By Abimbola Ogunnaike Akeem, son of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has revealed that the late revered monarch visited 27 Yoruba monarchs in their palaces to talk about a Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency, just as he wished the former Lagos State Governor to emerge as next Nigerian president while on his sick bed. According to Akeem, lying on his deathbed, his father shared his thoughts with him before he drew his last breath, which revolved around politics, and specifically his determination to see another Yoruba man become the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
By Abdulwarees Solanke As I write this piece morning, my eyes became misty. It is the story of a motherhen that laid no eggs. Yet, this hen hatched many. Her proxy chicken have grown into big cocktails with strong talons. This mother hen is now feeble but is high in hope, the hope of ultimate success in this world and the hereafter. Who is she? She is Sabila Adunni Oladipupo She is from Ikija, Abeokuta, where the iconic Olumo Rock is rooted. Her family house, Ile Oloya is one of popular family compounds strewn around Olumo but now fenced off…
The Lagos State Government Sunday, 23 April, 2023, said that a three-floor building under construction that partially collapsed on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA and continued construction behind the scene. The collapse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries that showed that officers of the States Building Control Agency had issued a number of contravention notices, stop work and seal up orders which the developer ignored and carried on construction without any recourse, whatsoever,…
Hours after the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu ordered the demolition of some buildings in Banana Island over defective structures, another building collapse has been recorded in the state reports thegazellenews.com This medium reports that a five storey building under construction collapsed on Sunday, 23 April, 2023. The incident occured at Ladipo Oluwole Street, GRA, Apapa. Thegazellenews.com learnt that a thunder strike hit the building under construction and it came down in a massive heap. Other details of the collapse are still sketchy as at the time of writing this report.
Exactly 35 days to his inauguration on Monday, 29 May, 2023, the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will arrive in Nigeria tomorrow, Monday, 24 April, 2023 after a one-month rest in France. Tinubu left the country for France on Tuesday, 21 March, 2023, to rest and plan the transition programme ahead of his inauguration on Monday, 29 May, 2023. One of his loyalists informed THISDAY on Saturday, 22 April, 2023, that the President-elect would arrive in the country on Monday evening, 24 April, 2023, barring any unforeseen circumstances. The source said: “Asiwaju is coming back on Monday. He will arrive…
A widower, Ariyibi Ahmed Olaseinde; and a divorcee, Akanbi Silifat Tunrayo;¹ who were going for lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for attempting to export 14.4 kilograms of cocaine concealed in lace and ankara fabrics. Ariyibi was intercepted on Thursday, 20April, 2023, at the screening point of MMIA Terminal 2 during outward clearance of Qatar Airways passengers travelling from Lagos via Doha to Medina, Saudi Arabia. When his carry-on bag was checked, four sets of white lace material with…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Dozens of people were feared dead after a block of flats collapsed in the Sango Police Barracks in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on the evening of Saturday, 22 April, 2023. However, the number of trapped persons or casualties, if any, remained unknown as at the time of filing in this report.The collapsed structure is in front of a residential three-storey building in the area.All attempts to reach the officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Ibadan, and the Oyo State Police Command for comments on the incident were futile at the time of filing this report.Meanwhile,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Kogi State Police Command has confirmed that a 39-year-old man, identified as Sunday Orishagbemi, lost his life after he was stabbed death while trying to settle a quarrel between two men over urination in Zango Daji Quarters in the Adavi Local Government Area of the state on Friday, April 21,2023. The tragedy, which has been confirmed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Ayah, started in the evening of Friday, 21 April, 2023 when a friend of the deceased, described as a vulcanizer at Ganaja junction, Lokoja, branched to urinate close to a building…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) inaugurated last year to prosecute the 2023 presidential election. The dissolution was contained in a statement on Saturday night, 22 April, 2023, jointly signed by the Director General of the APC PCC, Governor Simon Bako Lalong and the Secretary of the council, James Abiodun Faleke. The party on behalf of the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council, President Muhammadu Buhari; the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other leaders, thanked all council members, leaders and supporters for working assiduously for the resounding victory of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed that Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) killed 118 persons across 21 states in the country between last year and April 2, 2023. In a situation report released Saturday, 22 April, 2023, the agency noted that as of Sunday, 2 April, 2023, a total of 1, 479 suspected cases had been recorded in 2022/2023 CSM seasons. The health agency stated that the 22 states that reported suspected CSM cases in 2022/2023 include Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Oyo,…