As Buhari declines assent to National Housing Fund Bill, seven others Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Senate on Tuesday promised to pass the 2019 budget on April 16. This is just as President Muhammadu Buhari declined to assent the controversial National Housing Fund Bill and seven others recently passed by the National Assembly. The Senate President Bukola Saraki, made the announcement ... Read More »
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Kogi State Salaries, Bailouts, Paris Refund and Utilisation
This week, Kogi State received her February 2019 allocation shared as the custom is in March, one month in arrears. It is the same with the other states. Before now was January allocation shared in February. I know payments of salaries will happen again this week to clear December( Local Government workers) and November for state government workers’ 2018 ... Read More »
Buhari, Jonathan, Atiku and Emmanuel Okogba
By Yinka Odumakin IN the peculiar political lunacy season in Nigeria, a lot of uninformed commentaries have taken the open space. One of the issues the mostly spiteful commentators, ranging intellect-damaged professor to yahooligans and internet thugs, have lapped on has been my relationships with General Muhammadu Buhari, Dr Goodluck Jonathan and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The Save Nigeria Group ... Read More »
Release Monday Ubani Nba urges Efcc
The attention of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Paul Usoro, SAN has been drawn to an order of Honorable Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal High Court wherein His Lordship, on March 26, 2019 granted an ex-parte motion filed by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN directing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to charge, Monday Ubani, a former ... Read More »
Gbajabiamila Remains The Best Man For Reps’ Speaker’s Office – Rotimi Makinde
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Osun state, Hon. Rotimi Makinde has canvassed support for a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila to be to elected as the Speaker of the lower chamber by the lawmakers. He made this known in a statement he issued on Monday and made available to newsmen in Osogbo. According ... Read More »
Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu Assumes Office as Chief Executive Officer, Tony Elumelu Foundation on April 1
Former CEO, Parminder Vir, OBE joins the Foundation’s Advisory Board Lagos, Nigeria, April 2, 2018 — Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, former Director of Partnerships and Evaluation, Tony Elumelu Foundation has assumed her new role as the Foundation’s CEO on April 1. [Ifeyinwa becomes the third CEO and the first African to become the Chief Executive Officer of the Tony Elumelu Foundation.] In December ... Read More »
Obadara Congratulates Ogun Gov-Elect, Dapo Abiodun
ABEOKUTA – The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation at the 7th National Assembly, Senator Olugbenga Obadara, has congratulated the Ogun State governor-elect, Prince Dapo Abiodun, over his victory during the last governorship election in the state. In a congratulatory statement, Senator Obadara also facilitated with the state deputy governor-elect, Engineer Noimot Oyedele. Senator Obadara, who is ... Read More »
PICTURES: GOV. AMBODE PAYS CONDOLENCE VISIT TO PA FASINRO’S FAMILY ON MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2019
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (middle), with late Pa Fasinro’s children, Hon. Habeeb Fasinro (right) and Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun (left) during the Governor’s condolence visit to the family at their Victoria Island residence, Lagos, on Monday, April 1, 2019. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd left), with late Pa Fasinro’s brother, Dr. Mohammed Salami (left); Sons of the deceased, ... Read More »
AMBODE, ADEBULE, OKUNNU, KOLADE, OTHERS PAY CONDOLENCE VISIT TO PA FASINRO’S FAMILY
…His Legacies Worthy Of Celebration, Says Lagos Gov Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode and his deputy, Mrs Idiat Adebule were among dignitaries who on Monday paid condolence visit to the family of late elder statesman, Pa Hassan Fasinro. Aged 99, Pa Fasinro, a Senator in the Second Republic and the first Clerk of Lagos City Council, died on ... Read More »
HAB FASHINRO: We’ve lost a father, pillar of support – Elegushi
As Lagosians all over the world over mourn the death of a former Senator and a prominent Lagos indigene, Pa Hassan Babatunde Fashinro, who passed away yesterday, popular Lagos monarch, the Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, has described the passing of Pa Fashinro has a great loss to Lagos and Nigeria, describing the deceased as father and ... Read More »