1. Welcome to 2021! No doubt 2020 was a difficult year for several reasons. On a calm assessment of that year, we do have a lot to be thankful for. 2. We should start the new year with much gratitude and positive thoughts. Looking forward, it is also necessary that our experience in 2020 shapes in very specific ways our agenda for 2021. 3. It is for this reason that I am proposing “Healthy Living and Professional Development” as the Ministry of Justice(MoJ) theme for 2021. 4. On healthy living, in the first quarter of this year we will pursue…
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After Messi was said to have broken the Brazilian’s record for goals at a single club, Santos updated their statistics ‘Over time that Pelé persona has become fixed, an exhibit in the increasingly distant museum of 20th-century pop iconography.’It seems odd looking back now, but Pelé’s 50th birthday was marked with a star-studded Pelé exhibition match televised live around the world. Before kick-off a giant Pelé cake was wheeled out at San Siro, on top of which Pelé himself appeared, waving and punching the air in priestly white Pelé-robes, while a massed Pelé-choir sang Happy Birthday Dear Pelé. The Pelé…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said that a new variant of COVID-19 will emerge for every vaccine discovered until world leaders acknowledge that safety is of God. Pastor Adeboye spoke in his “Prophecies for 2021” on Friday shortly after the church’s virtual crossover service. He said: “Some of the things that happened in 2020 will spill over into 2021. “The world as a whole can only come out of the wounds when they admit the following: “That it is the Most High that rules in the affairs of men not science.…
An African-American woman, Bea Lewis, has accused Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, of breaking her “heart in 1,000 pieces” when they dated. The 33-year-old made the allegation in an Instagram post on Thursday. Lewis, who shared pictures of herself and Dangote in a love pose, wrote: “I dated the richest black man in the world. “He broke my heart in 1000 pieces. “I learned more from him than any person I’ve ever met. “Communicating with a billionaire daily makes you see the world different than your humble beginnings in liberty city. “I became more organized and finally am able to…
The registration of new members and update of register of the All Progressives Congress will commence on January 25. The party said this in its New Year message to Nigerians by Senator John Akpanudoedehe, Secretary of its Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, on Friday in Abuja. Akpanudoedehe said: “We have recognised the need for continued conflict resolution and have decided to vigorously pursue reconciliation on all fronts in order to emerge as a stronger party, ahead of the congresses and the 2023 general elections. “Having got the approval for the party membership registration, CECPC is now set to undertake…
The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has returned to his palace in Iga Idungaran, Lagos Island. This comes over two months after Oba Akiolu was spirited out of the palace by Soldiers during an attack by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS protest. The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Oreoluwa Finnih, revealed this on his Twitter handle on Friday. Finnih tweeted: “Our daddy is back home… Oba of Lagos, HRM, Alayeluwa Oba Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu’s triumphant entry to Iga Idunganran Palace, today, Friday, January 1, 2021.” Oba Akiolu was shielded out of the palace…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi has promised to work harder to ensure a safe, secure and prosperous Ekiti State in 2021 where all residents will feel better impact of governance in all the key sectors.Dr. Fayemi also pledged to deliver all ongoing projects that would add value to the economy and lives of the people of the state, adding that that his administration would not leave any abandoned project behind, in spite of limited resources.He urged the people of the state to approach 2021 with the determination to recover lost ground and restore lost hopes brought about…
The Ekiti State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps has warned criminal elements still operating within the state to relocate immediately or be ready to face the full wrath of the law in the coming year. The network noted that the outfit would be rolling out series of security measures in the New Year that would help in ending the waves of killings, kidnappings, farm invasion and other heinous crimes in the State. The Amotekun Corps commander, Brigadier General Joe Komolafe (retd), in a statement made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Thursday, said that there would…
“We recognised that transportation infrastructure is a crucial factor in improving agricultural productivity and creating new markets for agricultural produce, enhancing the quality of life of the people, facilitating interaction among geographical and economic regions, and opening up new centres of economic activities. Therefore, in addition to the routine maintenance of the existing road networks, we are also working on some roads critical to our local economy across the state. You are all aware of the ongoing work on the Ado-Iyin phase of the new Ado – Iyin- Igede – Aramoko – Itawure Road; Aramoko-Erijiyan – Ikogosi road in the…
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Saraki, yesterday shed more light on why the Senate under his leadership between 2015 and 2019 did not confirm the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, and other nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari. Till his suspension from office on July 7, Magu, appointed in November 2015, operated as an acting chairman of the anti-graft body. His nomination was presented twice was for confirmation and the Senate rejected him on both occasions. Magu, who was the prominent among Buhari’s rejected nominees, was not confirmed owing to a report by…
