Dear Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I want to congratulate you on this incredible step and phase of your life! I also want to congratulate Nigerians on this auspicious occasion of having you as president. As a young Nigerian of Yoruba descent, I watched our dear country slide down a spiral staircase into decadence in both moral values and National development. Our love for our country gradually diminishing into hate for many youths would rather deny the identity of being a Nigerian, than own up outside the shores of this country to carry a green passport. I, Oba Adewunmi Adeniji Odutala,…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The teaching of French language may return to many public schools in Lagos State as the government of the state has signed a letter of intent for the promotion of the language in the State. The letter was signed on Wednesday, 31 May, 2023, by the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamzat and the Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Mrs Emmanuelle Blatmann, in the presence of French Minister of State for development, francophonie and international partnerships, Dr. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, who was on a visit to Nigeria. The Minister said: “French is a language of culture, but also a language…
Access Bank has launched a French Desk, a platform to connect French and Nigerian companies and providing them with financial solutions to conduct trade and investment activities between both countries. A statement by the French Embassy on Wednesday, read that: “The French Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, Mrs Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, joined today Dr Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director and CEO of Access Corporation and Mr Roosevelt Ogbonna, Managing Director and CEO of Access Bank Plc, for the launching of the Access Bank French Desk.” This action followed the opening in Paris earlier this month of the…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested members of a syndicate involved in the illicit importation and trafficking of lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl. Fentanyl is a drug which is 100 times stronger than tramadol and capable of causing mass casualty among the youth population being targeted by the cartels. In a press statement on Tuesday, 30 May, 2023, the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi said the arrest of two members of the syndicate: Odoh Oguejiofor and Oliver Uzoma at Ogbogwu market, Onitsha Head Bridge, Onitsha South local government area of Anambra State, in well-coordinated…
The Kano Government has commended the Senior Special Assistant to the President On Sustainable Development Goals Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire over the support and various interventions of her Office to accelerate 2030 Agenda in the state. Ex-Governor Abdullahi Ganduje gave the commendation during the recent unveiling of the interventions of the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano. The Office also inaugurated a newly constructed and equipped 80-bed Mother and Child Centre in the premises to help reduce the incidence of maternal and infant mortality in the state. Ganduje who…
The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs), is being joined by the European Union and the United Nations Office in Nigeria to advocate for a specialised fund to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation in the country. This Fund would be operated as part of the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF). The Nigeria Integrated National Financing Framework was officially launched by His Excellency, Ex – President Muhammadu Buhari, on the side-lines of the 77th Session of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Nine-time African champions, Super Falcons Nigeria may face Ghana and Cameroon on the road to next year’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament in France following the draw conducted in Cairo, Egypt on afternoon of Tuesday, 30 May, 2023. After a probable meeting with Ethiopia in the second round of the campaign in October this year, the Falcons will have to confront the winners of the ties between Uganda/Rwanda and Cameroon. Once they cross the Cameroonian hurdle, the Nigerian girls will be up against the winners of the Guinea Bissau/Benin Republic against Guinea/Ghana. Recall Cameroon stopped Nigeria from qualifying…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 42-year-old man, Suleimon Usman has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 for defiling his eight-year-old daughter. Usman was charged with a two-count charge bordering on defilement, which he had pleaded not guilty to. Justice Rahmon Oshodi in his judgment, however, discharged and acquitted the defendant of the second charge, just as he held that the prosecution failed to prove the second charge against the defendant as the second victim did not testify in the trial. “The testimony of the first survivor corroborates the…
By Akeem Busari Like the proverbial gold fish that has no hiding place, the goodness of mercurial African football legend has found him, with his latest recognition by the Federal Government of Nigeria as an Officer of the Niger (OON). More than his untold impact on the football world, this great Nigerian has remained very important to the verve and vitality of Nigerian and world football. So much so, he was too good, they named him twice as; Austin ‘Jay-Jay’ Okocha. Speaking on the latest feat of the mercurial legend, Prince Dapo Ajibade, Chief Executive Officer of Abaj Multilinks Company,…
Kwara State on Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 signed two major agreements with the French government on strategic partnership involving the use of innovation hub for knowledge transfer as well as development of the Lata grazing reserve for large-scale livestock production. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq signed the MoU on behalf of the state government, while the French Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, Dr. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou inked the deal for the French side at a brief ceremony witnessed by several officials in Ilorin, including Deputy Governor Kayode Alabi, French Ambassador to Nigeria Mrs Emmanuelle Blatmann, EU Ambassador Samuela Isopi,…