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It was an undiluted joy and jubilations at the Palace of Olota of Ota, Oba Abdulkabir Adeyemi Obalanlege when about 25 pupils from different Goverment Secondary Schools across Ado/Ota Local Government Area, received an educational sponsorship letters from a non-governmental group known as OTA GRAVITY GROUP. The schools were: Iganmode Grammar School, Ansarudeen College, Anglican Grammar School, Sango-Ota High School, and Lafenwa High School, Ota. It was gathered that the group, Ota Gravity Group (OGG), also visited the Chief Imam of Ota, Sheik Buhari, who recently lost his house and other valuable properties to a fire incident and they pledged to be part of rebuilding efforts of the edifice. To this effect, architectural design and perimeter fencing have commenced to give the Chief Imam a befitting apartment. It was further learnt that OGG has also pledged to support the Kabiyesi Olota’s pet project & initiative known as the Foundation for Economic and Developme...

The relationship between Nigeria and the United States of America can be said to be as old as the country. United States of America and Nigeria are known to be close to the extent that the two countries have bilateral relationships that have been beneficial to the two nations over the years and so it is more beneficial for the two countries to be friends than to be enemies. While the US dictates the pace in America and in the entire world, Nigeria is a powerful country in Africa, in black nations and its the most populous black country in the world. So, the latest reports indicating that President Donald Trump of the United States of America planned to impose travel ban on the country got to many people as a big surprise. Reports had it that  Donald Trump planned to add Nigeria and six other countries to his travel ban - which could extend to more non-Muslim-majority nations. Currently, travel is banned from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen - all but ...

When President Muhammadu Buhari got into office as President for the first time in 2015, he promised to give Nigerians the best and work with the best set of people that would join him to move Nigeria forward. This, he did with the appointment of people with the ability and capability to make changes and one of the stars of his government then was a former governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, who was given three portfolios of Power, Works and Housing. However, after emerging victorious in the 2019 General Elections, President Muhammadu Buhari felt he needed to make some changes and rejuvenate his government for better performances. Indeed, it was believed that the tenure of Mr. Fashola led to some progress in the power sector, but it appeared Buhari decided to relieve him of some workload and limit him to the Ministry of Works and Housing. With this, a new person was appointed as the Minister of Power in person of Engineer Sale Mamman. Many Nigeri...

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has called on journalists covering the Assembly to be united so that they could achieve much in the New Year. Obasa spoke through the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Publicity, Strategy and Security, Hon. Tunde Braimoh at the annual Get Together/New Year Programmes of the journalists covering the House. The event held at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry Centre, Behind MKO Garden, Alausa, Ikeja on Friday 3rd January, 2020. The Speaker told the journalists, who operate under the auspices of the Lagos State House of Assembly Correspondents Association (LAHACA) that it was a good thing to work together as an indivisible entity. Tunde Braimoh thanked the Organising Committee for the event, adding that it was not easy to serve and that when one does it is a thankless job.  "Togetherness in a forum like this is mandatory by G...

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 A...