auditorium in the Assembly complex from 10am. According to some of the council Chairmen who spoke with thegazellenews.com, they were not informed of the agenda for the meeting. This medium learnt further that the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt Honourable Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa will address the council Chairmen…
As part of a broader effort to reduce the cost of governance in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has directed the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to freeze the processing of visas for all government officials seeking to travel to New York for the United Nations General Assembly without proof of direct participation in UNGA’s official schedule of activities. To prevent any sharp practice in this regard, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria is accordingly guided on official visa processing while Nigeria’s Permanent Mission in New York is further directed to prevent and stop the accreditation of any government official who is…
Lagos State Government has directed all schools below the tertiary level to resume on Monday, 4th September, 2023, in compliance with the Y2023/2024 Harmonised Academic School Calendar as approved by the Lagos State Ministry of Basic Education. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni made this known during a press interview in her Alausa office on Monday. She urged all schools to ensure strict compliance with the resumption date for delivery of quality and sustainable education in Lagos State. She also enjoined Proprietors and School Administrators to ensure strict compliance with the Lagos State Safeguarding and Child…
A Director of Public Affairs, Lagos State Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr. Olanrewaju Bajulaiye has been elected as a member of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) Governing Council during the regulatory body’s 2023 Council election. The former Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos Information Chapter, emerged as a Council member of the body at the election during the NIPR’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Abuja, with the theme; “Leadership, Public Relations & Value Creation.” The event provided members of the body the opportunity to elect members that will steer the affairs of the body for the…
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the mob attack on operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), in Osogbo, Osun State. An eyewitness account told our correspondent that there’s distortion in the narrative that’s being bandied in the media. According to the source who craves anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue, two DSS operatives were actually on surveillance in the Tinumola area of Osogbo, where the incident happened. According to him, one of the operatives, Abiodun Tifase and his colleagues, were accosted to pay electricity bills. He said; “As they returned from the office in their…
Joel Ofori Bonsu, popularly known as Olivetheboy has said that the inspiration behind his popular banger, ‘Goodsin’ is due to his crush on Nigerian Afrobeats, Ayra Starr. In an interview with Giovanni Caleb on Showbiz 360, the Ghanaian Afrobeats singer and songwriter indicated that he had some kind of fondness for the female artiste in question and that led him to write the song. “I say this a lot. I was crushing on somebody. You know Ayra Starr right? She is the one so I wrote the song for her,” he told his host during the interview in which he…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on August 24, 2023 arrested five people for allegedly using forged letterheads of the Offices of the National Security Adviser and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to fraudulently obtain money from unsuspecting members of the public. The suspects are: Mr. Yakubu Hamza Mohammed, Mr. Bashir Ladan, Mr. Adamu Ibrahim, Mr. Steven Anom and Mr. Mohammed Bello. They allegedly conspired and used the letterheads to produce fake employment and recommendation letters for a fee, to unsuspecting members of the public. The suspects will be charged to court as soon…