The Principal of the Federal Government College, Ijanikin, Lagos, Tofunmi Akamo, has confirmed the report that some students of the school were found to have lodged at an hotel near the school and engaged in immoral activities. Mrs Akamo, a lawyer, said the management should be commended for its efforts towards addressing indiscipline among the students, saying the unruly students were found out by the school and disciplinary action was taken against them appropriately. Punch Newspaper had earlier on Wednesday, 4 January, 2023, reported that some male and female students of the school had lodged in a hotel for sex…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The media profession in Nigeria lost another icon early Friday, 6 January, 2023 as the Photo Editor of the Guardian newspapers, Femi Kuti gave up the ghost, reports thegazellenews.com The ace photo journalist died at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Abeokuta after a brief battle with illness that has to do with liver failure. This medium learnt that Kuti died at about 2am on Friday, 6 January, 2023 while plans were at an advanced stage to transfer him to the prestigious St Nicholas Hospital in Lagos. Thegazellenews.com learnt further that the late photo journalist will be buried later today, Friday,…
By Raheemat Adeniran The Lagos State University’s TETFund Desk Office recently announced call for applications from staff members for TETFund’s local and international Conference Attendance (CA) intervention “applicable to conferences with scheduled dates from April to June, 2023”. Ideally, this should be good news for the university community, offering academic and non-academic staff the rare opportunity to travel for conferences and workshops to any part of the world, fully-funded. It was also coming after TETFund’s long suspension of conference attendance sponsorship travels occasioned by alleged diversion of previous CA sponsorship grants and prolonged by the COVID-19 disruptions. Unfortunately, that enthusiasm…
Former President Obasanjo is so well known to all that no one needs to describe who he is. But, four things we will like to say: One is that he will not stop attacking President Muhammadu Buhari because the former President won’t stop being jealous of anyone who beats him to a new record in the nation’s development process. President Buhari is ahead of Chief Obasanjo in all fields of national development and to do that is cardinal sin to Obasanjo whose hallucinations tell him that he is the best ever to lead Nigeria and there will never be another…
By Dele Alake On the whole, the latest epistolary misadventure by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a gratuitous insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians. In particular, his laborious attempt to prey on the innocence of much younger generation constitutes a grievous assault on public morality, seeking to force morsels of sheer falsehood down the throats of a demography perhaps too young to comprehend events which Obasanjo furiously tried to misrepresent. It is noteworthy that it was the Obasanjo administration that abolished the teaching of history in Nigerian schools ostensibly to aid this kind of historical revisionism he routinely engages in;…
By Bwala Daniel Happy new year fellow citizens and best wishes for the future. In Nigeria today, we have at least 5 former presidents of Nigeria who are alive and minding their businesses whilst playing the role of fathers of the nation, peace-builders etc, non is so domineering, controlling and meddling with the affairs of the nation like Obasanjo. For the records, Obsasanjo also referred to as OBJ has served two terms as a democratically elected president from 1999-2007. The traditional posture and role of former presidents has been that of statesmanship, one who guides, promotes and nurture democratic growth…
The immediate past Governor of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, was on Monday, 2 January, 2023, received with funfair in Osogbo, the State capital, as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and well-wishers trooped out in large number to welcome him at the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign, Office. Oyetola who was given a tumultuous welcome and excitedly ushered into the Campaign Office, marvelled at the huge crowd awaiting his arrival. The ecstatic party’s loyalists sang solidarity songs to express their unalloyed support for Oyetola and his wife, Alhaja Kafayat. The immediate past Governor had attended an interdenominational prayer session organised by the State…
Wale Oluwo is the Lagos State Governorship Candidate of the Boot Party. In this interview with thegazellenews.com’s crew in Lagos, he speaks on how he intends to dislodge the Sanwo-Olu administration via the 2023 general elections. Q: What is the ideology of the Boot Party? A: We are a centre left party and our ideology is capitalism on the basis of welfarism. As we encourage capitalism, we encourage wealth we also embraced welfarism to help the weak members in the society. Q: Is this a new party? A: No. The party was registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
By Kehinde Bamigbetan The Peoples Democratic Party of, PDP and its presidential candidate, Abubakar would wish to sedate Nigerians or at least put them under a spell of amnesia that would make them forget the past. Why? Only voters who are ignorant of PDP: an anti-people pedigree or have forgotten its reckless abuse of power could imagine putting their thumb beside its logo in the forthcoming general elections. In 1999, the PDP was elected to fulfill its promise to improve the welfare of Nigerians and their progressive development. However, with Olusegun Obasanjo as president and Abubakar Atiku as vice president,…
We read with amusement the endorsement of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his New Year message on Sunday. Following calls by journalists from various media houses who asked for our reaction we decided to make this preliminary statement, though we didn’t consider the so-called endorsement to be of any value. We respect the democratic right of former President Obasanjo to support and endorse any candidate of his choice in any election. Except that he made it known formally in his new year message, any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that…