Elections: Putting the Cart Before the Horse by Tola Adeniyi

The selfish and self-centred Nigerian political leadership and their short-sighted collaborators are gearing up for the rituals and rigours of elections regardless of the humongous unresolved maladies in the land. It is needless recounting or listing the plagues in the unfortunate country called Nigeria because they are well known to both natives and the international […]

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Lagos Govt To Divert Traffic At Yaba Axis For Red Line Phase 1 Project From Feb 1-16

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos In line with the Lagos Rail Mass Transit project, the Lagos State government will divert traffic from Yaba as it continues the First Phase of the construction of the Red Line covering Oyingbo to Agbado from midnight Tuesday, February 1, 2022, till February 16, 2022. In a statement by the Ministry of […]

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Let’s Stop Destroying, Castigating Tinubu. – Ogedengbe Advises Nigerians

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos The National President,  All Christian Leaders and Ministers forum, Rev. Sam Ogedengbe, on Wednesday asked Nigerians to stop castigating the National Leader and Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the 2023 general election. Ogedengbe who doubles as the National Coordinator, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Christian Forum […]

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Ex-Lagos CP, Odumosu, Bows Out Of Police Force

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos The immediate past Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Hakeem Odumosu, on Tuesday, inspected the final parade as a cop, taking a bow out of the Police Force.  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in his note of commendation, said Odumosu served Lagos and the country with every mental and physical […]

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Sanwo-Olu Mourns Lagos Ex-SSG, Adeniran-Ogunsanya

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passing of former Secretary to the Lagos State Government (SSG), Princess Adenrele Adeniran-Ogunsanya. Adeniran-Ogunsanya, the daughter of prominent Ikorodu-born politician and associate of the late Nnamdi Azikiwe, Prince Adeniran Ogunsanya, died after a brief illness on Tuesday at 74. She was the Secretary to […]

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2023: Atiku and the age of Methuselah politics

By Kassim Afegbua Having concluded the convention of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, with a new leadership that looks promising, the Party will have to rise above board to produce a presidential candidate from the Southern part of the country to complete the narrative. With the abysmal performance of President Muhammadu Buhari on account of […]

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Lagos Govt Announces Dies For Informal Transport Sector To Harmonise Dues From Commercial Motorists

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos The Lagos State Government and transportation stakeholders in the State on Tuesday signed an agreement and officially unveiled the ‘Consolidated Informal Transport Sector Levy’ to harmonise dues collected by the government from commercial motorists at parks and garages across the State. The agreement between the state, local government and various unions in […]

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Buhari Pays Condolence Visit To Shonekan’s Family In Lagos

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited the Lagos residence of the Head of the Interim National Government during the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, the late Chief Ernest Shonekan, to commiserate with the deceased family. President Buhari was accompanied to the Lugard Avenue, Ikoyi’s residence of the late Shonekan by Lagos […]

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Alao-Akala’s Death A Great Loss To Oyo, Nigeria – Sanwo-Olu

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos Lagos State Governor,  Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has described the death of the former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, as a great loss to his family, the people of Oyo State, particularly sons and daughters of Ogbomoso and Nigeria as a whole. Governor Sanwo-Olu also commiserated with Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, as […]

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Sanwo-Olu Mourns Shonekan, Says Ex-ING Head Did His Best For Nigeria

Victoria Ojugbana, Lagos  Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passage of the former Head of the Nigerian Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan. Shonekan, who succeeded former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, died on Tuesday in Lagos at the age of 85. Governor Sanwo-Olu described late Shonekan, as a renowned technocrat, seasoned […]

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