Author: Olamide Obayemi

By Babatunde Raji Fashola Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank you all for the honour of inviting me to speak at this year’s Founders Day celebration of the Eko Boys High School and in particular for inaugurating this Memorial lecture in honour of the visionary Reverend William Benjamin Euba now of very blessed memory, who founded this school. I know that in 1955 when the Premier of the Western Region inaugurated the free primary education program across the western region, the prevailing condition was one of mass illiteracy. While many of our people are now literate in numeracy and…

By Abbas Lateefat Elizabeth The human body breaks down. Of course, this is no new knowledge or anything to be surprised over. We are not machines that can work all day and that need servicing sometimes, which they get and soon, they are back on track. But the human body not only breaks down, the human mind does as well. Now is one more severe than the other? That depends on what you know about the damages on both of them. For example, Medications are administered to physical or life threatening issues; things like accidents, burns, diseases, body pains and…

The Asiwaju/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council received with amusement the hasty “resignation” of Hajiya Naja’atu Mohammed from her position as Director of Civil Society Organisations just before she was sacked for incompetence, quarrelsomeness and after being uncovered to be a mole planted in our winning campaign in order to leak sensitive information to our desperate opponents. Although she deceived the gullible public by claiming that she resigned, her sack letter with ignominy from the campaign and the party had just arrived at her desk. Her desperate, fact-free, machination-filled and imaginary utterances since her sack from the campaign has proved beyond doubt…

Respected Islamic scholar and author, Sheikh Najeemdeen Adegbite Binuyo is dead. Sheikh Binuyo, a renowned author, scholar and well respected broadcast journalist, died few hours into Tuesday, 24 January, 2023. He was aged 96. Sheikh Binuyo’s death was announced by the Lagos Mainland Muslim Community with details of his burial scheduled for Tuesday, 24 January, 2023. Sheikh Binuyo is survived by his highly devoted wife, Alhaja Sidiquat Binuyo and children one whom is the former Deputy Chief of Staff to the erstwhile Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, Prince Abdullahi Adeyanju Binuyo. The mandatory Islamic funeral prayers will be performed…

One of the most popular young politicians in Agege Federal Constituency, Bukola Nurudeen Sofidiya aka Gidado has dissociated himself from the defection of ex-Member of the House of Representatives, Hon Olakunle Amunikoro to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), reports thegazellenews.com Amunikoro, who represented Agege Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives for two terms between 2003 and 2011, is an uncle of the young but popular politician. Many have been insinuating that with the defection of his uncle, Gidado has also moved with him, a rumour he denied and debunked. “I’m a full-blooded member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and…

The number of people that experience penis injury during sex in the United Kingdom is swelling, official NHS figures show. Surgeons in the United Kingdom repaired 169 fractured manhoods in the 12 months to April 2022, up 46 on the year before. According to the Scottish Sun, experts reckon it may show that more men are using Viagra to make a stand. Most procedures involve men in their 30s, although two in their 70s had breaks last year. The repair involves cutting into the penis to stitch the tear. London-based consultant urologist Gordon Muir said breaks occur during sex when…

By Adediji Kaosarat Adewunmi Find the balance between the role of the Media in Shaping Public perception and The Media as a Business. Today, the media has grown beyond just an industry to an advocacy labyrinth of social and cultural matters influencing how we understand ourselves and our world, as well as how we respond to issues that play a significant impact from politics to culture. The media or the fourth estate of the realm now serves as an important independent segment of society that has an indirect but key role in influencing the political system. The fourth estate derives…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, 23 January, 2023, commended Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the State Government revolution in the agriculture sector, especially in rice production. The President told Governor Sanwo-Olu in a simple sentence “You are doing Well.” President Buhari spoke during the inauguration of the Lagos Rice Mill in Imota, the largest rice mill in Sub Saharan Africa and the fourth largest in the world. The President who toured the facility, saw the rice pyramid and also watched the last part of the bagging process, which is the sealing, said he was impressed by what he…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, can confirm that one Captain Warredi Enisuoh, is currently under investigation but the case is unrelated to oil pipeline security or his role as Head of Operations in Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo’s Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited. Enisuoh is under investigation in an alleged case of Money Laundering involving the criminal dissipation of funds in an account held by him but which is the subject of longstanding investigation by the EFCC. As an official of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Enisuoh is being prosecuted alongside former Director General of the…

