All is set for the construction of the Lagos Film City – one of the Legacy Projects of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration. The groundbreaking of the $100m project has been scheduled for Wednesday in Ikosi Ejinrin, Lagos East Senatorial District. Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka broke the news last weekend, saying the approval for the groundbreaking shows that Lagos will witness bigger projects in Mr. Sanwo-Olu’s second term. The proposed Lagos Film City, which promises to be the biggest in Africa, will sit on 100 hectares of land. It will be a major boost for…
Author: Spade Nigeria
The Niger Delta Peoples Assembly (NDPA), on Saturday said that a frustrated monarch and illicit oil barons were behind “fake Warri Protest” against the Group Chief Executive officer (GCEO) of NNPCL, Mele Kyari. Specifically, the group said that the act of organized protest has become a huge joke in the Niger Delta, wondering how anyone could take what happened in Warri, Delta state as a protest. The group in a press release signed by its National Coordinator, Richard Toritseju Okotie, said it was a thing of shame for few belligerent and ill informed youths, holding placards, in front…
A Rivers’ woman identified as Hope Nwala is said to be on the run after she allegedly bathed her husband, Ekelediri Nwankwo Nwala with a hot groundnut oil over a minor disagreement. The incident happened at Okehi community in Etche Local government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that Mrs Hope Nwala poured the hot groundnut oil on her husband while he was asleep. The couple have reportedly been having some domestic squabbles before the tragic incident. The victim, Mr. Nwankwo who is still battling for life said he told his wife’s younger sister to leave their house for…
By Kenneth Obieh The Commissioner for Economic Planning and the Chairman of the Delta CARES Steering Committee, Mr. Sunny Ekedayen said the present government is doing its best to uplift Deltans out of poverty. The Commissioner stated this while receiving a team of officials from the Federal CARES Support Unit of the NG-CARES Programme who came on a Pre Mid Term Review visit on the activities of Nigeria CARES in the State. Mr Ekedayen welcomed the team to the state and assured them of every support they would need to do a thorough job within the period of their stay…
Senator representing Anambra South, Ifeanyi Ubah has revealed that 80 % of Igbos got their wealth from President Bola Tinubu’s legacy in Lagos state. According to the Cable, Ubah speaking after he was formally received into the fold of the APC on October 12, 2023, in Abuja, said Tinubu has the capacity to govern Nigeria. “I want to be sincere, it has always been difficult for the Igbo people to key into the national party because of our sentiments and emotions. Since our president has emerged and I put that challenge to each Igbo man today in Nigeria, 70% –…
Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general elections in Delta State, Olorogun (Barr) Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, has said that the former governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, has finally been humbled by the recent Supreme Court ruling, wherein his legal adventure against winner of the election and governor of Delta State, Rt Hon Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, crashed like a pack of cards. He made the assertion on Friday, during a public affairs live radio programme monitored in Asaba, saying that Gbagi knew from the outset that he failed the election woefully,…
React to some newspapers publications over the judgment delivered by an Ondo Customary Court on the 10th of October by Magistrate Stephen Rotiba, on the case between Mrs. Lilian Chibuzor Abua and hes ex-lover, Prophet Ayodeji Obayan, Pastor Emmanuel Azubuike said he was surprised to see that some of the papers tried to add some tribal twist to the whole story without even seeing a copy of the judgement or being present at the court when the case was going on or when the judgement was read on the 10th of October. That where they got their malicious story remains…
Media strategist and Member of the International Communication Association, M.ICA, Dr (Barr) Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, will commence an online MBA programme in Artificial intelligence, AI; and Internet of Things, at Nexford University, Washington DC, USA, beginning from first week in November, this year. The MBA programme is for a duration of 18 months at a cost of approximately $5,000. At the end of the programme, he will be able to effectively and efficiently deploy Artificial intelligence to advance his professional skills in Communication, Media and Information Strategy Management. Nexford is currently running various online MBA programmes for students in 110…
“By the powers vested in President Bola Tinubu as established in section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004, that “the Chairman and members of the Commission, other than ex-officio members, shall be appointed by the President,” President Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. “Mr. Ola Olukoyede is a lawyer with over twenty-two (22) years of experience as a regulatory compliance consultant and specialist…
The last may not have been heard about the crisis rocking the Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following report that the Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has united the state’s Governor, Senator Douye Diri with his arch-enemy, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike. A group within APC, which styled itself “Concerned APC Stakeholders (CAPCS) “, revealed that Senator Lokpobiri has settled the rift between Diri and Wike, which arose from the last presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to the group, Lokpobiri, leveraging on…