The Editorials

The Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, has revealed plan by the Egba people in Ogun State to construct N600million Abeokuta City Hall in memory of late Lisabi Agbongbo-Akala, the liberator of Egbaland, who died mysteriously over ten decades ago. Oba Gbadebo made this known during a press conference in preparation for the 34th Lisabi Festival with the theme, Culture: A Panacea for Sustainable Socio- Economic Development of Egbaland, billed to hold from February 24 to March 1, 2020. The monarch, who affirmed that the family house of the late Egba warrior is located in Igbein area of Abeokuta, declared that the history of Egbaland is incomplete without reference to the late warrior who he said liberated the Egbas from series of wars launched against them by the Old Oyo. The traditional ruler also expressed satisfaction with the erection of 18 feet statue of Lisabi at Adatan roundabout, designated as Lisabi Avenue in the town. The Alake said on completion o...

The Arole Oodua & Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II will on Monday 24th February 2020 lead thousands of Ife indigenes, market men and women, tourists, financial experts and business tycoons from across Nigeria and abroad to celebrate the 2020 edition of Aje festival. This was stated in a report released by Comrade Moses Olafare, Director of Media & Public Affairs, Ile-Oodua palace . The report further disclosed that the organizers of this year's AJE festival led by Dr Toyin Kolade are not leaving any stone unturned with top gear preparations to enable Ooni Ogunwusi host this year's edition of the annual AJE FESTIVAL expected to be attended by both local and international participants in a more remarkable way. Speaking on behalf of the Ooni who is the natural head of the Oduduwa race globally, Comrade Olafare confirmed that not less than twenty Africans in diaspora including Cubans Brazilians and Americans have confirmed their flight tickets to arr...

Oredola Adeola Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation has honoured Mr. Folorunsho Coker, Director-General of National Tourism Development Commission (NTDC) and Kayode Akintemi, Managing Director, Plus TV Africa, with Distinguished Personality Award for their contributions to the growth and development of open knowledge in Nigeria. The award ceremony was held at the Plus TV Africa studio in Victoria Island, Lagos at the weekend. Mr. Olaniyan Olushola, President, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc., while congratulating the award recipients, encouraged them to continue to promote open knowledge in Nigeria. The NTDC boss, according to Wikimedia, is a dominant force in the promotion of diversity in the Nigeria tourism sector and open knowledge in the country, adding that the NTDC under Coker has been supporting Wikimedia outreach programs (Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki loves Earths). Olushola said, “Through the support of NTDC, professional photographers working with Wikimedia have received limitl...

The Lagos State Government has instructed Pre-Primary and Primary schools in the state to vacate on Friday , December 6, 2019 for the first term 2019/2020 and resume on January 20, 2020 for second term 2019/2020 session. The adjustment in the academic calendar was announced by the state government through the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in a circular signed by Mrs. M. A Folami, Acting Director, School Support Services for Executive Chairman, SUBEB, on November 27, 2019. According to Mrs Folami, the measure has become necessary because the Public Pre-Primary School and Primary School Head Teachers and Teachers would be attending Eko Excel Pre Service Professional Development and Technology Training programme between December 2019 and January 2020. In the circular, the SUBEB Acting Director said, "I’m directed to inform you that the Commissioner for Education has approved that the Y2019/2020 Academic calendar for Lagos Pre-Primary and Primary schools be ...

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has bemoaned the government of Benin Republic for its notoriety regarding bilateral relationship between the two countries. President Obasanjo made this known on Tuesday, in Addis Ababa while speaking on the margins of Policy Dialogue of African Business Associations on Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreements. Obasanjo, who chaired the CoDA Board of Directors, disclosed that Nigeria had for long been enduring the practice which undermined its economic well being, but the neighbouring country is not willing to yield. He said, “It happened when I was President of Nigeria. I called the then Benin President, Nicephore Dieudonne Soglo, to let us meet at any of our border posts over the issue. "We eventually met at Badagry (in Nigeria), where we agreed that Nigerian Customs would be stationed in Benin. “They (the Nigerian Customs) are still there. We don’t have issues with goods manufactured in Benin they ar...

Oredola Adeola| It was a night of unusual spiritual reawakening , as a Nigerian monarch, HRM Oba Rev. M.S Akindele, the Olu of Owode Yewa, Ogun State led thousands of worshippers in a worship song at Pattern of Good Work Ministry's Anniversary of Concert of Praises and Worship 7.0. held at the Eternal King School, Alagbado, Lagos, Nigeria on Friday, November 22,2019. Oba Rev. Akindele during the worship session sang Travis Greene's "Narekele mo" popular worship song, bringing down the presence of Almighty God and winning souls for Christ. In his short message after the worship session, the monarch told the thousands of worshippers that God only inhabits that praises and worship of those who sings to Him in truth and in spirit, quoting John 4:24. He said, " Your heart is the biggest praise instrument to God. It must be in constant alignment with God Almighty for your praises to be accepted. According to the Olu of Owode Yewa, 'When we pray , God ...

In the annals of history of the prophetic ministry, both in the days of the Bible and in our present days, events all point to the fact that God still speaks to his true prophets. There are all sorts of folks going about town with all kinds of appellation. They do all sorts of things bringing disrepute to the name of God and specifically to the prophetic calling. God is not happy with this class of folks. However, the proof that the original of a thing is in existence is mostly validated by having the counterfeits around. If you see the counterfeits, that shows that the original is in existence, you don't counterfeit, counterfeits, you can only make a counterfeit of the original. The above sums up the prophetic ministry of *The general overseer of Shiloh word chapel Abuja* Prophet I O Samuel (JP) God's word says, who is that prophet that speaks and it comes to pass when the Lord has not commanded or spoken it? ( Lamentation 3.37). Again, it is clear from the script...