Author: Mr Abiodun Borisade

Fashola: Reelecting Buhari will ensure return of power to south-west in 2023 Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, has urged the people of south-west to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 elections to guarantee a return of power to the region in 2023. The minister said this at a special town hall meeting on infrastructure organised by the ministry information and the National Orientation Agency (NOA). Lai Mohammed, minister of information, led Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation; and Suleiman Adamu, minister of water resources, to the town hall meeting. Fashola said besides, the massive investments…

Read More

“Muhammadu Buhari won all the last 3 elections in Nigeria but was rigged out” Former US ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell. Courtesy; Ayekooto Akindele. Fashola, the politician has stirred the hornet’s nest! Saying that power will return to the SW in 2023 if President Buhari is returned next year has put Afenifere on the spot! What is Gbenga Daniel for instance going to tell his Ogun people now? That Atiku would run for only a term? An Atiku who just made the Igbos look lost with his treachery? Who then would Atiku hand over to in 2023? The Yorubas? Good…

Read More

Ekiti lawmakers approve Finance Commissioner, Attorney-General. Ekiti State House of Assembly has confirmed Mr Dapo Kolawole and Mr Olawale Fapohunda as Commissioner for Finance and Attorney General/ Commissioner for Justice respectively. The two commissioners were confirmed Thursday, after their screening by the lawmakers following a letter by the Governor, earlier in the week, requesting their screening and confirmation for the positions. Fapohunda, a human rights lawyer was Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice between 2012 and 2014. Kolawole, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN), served as Commissioner for Finance during Fayemi’s first tenure.…

Read More

FEMALE GUBER CANDIDATE CAUSES NEW TWIST AT OSUN ELECTION TRIBUNAL -LERE FAGBOLA With a 26 paragraph affirmation sworn to by a female governorship candidate of National Rescue Movement NRM, Jumoke Lawoyin who is contesting her unlawful exclusion from the September 22 election in Osun State, there appears to be a new twist in the ongoing trial at the Election tribunal to where the Peoples Democratic Party PDP had dragged both Independent National Electoral Commission INEC and the All Progressive Congress APC. Looking at her petition “No :EPT /OS/GOV/02/2018″with the eye of a Yoruba proverb, the case can be likened to…

Read More

The first phase of the campaign was launched at the 36th International Convention of ANA which held in Makurdi, Benue State in October last year. Since then ANA chapters across the Federation have distributed the three children literature titles, published by the Nigerian Writers Series( NWS) an imprint of ANA, widely across schools. The books in question are Oma , the Drummer Queen, by Salamatu Sule, The Golden Girl of Galma by Kabiru Abdullahi and The Loyal Queen by Chinyere Obi-Obasi. Mrs Bisi Fayemi, a notable gender and human rights advocate in her own rights with books to her…

Read More

The Mobutu sese seko of ekiti. The difference between the life style of Mobutu, biya even ghadaffi and ekiti’s Ayo Fayose is the location!!! Opulence in the midst of lack!! Salaries at both state and local government levels remained unpaid while the manor fed fat!!! A near sorry case of “print more currency”, The EBORA himself needs to carry olosho and chop more life? Many still are dumbfounded that despite the numerous claims of debt/gbese there remained room for such opulence…. Too numerous are the state owned projects that became moribund under the fayose administrations, too numerous are the partnership…

Read More

The Mobutu sese seko of ekiti!!! The difference between the life style of Mobutu, biya even ghadaffi and ekiti’s Ayo Fayose is the location!!! Opulence in the midst of lack!! Salaries at both state and local government levels remained unpaid while the manor fed fat!!! A near sorry case of “print more currency”, The EBORA himself needs to carry olosho and chop more life? Many still are dumbfounded that despite the numerous claims of debt/gbese there remained room for such opulence…. Too numerous are the state owned projects that became moribund under the fayose administration, too numerous are the partnership…

Read More

Ethiopian President resigns Ethiopia’s President Mulatu Teshome on Wednesday filed resignation request to the Ethiopian Parliament, State news agency ENA reported. Teshome, who has been the East African country’s head of state since October 2013, on Wednesday submitted his letter of resignation as the Ethiopian parliament’s two houses are scheduled to consider his resignation. The houses would eventually name his successor in a joint extraordinary session on Thursday, the report said. The joint extraordinary session of the Ethiopian parliament on Thursday “will deliberate on the president’s application for resignation and will elect a new president,’’ according to ENA. The erstwhile…

Read More