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) announced today, Monday, 23 January, 2023, that its office in Lagos was burgled and ransacked over the weekend by a group of unidentified intruders who made away with nine laptop computers and other valuable equipment worth millions of naira. In a statement issued in Lagos, the Head of MRA’s Legal Department, Ms. Obioma Okonkwo, described the incident as shocking and frightening attack on the organization, saying it was still trying to determine whether the action was simply a robbery incident or a more sinister effort to cripple MRA’s operations or access its records and information since only…

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Monday, 23 January, 2023, took a swipe again at the opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) alleging that while the party was in power, it abandoned the people in the northeast to Boko Haram insurgency. Lawan said it was not until President Muhammadu Buhari came into power before the region was eventually liberated from the clutches of Boko Haram. The Senate President thanked President Buhari for the many benefits which the northeast enjoyed from his government. Speaking at the APC Presidential Campaign Rally which was attended by Buhari in Bauchi, the Senate President said:…

The management of IHS an international Telecoms infrastructure company has donated equipment worth millions of naira to the Nigeria immigration Service (NIS) to promote service delivery especially regarding border security as the nation gears up for general election. The CEO of the company, Dr Mohammad Darwish, who made the donation to the NIS Comptroller General, Isah Idris, stated that his organisation, IHS has been working closely with telecom industry in Nigeria for the past 21 years and had provided employment to over 40,000 Nigerians directly and indirectly. Earlier in his welcome speech, the CGIS thanked the company for their responsiveness…

Prof. Fola Aboaba, one of the closest persons to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye has passed on, reports thegazellenews.com He died in Lagos on Saturday, 21 January, about 47 days to his 90th birthday after a brief illness. Professor Aboaba was in a circle of three friends very close to Pastor Adeboye. The others are: Mr. Simeon Olakunrin (SAN) and Elder Felix Ohiwerei Until his death, Prof. Aboaba officiated regularly at special Holy Ghost Nights of the RCCG. He played the role of introducing Pastor Adeboye to the podium to minister on…

By Kassim Afegbua If at this age, a 67-year old Lady can still behave like a typical hustler, then Asiwaju Tinubu truly has a lot of work to do to empower such fellows when he becomes President. Last week, Najaatu Mohammed separated herself from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and joined the Atiku Abubakar’s chequered aspiration. She loosely and lousily declared that but for the South-West media, Asiwaju Tinubu should not be allowed to become president. A Najaatu that has always been on the side of justice; or supposedly, I should have said, has now latched on to Atiku Abubakar’s campaigns…

A mammoth crowd of party supporters and other residents on Monday thronged the streets of Bauchi to receive President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a campaign tour of the state. Tinubu, who had spent the night at the capital of the north-eastern state, joined the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, governors and other party chieftains to receive President Buhari at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport Monday morning.  On ground to receive the president were Senate President Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi…

Ex-Chairman of Ikeja branch of the Young Lawyers’ Forum (YLF) of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Yusuff Temilola Nurudeen has been nominated as a member of the Nigerian Bar Association National Executive Committee (NBA-NEC). In his new role, Nurudeen will be working closely with the National Executive Committee and 150 distinguished members of the Bar including 38 Learned Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs). Nigerian Bar Association National Executive Committee (NBA-NEC) is the highest decision-making organ of the association. Pursuant to Section 8(6) of the NBA Constitution 2015 (as amended in 2021) the National Executive Council (NEC) subject to the provisions…

Monday, 23 January, 2023, will remain indelible and a watershed in the race towards who occupies the Oke Mosan seat in the 2023 gubernatorial polls. That day, the Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, upheld the petition of the candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Barrister Biyi Otegbeye. The appellate court equally upheld the petitions of all the 23 House of Assembly candidates of the party in the forthcoming general elections. The APC had spurred some elements in the Labour Party to drag the ADC to court, alleging that Otegbeye as well as 23 Assembly candidates of the…