By Alimi Ibn Fattykolly Former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola has disclosed how he converted to Islam and how he has been living peacefully with his wife and other family members who are Christians. In an interview with TVC News, Fashola disclosed that he was born into a family where his father was a Muslim and his mother, a Christian. He said growing up he practiced Christianity and attended the cathedral Church of Saint Jude in Ebute-Meta, Lagos with his mother, however, when he became an adult he simply told his mother that he wanted to worship God like…
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Minister for works and housing Babatunde Fashola said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu will get his vote and support in the 2023 elections. Fashola stated this on Thursday as a guest on TVC programme ‘Your View’ where he highlighted his reasons for supporting Tinubu’s presidential ambition. “I’ll vote for him, and I’m campaigning for Tinubu. Other opposition candidates should come and show us what they have done (because) all of them held public office,” Fashola said. “I think people localise Tinubu when they only talk about what he did in Lagos. This is because…
Our attention has been drawn to the jumbled press statement given by the rudderless and very confused Peoples Democratic Party today. We have nothing but pity for a party that has become a mess and total embarrassment to itself and its despondent members. For lack of nothing tangible to tell Nigerians six weeks to a general election as its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar disappeared from the campaign trail, PDP has resorted to making irresponsible statements just to fill media space. The latest is the false information that the Federal Government and INEC plan to postpone the general elections. Nigerians are…
By Joel Odhomo Salubi (Mr. JOS) Our people say that the person with body or mouth odour does not know that he is stinking. Others are put off by the stench, but the body and mouth odour owner does not know that he is an irritant. This proverb applies to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Delta State, Senator Ovie Augustine Omo-Agege. He winces or cringes on hearing his rejected name of Augustine. Omo-Agege has a political body odour and he stinks morally. Omo-Agege has thrown caution to the wind and has entered the marketplace to dance naked…
Police detectives from the Idimu Division, Lagos State, have arrested a dog meat seller, Success Akpan, after a stolen dog was traced to his pepper soup pot, which he was already selling to his customers before he was caught. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Olorunsogo Street, Ejigbo area of Lagos, where Akpan operates a shop. When the Akwa Ibom State born Akpan was caught, he claimed that he bought the dog for N12,000 from a seller, who was later identified as Abu and did not know it was a stolen dog. The suspect, Akpan, landed in trouble after…
The National Assembly has forwarded the Federal University of Technology, Asaba Establishment Bill 2022, to President Mohammadu Buhari for his presidential assent, in line with established procedures and extant laws. Clerk to the National Assembly, Ojo Olatunde Amos, sent the bill to the President through a letter signed by him and dated Monday January 9, 2023. Federal University of Technology, Asaba Establishment Bill 2022, is a bill sponsored by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu. It provides for the establishment of a Federal University of Technology in Asaba, for the purpose of providing quality…
The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has been commended by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen Iyorchia Ayu, and the Executive Governor of Delta State and Vice President of the party, Sen Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, and the Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty, Atuwatse III, for its impact in enhancing greater exchange and unity among communities through the provision of connecting infrastructure and shared amenities for the development of the people. They made the commendation on Wednesday at the commissioning of the three kilometre concrete road linking Oboghoro to Ogheye Dimigun and a pedestrian…
By Femi Adesina Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, was among Executive members of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) who visited President Muhammadu Buhari at State House, Abuja, on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Recall that at Christmas, the Bishop had given a homily that was unduly critical of the President, and which was filled with inexactitudes. I had responded via an article entitled; Kukah, Don’t Cook Me Nonsense. When the Bishop came into the Council Chamber, venue of the visit, he pulled me, and started laughing, asking whether we should be fighting or greeting each other. We…
Delving into his experience with both military and civilian rule, President Muhammadu Buhari submits that multi-party democracy is the best system. The President spoke Wednesday at State House, Abuja, while playing host to a delegation of the Universal Peace Federation. He wondered why some African countries were still descending into the abyss of unconstitutional change of government, saying: “I thought we had finally put that behind us.” On the Peace Summit being planned for Abuja, to bring all African countries together before the end of this administration, President Buhari pledged Nigeria’s support, “relative to resources, to help in stabilizing neighboring…
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has said that the state was indebted to former Lagos State Governor and Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and would pay back with massive votes during next month’s election. Governor Oyebanji who stated this during the inauguration of the 143-member APC State Presidential Campaign Council in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday, described the former Lagos State Governor as the undisputable father of progressive politics in the country who should be well supported for the nation’s number job. Oyebanji who was joined at the inauguration ceremony by the immediate past…