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A lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Lukmon Olumo has urged the residents of the state to cooperate with both the state and Federal Governments for development purposes. Olumo, representing Ajeromi/Ifelodun Constituency 1 in the House. said in an interview that both Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the state and President Muhammadu Buhari have been working for the development of the state and the country respectively since they got to power. The lawmaker then appealed to the residents of Lagos State to give Governor Sanwo-Olu enough time to carry out his duties and fulfil his electoral promises. "Mr. Governor is fulfilling his electoral promises to the people of the state. "He is fixing the roads gradually. We had rainy season, nobody can build roads during rainy season or else you would just waste your money. "But, day in day out, the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure as well as the Public Works are working. "The drainages are being

With just few days to Year 2020, the National President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa has called for caution among the members of the union, while wishing them a happy New Year in advance. Baruwa also appealed to members of the union in a statement he personally signed to be cautious, while transporting passengers from one location to another during the New Year celebration. The NURTW National President added in the statement, which was made available to journalists, that time had come for members of the union to see life as irreplaceable and to do everything possible to stay alive so that they could enjoy the fruits of their labour. "While I want to wish our teeming members a happy New Year in advance, I want to enjoin them to drive safely because it is only those who are alive that can celebrate. "We cannot afford to be reckless in our driving. Moreso, I want to advise our members not to drink before or while dri

Wife of the Deputy Governor of Osun State, Mr Benedict Gboyega Alabi, Titilayo has been arrested in Lagos over multiple fraud charges.  Titilayo was said to have been arrested earlier this morning Thursday 19th December, 2019 and currently cooling her buttocks with the authorities at the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi Lagos.. The fraud allegation is said to be related to about three million seven hundred thousand naira (N3,700,000) cost of furniture supplied to her apartment, which Mrs Titilayo Alabi claimed to be the guest house of her husband, the Deputy Governor of Osun State. The apartment is allegedly located in the higher brow area of Opebi in Ikeja, Lagos. However, we learnt owners of the furniture and Interior decor company which located on Allen Avenue Ikeja, had tried all their bes possible to make the number two woman in Osun State pay her debt, but the woman had ignored all entreaties and plea for payment for the supplies made around September 2019. Mrs Alabi

The duo of Akiogun and Abisogun Ruling Houses, two of the ruling houses in Iruland in Lagos, have declared support for Prince Aremo Adesegun Oniru as the next Oniru of Iruland. This is coming on the heels of the claim by the opponent of Adesegun Oniru for the stool, Mr. Hakeem Ajasa that he is from Abisogun family and that he had been endorsed for the coveted stool by the family. It will be recalled that the Akiogun Ruling House in Iruland, where Prince Adesegun Oniru came from, had earlier endorsed him as their candidate for the stool. In declaring their support for Prince Adesegun Oniru for the stool, members of Abisogun Ruling House spoke through the Odofin of Iruland, Chief Saliu Abisogun during a recent press conference. Speaking under the topic; "On the Oniru Stool: The Need for Further Development Of Iruland," Chief Abisogun revealed that the Oniru Stool came to statutory recognition in 1994 after a history of more than 200 years. The Chief added that the l

Not a few Nigerians were taken aback, when the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) declared a general strike on Wednesday 11th December, 2019 and threw the country into a total blackout. The workers embarked on the strike action following crisis in the power sector at the expiration of the 21 days issued by the union. However, the swift initiative of  Minister of State (Power), Mr. Goddy Jedy Agba in extensively engaging the stakeholders in the sector including those from the Ministry of Power, Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex Okoh, representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, leadership of NUEE and others. The meeting addressed several issues that led to the suspension of the strike action by the electricity workers, who resumed duty after 24 hours of the exercise. The communique issued at the end of the meeting was jointly signed by the Honourable Minister of State (Power),  Mr. Goddy Jedy Agba (OFR), Director Gener

Nigeria's First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari is certainly facing an existential battle, despite being the wife of the President of the most populous black country in the world. Her travails are not actually from her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, but from those that surround him, who she strongly believes are trying to make life difficult for her and her children, and she appears to be helpless as her husband does not seem perturbed by what she has been complaining about right in Aso Rock, the seat of Nigeria's government where the first family resides. Hajia Aisha Buhari has never failed to express her views on issues concerning the running of the government and matters that have to do with her family and her husband's administration generally. Aisha comes across as a very strong woman and what most Nigerians appreciate about her, is the fact that she speaks her mind.  The First Lady has voiced out the truth on many occasions damning whatever consequen

