By Abimbola Ogunnaike The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate in the February 25 election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday, 22 May, 2023 kicked against the proposal for the consolidation of the petitions challenging their return as joint winners of the election. The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) at the sitting on Monday had proposed to consolidate the three petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the Labour Party(LP) and its presidential candidate Peter Obi and the Allied People’s Movement (APM). The proposal made by the Chairman of the Court, Justice…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has disclosed that his refinery will generate enough job opportunities for Nigerian youths. Dangote made this disclosure on Monday, 22 May, 2023 while speaking at the commissioning of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals. The project was commissioned by the President Muhammadu Buhari. “The refinery operation will generate massive job opportunities in their hundreds of thousands,” he said while highlighting the benefits of the refinery. “The refinery will make available to our industries vital raw materials to a large range of manufacturers in the pharmaceuticals, food, beverages, construction…
By Abimbola 0gunnaike The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday, 22 May, 2023 dismissed the application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; as well as the Labour Party and its Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi; to allow for a live broadcast of the court proceedings. The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani dismissed the requests which was made by the aggrieved parties and candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party as lacking in merit and rejected it. According to the Tribunal, live streaming of court proceedings ought to be planned and…
Veteran Yoruba actor, Prince Adewale Adeyemo is dead, reports thegazellenews.com The actor, popularly called, Baba Igbomina, died on Monday morning, 22 May, 2023, after a protracted kidney and liver problem. “He passed on early hours of today after a brief illness. God will comfort all his family, friends and colleagues,” a source said. Adeyemo’s death is the fourth in the Nigerian film industry within a month. Glamour boy of Nollywood, Obinna Nwafor popularly called Saint Obi died on Sunday, 7 May, 2023; another veteran actor, Mukaila Adedigba died on Saturday, 13 May, 2023 while popular Yoruba actor, Murphy Afolabi died…
Dentsu Africa have once again pulled out all the stops at the sixth edition of the much-anticipated Pitcher Awards, walking away with 32 awards this past Saturday, 20 May 2023. These annual awards are an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate African creativity at its best, showcasing the likes of print, film, audio, outdoor, PR, entertainment, digital and creative media that have been created, released or implemented on African soil. Out of an extensive list of agencies and some fierce competition, DENTSU CREATIVE Nigeria were honoured to be awarded Creative Digital Agency of the Year, silver for the Media Agency of the Year…
By Shina Ishola and Fashina Shakiru There’s no better recognition than that given by your people. This best described the chieftaincy titles conferred on Rt. Hon. Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, Deputy Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly and Senator-elect, Lagos Central Senatorial District, a royal blood from Isale Eko, Lagos Island of Lagos State; and his amiable better half, Alhaja Bilikis Olamide Eshilokun-Sanni, also from Isale Eko. Both were conferred with the titles of Okanlomo and Yeye Okanlomo of Lagos by His Royal Majesty Oba Rilwan Osuolale Aremu Akiolu, Oba of Lagos on Saturday, 20 May, 2023. The conferment, which took place…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has passionately pleaded with the President Muhammadu Buhari to sign into law the bill to abolish BSC/HND dichotomy before he hands over power on May 29, 2023 to the in-coming administration of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The National President of ASUP , Comrade Anderson Ezeibe,who made the call in an interview with newshounds in Abuja on Sunday,21 May, 2023, explained that the dichotomy had made young Nigerians not to be interested in polytechnic education in the country. “We are urging President Buhari to go ahead and sign that…
To me, Femi Adesina is simply Oga. regardless of his high presidential advisory title. As Features Editor in the defunct National Concord, he always found in me a good hand for his foreign Features that forced on me rigour to undertake research for such assignments. I remember the stuff I wrote at the demise of Princess Diana and another one on Terrorism. But it was not only as Features Editor that we got close professionally. He is the only senior that calls me by my first daughter’s name. On phone, It’s Baba Aishah. When I was SA to DG VON…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Mohammed Bello El-Rufai, the son of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has wedded Aisha Habibu Shuaibu, the daughter of Col. Habibu Shuaibu, a former Military Administrator for Plateau and Niger States respectively. The couple got married in a private Nikah held in Abuja on Friday, 19 May, 2023. It was gathered that the wedding will be celebrated with events in the coming month. Aisha is an entrepreneur who manages multiple businesses of her own while Bello is a member elect representing Kaduna North in the House of Representatives.
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A palm wine tapper identified as Sunday Mima has been arrested by operatives of the Ondo State police command for allegedly raping Felicia Aderibigbe , an 80-year-old grandmother to death in her farm. The state Police Spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, confirmed the arrest of the suspect, saying that the alleged action of Mima was a case of rape and murder. Odunlami added that the suspect would soon be paraded by the command after interrogation and subsequently charged to court. The suspect allegedly attack Aderibigbe, a native of Ore in Odigbo council in the state, on her farm, stripped her naked and forcefully had…