President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, 27 April, 2023, in Abuja, met with the All Progressives Congress governors who paid him a courtesy visit and urged them to work with the party leadership and lawmakers on the election of principal officers of the National Assembly. “We thank God Almighty for our electoral victory. It was tough and turbulent. “The challenge before us is working in unison with the party leadership and the National Assembly over the election of their principal officers. And I charge you to unite in spirit and faith and work in line with the party,” he said.…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a strong interface among Africans and their Diasporas around the world. Buhari, while speaking at the opening of the 2nd edition of Global African Diaspora Symposium, Abuja, 2023, with the theme “Building Stronger Connections Between Africa and the Global Diaspora”, said it would be a good platform for the promotion of the global Diaspora as a key resource for positive projection of Africa. The President, who was represented by the Minister of Transport, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo said it was necessary for Africans to connect and build a common front and also lay down strategic…
The first batch of stranded Nigerians in Sudan evacuated by the Federal Government will arrive Abuja, Nigeria on Friday , barring any unforeseen circumstances . This cheering news was given at a State House briefing by Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/ CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) in Abuja on Thursday. She said a total of 13 out of the 40 buses hired to transport Nigerians from the troubled Sudan already left since Wednesday and moved by road to Boarder town of Aswan in Egypt where both the Embassy staff in Egypt and the DG NEMA will receive the evacuees. She…
The Lawmaker representing Agege State Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Honourable Oluyinka Ogundimu and his wife, Abosede, have become the first couple to have successfully defended their doctoral degree same day at the Lagos State University (LASU, Ojo, reports thegazellenews.com. Both husband and wife separately but successfully defended their doctoral theses on Thursday, 27 April, 2023 at the Ojo campus of the University. Both Hon Ogundimu and his wife, Abosede, successfully defended their theses at the School of Management of the University and they both majored in Marketing. “It was strenuous but we thank God, our…
Rear Admiral YEM Musa, the National Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Office of The National security Adviser (ONSA) has pledged that the country’s working group on Criminal Justice and The Rule of Law (CJROL) in the Global Counter Terrorism Forum (GCTF) is dedicated to supporting the development of effective criminal justice systems within a rule of law framework and fully respecting human rights in the efforts to stem the negative tide of terrorism and violent extremism in the country. The National Coordinator at the 7th Plenary Meeting of the Global Counter Terrorism Forum in St. Julian’s, Malta…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has donated relief materials to Aiyetoro, a coastal community in Ondo State recently ravaged by ocean surges. The relief materials were handed over by the Executive Director of Projects of the NDDC, Mr. Charles Ogunmola, who was accompanied by the NDDC Director of Ondo State Office, Mr. Olaniyi Salami; the Director of Environmental Protection and Control, Engr. Obeka Onuoha; the Director of Community and Rural Development, Mr. Gordon Okeya; at a ceremony at the Naval Base Igbokoda on Thursday, 27 April, 2023. Ogunmola said he received videos of the ocean surge that displaced over…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Women employed as street sweepers in Calabar Municipality and Calabar South Local Government Areas of Cross River on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023 protested over non-payment of their stipends for about four months. The women, who protested at the entrance of the Governor’s Office in Calabar, carried placards with inscriptions such as “Pay us our money” and “We are tired of working without pay”. Addressing newsmen, the leader of the protesters, Mrs Nkoyo Effiong, who is 60 years old, said they had not been paid for four months. “We are here to let the Governor know that we…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, 26 April, 2023, debunked the claim that an Alaafin-elect had emerged one year after the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III. The state Commissioner for Information, Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun, made the clarification in an interview with an Ogun State based national newspaper on Wednesday, 26 April, 2023 Olatunbosun dismissed the rumoured emergence of Lukman Gbadegesin as the Alaafin-elect, saying the state government had yet to approve any candidate. The Commissioner explained that the government was bent on ensuring that due process was followed in the race for…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Lagos State Government on Wednesday, 26 April, 2023 embarked on the demolition of illegal buildings in the Banana Island area of the state. The development was part of the state government’s efforts to tackle the frequent cases of building collapse in the state. The exercise was carried out by officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit and the Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority. The team was also led by the leadership of the agencies which include, the General Manager of LASBCA, Gbolahan Oki, and the Task…
Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) has made an inroad into the transportation business in Lagos State, acquiring and taking delivery of about 12000 electric vehicles from Chinese carmaker, Yutong Bus. OCEL is the clean energy arm of Oando Plc, largely owned by Wale Tinubu. His company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lagos State Government through the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) on April 28, 2022. It was gathered that history was made in Nigeria’s last-mile business in June 2021, when Africa’s fastest growing e-commerce logistics company, GIG Logistics, and JET Motor Company struck a deal to…