By Abimbola Ogunnaike Two members of staff of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) in Lagos State were on Saturday, 20 May, 2023 electrocuted in the Obalande area of Lagos Island. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident on Sunday, 21 May, 2023, explaining that the case was reported to the Lion Building Division of the command on Saturday, 20 May, 2023, at about 5.55 pm, by another member of staff of the EKEDC from Lagos Island. According to Hundeyin, the EKEDC worker reported that on Saturday, one of his colleagues simply identified as Umaru,…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The vastly approaching election into the board of Lagos State Football Association is taking new turn by the day as evil schemes of usurpers to truncate due process and transparency becomes glaring. The two profiteers who have plunged football administration and development into abyss in Lagos particularly in the last twelve years are desperate more than ever to manipulate rules and regulations in order to disqualify, intimidate other candidates and foist their candidature on the screening committee in a brazen manner which has never been witnessed in the state before now. Fouad Oki and Liameed Olawale Gafaar are two aspirants…
Arole Oodua Olofin Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwui,CFR, Ojaja II, Ooni of Ife has formally received his wife, Olori(Dr) Opeoluwa Elizabeth Akinmuda in line with customs and traditions of the Ife Kingdom known as Source of the entire Oduduwa race worldwide. The two day event which started with the historic arrival of the queen at the Ile-Oodua palace of the Ooni in Ile-Ife at about 8:pm on Friday, 19 May, 2023, in company of her parents, family members and friends, also continued on Saturday, 20 May, 2023, with a brief thanksgiving service 11am and 12 midday inside the banquet room…
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), over the weekend, hosted the Sierra Leonean Transport Officials on effective and efficient traffic management in Lagos. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Bolaji Oreagba, while welcoming the Sierra Leonean traffic officials to his office at Oshodi, disclosed that the main purpose for the establishment of the Agency in year 2000 by the then administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was to transform the State transportation system and to ensure free flow of traffic and reduction in road accident across the State. Oreagba disclosed further that to properly manage and control traffic in…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 46 years old man had admitted beeing adulterous to the extent of bringing different women into his matrimonial home, reports thegazellenews.com. Segun Falade however disclosed his intention to change for the better if his wife can forgive him. Segun was giving evidence in a divorce case filed by his wife, Oluwatoyin, at the Orile Agege Customary Court in Lagos. “I will not lie, I bring in different women to the house, but I am ready to change. I have been begging her to please forgive me,” he said, just as he added that he takes care of their children…
The All Progressives Congress in Kogi State has suspended the entire executive officers of all the wards in Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area of the state for alleged anti-party activities. The suspended executive members were also accused of financial inducement to weaken the party in the state. Their suspension and dissolution of the executive teams were contained in a statement issued on Saturday and signed by the Kogi APC State Secretary, Joshua Onoja. It reads, “The Kogi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress have received disturbing reports of gross violation of the constitution of the party by Ward and Local…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Nigeria on Saturday, 20 May, 2023 from his working visit to France. The private jet of the two-term governor of Lagos State landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 2.15pm where he was welcomed by his supporters, party members and some governors. Among the delegation were his Vice-President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima; Governor Abdullahi Ganduje; Senate, Ahmad Lawan and the ruling party’s anointed candidate for the post of Senate president in the 10th Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio. Dressed in a blue ‘Babariga’ and his trademark cap to match,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The unthinkable happened in Costain Area in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State over the weekend as an 80-year-old grandmother allegedly raped to death inside her farm. It was gathered that she had been raped before her assailants murdered her. One sources said that the victim was raped to death, particularly in the position in which her corpse was discovered. One of the sources explained that there had been cases of rape in the community in recent times, a situation she said had prevented most of the women in the community from going to the farm…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, on Saturday, 20 May, 2023 demanded seven weeks to produce witnesses to establish his case at the Presidential Election Petition Court. Obi, who disclosed this during the proceedings on the petition he filed to challenge the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, also added he would present 50 witnesses that would testify and tender evidence to establish that the 2023 presidential election was rigged against him. Addressing the court through his team of lawyers led by Prof. Awa Kalu, SAN, Obi, former Governor of…