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By Dare Lasisi. As the clock ticked 11.45pm on this fateful Friday, Bamosi returned to his two-bedroom apartment in Okokomaiko, Lagos suburb like a drunk man. He carefully opened the front door not to disturb his frustrated wife and hungry six-year-old daughter. The vigilante group in his area recognised him as a night ‘wakabout’ man. As long as Bamosi not causing any problem in the neighbourhood, nothing to worry about. He started drinking heavily after the loss of his job in a Chinese company in Lagos. It was a hopeless situation in a developing country like Nigeria. The wife initially…
By Reuben Abati There has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of party primaries at all levels. On Saturday, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at its convention held in Abuja, ratified the choice of incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari as its flagbearer, with a curious vote tally of 14. 8 million. President Buhari and his supporters have continuously left no one in doubt that they intend to have a second shot at power and office. The number of party…
The Presidency has distanced President Muhammadu Buhari from a letter in circulation, which alleged that the President had authorized Gov. Nasir el-Rufai to “deal with traitors and disloyal members of APC, especially Senator Shehu Sani. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. According to the presidential aide, the president is not aware of any such letter, let alone authorising anyone to deal with any party member. The statement read: “The presidency wishes to distance President Muhammadu Buhari from a letter currently in circulation, which alleges…
Chief Moses Olaiya Adejumo popularly known as Baba Sala is a household name in Nigeria as the grandfather of Yoruba comedy. The old man passed away some hours ago. From the Facebook page of one of the sons of the legendary comedian, Chief Moses Olaiya Adejumo : Adejumo Boisala Emmanuel wrote on Facebook this morning… My Daddy is gone. Finally gone home to glory. King of Comedy finally ssaysbye-bye to this world. I will miss you so much Daddy. I love you so much but God loves you more. Good night my mentor, father, teacher, gist partner. My daddy is…
A former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has emerged the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2019 election. He emerged after a keenly contested primary held at Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Sunday. The Chairman of the PDP Convention Committee and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, announced the results of the primary on Sunday morning. He said Atiku polled 1,532 votes while Aminu Tambuwal polled 693 votes to place second. Other results are, Bukola Saraki , 317 votes; Jonah Jang, 19 votes; Datti Ahmed, 5 votes; David Mark , 35 votes; Tanimu Turaki, 65 votes; Sule Lamido, 96…
Real estate developer, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, has emerged as the Lagos State governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) for the 2019 election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gbadamosi’s election was ratified by ADP members during the party’s primaries at its Lagos State Secretariat on Saturday. The Chairman, ADP, Lagos State, Mr Bolaji Adewale, said Gbadamosi, who was unopposed, scored a total of 119,919 votes during the primaries conducted across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state. Adewale thanked the party chieftains and supporters for the peaceful conduct of all primaries. He stated that…
Senator Gbenga Ashafa has lost his bid to return to the Senate, for a third term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. The 63 year-old senator lost by a wide margin, the primary for the Lagos East ticket to a four-term House of Assembly member, Bayo Osinowo, according to the results announced Saturday by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Electoral Committee of the National Assembly and State House of Assembly primaries in Lagos. Ashafa was expected to run unopposed in the primary as Osinowo was not originally cleared by the National Working Committee of the APC to stand…
Jimi Agbaje has emerged the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State. He polled 1,100 votes to defeat his rival Adedeji Doherty who polled 742 votes in the party’s primary election, according to Channels Television . Agbaje was the PDP candidate in the 2015 governorship election but lost to incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode in a massively-rigged election.
Dvorkovich (right) defeated Makropoulos, who was involved in FIDE since the 1980s. | Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. By PeterDoggers Arkady Dvorkovich has been elected FID president for the coming four years at the World Chess Federation’s General Assembly in Batumi, Georgia. He defeated Georgios Makropoulos with 103 votes to 78 after Nigel Short withdrew his candidacy at the last minute. The FIDE presidential elections took place in the Sheraton Batumi hotel in Georgia, where over 160 delegates had gathered for FIDE’s general assembly. First, all three candidates were given the opportunity to present their tickets and their plans to the assembly. The 89th FIDE general assembly…
Buhari is a kind of person that he only needs to see a trusted person(like Tunde Idiagbon) and he hands over everything to the person. Osinbajo is not Tunde Idiagbon. That’s not delegation, that’s abandonment. —-Pastor Tunde Bakare. Pastor Tunde Bakare is a popular Nigerian pastor, human rights activist, lawyer and former Convener of Save Nigeria Group. He was the Vice Presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari in 2011 and he needs no introduction to many Nigerians both at home and abroad. This ‘fire-spitting’ pastor came to Glasgow on Saturday(August 18, 2018) to discuss ideas with Scotland-based Nigerians(see attached posters)…