It has become necessary to nip in the bud the vicious lies being shamelessly peddled by certain unscrupulous fellows who have allowed their greed to rob them of their senses. Where good people choose to stay away while untruths are being fed to the people, they (the good people) enable the ground upon which the truth is forever lost, actual history is interred and the lies become the new truths. The desires of certain persons to illegally appropriate the currently vacant stool of Oniru of Iruland has foolishly caused them to fabricate history and feed their fabrications to the innocent members of the public. After several failed previous attempts at selling their fabrications to the people, they have invented a new one wherein they are claiming that a certain ruling house within the Oniru Royal Family had been occupying the Obaship stool of Oniru of Iruland for the past 75 (Seventy Five) years. This claim, we must say, is the height of falsity. That any lineage has been occupying

There appears to have been a breakthrough in the search for the next Oniru of Iruland in Lagos State as the heads of Akiogun Ruling House, community leaders, elders and youths of Iruland have picked a former commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development in the state, Prince Aremo Adesegun Abiodun Oniru as the next Oniru of Iruland. Heads of Akiogun Ruling House, community leaders (baales) of some settlements in Iruland including Baale of Ilabare, Chief Ahmed Basorun, Baales of Oko Kuku, Ipewun, Osolu, Alakoto, Mosafejo, Falomo, Abule Ode amongst others unanimously agreed that Prince Adesegun Oniru should be installed as the next Oniru of Iruland. Others including women, youths and several residents of the area, who were present at the venue of the declaration lent their voices to the choice of Prince Adesegun Oniru, son of the late Oniru of Iruland, Oba Abiodun Oniru, who died in September, 2019, as the next Oba of Iruland. This declaration was however, preceded by

The Abisogun Family has described a report in a section of the media that the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to ex-governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, Mr. Hakeem Ajasa has been picked as the next Oniru of Iruland in Lagos State as fake news. According to the family, the selection of Ajasa, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) as the next Oniru of Iruland, is kangaroo and it is not known to the entire family.   The family said in a public notice titled; "Fake News By A Section of Abisogun Ruling House" that the "public and all interested parties are put on notice of the kangaroo selection of a person unknown to the entire Oniru Family to rule over their land and fill the currently vacant Oniru Chieftaincy stool."   The family, who described themselves as Cheated Members of Abisogun Ruling House, alleged in the notice that was released to the media on Friday that being a policeman, they had information from reliable sources that Akeem Aj

The management of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMSL) has debunked any knowledge or involvement in the physical attack of the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, at the National Assembly. NPA boss Ms. Hadiza Usman petitioned the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan alleging that she was physically attacked by hoodlums at the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday. She claimed that her attack was sponsored by Chairman of Messrs Ocean Maritime Solutions Limited (OMSL), Captain Wells Okunbo apparently over the decision of the NPA on the Secure Anchorage issue after attending investigative hearing in the Assembly. She said that she was only saved a bigger assault by her security agents who took her into Senator Danjuma Goje’s office where she waited for the hoodlums to leave. Reacting to the allegation, Commodore Chuma Adogu (rtd), said the allegation was a falsehood and a figment of imagination, saying the

A former member of the Federal House of Representatives and an international lawyer of repute, Prince Ned Nwoko has urged members of the Association of Ex-Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria (ASELGON) to be committed to nation building. Nwoko spoke during his investiture as the Grand Patron of the Association in his mansion in Idumuje Ugboko, Delta State on Saturday 23rd November, 2019. The politician stated that the responsibility was big for him as the first grand patron of the association, adding that he would do his best to support their ideals. "I have no doubt that with little support and your zeal, you will play a lot of roles in nation building. "I am a grassroots person also, even if you have 30% support across all the local governments, you can make a lot of difference," he said. The former lawmaker told the members of the association that their job required consistency and commitment. He lamented that Nigeria is a country of survival of the

The duo of the former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun and the incumbent Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu were reportedly given the disgrace of their lives as they were turned to observers at the last National Executive Council meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which held recently at the party's national secretariat in Abuja. Sources at the crucial meeting revealed that the two top politicians were so treated based on their alleged anti-party activities in the 2019 General Elections. It will be recalled that while ex-governor Amosun fielded a candidate from the Alliance Peoples Movement (APM) for the governorship election in Ogun State, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State highjacked and diverted money meant for election in the state for Action Alliance. We were informed that the National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had protested the attendance of Akeredolu and ex-governor Amosun at the meeting. Oshiomhole reportedly ins

