Day: March 16, 2023

Your Future Is Bright But Sanwo-Olu’ll Win – Oba Of Lagos To Rhodes-Vivour

Gbenga Adeoti

  Candidate, Rhodes-Vivour During Visit Your Future Is Bright But Governor Sanwo-Olu Will Win – Oba Of Lagos Tells LP Candidate, Rhodes-Vivour During Visit March 16, 2023 Akiolu, who prayed for Rhodes-Vivour and wished him well in his future endeavours, maintained that Rhodes-Vivour vying was not wrong. The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, on Thursday declared his support for the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) when the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour visited his palace. The top monarch in the state,…

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Meet Yusuf Bilesanmi, Nigerian Lawyer Who Won World’s Top Engineering Award

Ganiyu Amodu

How the LASU-trained lawyer clinched the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his creation of ShiVent, a low-cost, non-electric device ventilator that is efficient in its use of oxygen.   Meet Yusuf Bilesanmi, a Nigerian engineer who won the One to Watch Award at the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his creation of ShiVent, a low-cost, non-electric device ventilator that is efficient in its use of oxygen. Yusuf came from a humble background. He had his first degree at Lagos State University where he studied Law before he switched…

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Hamar: African Tribe Where Wives Beg Husbands To Flog Them For Love, Loyalty

Ganiyu Amodu

Beat Me Black And Blue; You are not seen to be in love or ready as a husband by your wife if you cannot beat her black and blue. Welcome to Ethiopia   A tribal ceremony during which young women are whipped in order to show the sacrifices they make for men is revealed in a series of photographs. Members of the Hamar tribe in Ethiopia believe the elaborate scars demonstrate a woman’s capacity for love, and if they fall on hard times later in life it allows them to…

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Ghana Removes Fuel Subsidy

ADEOLA YUSUF

Abdul Hamid,the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana National Petroleum Authority (NPA) says the country has implemented regulatory measures, including the removal of fuel subsidy, to ensure stability across its downstream sector. The removal of the subsidy is part of the country’s implemented regulatory measures to ensure stability across its downstream sector. The Chief Executive Officer of NPA said this during a presentation at the ongoing Africa Refiners and Distributers week 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa. READ ALSO: Why Dapo Abiodun Deserves a Second Term, By Kunle Somorin ExxonMobil Plans…

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Why Dapo Abiodun Deserves a Second Term, By Kunle Somorin

ADEOLA YUSUF

About 45 months ago, Prince Dapo Abiodun came to office amidst massive hope and expectations from the people of Ogun State that at last a leader had come to truly guide Ogun to progress, development and the realisation of her destiny. The mood all over the State, at the time he took over, was, incontestably, euphoric. Looking back now, it is even grandly euphoric as the Governor’s Midas touch can be felt in every part of the state. Come Saturday, the people of Ogun State will come out, again, to…

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ExxonMobil Plans $15Bn Oil Exploration In Angola

Abibat Babalola

Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering an investment valued at $15 billion through 2030 if it makes commercial oil discoveries in the Namibe Basin, Paulino Jeronimo, chairman for the Angola National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels, ANPG, said in Luanda. The ANPG, Exxon and state-owned Sonangol signed an addendum to blocks 30, 44, and 45 in the Namibe Basin to make exploration in the area more competitive. Exxon will pursue a potential exploration well in 2024 as a result of improved fiscal terms. The move is part of an effort…

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Sahara Group Urges Investment To Drive Sustainable Energy In Africa

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Executive Director, Sahara Group, Wale Ajibade, has said, that Africa requires enabling energy policies, effective regulatory frameworks, investments, and collaboration to meet soaring energy needs across the continent,. Addressing top energy operators, regulators, and government functionaries at the 2023 African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) Week in Cape Town, Ajibade said the current level of global investments on renewable energy was inadequate to enable Africa embrace more alternative energy sources. Ajibade who delivered a paper titled, “Meeting Africa’s Growing Energy Requirements in the Evolving Global Landscape,” said adequate policies…

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Sanwo-Olu, Oreki Community And Viral Video, Samuel Omojoye

ADEOLA YUSUF

My attention has been drawn to a viral video in which an individual claimed that property of residents were purportedly demolished in Oreki community in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state on the order of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. In as much one will not want to join issues with proponent of the said claim, I have a duty to put the matter in proper context. My main intent in doing this is to correct the wrong narrative meant to deceive unsuspecting members of the public. First, it is important to…

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Maintenance of Public Infrastructure: The Lagos example, By Rasak Musbau

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Lagos State Infrastructure Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA), has been at the forefront of implementing the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Administration’s strategy on infrastructure renewal. In the past three and a half years, the Agency has implemented several projects with the aim of improving and maintaining public infrastructure assets, while also creating employment and opportunities for small/medium scale businesses to thrive. It is reassuring that priorities are given to education and health sectors in the aggressive pursue of public facility overall. Schools’ facility management and maintenance exist to support the primary…

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Wike Is A Drunk, Spends N50m Weekly On Alcohol – Amaechi

Ganiyu Amodu

In furtherance of his campaign for the APC governorship candidate in Rivers State, former Minister of Transportation and immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rt Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has described Governor Nyesom Wike as a drunk who spends N50 million on alcohol every week and should not be allowed a third term through his stooge. Amaechi stated this on Tuesday, during his campaign for Tonye Cole in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area, where he conferred with the Oba of Ogba land, Eze Chukwumela Nnam Obi II, visited the people of…

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