Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Dangote Aliko Dangote has once again cemented his place as Africa’s wealthiest man, topping Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List with a net worth of $24.4 billion and ranking 88th globally. The latest ranking, released on Saturday, underscores Dangote’s unmatched dominance in Africa’s wealth hierarchy, where he stands far ahead of his Nigerian peers. Abdulsamad Rabiu follows […]

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed recent remarks by Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, the 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, describing his criticism of the opposition coalition as “personal opinions” that do not reflect the ADC’s position. In a statement signed by Jackie Wayas, the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, the ADC reaffirmed its commitment to […]

Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, the 2023 vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party and running mate to Peter Obi, has dismissed the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress ADC as a grand deception, alleging that many of those who ruined Nigeria under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration are now seeking refuge in the party ahead of the 2027 elections. […]

CDS, Gen Christopher Musa urges citizens to learn karate, boxing The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has clarified remarks made by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, on the need for Nigerians to learn self-defence skills, following mixed interpretations of his statement. Speaking through the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, the military […]

Can you picture Femi Otedola, son of a former governor of Lagos state, sitting beside a driver in a pick-up van and going from door to door to sell diesel in drums? Before setting up the monstrous Zenon Oil — which later became a monopoly in the Nigerian diesel market — that was exactly what […]

The August 16 supplementary elections that held in 18 constituencies in 12 states of the country has heightened the fears of Nigerians about the 2027 elections. Reports from the constituencies where the elections held indicate that the exercise, though conducted across a fraction of the country’s voting sphere which should have made for easier monitoring, […]

Federal Civil Service Commission chairman, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has urged university workers to embrace decentralised industrial relations for development. Delivering the second Distinguished Personality Lecture of the Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, he decried a development whereby workers, especially in the university system make a case for federalism but they do not extend it to […]

AGF, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN  says all cases treated on merit ‘How First Bank, Oba Otudeko’s case was settled’ Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), yesterday responded to speculations about the administration of justice under the current political dispensation in the country. He said contrary to insinuations, he is not […]

The Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), chairman, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has listed some lessons Nigerian public servants could learn from the life of Frank Caprio, the American judge who recently died. In a tribute on Saturday to Caprio whose public service has been widely praised, Olaopa said that the American judge challenged the very understanding […]