Category: Society

Those who know Chima Ayanso will tell you he is a man who never gives up on his dreams regardless of the setback or disappointment he witnesses. He is a dogged and calculative fighter. More reasons he has recorded success in his chain of business from hospitality, oil, and gas, and real estate to mention a few. But since he decided to give politics a shot in his home state, he has witnessed severe baptismal of fire losing the election. Many thought that was going to make him dump politics but he is a man who is focused on achieving anything he sets out to achieve that’s why he is not relenting on his oars in ensuring he serves his people in Abia state.

In 2019, the chairman of Caades groups lost his bid to represent the people of Bendel Federal Constituency at the lower arm of the National Assembly under the umbrella of the People’s Democratic Party but he lost to Hon. Benjamin Kalu of the All Progressive Congress. After that defeat, Ofuji Bendel, as he is fondly called, has since been consulting on the next step politically. Instead of giving the House of Representatives a shot again, the Igbere-born politician has changed his game plan to contest as Governor of Abia under the PDP hoping to succeed Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu. Sources say Ayanso is leveraging on his youthful network, financial war chest, and also his alliance with ex-governor Orji Uzor Kalu.

Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, just like the biblical David, is a man after God’s heart. Many would wonder why he is being favoured but they are quick to forget that all his life, he has lived it for humanity. The capital oil boss towers high above his competitors with his vast experience in the sector like the back of his hand. After he decided to venture into politics, many called him a failure claiming he can never win even his ward. The seasoned grassroots politician and senator representing Anambra South at the national assembly never gave in to what his detractors said about him. He continues to put in hard work, chasing his dreams with much gusto.

Despite contesting for political office severally and not winning, the Nnewi-born oil baron never quit. Instead, he revisited his strategy by starting off as a senator which providence granted him in 2019. His naysayers were mocking him when he contested as senator under a relatively new Young People party YPP. After several attempts to upturn his victory using the judiciary, he came out victorious. Ubah also tried to contest for Anambra Guber Under YPP but lost to the incumbent Governor Charles Soludo.

Sources disclosed that Ubah is looking to replicate his magic wand of 2019 to retain his seat in the senate again in 2023. He has promised to take his opponents by surprise. Those who saw him as an underdog now see him as a bigger threat in the election owing to his achievements in the senate and the transformational work he carried out in his senatorial district.

Abdulsamad Rabiu is known for not doing things in half measure. He does his things making a loud statement about it. More reasons his audacious nature has cemented his position as one of the richest men in Africa. When he opened his Sokoto Cement plant a few months ago, the whole country went into a frenzy as they were shocked at how gigantic the project was in a bid to increase the production of construction cement and also crash prices. The launch was a convergence of the who is who in the country as the groundbreaking ceremony.

When his detractors thought that was the biggest thing they would see from him, the generous billionaire got himself a sizable cut of the sugar market. With a huge investment of over $300Million in the Lafiagi Sugar Estate on over 20, 000 hectares of land, BUA will boast of 10,000 tons sugar mills, 20,000 litres ethanol plant, 3km airstrip, 32megawatts power plant, and housing unit for staff. To further increase the company’s capacity to take over the sugar supply and food export market with BUA consumable products, the company took delivery of the first of two shipping vessels to augment its sugar export operations to the West African market.

For those just getting to know Mohammed Bello Koko, he has been around for quite a long time as a seasoned finance and economics expert with experience in several strategic portfolios including Banking operations, Credit-Risk Management, Treasury Operations, Retail Banking, and Corporate Marketing. With vast experience, he was in charge of the energy sector and public sector, responsible for managing accounts of several multinational oil and Gas companies and maintaining public sector relationships. With his robust background in the banking sector and corporate finance, the graduate of management Studies from the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto was rewarded with an appointment in 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari as Executive Director of Finance and Administration of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). After performing excellently well, he was appointed in May 2021 as Acting Managing Director of the agency after his successor was suspended.

Since he assumed as the head honcho of the agency, the growth recorded has been tremendous. The public leadership graduate from Harvard Kennedy School, USA, infused a different touch to the way things are being done which lead to his confirmation by President Buhari on February 15, 2022.

“Under his watch, he secured leakages in generated revenue which lead to a spike in the growth of the Agency’s Internally Generated Revenue. He also ensured improvement in operational efficiencies that led to a significant increase in container traffic to Onne Port, Warri, Calabar, and Rivers port respectively to ease the congestion at the Apapa port,” a source squealed.

