The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has described the Secretary of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Alhaji Mutiu Are as one of the pillars that hold the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) together. Princess Orelope-Adefulire stated this on Monday, 17 April, 2023 through a statement issued to celebrate the birthday of the APC Chieftain. “He’s one of the pillars of our party. A man of peace and a distinguished, loyal and committed member of the party, Alhaji is a man whose determination to promote and defend the…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
By Musbau Rasak Today, Monday, 17 April, 2023 is the birthday of the quintessential grassroots politician, Alhaji Mutiu Are. Encomiums, praises and eulogies have come the way of the man who has doggedly promotes the ideals of the Progressives in general and Tinubuism in particular. Are is a known disciple and follower of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and even during the darkest days of political intimidation and threats especially during the Oluesgun Obasanjo years, Mutiu Are was one of those who never wavered in his belief, loyalty and commitment to the Tinubu Political School of Thought. Over the…
Reports have claimed that Chelsea have added Burnley manager Vincent Kompany to their list of candidates to become their next permanent boss. According to The Times, the former Manchester City defender is part of a seven-man shortlist to take over the role from next season. For the majority of supporters, there is a real desire to hire the new manager as soon as possible in order to try and move on from what has been a shambles of a season. Unfortunately for the Blues, this situation has not really changed since the hiring of Frank Lampard on a temporary basis.…
LASTMA, FRSC To Form Joint Task Force On Accident Reduction Across Lagos Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos Sector Command have agreed to form a Joint Task Force with other professional traffic managers on accident reduction particularly truck crashes on Lagos Roads. In a press statement released by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment department of Lastma Mr Adebayo Taofiq quoted the General Manager, Mr Bolaji Oreagba to have agreed to the proposed Joint Task Force during a courtesy call over the weekend by the new Sector Commander FRSC Lagos, Corps…
A 33-year-old woman, Olaide Adekunle, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for allegedly selling off her 18-month-old baby to a yet-to-be-identified buyer at the rate of N600,000. The suspect was arrested following a complain lodged at Sango Divisional Headquarters by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq, who reported that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home to Lagos on the 15th of March 2023 with their baby girl by name Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without the baby. He stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was…
Warri Kingdom, Delta State is currently witnessing a fresh round of power play suggestive of the likelihood of another round of crisis, following the installation of Chief Oma Eyewuoma as the new Ologbotsere of the Kingdom by His Majesty, Ogiamé Atuwatse III, the Olu of Warri over the weekend. Until his new title, Chief Eyewuoma was the Aboludero of Warri Kingdom. However, Chief Ayirimi Emami (who has been battling to keep the Ologbotsere title held by him for some years now) has rebuffed the monarch’s decision. said the insignia of office, beads and sword he dropped at the Palace were…
On this day, I join Lagosians across the globe to celebrate a paradigmatic and worthy leader, a quintessential mentor, and my dear Father Aare Fiwajoye of Iruland, Chief Mutiu Aare On your birthday today, I wish you happiness in abundance of grace. I wish you blessings and peace of mind in good health and wealth. May the joy you have sown into people’s lives come back to you in a million folds. Thank you for being a genuine support system. In Shaa Allah, the soil you walk on shall yield bountifully greens as you have sown. The sun that shines…
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries and the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, has felicitated with the Secretary of the Governance Advisory Council (GAC), Alhaji Mutiu Are, on his birthday. In a congratulatory message by his media aide, Mr Enitan Olukotun, on Monday, 17 April, 2023, Senator Abiru described Alhaji Are as a staunch progressive, astute grassroot mobilizer and successful businessman. “On behalf of my family, and the good people of the Lagos East Senatorial District, I congratulate a distinguished member of the prestigious Governance Advisory Council, GAC, Alhaji Mutiu Are, on his birthday.…
By Dele Alake Nothing captures and portrays the crisis of credibility and integrity of the vast majority of a sectional intelligentsia than a recent piece by Dr Chidi Amuta titled ‘Peter Obi and the looming tyranny’. To some who thought Chidi was supposedly more cosmopolitan, liberal, less parochial and less paranoid, his vituperation is more revealing than concealing. In the absurd and falsely alarmist apocalyptic piece, Amuta squanders valuable time and needless words lamenting an imminent tyranny of the incoming All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, which is entirely a figment of his fertile imagination. What a not insignificant number of…
By Abimnola Ogunnaike The Ondo State High Court presided over Justice Ademola Enikuemehin, sitting in Ondo town, has ordered the deposition of the Olu-Oke of Oke-Igbo in the Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government of the state, Oba Babajide Oluwole. The court nullified the appointment of the traditional ruler, having admitted that Oba Oluwole, who was crowned as the monarch of the community in 2018, was not a member of the ruling house which turn was, to fill the then-vacant stool of the town. Two princes from the Aare Kugbaigbe Ruling House, Rufus Adekanye and Temitope Adeoye, Head and Secretary of the House…