Abdulsamad Rabiu, the chairman of BUA Group, has rejected his nomination to serve as a member of the finance committee set up by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Rabiu declined the offer in a statement by his company on Friday. It said the billionaire industrialist prefers to be apolitical. Mr Rabiu, a close ally of President Bola Tinubu, was nominated by the party to serve as a member of a finance committee constituted on Thursday. He was nominated into the 34-member committee alongside some businessmen and top party members. Other committees were also constituted by the National Working…
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Before and since the advent of the present Administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the mainstream APC in Oyo state have been receiving the short end of the stick. The gubernatorial candidate of the Party was jettisoned in favour of the incumbent Governor, then PDP candidate in a deal brokered between the then Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and a group of dissident Governors of the PDP led by the then Governor of Rivers state and now Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike. Seyi Makinde is a member of the Group of dissident Governors and actually benefitted from the said…
Oyo state chapter of the International Association Of World Peace Advocates IAWPA paid a courtesy visit to the International Mayor of peace and Global Diplomat, His Eminence, Apostle, Dr. Moses Oni Solomon Mustapha aka Sebioba at his Church in Gbaremu idi Obi area of Ibadan on Sunday, November 5, 2023. The Association was led by the Oyo state Director, Amb. Dr. Mohammed-Lawal Musa Alongbija. In a short speech, delivered during the Sunday service, Oyo state Director, Amb. Alongbija stressed the importance of peace in the the World, most especially, at this particular time when Nations of the World are in…
Apologia: Though the most trending issue at present is the yacht yaks, my offering today will not dwell on it. Nor will I want to talk about the army of deliberately befuddling narratives on the yacht from the Nigerian authority. Today’s is also not about the familial invasion of the hallowed chambers of state last week, nor the previous presidential speech from Iya L’oja, the First Daughter, with the Nigerian flag flying, warts and all. Nor is it even about the automobile palliatives for the First Family. Like the Georg Wilhelm Hegel dialectics, I believe all these are theses and…
NNPCL may begin importation of 110, 000 barrels of crude oil per day from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia to operate the Kaduna Refinery due to come on stream next year. Also, the Dangote, Bua and other refineries may be forced to import about 1.322 million barrels of crude oil per day amid oil production challenges in Nigeria, existing contracts on crude oil swap as well as other commercial issues. Currently, the Dangote Refinery, with 650, 000 barrels per day refining capacity, is relying on imported crude, while the Bua Refinery within the South South region would need about 200,000 barrels…
Reason Why President Tinubu Banned Son from FEC Meeting Seyi Tinubu was banned from attending any meeting in the Villa including that of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, by his father, Bola Tinubu because he was involved in a fight with the Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the President, Fasasi Adeboyega, who stopped him from barging into a high level security briefing meeting Tinubu was having. Tinubu had announced during a Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting yesterday that Seyi and others not invited to FEC meetings should stay away. Informants in the Villa told me that Seyi took some foreigners…
Is there any connect between law and public opinion or judgments and public opinion? Before Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad’s (rtd) valedictory speech at the Supreme Court last Friday, the connect or disconnect between those two had begun to assume a life of its own. The presidential election judgment delivered by the Supreme Court the day before heightened concerted quests for the nexus or disjuncture between them. In the Dattijo valedictory, it would appear that the Learned Justice had deliberately set out to take the sail off the wind of views which divorced law from judgments and public opinion. In the…
Father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips in his 1901 book he entitled The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud discussed what in German is called Fehlleistungen. It is another name for faulty actions which mirror bits of unconscious mind leakages into conscious behaviour. This leakage, otherwise known as misspeak, according to him, prompts a speaker to say what is unintended…
There was this infamous Emperor of Rome by the name of Nero, who busied himself partying and merry making while the Empire he ruled was burning. There was a trending pictures of Governor Makinde and the G-5 meeting with the President in Abuja on Tuesday night and those pictures touched my consciousness to the sad story of Emperor Nero. By the time Governor Makinde was posing for those pictures in Abuja, Iwere-Ile, a town in Iwajowa Local Government of Oyo state was burning. In fact, it is safe to say that while Governor Makinde was posing for those pictures, there…
Each time I heard the rhetoric that”Education is free in Oyo state”, what always come to my mind is the phrase made popular by a former First Lady of the Federation, Patience Jonathan, ” there is God ooo”. Good enough, Governor Makinde always allude to the fact that he, as a young student enjoyed the Free Education. The question is, can he, in all honesty, compare the Free Education he personally enjoyed as a young pupil to the shambolic policy he has put in place now as Governor of Oyo state? How many of the Governor’s children, that of his…