Association of Ex-Local Government Chairmen Of Nigeria (ASELGON) is set to honour Nigerian popular politician, successful businessman and international lawyer, Hon. (Dr) Ned Nwoko as Patron of the body. The investiture will be done at the billionaire politician's palatial country home in Idumuje Ugboko, Delta State on Saturday, 23rd November 2019 and it would be graced by top politicians and eminent personalities from across the country. ASELGON is the national body of elected former local government in Nigeria with membership across the 774 local governments in the country with the core goal of deepening and entrenching globally acceptable democratic ethos. They body said in a statement signed by their National President, Albert Ashipa that it was an obvious fact that Nwoko had left indelible footprints in the sand of grassroots governance and development for his efforts to get Paris Club refund for the 774 local governments which they said till today many were unawar

The National Union of Ogoni Students international (NUOS INTL USA) and Ogoni Lives Matter International (OLM USA) have urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to expel Shell Oil from Ogoniland and posthumously exonerate the late Ken Saro Wiwa. The groups, over the weekend,  remniscenced on  the "horrific murder and the Kangaroo judicial hanging of the Nigerian state of its forefathers and heroes" at the 24th anniversary of the action in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The occasion was reportedly honored by a cross spectrum of human rights communities, supporters and friends of Ogonis struggle, who paid tributes to their "untarnished character, courage and conviction" and vowed to take the fight to restore their good names and dignity as well as ensure that their names are removed from the Nigerian criminal records. Glenn Roger, a retired police chief was said to be the keynote speaker at the event.  The report of the event was contained in a statement jointly si

A chieftain of the Ogun State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who is also gunning for the state chairmanship position of the union, Alhaji Akeem Bodunrin aka Iyeru has reportedly declared a total war against the National President of the union, Alhaji (Professor) Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa. According to information made available to us, the relationship between Iyeru and Baruwa became frosty, when the latter won the election few months ago as the National President of the union. A source had told us that Iyeru, who had been eyeing the position of the State Chairmanship of the Ogun State council of the NURTW, had been suspicious that Alhaji Baruwa would not approve of him (Iyeru) getting the enviable state chairmanship slot. Thus, Akeem Bodunrin (Iyeru) allegedly preempted all the actions of the new National President and raced to the court to get an injunction against the conduct of the state election, which was supposed to take pla

Less than 40 days after the death of a first class monarch in Lagos State, the Oniru of Iruland. His Royal Majesty, Oba Idowu Abiodun Oniru, serious war has reportedly broken out in Abisogun Ruling House over his successor. It will be recalled that the respected and powerful monarch died in late September, 2019 at the age of 82 after a brief illness. Under the reign of the monarch, Iru land, the host of the highbrow Oniru and Victoria Island, became a mega location with investments and buildings worth hundreds of billions of naira. We were reliably informed that a tussle has broken down over the throne with many candidates showing interest in the coveted seat. Some of those said to have shown interest in the obaship seat included Wasiu Ogunbambi, Jamiu Adelakun and Saliu Abisogun. Others included Hakeem Ajasa, Fabayi clan, Giwa Otto clan amongst several others. Reliable sources informed us that lobby has started in high places as some of the candidates were said to ha

A Lagos based socio-political group has accused the South West Women Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) of sponsoring media attacks against her perceived political enemies in the state. The group, known as Lagos Women of Action stated in a press statement signed by Alhaja Faderera Johnson, made available to our reporter stated that Mrs Nelson should desist from her inglorious and distasteful political games of pulling other women down or be forced to exposed her immoral ways to the public.  Read the press statement below…….. Kemi Nelson Again! Throwing Stones From A Glass House!!   The South West Women Leaders of the All Progressive Congress(APC). Mrs Kemi Nelson is becoming a menace to the Lagos society. A woman with several cans of worms is fond of harassing and intimidating fellow women in Lagos political circle by sponsoring fake news against them. The recent media attack from her media team against a God fearing top female APC leader in Lagos has expo

The United States of America, USA, Eleme Chapter of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has kicked against the reported acquisition of 45% stake/share of Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company's OML 11 by the Rivers State Government. According to the group, the decision was unacceptable and it would be resisted by the people of Ogoniland. The group expressed their views in a statement jointly signed by the Coordinator of MOSOP USA, Eleme Chapter, Mr. Koida Ejire,  Secretary, MOSOP USA Eleme Chapter, Dr. Owarr Chjjor and the Secretary MOSOP CTC, USA, Godwin Lale Ollor. "The attention of Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, Eleme Chapter USA has been drawn to the purported broadcast and publications in various media networks by the government and Governor of Rivers State, Chief Barrister Nyesom Wike that the Rivers State government has acquired 45% stake/share of Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company's OML 11. "We would like to state categor