Ondo council chairman disburses cash to youths, market women
By Dayo Johnson Akure The Chairman of Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, Hon. Johnson Ogunbolude, has disbursed N100,000 each to youths and market women as part of his administration’s empowerment initiative. The distribution of the empowerment package took place on Wednesday at the Akure North Secretariat. About 1000 beneficiaries received cash grants […]
Lagos launches Eko Digital Training for Youths
— Flags off Badagry, Ikorodu programmes By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS — The Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Tertiary Education, has launched the Eko Digital Training initiative to equip youths in the Badagry and Ikorodu divisions with digital and entrepreneurial skills. The week-long training, which began on September 7 and ends September 11, 2026, […]
OSAF celebrates Rasheed Bolarinwa’s outstanding contributions to banking, communications and community development
The Osogbo Affairs Forum (OSAF), the foremost Osogbo aboriginal professionals at home and in Diasporas, has felicitated with one of Osogbo’s most accomplished sons and award-winning Public Relations Strategist, Alhaji Rasheed Bolarinwa,, on the occasion of his birthday. In a congratulatory message jointly signed by the Convener of the Forum, Prince Hameed Oyegbade, and the […]
Unsafe food kills 53,000 Nigerians yearly — Expert
— Experts raise alarm at Lagos food safety conference By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Shekinah Ijile LAGOS — At least 53,000 deaths associated with unsafe food are recorded annually in Nigeria, a food safety expert, Dr Adeniyi Odugbemi, has said. Odugbemi, who attributed the figure to recent studies, urged stakeholders to move beyond identifying food safety […]
Dependable political ally’ — Tinubu celebrates Abdulmumin Jibrin at 50
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Abdulmumin Jibrin, the member representing the Kiru/Bebeji federal constituency in the house of representatives, on his 50th birthday. In a statement issued on Tuesday by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Tinubu described Jibrin as a dependable political ally and commended his intellectual rigour, entrepreneurial […]
At Yar’Adua Centre, Adebayo presents SDP manifesto for a new Nigeria
By Stephen Adewale For a few remarkable hours on 8 September 2026, Nigeria sat together in one hall. Inside the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, political veterans and young party members, professionals and artisans, the privileged and the struggling occupied the same space. They had arrived from different stations in life, but they faced the […]
