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Tinubu’s Both-Sides-Of-The-Mouth Statement on Amotekun By Farooq Kperogi

Tinubu’s run -with-the-hare-and-hunt-with-the-hounds statement on Amotekun pretends to be statesmanlike and evenhanded but it actually only cleverly conceals its attempt to please the Aso Rock cabal. Only people with subnormal cognitive capacities will fail to see this. Why didn’t he exercise this sort of even temper when he asked “where are the cows?” after Chief Reuben Fasoranti’s daughter was murdered ... Read More »

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: OGUN RESTATES COMMITMENT TO PPP

Ogun State Government has reaffirmed its resolve to engage Public Private Partnership (PPP) to actualize its goals of developing agriculture and creating employment opportunities for the people. Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, gave the assurance when he received in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, representatives of Nigeria Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL) and the Nigeria ... Read More »

Ogun Apc youths writes Gov Abiodun open Letter Must we go to Sen Yayi to get appoinment

2020 HE Prince Dapo Abiodun MFR, Executive Governor, Ogun State. Excellency Sir, The above title of this open letter refers. As a group of concerned youth stakeholders within Ogun APC, we are hereby constrained to tow this path in ventilating our concerns and grievances arising from your recently released appointments, especially that of the Special Assistant on Youth Affairs; as ... Read More »

Africa Needs Massive Capital Investment in Power, Human Resources to Drive Economic Growth – Elumelu at the UK Africa Investment Summit

The Chairman, United Bank for Africa(UBA), and Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony Elumelu has advocated massive private capital investment as well as increased support to youth development as catalysts for driving the much needed economic growth on the continent. Elumelu said this while speaking on a panel at the  UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020, in London. He stressed the need to ... Read More »

Lagos Govt clarifies Position on Okada, Tricycles

…Debunks List of Restricted Routes in the Social Media The Lagos State Government has not taken a definite action on the operations of commercial motorcycles (Okada) and tricycles, popularly known as Keke Marwa on some routes across the State. Contrary to the news in circulation on the list of restricted areas, especially on the social media, purporting that the government ... Read More »

UBA Connect Set to Deepen Intra-African Trade

…Customers Can Now Make Cash Withdrawals In Local Currencies Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced the official launch of a flagship product UBA Connect, a service that enables the customers of the bank to conduct traditional banking transactions at any UBA branch in the 20 African countries where the bank operates. The service, which ... Read More »

Amotekun: The pitfall of proposed State Legislation by Fisayo Esan Esq.

On Thursday, January 9, 2020, the Governors of Nigeria’s six southwest States of Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos, launched the Western Nigeria Security Network called ‘Operation Amotekun’ in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo were present at the launch while Governors Gboyega Oyetola of Osun, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos and Dapo Abiodun of Ogun were absent ... Read More »

Chairman Of Ikosi Isheri LCDA Is Dead

Engineer Abdul Fatai Oyesanya, Chairman of Ikosi Isheri Local Council Development Area is dead. The septuagenarian died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos after a brief Illness. The Ijebu-Ode indigene was reelected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2017, having first been elected LCDA Chairman in 2011. As is customary in Islam, his burial ... Read More »

SANWO-OLU COMMISERATES WITH FAMILIES OF ABULE-EGBA PIPELINE FIRE VICTIMS

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has commiserated with families that lost their loved ones following a pipeline explosion that occurred at Abule Egba on Sunday. He also sympathised with those that lost property and other valuable items to the inferno. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile on Monday, Governor Sanwo-Olu said he is heartbroken ... Read More »