Her Excellency, Dame Edith Okowa, the wife of the Delta State Governor and founder of the health caring ’05 Initiative’, has flagged-off of the last series of the grassroots medical outreach of her State pet project, the ’05 Initiative’ in collaboration with the Restore Sight Africa Initiative and ministry of health in Aniocha/Oshimili Federal constituency of the State. While flagging off the program today, at the Asaba Convention/Event Center, Dame Edith Okowa, who noted that good sight was for safe living, stated that “living without good sight is the worse thing that could happen to an individual as the eyes…
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The ‘O5 Initiative’ Grassroot medical outreach in collaboration with Restore Sight Africa Initiative today launched a week long medical outreach for the screening and treatment of eye-related issues, distribution of free eye glasses and Free Medical Examination. Speaking during the inauguration the Wife of the Governor of Delta State Dame Edith Okowa who is the founder of ‘O5 Initiative’ urged well meaning Nigerians to reach out to the less privileged, saying the number of the blind begging on the streets would reduce tremendously if they were given free eye treatment. Dame Edith Okowa lamented that many blind children are…
Justice Ariwoola was born on August 22, 1958. His Lordship studied law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile Ife and bagged his bachelor of laws degree with honors in July, 1980. In July 1981, Olu Ariwoola was called to the Nigeria bar and got enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria as a Solicitor and Advocate soon thereafter. Justice Ariwoola was first appointed a Judge of Superior Court of record in Oyo State in 1992 from private legal practice. Before his elevation to the Supreme Court, he served as Justice of Court of Appeal in Kaduna,…
The President, Lagos State chapter of Ndigbo, Chief Solomon Aguene, in this interview with VICTOR AYENI dismisses the alleged attack on the Igbo collecting permanent voter cards in Ojo and Festac, and speaks on the relationship between the Igbo and their host community In a press statement you released recently, you said there was no attack on the Igbo who wanted to collect their permanent voter cards in Ojo and Festac as was widely reported. Can you please clarify what really happened? I am the leader of the Ndigbo in Lagos and also the apex leader as the Ohanaeze President…
I have known him since 1994 or so, and he actively enjoys his mystique, and luxuriates in powers assigned to him that he really does not always have. Despite everything said about him, many SW Yoruba people and the rest of Nigeria are probably intrigued, even enamored about his rags-to-riches, nothing-to-something rise to power. BAT’s opponents do not seem to fully understand that the mystery behind his origins give him an unusual mystique. It is said he is from Iragbiji, not Lagos. It is said that his mother is not Madame Tinubu. It is said that he did not go…
“The conducive environment you see today in Lagos that Igbos are enjoying while doing their businesses were put in place by my father Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu. “These people left their home town and Yorubas fully accepted them wholeheartedly in Lagos State, provided all they needed yet they are not grateful. Instead they keep attacking my father at any slightest opportunity. “Without this man, there will be nothing like the modernized Igbos trade centres in Lagos State. They made their Billions here. Some of them don’t even know their hometown anymore because they now prefer Lagos than where they are coming…
As the 2023 elections draw near, a civil rights organization. Center for Reform and Public Advocacy (CRPA), on Saturday asked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to arrest Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Tinubu told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his academic certificates were stolen by unknown persons while he was on self exile. Speaking on the controversy at a press conference in Abuja, Agu Kalu, the Legal Adviser of the CRPA said Tinubu should be behind bars. Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor, was one…
Palmer Ogheneyole Nathaniel A group of young men and women under the auspices of Youths 4 Governance(Y4G) has stated that the present state of things in the country as it affect youths participation in leadership and governance can no longer be cordoned. The group in issued at the end of it’s general meeting held recently at the NUT Hotel, Asaba, capital of Delta state, noted that the common maxim of youths being leaders of tomorrow has become a scam and an unrealistic illusion. Flanked by hundreds of members of the group, the Director-General/National Coordinator Engr. Arerosuoghene Jerry Agbajileke while reading…
By Dare Babarinsa Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), came into the limelight 30 years ago. He was one of the young men and women who flocked around Chief Moshood Abiola, Nigerian President-presumptive and winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. Tinubu was elected Senator on the platform of Abiola’s Social Democratic Party (SDP), to represent Lagos-West in Abuja. He was a dapper-dresser; handsome and precocious. He was fearless and daring. When Abiola went to see General Sani Abacha on the November 1993 night the military toppled Chief Ernest Shonekan, the Head of…
REVITALISING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: The Leadership Question By Professor Paul Omojo Omaji Vice Chancellor, Admiralty University of Nigeria Omaji-vc@adun.edu.ng Protocol Preamble I salute the University of Ibadan Alumni Association, Asaba Chapter (UIAA, Asaba) for allowing the subject matter of this Lecture to capture its collective imagination at this time. Obviously, the Lecture is holding during a period dominated by the four-yearly ritual of electing “political leadership” for Nigeria. For some other organisations, it would have been more ‘strategic’ to join the euphoria of political electioneering. Afterall, the signs of what has now come to be known as the ‘dollarisation’ of politicking…