Courtesy Thisday The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Fatai Owoseni, acting on a tip-off, had deployed operatives from the Area G Command Headquarters to the scene. Although the initial intelligence report was that a teenager was chained in the house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu, subsequent search of the residence by the police ... Read More »
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Breaking!Eyitayo Jegede Emerges PDP Governorship Candidate
The immediate past Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Ondo state, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, has been declared the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary election in the state. Chairman PDP primary election committee for Ondo State and governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson said Eyitayo won the party’s primary election by polling a total of 760 ... Read More »
AMBODE APPROVES N15.5 MILLION FOR VARSITY ENTREPRENEURS
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the sum of N15.5million as seed funding and grants for final year students enrolled in the Ready.Set.Work (RSW) program. Ready.Set.Work is an entrepreneurship and employability training program for final year students of tertiary institutions in Lagos State, aimed at preparing them for economic productivity as value-creating employees or employers of labour. Commencing ... Read More »
KANO SHINES AT 2016 COWBELLPEDIA TV QUIZ SHOW…PICKS FIRST SEMI-FINAL TICKET FOR THE NORTH
On a day four States from the North fell in the battle, Master Abdullahi Shuaibu Maje excelled for NTIC Boys High School, Kano, Kano State in the on-going Cowbellpedia Mathematics Television Quiz Show. After two preliminary rounds, Abdullahi picked a semi-final ticket for his school, and the first from any state in the North in this competition. Maje a 13 ... Read More »
Gov M A Abubakar Orders Release of Arrested Blogger
Yesterday, news broke that a blogger who was opposed to the Bauchi State government was arrested for ‘Cyber Stalking’. Good news is that the Governor of Bauchi State who just returned from a business trip to China has ordered his immediate release. According to Governor Mohammed Abubakar’s verified Twitter handle; after reading the reports of the blogger’s alleged offences, he ... Read More »
THE AUGUST 17TH “NATIONAL CONVENTION” AND ITS REVERBERATIONS By Senator Buruji Kashamu
PREAMBLE My esteemed leaders and elders, the ramification of the sundry illegalities and impunity in our dear party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), evoke memories of a conundrum during the reign of King Solomon that almost led to the mutilation of an innocent child. In that legendry tale of two women who shared a common space with their children, one ... Read More »
financial Times of Uk says Buhari’s Economic plan is Height of foolishness
The Financial Times UK has described the economic policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration as the ‘height of foolishness’. The leading international business publication in an article by Steve Johnson, the deputy editor of the Financial Times, said the economic policies of the Buhari administration is doomed to fail because it is tailored after Venezuela’s exchange rate policy and ... Read More »
Faces as New Miss Bikini is crowned
Sen Saraki Hires Maid and Nurse for Rashidi yekini’s Mum
The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has hired a maid and a nurse to take care of the late Rasheed Yekini’s mother, Alhaja Sikirat Yekini. Saraki, represented by the Director of Football, Abubakar Bukola Saraki FC, Alloy Chukwuemeka, disclosed this on Friday in Ijagbo, Oyun Local Government Area of the state. He also donated a Tricycle to the younger brother ... Read More »
Budget padding!Dogara Meets Buhari Again
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This is the second meeting between the two leaders since the allegation of budget padding was leveled against the Speaker and some principal officers by Abdulmumin Jibrin. Jibrin was the former Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee ... Read More »