The Group Managing Director of Rainoil Limited, Dr Gabriel Ogbechie is the winner of Downstream Man of the Year for 2018. His choice was announced to an audience of energy experts, petroleum industry bigwigs, public sector personalities, a cross section of thought leaders and celebrities who attended the Nigerian oil industry at the annual Oil Trading and Logistics Conference 2018 ... Read More »
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BY GOD’S GRACE, I’LL BE WITH YOU IN ABUJA FOR YOUR INAUGURATION AS HOUSE OF REPS. MEMBER,” ALAAFIN OYO ASSURES SHINA PELLER
The Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo, has again endorsed Shina Abiola Peller as a member of the House of Representatives representing the Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa Federal Constituency in 2019. The revered traditional ruler made his position known again when Shina Abiola Peller paid him a courtesy visit in his palace on Friday, ... Read More »
Osun 2019: SDP Members dump Omisore, Endorse PDP Senatorial Candidate
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Atakunmosa West Local Government Council of Osun State has dumped the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the just concluded governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore. It also endorsed the Osun East senatorial candidature of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Chief Francis Fadahunsi in the forthcoming general election. The party chairman in the area, Chief Joshua Ogunleye, ... Read More »
LAGOS DISBURSES N178.431M TO BENEFICIARIES OF DECEASED SUBEB STAFF
LAGOS DISBURSES N178.431M TO BENEFICIARIES OF DECEASED SUBEB STAFF …Promotes 3,273 Primary School Teachers The Lagos State Government on Friday disbursed a total of N178, 431,797.76 to families of 57 deceased staff of the State’s Universal Basic Education Board (LSUBEB). Speaking during the presentation of cheques to the beneficiaries at the LSUBEB Multipurpose Hall in Maryland, the Executive Chairman of ... Read More »
Ekiti PDP Reps Caucus disowns call for State Exco dissolution, restates loyalty to Fayose
The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) five House of Representatives members from Ekiti State have expressed their confidence in the leadership of the Chief Gboyega Oguntuase-led State Exco of the party, dissociating themselves from the Saturday meeting of some stakeholders held at the instance of the Senate Minority Leader, Biodun Olujimi, which called for dissolution of the State Party Exco. The ... Read More »
Jumoke Odetola becomes portal homes Amb
Amidst all contrary opinions and different suggestive gestures from some people and the society at large, a few Nigerians still uphold the ideology that hard work pays. One of such Nigerians is JUMOKE ODETOLA who is very passionate about her art and acts as a Thespian. Jumoke who made it known recently in an interview with a National Dailies that ... Read More »
2019: Gov El-Rufai insulted Kaduna Christians by picking Muslim running mate
A former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Saturday said the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai insulted Christians in the state by picking a Muslim as his running mate for 2019 election. Governor El-Rufai, a Muslim, had on Friday announced that he will be running for second term with Hadiza Balarabe, another Muslim. However, the former minister described El-Rufai’s action ... Read More »
DESPERATE: SENATOR AIDOKO WOOS KOGI EAST ELDERS WITH CASH GIFTS AND SDG CONTRACTS
After the court verdict of October 24, 2018 which seemingly asked Senator Attai Aidoko to vacate the Senate for Air Marshall Isaac Alfa, the embattled Aidoko has gone all out to pacify stakeholders, especially elders, in Kogi East. He is said to be on a visiting and spending spree with Greek gifts ranging from cash to promises of SDG contracts. ... Read More »
Opinion!THINKING OUT OF THE BOX…Beyond Buhari’s Certificate.
I see the celebration that attended the presentation of a certain WASC certificate to President Buhari, and I think we must be more proactive and pragmatic in our approach to this certificate saga… After all, we should cover our faces in shame that a certain Citizen Buhari became President without knowing where his Secondary School leaving certificate was. (My personal ... Read More »
ERELU BISI FAYEMI AND THE LEGACY OF UNRIVALED RESURGENCE OF INTELLECTUALISM by Lanre Ogunjobi
ERELU BISI FAYEMI AND THE LEGACY OF UNRIVALED RESURGENCE OF INTELLECTUALISM. In a twinkle of an eye, good times are gradually coming home to be with us here in Ekiti, with the emergence of a brainy and highly cerebral first lady; Erelu Bisi Fayemi, who has just been invested as a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). The ... Read More »