The annual GTCO Food & Drink Festival is back again for its 6th Edition, and food lovers across Africa and the world are in for a feast like never before! The event is slated to hold from Saturday April 29th till Monday May 1st 2023, at GTCentre, Plot 1 Water Corporation Drive, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos, providing a 3-day weekend of food and endless celebration. The GTCO Food & Drink Festival brings together the greatest minds on the global culinary stage, the most industrious Nigerian small food business owners, a world class, state-of-the-art children’s play area, merging them all to…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, has congratulated the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on his victory at the recently concluded Governorship and State Assembly Elections in the state. She also congratulated the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the victory noting that it was a victory well deserved because “we all work hard for it and we never waiver in our belief and support for the Governor and the party at large”. Orelope-Adefulire’s message was contained in her congratulatory message released on Monday, 20 March, 2023, The Presidential…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Governor Abdullahi Sule and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared as the winner of governorship election in Nasarawa State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) INEC State Collation Officer and Returning Officer, Prof Ishaya Tanko, made the declaration on Monday, March 20, 2023 in Lafia at the state collation centre. According to INEC Returning Officer, the APC candidate polled a total of 347, 209 votes to defeats his closest opponent, David Ombugadu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 283, 016 votes. ”Abdullahi Sule of APC, having satisfied the requirements…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The outcome of the Saturday,18 March, 2023 governorship polls held in 28 states of the federation shows that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is leading in the number of states won across the country. The party has now added Sokoto to its fold going by the results so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Results at a glance: Lagos State: Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been declared the winner of the governorship election in Lagos State. The incumbent Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, polled a total of 762,134 to defeat first runner-up,…
By Femi Fani-Kayode “Don’t stay in Lagos, and benefit from the leadership, infrastructure and economy Lagosians built over time, yet carry resentment towards them. You threaten violence and de-market Lagos on social media. You have options. Behave or relocate!” – Reno Omokri. Let me open this short contribution by saying that I completely agree with the views expressed above by Pastor Reno Omokri. Let us hope that those he is attempting to offer such wise counsel appreciate and accept it before it is too late and things fall apart. I am constrained to go further by saying that I also…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party(NNPP), Abba Kabir Yusuf as the winner of Kano State gubernatorial election. The declaration was made in the early hours of Monday, 20 March, 2023, amid growing tension in the state. In the final results announced by Returning Officer, Professor Ahmad Doko Ibrahim, Yusuf polled 1,019,602 while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir Yusuf Gawuna polled 890,705 votes to come second.
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu the winner of the governorship election in Lagos State. Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), polled a total of 762,134 votes to defeat first runner-up, Labour Party’s (LP) Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. The LP candidate secured 312,329 votes, while Abdulazeez Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), got 62,449 votes. The results were announced by the Returning Officer, Prof Adenike Temifayo-Oladiji, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA. The number of valid votes were 1,155,678; rejected votes, 17,953; total votes cast, 1,173,631; and accredited voters were…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A former Governor of Enugu State and Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani, has lost his bid to go back to the Senate. Nnamadi, who ran on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 48,701, to be defeated by the candidate of the Labour Party, Kelvin Chukwu, who secured 69,136 votes. The election in the Senatorial District was postponed and it eventually took place on Saturday, 18 March, 2023, alongside with the Governorship and State Assembly Elections.
By Abimbola Ogunnaike To prevent the breakdown of law and other, the Kano state government on Monday, 20 March, 2023, imposed a dawn to dusk curfew, following tensions generated from the collation of results of the Governorship and State Assembly Elections in the state. A statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, said the decision was to prevent hoodlums from causing chaos in the already tensed situation. He called on the people of the state to remain indoors as security agents would not spare anyone or group bent on causing trouble. It was…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Governorship elections results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) early Monday, 20 March, 2023 revealed the emergence of new governors in Katsina, Sokoto, and Jigawa states. The results INEC released so far also showed that Governors Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, Gombe; Mai Mala Buni, Yobe; Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos; Seyi Makinde, Oyo; Dapo Abiodun, Ogun; and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kwara have been re-elected. This is just as collation in other states was either suspended or ongoing as of press time. In Gombe, INEC declared the incumbent governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as…