Tag: Bola Tinubu

Atiku Denies Receiving Funds From Sanwo-Olu During 2023 Election

Ganiyu Amodu

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly denied allegations linking him to purported financial dealings involving Lagos State funds, describing the claims as a politically motivated smear campaign. In a statement issued on Thursday by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, the Atiku Media Office dismissed reports suggesting that Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu provided funds to Atiku during the 2023 presidential election. The statement, titled: “Halt This Tinubu’s Voyage of Misadventure and Campaign of Calumny Against Atiku Abubakar”, described the allegations as “blatant lies” and “a contrived political propaganda” aimed…

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Former Lagos Guber Candidate Jandor Quits PDP

Ganiyu Amodu

Abdulazeez Adediran, ex-governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, has resigned his membership of the party. Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, announced his resignation during a press briefing at Liberty Place, Ikeja, on Monday. He cited indiscipline and anti-party activities within the PDP as reasons for his departure. Jandor was PDP’s flagbearer in Lagos during the 2023 general election. He polled third with 62,449 votes behind Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who got 762,134 votes, and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) who…

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Poly Students Oppose Conversion Of YABATECH To Varsity

Ganiyu Amodu

The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has rejected the proposed conversion of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos, into a university, arguing that the move would undermine the essence of polytechnic education. Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, announced on Friday that President Bola Tinubu had approved the conversion of YABATECH into a university. During a visit to the institution, Alausa highlighted that YABATECH, with over 200 doctorate-holding staff, was well-equipped for the transition. However, NAPS President, Eshiofune Oghayan, in a statement released in Kaduna on Saturday, criticised the…

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Nigeria Regains Top Spot In Africa’s Oil Upstream Investment

Ganiyu Amodu

Nigeria has reclaimed its position as Africa’s leading oil upstream investment destination, overtaking Angola despite the latter’s continued investment in major deepwater developments. Data sourced from Wood Mackenzie, Nigeria topped the continent’s upstream capital expenditure (capex) rankings in 2024, driven by a series of incremental deepwater projects and sustained activity in its rich offshore basins. The country outpaced Angola, which had held the position in recent years, by capitalising on major oil projects such as the Agogo-Ndungu development by Azule Energy, and the ongoing work on TotalEnergies’ infill projects –…

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Oando Exited OVH Three Years Before NNPC Retail Buy Out, By Femi Awoyemi

ADEOLA YUSUF

“How a key investor (who also happens to be a business associate of a former Vice President) sought to exit its investment in the ConocoPhillips at that time when Oando was seeking to raise funds to invest in the transaction, for which it later got entangled with the SEC,” Chief Executive of Proshare Limited offers independent views on the allegation made by former VP Atiku Abubakar   There is no equivalence with evidence in the financial, business, and economic space, as it is done in the political space. Records exist…

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‘How Nigeria’s Art, Culture, And Creative Economy Can Yield $100 Billion by 2030’

Aliyu Aliyu

Minister of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa-Musawa, in this interview, provides answers to questions on activities of her ministry, including how the ministry is driving President Tinubu’s vision for art, culture, and creative economy. Excerpts;   Since your appointment as minister of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, what are those things that have happened in that space? A lot! I think one of those things that shows that President Bola Tinubu is an innovator is the fact that he really was committed to diversifying from our…

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He Graduated in 1979, Chicago State Varsity Confirms Tinubu Attended School

Ganiyu Amodu

The Chicago State University (CSU), yesterday, confirmed that President Bola Tinubu attended the university and graduated in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree.The university disclosed this in a statement issued to CBS Broadcasting Inc. generally referred to as CBS News, one of America’s biggest and most influential news network. It, however, pointed out that United States’ federal law, prevents it us from providing any further information about Tinubu’s record, without consent or unless allowed to do so via court order.The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election,…

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Tinubu Wooed Me To Go For Senate, I Declined – Wike

Ganiyu Amodu

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday disclosed that the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu wooed him to run for senate after he lost the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike made the remarks during a media chat with journalists in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, where he spoke extensively on some of the underground politics that played out during and after the PDP’s convention which saw the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Again, Three-Storey Building Collapses In…

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JUST IN: Court Told to Stop INEC from Publishing Tinubu’s Name

Scott Matthew

An Abuja-based lawyer, Osigwe Momoh, has sued the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, at the Federal High Court Abuja for fielding the president and vice-president candidates of the party from the same religion. In the suit, the lawyer sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) from publishing the name of the APC presidential candidate in the forthcoming coming elections for violation of the Nigeria Constitution. The plaintiff claimed that the decision to pick the party’s presidential flagbearer and the…

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Sanwo-Olu Gets ‘APC Ticket,’ GAC Nod Ahead Of May 27 Primaries

Abibat Babalola

GAC, constituted by few men who determine who-gets-what in Lagos, denied Ambode a second term, and its nod for Sanwo-Olu is believed to have technically won him the APC ticket ahead of party’s governorship primaries on May 27     The Governance Advisory Council, GAC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, on Monday, approved and sealed a second term bid in office for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Platforms Africa reports that the GAC, which denied Sanwo-Olu predecessor, Akinwunmi Ambode, a second term, approved same for governor Sanwo-Olu and…

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