Author: Prince Emmanuel Odunayo Ikusagba

The Vice President of  Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He is stands in for  President, Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently in Paris, France, on a four-day official visit alongside some members of his cabinet and other senior aides.Present at the meeting is the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, and five ministers.The ministers who are attending the meeting physically include Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; Aviation, Hadi Sirika; Attorney-General and…

Kelechi Iheanacho has become the first player in Premier League history to score a goal on all seven days of the week within a single season.The striker was on target for Leicester City in a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in Tuesday’s league encounter.Furthermore, the 24-year-old now boasts 12 goals in 24 outings so far in the 2020-21 campaign.Overall, he is Leicester’s highest goal scorer in all competitions this term with 19 goals – four more than veteran Jamie Vardy. Iheanacho’s brilliance this year has been rewarded after he was named the Premier League player of March.He is equally in line…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has said it will adopt consensus, direct and indirect primaries to choose its chairmanship and councillorship candidates for the forthcoming local government elections in the state.Ogun APC Publicity Secretary Tunde Oladunjoye announced this in a chat with newsmen shortly after the party’s stakeholders meeting at the weekend inside the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.The party’s spokesperson explained the party, having agreed on consensus names with leaders for positions in some local governments, would then activate either the direct or indirect primaries for other local governments that couldn’t arrive at an…

“We are not unaware of what is going on in Kaduna State. It is a labour issue which has snowballed into a national strike and picketing by the two labour centres and affiliate unions.” The federal government says it is concerned with the crisis in Kaduna State between workers and the state government.The labour minister, Chris Ngige, in a statement Tuesday called on both parties to observe a ‘ceasefire.’PREMIUM TIMES reported how the two major labour coalitions, NLC and TUC, commenced a one-week total strike in Kaduna on Monday leading to the shutdown of electricity, airports, schools and so on…

The FLM is the last layer of the Bus reform Initiative for Lagos state, which comes from the Lagos state transport master plan developed by LAMATA.The first and Last mile bus scheme which are small capacity (7-11) passenger buses which will travel on routes designed to take you closest to and from your origin and destination.These buses will connect community routes to the major BRT bus stops, bus terminals, ferry terminals as well as train stations.The implementation of the First and Last Mile Bus Scheme followed the restriction of the operations of tricycles and motorcycles in six local government areas…

Chelsea have indicated they are willing to pay Tottenham’s £150million asking price for Harry Kane this summer, putting the Blues ahead of Manchester United and Manchester City in the race to sign the England captain. Kane has informed Tottenham that he would like to leave this summer and though he hasn’t formally handed in a transfer request, he has asked that the club listen to offers for him. The 27-year-old’s preference is to remain in the Premier League, meaning there’s less than a handful of clubs that have the financial capability of signing him. United and City are both interested…

The Ogun State government on Tuesday took delivery of medical equipment worth N194m from the government of Czech Republic. The equipment include fifteen ICU beds, an incubator, children cribs, a generator and a phototherapy machine. Handing over the equipment, the Czech Republic Ambassador to Nigeria, Marek Skolil, to the state governor, Dapo Abiodun in his office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, expressed his home government’s delight to support and partner the state government, particularly in the area of health development. Skolil added that the Czech Government is concerned about how Nigeria, being the centerpiece of the regional architecture of the African continent, was not developing…

The Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has received the very disturbing news of the arrest of one of his political appointees, Mr Abidemi Rufai, in New York over alleged unemployment benefits fraud in the United States.   In view of the gravity of these allegations, the Governor has ordered the immediate suspension of the accused appointee.   The Governor wishes to restate his commitment to an open, transparent, accountable and morally upright Administration and will not condone any act bordering on criminality by anyone .   Kunle Somorin Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Dapo Abiodun  

After 19 consecutive months of rising, Nigeria’s inflation rate dropped slightly by 0.05 percentage points in April 2021 to 18.12 per cent according to data released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This is against the 18.17 per cent recorded in March 2021. The report showed that food inflation fell slightly to 22.72 per cent in April from the 22.95 per cent recorded in March. The food prices rate is the second-highest recorded in the country since 2009, NBS previous records reveal. Food inflation had risen by 21.29 per cent in February and 20.57 per cent in…

Heavy rain and wind on Saturday disrupted agitators of Yoruba Nation at the popular Nelson Mandela Freedom park very close Old garage area of Osogbo capital of Osun State on Saturday afternoon.PmReporters correspondence  reported that groups of Yoruba Nation agitators stormed the streets of Osogbo on Saturday after they changed the venue where the agitators ought to gather because of the heavy security presence.One of the leading Yoruba Nation agitators, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho arrived in Osogbo from Oyo State at 1:37 pm and went straight to where the agitators were demonstrating at Nelson Mandela Freedom Park Osogbo.Igboho got to the…