The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has congratulated President Bola Tinubu for emerging as the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the 63rd Ordinary Session that took place on Sunday, 9 July, 2023. in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Sanwo-Olu, in a statement issued on Monday, 10 July, 2023 and signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, described the development as a significant affirmation of Nigeria’s leadership in the West African sub-region and the African continent. He added that the confidence reposed in President Tinubu by his…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed sadness over the auto accident that claimed the lives of no fewer than 14 persons at Agemowo axis, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos on Sunday, 9 July, 2023. Governor Sanwo-Olu in a condolence message signed and issued on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, sympathised with the immediate families of the victims of the accident. A commercial bus (Mazda) with registration number MUS 411 XU carrying 19 passengers and coming from Lagos, collided with a truck registration with registration number AKM 926YQ, coming from Badagry on Sunday, 9…
Leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Monday, 10 July, 2023, endorsed the current Executive Chairman of Ido Local Government, Hon. Sheriff Aderemi Adeojo for second term in office. This followed a meeting, which held in the council, with Pa Mallam Yussuf and some other PDP leaders in attendance. They described Hon. Sheriff Adeojo as grassroots politician that fits the job, saying he has leadership qualities that stand him out. “Sheriff Adeojo has shown good leadership in every nook and crannies of our council and we are feeling the positive impacts…
From 18 – 28 August 2023, The Africa Centre in London will present FUJI: A Opera, a multi-dimensional exhibition which tells the story of the fuji music genre – one of the most important in Nigeria’s history and without whom the Afrobeats artists who top the charts today (such as Burna Boy and Wizkid) would not be selling out stadiums across the world. In collaboration with FUMAN, FUJI: A Opera will include never seen before archive footage and artefacts, explore the belligerent past of fuji music, highlight its founding footprints, and celebrate its rich subculture from the early 1960s to…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Achigili Raph Ogili and two others, Sunday Okpara and Rasaq Abdulrahaman Dabiri, over allegations of conspiracy and falsification of documents. The trio were arraigned before Honourable Justice J. E. Obanor of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court 29 sitting in Jabi, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. In a Charge No: CR/321/2023 filed before the trial court, the Commission alleged that the 1st accused person (Ogili) used a forged University of Abuja statement of result with Registration Number 2720700176 to support…
There was seeming drama on Friday, 7 July, 2023, during proceedings at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, as two of the three witnesses called by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opted for cutlasses for oath-taking, abandoning the Bible or Quoran. The two witnesses were Adeeso Abiodun and Akinyemi Oluwanifemi. Meanwhile, the third witness turned out to be the biological son of the PDP senatorial women leader in the State. Also, the three witnesses, to the dismay of many at the Tribunal gave the same statements, word for word, as they all came from Sagamu, in the East…
A former Nigerian Senator in the Ninth National Assembly, Senator Muhammed Adamu Bulkachuwa has dragged the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before the Federal High Court Abuja to stop his investigation and arrest over comments he made during the valedictory session of the ninth Senate. Senator Bulkachuwa, who represented Bauchi North Senatorial District, had publicly stated during the ninth Senate’s valedictory session that he influenced his wife, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa’s decisions while she was serving as the President of the Court of Appeal. Justice Bulkachuwa was the President of the Court of Appeal between 2014 and…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Supreme Court has upturned the conviction of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi and his sentencing to seven years imprisonment for offences of fraud and money laundering. The Apex Court ordered the immediate release of Nwaoboshi, who represented Delta North Senatorial District in the ninth Senate, from Ikoyi prisons in Lagos, where he is currently being held. Delivering Judgement, the court also freed the two companies – Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd – tried with him on a two-count charge brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a split decision of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kano State Government has officially withdrawn its lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking to stop it from probing the immediate past Governor of the State, Abdullahi Ganduje, the gazellenews.com reports. The government’s decision was revealed in a letter addressed to Sanusi Musa, SAN, and submitted before the Federal High Court in Kano. The letter, dated July 4, 2023, was signed by Haruna Isa Dederi, Kano Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice. In the letter, the Attorney General stated, “We write to notify you that Kano State Government and the Attorney General of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has signed an Executive Order reducing the state government ministries from 28 to 16, just as he also paid theinherited backlog of workers’ salaries, including that of June. The Governor’s spokesman, Sulaiman Bala Idris, who confirmed the development in a statement, said the reduction of the ministries is to cut wastage in government and eliminate duplication of functions. According Idris, the Governor signed the Executive Order on Thursday, 6 July, 2023, at the Council Chambers of the Government House, Gusau, the state capital. The newly approved ministries include: Agriculture; Budget and Planning;…