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The immediate past Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly,  Hon. Sanai Oyeniran Agunbiade aka S.O.B has emphasised the need for Nigerians to attach importance to experience in the legislative arm of government. Agunbiade, who represented Ikorodu Constituency 1 in the Assembly from 2007 to 2023, said in an interview with journalists covering the assembly in his office recently that the more a legislator stays in office the better for the society and his constituency, saying that he enjoyed his stay in the assembly, while it lasted. "I love legislation and I enjoyed every bit of my stay in the assembly. It's unfortunate that our society is yet to come to terms with the rules of the legislature, the more you stay in the legislature the better for legislation and the better for the society.  "You get to know more by being a legislator. But our people still see legislature as where you just go for one or two terms and go back to your constituency.  "This is ...

  The Nigerian children have been encouraged to exhibit the trait of love and care for one another and their environment. This forms the objective of the newly established Wuraade Adekoya Foundation, which held it’s maiden programme on Monday. The late Wuraade Adekoya died after successfully putting out a gas explosion that would have ended up consuming her environs if not stopped. In her memory on what could have been her 21st birthday, her family members, friends and associates visited the Tripple Passion Home Initiative (orphanage) Magodo, Lagos to extend hands of charity to children with special needs. They also visited the Trauma and Burns Centre, Gbagada, and LASUTH, where Wuraade was taken after the domestic fire incident before her unfortunate demise with gifts for patients. Some of her course mates at the Mass Communication Department of the University of Lagos spoke eloquently about her brilliance, eloquence, sociable mien and friendliness. Oluwapelumi Ogungbe, a colleagu...

Founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B Joshua has been described as a legend even in death, who touched many lives while on earth. Well wishers and guests at the 60th posthumous birthday, which was organised for Prophet T.B Joshua at SCOAN in Ikotun area of Lagos on Monday, June 12, 2023, recalled activities of the celebrated cleric in his lifetime, saying that his likes come once in a generation. In his message at the event, Prophet Joshua Iginla, founder of Champions Royal Assembly, said that T.B Joshua was a gift from God, and thanked God that his generation was able to benefit from the late cleric. Iginla added that T.B Joshua took the bullet for others that came behind him, saying that the way he comported himself was worthy of emulation. "T.B Joshua was hated, yet he gave people love. He endured persecution. His prophetic ministry was very strong. Many people did not understand him. He was a gift that came from heaven," he said. Also comment...

Former Deputy Speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly and Senator-elect, Lagos Central Senatorial district, Rt. Hon Wasiu Eshinlokun Sanni has called on Nigerians to uphold democratic principles and celebrate diversity. He also extended the call to the good people of Lagos Central Senatorial district as they join fellow Nigerians in celebrating Democracy Day today. Eshinlokun made this known during the 2023 Democracy anniversary, urging Nigerians to celebrate diversity, and promote harmonious relationships. He also said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was among the foot soldiers that fought for the return of democracy in Nigeria. According to him, “This year’s democracy day is being celebrated under the leadership of one of the “soldiers” that fought for our second Independence, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. “The contribution of Asiwaju Tinubu and other pro-democracy activists, as well as Nigerians, that jeopardised ...

A group, Ogun Integrity Vanguard (OIV), has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the March 18 governorship election in Ogun State, Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu, to present himself for trial instead of writing frivolous petitions to the police over his vote buying scandal. According to OIV, it is disturbing that after the Federal Government had investigated their vote buying plot and charged them to court, Adebutu and some accused members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State are now writing petitions to the Inspector General of Police ( IGP), Mr. Usman Alkali Baba, asking him to investigate Governor Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for vote buying too. The group made its position known in a statement signed by its secretary, Duro Thomas, and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Monday. Thomas said: “It is common knowledge that following their alleged role in facilitating vote buying during the March 18 gove...

Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and civil society organisations (CSOs) under the aegis of the Coalition Of National Civil Society Organisations (CNCSOs) have demanded that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu resign from office.  The CNPP and the CSOs issued a 14-day ultimatum to Prof. Yakubu to step aside or they will galvanised all democratic and legal means to force him to do so.  In a statement jointly signed by the CNPP Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu and the National Secretary of the Coalition, Alhaji Ali Abacha, they explained that the INEC Chairman, who failed to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) it procured “despite billions of naira wasted on the 2023 general elections is not worthy of remaining in office and must not be allowed to continue to waste the nation's resources in conduct of future elections.”  According to the statement issued in Abuja, the CNPP and the CSOs...

  The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated the residents of the state as the nation marks.another June 12 Anniversary, while urging them to be hopeful and resilient. It was recalled in a press release signed by the party's Publicity Secretary in the state, Hon. Hakeem Amode that it was on June 12, 1993 that the nation had her freest and fairest Presidential Election, which was won by the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, which was annulled by the government of former president Ibrahim Babangida. Amode also recalled in the press release dated June 11, 2023 that Lagos State was a hotbed of crisis after the annulment, which he said led to June 12 riot on the streets of Lagos and the death of several residents of the state. "In view of this, we wish to congratulate the residents of the state for their tolerance and resilience since the country returned to democracy in 1999. "We also want them to be hopeful and resilient as we have the...