Tag: President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Tinubu mourns exit of Banking Giant, Subomi Balogun

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President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described Otunba Subomi Michael Balogun, founder of First City Monument Bank, as a giant among men for his trailblazing and pioneering role in investment banking in Nigeria.   The consumate banker, boardroom guru, philanthropist, Asiwaju Onigbagbo and Olori Omo Oba Ijebuland, renowned for his royal and sartorial elegance died in London on Friday May 19, 2033 according to his family.   The President-elect, in a condolence message from his office signed by Tunde Rahman, lamented the transition of Otunba Balogun, saying his death would…

Inauguration: FG orders closure of roads linking Federal Secretariat complexes

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The Federal Government has ordered the closure of roads linking Federal Secretariat Complexes of Phase I, II, III and Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2:00 p. m. on Friday, May 26, to Monday, May 29.   Dr Ngozi Onwudiwe, Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare Office, Office of the Head of the Service of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), made the disclosure in a circular on Friday in Abuja.   According to Onwudiwe, the order is in line with security arrangements by the Presidential Transition Council, for the smooth conduct…

Six Aspirants reject Kogi APC primary election results

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Some Governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have rejected the results of the Primary Election of the party held on Friday in the state.   Among the aspirants are Senator Smart Adeyemi, former Minister of State Labour and Productivity, Professor Stephen Ocheni, son of late ex-Governor Abubakar Audu, Shuiabu, and a member of the National Working Committee of the APC, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka. Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved aspirants at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, Senator Adeyemi claimed that no election took place to have…

President-elect Tinubu visits Lagos, thanks Oba Akiolu … promises not to disappoint Nigerians

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President-elect Asíwájú Bola Tinubu visited Lagos on Sunday in an homecoming of sort, during which he told Nigerians he would not disappoint them. Tinubu arrived to a tumultuous welcome at the Presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja. He was received among others by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu, Chief of Staff Tayo Ayinde, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and other top functionaries in Lagos. The train then proceeded to the Iga-Iduganran Palace where the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, some other traditional rulers in the state and White Cap chiefs…

WHEN KINGMAKER WEARS THE CROWN By Abba Dukawa

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Feeling of success is a special one and this feeling becomes magical when someone achieved his lifetime ambition against all odds in life. For president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu becoming the President of the largest democracy in Africa is rare case actualising lifetime ambition.     In 2003 election as a dogged politician Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu refused to support defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD) to formed an alliance with then President Obasanjo PDP, for re-election in return for the AD holding on to its six South-West states. The AD governors…