POLITICS

DAURA – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC Presidential candidate, has given reasons why he picked a Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate. Tinubu announced Shettima as his running mate after paying a visit to President Buhari in Daura on Sunday, July 10, 2022. Speaking to newsmen on why he …

ABUJA – The former Deputy Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly (1999-2003) and current Chairman of the Governing Board of Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Rt. Hon. Olusegun Bolanle Gbeleyi (OBG), has enjoined Nigerian Muslims in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj and  those at home, to offer prayers for the …

Opinion: By: Adémólá Òrúnbon   Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been one of the prominent names since the soldiers returned to the barracks and handed over power to democratically elected leaders in 1999, he was first and foremost elected a senator to represent Lagos West in 1992 under the banner of …

IPERU-REMO – Ahead of the 2023 general election, no fewer than 5,000 members of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun state have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The defectors who were members of Ladi Adebutu and late Senator Buruji Kashamu factions of the party in Iperu, Ikenne …

ABEOKUTA – Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has charged the state workforce to brace up for more prosperous years ahead as his government is set to conduct the 2021/2022 promotional exercise. Speaking at the 2022 Public Service Day Celebration, held at the Oba’s Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Prince Dapo Abiodun …

ABUJA – National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was recently declared the flagbearer of the party Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) has announced his manifesto for the transformation of Nigeria if elected president of the country.         According to a press statement e-signed and made available to the …

Opinion: By Adebayo Adedeji Claudia Berg, a development researcher at the World Bank, in her 2015 article, reiterates importance the Bank attaches to road construction. It is believed that without good roads, other aspects of development will suffer. Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses; they facilitate and …

Opinion By OLADIPỌ Oluwọle Who betrayed whom amongst the dramatis personae at the just concluded presidential primaries/convention of the People Democratic Party, (PDP), in Abuja ? The River State Governor, His Excellency, Nyesome Wike’s support for Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State at the 2018 PDP presidential primaries, was beyond …

Opinion: BY OLADIPọ OLUWọLE The former Nigeria vice president and PDP presidential aspirant towards the 2023 general elections, His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, during the party recent screening exercise and his official declaration in Abuja, unfolded his 5point agenda as follows – the Unity of the country, Security, Economy, Education …

Group Raises Eyebrows Over Tobun’s Fifth Term Agenda EPE-LAGOS – A group, Epe Progressive Indigene for Good Governance (EPIGG), has threw spanners at the fifth term bid of a Lagos Assembly Member, representing Epe Constituency I, Hon. Abiodun Mustainu Tobun, claiming that he has not done enough for the people …