Running mate: Funke Akindele suspends acting By Samuel Oamen On Jul 12, 2022 Share Actress Funke Akindele has announced she is putting her acting career on hold after emergence as the running mate of the Lagos Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governorship candidate Dr Olajide Adediran aka Jandor. The Nation reports Jandor picked popular actress, Funke Akindele as his running mate on Tuesday morning. Akindele, while confirming her deputy governorship candidacy, said her acting career must be “necessarily put on hold”. She said it was a sacrifice she had to make to “rescue” the people of Lagos State. In a video shared on the Instagram page…
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RESIDENTS of certain parts of Lagos and Ogun states have lamented losing property worth millions of naira to the incessant rainfall that led to flooding and the attendant destruction of properties. Some of the residents, who spoke with our correspondent, said the losses recorded due to the flood ran into millions of naira. They called on the government to find an urgent solution to the issue of incessant flooding which has wreaked similar destruction in the past. Some of the areas badly affected by the flood included Marina, Lekki, Agege, Victoria Island, Oshodi, Amuwo Odofin, Ilupeju, Ogudu, Maryland, Gbagada, Magboro,…
Some filling stations in Lagos yesterday sold a litre of sold the premium motor spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol, for N220, even though they displayed the regulated N165 a litre on their pumps. Checks at several filling stations across the metropolis showed that the product was sold above the regulated price. The decision to continue to regulate the pump price of petrol has cost the nation about N1.27 trillion since the beginning of the year. Recently, the price of the product increased on the insistence of oil marketers that transportation costs for the commodity had skyrocketed due to a spike…
Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed hope that the Yoruba would support the presidential aspiration of his predecessor, Bola Tinubu. Sanwo-Olu spoke on Monday at the 2022 edition of the Annual Ojude Oba Festival in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. The Governor described Tinubu as an experienced leader, assuring that he would deliver if elected. ”It is my firm hope and belief that the Yoruba race will unite as one behind the momentous candidature of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu”, NAN quoted him saying. Sanwo-Olu said the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer “is a proud son of the race and one of the…
The Ondo State government has said it would continue to provide enabling environment for agribusiness to thrive, by re-energizing the state’s gallant Amotekun Corps to subdue the security challenges across the farmsteads and communities in the state. Akin Olotu, the senior special assistant to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on agriculture and agribusiness, disclosed this on Sunday at the distribution of one million cocoa seedlings and farm inputs to 150,000 cocoa farmers in Ondo and Osun states through the Johnvents Industries Limited Cocoa Sustainability Programme in Akure. Expressing the government’s determination towards ensuring cocoa production and the income generated from the produce…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end its industrial action, which has lasted about five months. Buhari said the industrial action posed a danger to the socio-economic well-being of Nigeria now and in the future. He also said the strike would hurt the capacity of affected students to compete with their peers globally. The President stated these on Monday in Daura when he received Northern governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as lawmakers and political leaders who paid him Sallah homage. A statement signed by his…
The Leadership of the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has lambasted the Federal Government and political actors for allowing the strike by university-based unions to linger. The workers noted that the Federal Government and political actors had abandoned the children of the poor at home to waste away due to the strike. According to the health workers, no responsible government would close down its public tertiary institutions in this 21st Century because of patriotic demands for better funding of its universities and good welfare for its teaching and non-teaching members of staff. They described the continued closure…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it arrested Suleiman Sidi, a Boko Haram suspect who escaped from Kuje prison. Femi Babafemi, spokesman of the NDLEA, said this in a statement on Monday. More to follow…
APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu says though he respects Islam and Christianity, he chose a Muslim running mate because of fairness and competence. “Religion, ethnicity and region cannot always and fully determine our path. To forge ahead as a nation towards development and prosperity, we must break free of old binds,” the APC national leader reasoned. “We must recalibrate our political calculations to where competence and fairness matters, more than reducible demographics.” Mr Tinubu, in a letter on Sunday while announcing his choice of ex-Borno governor, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate, said he was not oblivious of the religious…
Yusuf Lasun, former deputy speaker of the house of representatives, says gunmen invaded his residence in Osun state on Monday. In a tweet on Monday, the former legislator said the armed men shot randomly at his residence. Lasun, who is the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), did not say if any person was shot or whether properties were destroyed in the shooting. “Just in: gun men in uniforms are presently in my residence shooting sporadically,” he wrote. https://twitter.com/LasunRt/status/1546310570902798337?s=19 In another tweet about five hours later, Lasun said: “And (remember) when the disbelievers plotted against you to imprison you,…