Author: Mr Abiodun Borisade

SENATOR FATIMA RAJI-RASAKI TAKES CASE TO APC APPEALS COMMITTEE IN ABUJA. The sitting Senator representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate, Mrs. Fatima Kikelomo Raji-Rasaki is currently appearing before the APC Primary Election Appeals Committee sitting at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja. Even though she had contested and woefully lost the primary election which held on Friday, 5th October, 2018; she is insisting that the party ought to give her automatic ticket to contest the February 16, 2019 election as the Senatorial Candidate of the party in spite of the fact that she scored only 3,289 votes…

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Nigeria school food scheme revolutionising education Free meals programme has fed nearly seven million pupils in about 40,000 schools and changed the nature of education. by Linus Unah Ogun state inter-school football and track-and-field competitions are just around the corner, and teachers want to prepare the children physically and mentally for the task ahead. Away from the laughter and shouts of encouragement on the field, four female cooks with aprons on top of traditional indigo-dyed adire gowns ladle porridge mixed with vegetables and fish into hundreds of stainless steel bowls with lids. As the cooks ambled into a nearby classroom…

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Atiku Media team thinks it’s time to start batting back and forth. Naah! Nigerians are not interested in rhetoric. Atiku will tell us exactly what he did in 8 years as VP, to deserve being president. He will tell Nigerians why he has the attention span of a toddler, in a serious thing like leadership politics. More importantly, WHY his name is so embroiled in criminal activity that the USA will not grant him a visa to enter. And now that he is running to be president, we would like to know HOW he made all that money. From being…

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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Collaboration with Commonwealth Election Professionals (CEP) holds a 6-day Training Workshop on “Strengthening Electoral Democracy in Commonwealth Africa” in Abuja. Welcome Address by Hon. National Commissioner, Barr. Festus Okoye Key Note Address by the @commonwealthsec adviser, Martin Kasirye The Hon. Chairman INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, formally declares the training workshop on “Strengthening Electoral Democracy in Commonwealth Africa” in abuja Open. Over the next 5 days, participants will be taken through five inter-related sub-themes ranging from the promotion of sustainable electoral democracy, strategic planning, gender &elections, electoral technology to elections and new media. Prof. Mahmood…

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Lawyer Otike-Odibi killed by wife found with genitals, intestines cut Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, the 50 year-old lawyer who was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife, Udeme, also a lawyer, was found on his matrimonial bed with his genitals and intestines cut off. Two siblings of the lawyer and his friend gave the graphic details in testimonies before the court on Monday. Udeme Otike-Odibi, a 48-year-old lawyer, was on June 13, arraigned by the Lagos State Government on a two-count charge of murder and misconduct with regard to a corpse before an Igbosere High Court in Lagos. She pleaded not guilty…

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Late Zainab once asked me to call police to arrest Danish husband because he wanted to kill her – Witness The trial of a Danish national, Peter Nielson, alleged to have murdered his wife and daughter began on Monday in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria with the prosecution calling its first witness. At the commencement of the trial, the witness, Daniel Joel told a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere of how late Zainab Nielson before her death had come to the driver’s lodge around 1.00am, sometime in 2017, asked him to call the security men at Bella Vista, to come and…

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