The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has sympathised with the family, friends and associates of the late Gafaru Buraimoh, who died on Tuesday after a stray bullet allegedly fired by a police officer hit him during an incident around Ajah axis. The Governor expressed sadness over the death of the late Buraimoh, pledging that the State Government would work ... Read More »
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Dangote-led Flood Committee commences Distribution of N1.5bn relief items to victims nationwide
The Dangote-led Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation (PCFRR), known as Dangote Flood Committee has commenced the distribution of relief materials, worth N1.5 billion to victims of flooding nationwide. The PCFRR, which was established by the Federal Government following the 2012 flooding, is co-chaired by Africa’s foremost industrialist Aliko Dangote and Dr. Olisa Agbakoba. The flagging off ceremony for ... Read More »
Chatham House: APC ‘window-dressing’ Tinubu – Dele Momodu
The Director, Strategic Communications of the National Election Management Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Dele Momodu, Tuesday, chided the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, over what he called his less than impressive engagement with his audience at the Chatham House, United Kingdom, on Monday. Momodu said chieftains of the APC were ‘window-dressing’ Tinubu on a global ... Read More »
Again, Kwara supports 490 SMEs with interest-free loans
• Initiative targets businesses owned by young people • Beneficiaries appreciate govt’s investment in youths. At least 490 small businesses have won varying amounts of non-interest loans under the Kwara State social investment programme to grow their enterprises. Ten of the 490 young business owners got either N1.5m or N2m each at a symbolic ceremony where Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq handed ... Read More »
Adeleke appoints new Head of Service
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has appointed Samuel Aina as the new Head of Service. A statement by the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, on Tuesday said Aina attended the University of Ibadan, between 1984 and 1987, where he obtained B.Sc. Hon (2nd Class Upper Division) in Geography, and between 1988 and 1990 returned to the same university ... Read More »
Dr Jimoh Ibrahim takes on Gov Adeleke over his Executive Orders
State of Osun: Is Executive lawlessness new currency for Power! By Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim PhD (Cantab) CFR In the last few weeks, a realist in the State of Osun again reechoed that local politics is about acquiring and exercising power. A confirmation that all politics, international and otherwise, was fraught with danger because of man’s deeply ingrained distrust of ‘the ... Read More »
LEADER JOE 1808 FOUNDATION LAUNCHES GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR STUDENTS
A Non-profit organization, Leader Joe 1808 Foundation, said it has launched a campaign to get pupils back to school through a golf competition tagged “Golf Junior Championship: Empowering Young Minds” Speaking to journalists on the competition, Mr. Joseph Onus, founder of the Leader Joe 1808 Foundation, said the aim of the tournament is to provide quality Education in Primary and ... Read More »
Gov AbdulRazaq hails labour for industrial harmony, national devt
• Declares open NLC’s 18th Harmattan School in Ilorin • Kwara Gov is labour-friendly in policies, actions: NLC President, labour leaders Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday called on the labour unions in Nigeria to always exploit dialogue and mutual understanding in pressing home their demands from governments, saying this will foster industrial harmony and hasten national development. The ... Read More »
2023: Time to liberate yourself, vote out APC – Atiku to Lagosians
…vow to set aside $10b for youth and women empowerment Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has warned the people of Lagos against returning APC to power in the both in the state and federal level. The former Vice President who spoke at the PDP’s presidential rally in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, also discredited the ... Read More »
OACPS SUMMIT: NIDCOM NOMINATED DIASPORA CHAMPION
Abuja, Dec.4, 2022. Nigeria, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has been nominated to Co-chair the 10th Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, (OACPS) as “Diaspora Champion”, the first ever Diaspora summit to be organised by the OACPS In an official communication to Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, the organisation , based in Brussels, which had paid an official ... Read More »