The Editorials

 As  Big Brother Naija, Shine Ya Eye housemate  PERE EGBI BBN   Pere Egbi (Perez)  topped the list of nominated by co-house mates, fans of   Uti Nwachukwu ,  Media personality, actor and a former winner of the television reality show,  Big Brother Africa , have asked him to go hire Uber cab for the home coming of his favourite housemate.  In a statement he posted on social media, Uti said, " Dem wan do @pereegbiofficial strong tin by punishing him before nominations. But dem no know say we get great Army backing this KING!!! WE VOTE NONSTOP!! WE MEUUUUUUUVEEE!! heheheheehehe " According to Blessing Okwata said,"Just book his Uber for him...nigga is coming home.... Efu Ah said," You are on your own, Nobody is backing him, besides he's not our king Kate James Isi , " Pere is going , there's no doubt about DAT Blessing Angel said, " Oga if you like back him he must leave the house Ejera Macdonald Junior said, " If I vote , make I bend Iv...

The Nigeria Government has released statement indicating plan to lift ban  on Twitter in few days or weeks. This was the statement of Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the on Wednesday in Abuja at a virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that the Government suspended Twitter on June 5, 2021, after it deleted an offensive post of President Muhammadu Buhari. Giving update at the FEC meeting in Abuja, the minister said Twitter had agreed to most of the conditions put on the table by the Nigerian government. He disclosed that the micro blogging platform had also agreed to set up an office in Nigeria, but that the earliest it could do that was 2022 Lai Mohammed also revealed that the remaining three unresolved areas were simply a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ there would be an implementation of conditions discussed. According to him, in matter of days or weeks, the coun...

… Lagosians set to service AFDB loan on the project till  August 2034 Oredola Adeola  The Lagos State Government has received a legislative backing to acquire the assets and liability  of Lekki Concession Company Limited, LCC, a development that will make the state to assume full ownership.   This was the decision made by the Lagos State House of Assembly during  its plenary on Thursday. Consequently, the state House of Assembly granted the Governor Babajide Sanwoolu his  request for the conversion of the African Development Bank's (AFDB) loan to alleviate the debt obligations incurred by the State Government and be able to  legally take full ownership of Lekki Concession Company Limited, LCC.   What is however not clear is the state Government's claim that it acquired ownership of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) and the Lekki-Epe Expressway toll gate in December 2014.   In August 2013, the administration of ex-governor Babatunde Fashola h...

The Nigerian Press Organization (NPO)  has set July 12, 2021 as deadline to stage ‘Front Page Protests’ through uniform publication of a uniform artwork in all the newspapers , in response to what it described as an attempt by the Maj.General Buhari’s Government to stifle Nigerian media’s constitutional freedom.  This was the resolution of NPO after i ts meeting held recently in Maryland, Lagos .   It emphatically disclosed that   media  protest would continue on July 13, 2021, with all newspapers carrying a front page editorial “with a central theme – denouncing government’s attempt to stifle the people’s right to know through its crude attempt to return the country into the draconian era of the military, even as we are in a democracy.”   Members of the association includes  Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN: the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE ,  the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ  and other other relevant body.   A...

Hajia Hajara Usman Baba, wife of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, who doubles as the President of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) has condemned the spread of beer joints in police barracks. She made this known on Thursday in Ikeja, Lagos during a three-day working visit to familiarise herself with POWA members in the state and also to access the Police children school, to improve the general standards. According to her, spread of the joints in the Police barrack is a bad influence on officers' children and the future of the country. She added that she would immediately send a signal to the Force headquarters for the outright relocation of beer parlours from police barracks, threatening that whoever flouted the directive thereafter, would be ejected from the barracks. She noted that beer parlours should be located at a given distance from the barracks as stipulated by law. Speaking to POWA members at the POWA hall, Ikeja, she said, “During my inspec...

    The Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Hon. Akin Oyebode  to Ikun Diary Farm and Ero Dam on Saturday shared a picture of cattle ranch operated by the Ekiti State Government in partnership with US firm, Promasidor Nigeria Limited, in Ikun-Ekiti, Ekiti State.   He  posted,  “ I’m lactose intolerant but couldn’t resist drinking a glass of fresh milk from Ikun Dairy Farm. We now have 300 Jersey cows, with 6 of them producing 150 litres of milk per day. When that number gets to just 60, that’s 1,500 litres per day. Glad to see the vision coming to pass! Recall that on July 23, 2019 ,   in Abuja,  the  Ekiti State by the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, signed the partnership agreement with the Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Anders Einarsson,  About   $5 million investment fund was pulled into  Ikun Dairy Farm, to purchase equipment, provide the appropriate herd of cattle, ...

The Lagos and Ogun State Governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to establish the Lagos-Ogun Joint Development Commission, this is part of efforts by the two states to  stimulate greater economic development, cooperation and ultimately aimed at bettering the lives of their citizens.   The two Governors met on Monday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital to sign the MoU. In his remark, Governor Sanwoolu of Lagos State said, "This alliance will accelerate the integration of physical and socio-economic development of our states and enable us to mutually tackle issues prevalent in key economic sectors, including transportation, environment, housing, health, infrastructure and security. The MoU according to him, was a game changer that will transform the urban agglomeration that exists between Lagos and Ogun States.   On his part, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State said ,th e new Commission is a common alliance that will focus on socioeconomic issues borderi...