2023: Tinubu support group appoints Katsina Dep gov’s wife as women leader
Hajiya Mariya Buhari, wife to Katsina Deputy governor, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, has been appointed National women leader of the Tinubu support organisation (TSO). Alhaji Ibrahim Kalla, the Chief Press Secretary to the deputy governor, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Saturday in Katsina. It further disclosed that the appointment was announced in a letter, dated November 14, 2021,...
Brazil-based drug dealer arrested over cocaine hidden in Lagos airport toilet
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a Brazil-based drug dealer, Okafor Okwudili Moses over 2.55 kilograms of cocaine recovered from a toilet at the E-Arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos. The drug was discovered in the toilet of the airport on Friday 12th November after it was dumped there by...
COVID-19: Lagos suspends Greater Lagos Fiesta 2021
The Lagos State Government has suspended all activities earlier announced for the Greater Lagos Fiesta 2021. The one-month event themed ‘Lagos Rocks’ was to start on December 1st across the five divisions of Lagos – Ikorodu, Ikeja, Badagry, Lagos Island and Epe. Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, on Saturday, said the decision to suspend the fiesta followed sound advisory from health...
How six Nigerian start-ups attain billion dollar status, by Osinbajo
No fewer than six start-ups owned by young Nigerians have grown from scratch to billion dollar businesses in recent years, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. Osinbajo said that as at 2021, more than six of such companies had been named Unicorns – a company that is worth over a billion dollars. He attributed the feat of the start-ups to providence...
FBN shares: Pension fund equity doesn’t belong to you, PenCom tells Odukale
The controversy over who is the largest shareholder in the First Bank of Nigeria Holding Plc continues on Saturday as the National Pension Commission (PenCom) told Tunde Hassan-Odukale that he can’t appropriate the shareholding of pension funds in the bank. Hassan-Odukale, the chairman of FirstBank of Nigeria Limited and Managing Director of Leadway Pensure, is in a battle with billionaire...
IMF to Nigeria: Remove subsidies on fuel, electricity in January 2022
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has counselled Nigeria not to delay the removal of subsidies on fuel and electricity. The Fund suggested that removal of fuel subsidy and cost-reflective electricity tariffs must be implemented in early 2022. It noted that the Nigerian economy is recovering from a historic downturn benefiting from government policy support, rising oil prices and international financial assistance. In...
Davido donates N50m, shares N250m to orphanages
Award-winning singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has set up a five-man committee to disburse about N250 million to orphanages across the country. The singer made this known in a statement dated Friday, 19th of November 2021, and released on Saturday, November 20, 2021. According to Davido, he received a total of N200 million from friends, fans and colleagues as...
2023: Tinubu’ll speak on presidential ambition in January – Fashola
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will speak in January 2022 on whether he will be running for president in 2023 or not. Fashola, who succeeded Tinubu as governor of Lagos State in 2007, stated this on Channels Television’s ‘Hard Copy’ programme aired on Friday...
Nwabueze applauds Buhari for considering Nnamdi Kanu’s release
Eminent lawyer and former Minister of Education, Prof. Ben Nwabueze has applauded the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu is currently standing trial for treason. In a one-paragraph statement made available to The Star on Saturday, Nwabueze, who is the Chairman of Igbo Leaders of...
2023: Coalition mobilises for North Central Presidency
The Coalition of North Central Groups have called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rally behind a presidential candidate from the North Central geopolitical region of the country in 2023. The coalition is made up of young, social and political groups drawn from across the North Central. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Friday at the NUJ Secretariat, the...
