Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and presidential aspirant in the forthcoming APC primaries has said it is his turn to become the president of Nigeria and that, without him, President Muhammadu Buhari wouldn’t have won the presidential election in 2015. Tinubu made this known at a meeting with APC delegates in Ogun state. Tinubu said while speaking in Yoruba that “Buhari asked me to be his running mate, but Saraki campaigned against a Muslim-Muslim ticket. He felt it would affect his ambition to be senate president. The senate president could not be a…
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Our attention has just been drawn to a statement widely circulated and credited to the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, purportedly endorsing a particular presidential aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The statement, largely laced with partisan interest and fluid narrative was not authored by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN. The intention of the writer, though juvenile, was to drag the Governor into unnecessary declarations, despite public knowledge of his position as the Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum. Nevertheless, Governor Akeredolu has continued to reiterate the stance of his brother Governors in the…
Former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the incumbent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his counterparts from Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje have arrived in Ibadan the Oyo State capital, as part of his electioneering campaign. Tinubu and supporters are said to be in Ibadan to woo the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates ahead of the forthcoming presidential primary, fixed for 6th June this year. Those on Tinubu’s convoy include former governor of Borno State, Senator Kasim Setthima, Senator Tokunbo Abiru, Bosun Oladele, Rotimi Makinde, Senator Rilwan Soji Akanbi, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, Bosun Oladele and Wasiu Eshinlokun. On ground in Ibadan to…
A middle-aged woman died on the spot when she fell off a commercial motorcycle, popularly called okada, at Ikeja Along, yesterday. The operator tried to avoid arrest as the ban on okada operation began. Ikeja is one of the six local governments and nine Local Council Developments Area (LCDA) in the pilot phase of the clampdown. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on May 18 signed an executive order prohibiting okada operation in 15 council areas of the state. The affected councils are Ikeja, Eti-Osa, Lagos Island, Surulere, Apapa and Lagos Island local government areas, while the LCDAs on which okada operation had been banned…
The lawmaker representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Shina Peller, on Wednesday, visited the prominent leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party in Oyo State, Alhaji Adebisi Olopoeyan Peller had faulted the conduct of the Oyo North Senatorial District primary election by the All Progressives Congress. The incumbent senator, Fatai Buhari, won a return ticket for the third time but four aspirants who contested against him, including Peller, alleged manipulation. The aggrieved lawmaker’s visit to Olopoeyan, who also recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party has sparked defection rumour. However, Peller, while addressing some of his supporters…
The lingering administrative issues bordering on payment of severance benefits and outstanding salaries to the former workers of Adapalm now under the management of investors of Adapalm led by Roche Agric West Africa has come to a finality through the collaborative efforts of the state government. This is coming after a seemingly agreement between investors of Roche Agric and Imo State Government. Adapalm workers since 2012 has continued to agitate for these benefits through legal actions as previous administration in the state has continued to play the ostrich thereby leaving the workers and management of Adapalm in a legal imbroglio.…
Billionaire businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has praised the effort of Kunle Adeyanju, the tourist who rode a bike from London to Lagos in a campaign to fight polio. Adeyanju has been in the news since April when he initiated his London-to-Lagos bike ride to raise funds for Rotary International’s fight against polio, which is a threat in Africa. The adventure took the 44-year-old Nigerian through more than 13,000 kilometres (8,000 miles) across 13 countries. The arduous journey forced him through spine-chilling ordeals as he narrated how he heard “different voices” amid the shifting sands of the Sahara…
INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION ONDO STATE THE PRESS BRIEFING BY THE HON. RESIDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER, AMBASSADOR (DR) RUFUS OLORUNTOYIN AKEJU ON THE 1ST OF JUNE, 2022 AT THE CONFERENCE ROOM, INEC OFFICE, ALAGBAKA, AKURE Gentlemen of the press, I welcome you to this briefing. The purpose of this press briefing is to give an update on the on-going Continuous Voters Registration exercise (CVR) which the Commission commenced on 28th June, 2021. The online pre-registration has ended on the 30th of May, 2022, while the Registration exercise itself will come to an end on 30th June 2022. We still enjoin eligible…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Tuesday, warned Nigerians to desist from consuming bush meat including rodents and others, following official confirmation of Monkey pox in Nigeria by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on May 29,2022. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, gave the warning in a statement signed by himself and made available to Vanguard. Abubakar referring to the resurgence of Monkey pox virus in Nigeria, which already on the 29th of May, 2022, 21 persons have been confirmed to have gotten the virus by NCDC, which the virus has killed…
10 Years ???? How ? Trust me we can hardly believe it ourselves. A few years ago ( 10 apparently) we set out on this journey to solve the ugliness that was very apparent every where around us. We set our hearts on this goal even when, design wasn’t as popular as it is now, we saw a problem and we were going to contribute our quota to fixing it. In these years, our team has expanded as more people bought into the vision, we’ve had the opportunity to diversify our offerings, what started as a quest has morphed…