By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for the strengthening of regional economic communities to drive integration and trade ties among African nations in order to deepen democracy and accelerate development across the continent. He said through bitter experience, Nigeria has learned that the solution to poor democratic governance is to have more democracy. President Tinubu ,who made the call during the Summit on the State of Democracy in Africa on Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 in Abuja called for revitalization of sub-regional blocs like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), East African Community (EAC) and Southern…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike A former Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Honourable Gausudeen Omotilewa Aro-Lambo is dead, reports thegazellenews.com. This medium learnt that Aro-Lambo died late Tuesday, 21 May, 2024 after a prorated battle with Diabetes and failing eyesight. He was buried in Lagos on Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 in accordance with Islamic rites. He was aged 81. Aro-Lambo was the Secretary to the Lagos State Government during the reign of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Governor of the state between 1999 and 2007. Aro-Lambo was a former member of the House of Representatives representing Lagos Island Federal Constituency on…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Shooting Stars Sports (3SC) of Ibadan have qualified for the round of 16 of the Federation Cup, reports thegazellenews.com They achieved the feat on Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 by beating Lobi Stars of Makurdi 2-0 during the Round of 32 match played at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. Prolific Christian Pyagbara scored the first goal of the match in 7th minute. The goal brought out the best in the Makurdi side as they swooped on the Oluyole warlords but the Stars defence stood their ground and repelled all attacks thrown at them by the Makurdi team. Adams…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Coordinator, Mortuary Services, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Dr Ehizogie Egbeobauwaye Adeyemi, has disclosed that the hospital will conduct a mass burial for 270 corpses if their relations fail to claim the bodies within six weeks. Adeyemi, who made this disclosure on Tuesday, 21 May, 2024 while speaking with newsmen, gave the breakdown of the corpses as 201 infants and 69 adults. According to her, UBTH’s management had in a statement gave six weeks ultimatum to the owners of the corpses to claim them. “The 201 infants have been in the hospital since 2023 while…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, received Afrobeat star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, during a courtesy visit. Welcoming his guest on Monday, 20 May, 2024, Akpabio expressed his delight at the visit and showered encomiums on the Afrobeat star for making Nigeria proud with his outstanding performances. “You have made us very proud within the International Community,” Akpabio told Davido, who came in the company of two of his cousins, Tunji Adeleke, son of his late uncle, Senator, Isiaka Adeleke, and Folasade Adeleke, daughter of Osun State governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, among others. The…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike An Ondo High Court presided over by Justice Enikuomehin has deposed a first-class monarch in Ose Local Council of Ondo State, the Olute of Ute, Oba Michael Adetunji. Adetunji, a retired military officer, was dethroned after 29 years of prolonged chieftancy tussle between the Olule Omoloja ruling house and the dethroned Oba. Justice Enikuomehin ruled that the deposed monarch, who was a retired major, should stop parading himself as Olute. While ordering a fresh selection process from within the Olule Omoloja ruling lineage, the court, which awarded damages, also affirmed that Oluwole has no right to the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least seven persons lost their lives after inhaling fumes from a generating set inside a music studio along Transformer road in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The deceased persons were said to be working in the studio, owned by one of them identified as Akpos Barakubo, when the incident happened on the night of Monday, 20 May, 2024. According to the residents of the area, the crew members in the studio had worked into the midnight, putting on the generating set due to poor power supply, and slept off in the process. It was gathered that six bodies…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The member representing Ukwa East/Ukwa West Federal Constituency of Abia State in the House of Representatives, Chris Nkwonta, on Tuesday,21 May, 2024 condemned the alleged killing of Miss Ocheze Ogbonna, a crane operator at the Inner Galaxy Steel Company, by a Chinese expatriate. It was gathered that Ocheze Ogbonna died after the Chinese expatriate working at the Inner Galaxy Steel Company located in Umuahala-Obuzor pushed her down from the crane for rejecting his love advances. In a statement issued on Tuesday, 21 May, 2021, Nkwonta expressed deep sadness on the death of his constituent, Ocheze, describing the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone “B” Command, Kaduna, has disclosed that it made a seizure of 54,000 sachets of tramadol, donkey bones and other smuggled goods at various locations in the zone worth over N3.1billion between April 17 and May 17, 2024. The Comptroller of the FOU, Zone ‘B’, Ahmadu Bello-Shuaibu made this disclosure on Tuesday, 21 May, 2024. According to him, four suspects were apprehended in connection with smuggled donkey bones and meat. Other intercepted items, according to him, were 12 vehicles (means of conveyance), 174 bags of foreign rice (50 kg…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The APC Youth Solidarity Network, a youth group within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has sounded the alarm over that any attempt to remove the national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje will destabilise the party ahead of the 2027 general election. This warning comes in response to the recent failed attempt to remove Ganduje from office. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, 21 May, 2024, Prince Danesi Momoh, national coordinator of the youth group, urged President Bola Tinubu to take decisive action to stop enemies from bringing down the party. He drew parallels with a…