Despite his giant strides that are quite evident to all sundry, his detractors are still hell-bent on ensuring they pull him down with negative media reportage by some sections of the media to distract him from functioning at a full capacity. A close source divulged that Bello Koko is unperturbed and unbothered by the negative misrepresentation his detractors are feeding the public with. It’s quite evident that some people are afraid and envious of his resounding success within the few months he had taken over and turned the fortune of the agency around.

As the DG of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe continues to do wonders, it has come as no surprise that the sectors are at the top of their game recently with tourism, arts, and culture taking center stage. You can’t score the many accomplishments of Runsewe, due to his innate humility. The hugely-framed man has to be pressed before he admits that he commandeered a show that shook the foundations of Lagos.

Many averred that the tourism sector benefited the most from Runsewe’s committed work. You wouldn’t be wrong especially knowing Runsewe’s history and the fact that he is used to being an operative figure in the tourism sector. However, the informed will tell you that it is NCAC that has benefited the most from Runsewe’s many achievements.

As things stand now, Runsewe has become a multi-sector personality, reaching beyond the usual borders of the NCAC and extending to the other industries related to arts and culture adapting his increasing popularity by spreading cultural distinctiveness to several Nigerian areas.

All in all, it can only be concluded that Runsewe gives his best to whatever ministry, industry, or sector he is working with. Owning to his competency, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State appointed him as chairman Kogi State Tourism Intervention advisory committee last year. He was said to have infused his depth and repertoire of knowledge in the tourism and cultural sector to achieve a resounding success.

Today, Runsewe remains the number 1 figure that continues to straddle multiple sectors as he takes Nigeria’s unique cultural varieties further and further.

When the news of Pa. Mattihas Egwarewa Keyamo’s demise, father of Barr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), broke, and the legal luminary broke down emotionally showing that something precious had gone to the great beyond. While his father was alive, they both shared a filial bond that nobody could break. Their resemblance is super striking as the Junior Keyamo was said to have learned a whole lot about life from his father who was a leading light, mentor, friend, and advisor.

The shocking death of Pa Keyamo created a lacuna in the life of the Ambrose Ali University graduate of Law who many say would miss the fatherly advice, bond, and relationship they shared. In other to immortalize his late father, thanking him for breeding and nurturing him to the path of greatness in life, the Ughelli-born Minister of State Labour and Employment spared no cost in making sure a befitting burial was held to celebrate his father’s passing away to the great beyond. Keyamo ensured the whole Delta state was shaken to its very roots on April 23, 2022, in Efurun, Warri. Top dignitaries and political heavyweight in and outside Delta state were on the ground to pay homage to the late man who many said was a community leader with a repertoire of knowledge that is second to none.

Despite the family’s faith, Keyamo ensured he did everything in line with his faith by constructing a mausoleum where the remains of his father were lowered as dignitaries took turns to pay their last respect to the deceased. At the reception party, it was a massive roll call as the former minister of State for the Niger Delta ministry feted the whole community to a mega soiree in celebration of the life and times of his late father. Those spotted at the event include VP Yemi Osinbajo, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Gambari, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, Dame Pauline Tallen, Rotimi Ameachi, Nigerian Bar Association President Olumide Akpata, Tonye Cole, Chief Ayiri Emami, and a host of others.

The name Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum connotes competence, accountability, passion, and resilience. He is one of the few public office holders that has shown that governance is not rocket science. The way he goes about discharging his duties as the number one man in the state is worth emulation. Despite a crisis ravaged state, Zulum is not relenting in ensuring that the people of Borno, who elected him into office are enjoying the dividends of democracy. He is doing that with love in his heart, and those who never supported his bid to be Governor have also commended him for his uprightness.

Ever since he assumed office in 2019, his style of leadership is quite different. He is not the type that would relax and work from a safer haven, he is also on the move experience and sympathises with people in the state who are going through hard times as a result of insurgency that has displaced many from their homes. While in the line of duty, the Agricultural Engineering graduate from the Univerisity of Maiduguri has been an assassination target on several occasions. Providence ensured that every attempt to bring him down proved abortive as he was always lucky to come out unscratched. He is a man after God’s heart.

Despite the constant attack on him, he is not relenting. Instead, he has intensified work focusing on rebuilding the state with minimal resources by investing heavily in infrastructural projects. From rebuilding, educational revamping from primary to secondary, investment in worker’s welfare, providing relief materials for displaced persons, providing health care for nursing mothers, and all sundry to massive rehabilitation of roads across the state, he has proven to be a hard worker. Many are wondering how he was still able to ensure good work but he is a man who has never compromised on his words. As the 2023 election draws nearer, sources disclosed that in reward for the good work he has done across the state, nobody is planning to contest his reelection bid. It is being bandied in some quarters that for the next election, nobody is contesting against him. He’s believed to have been rewarded with plans to make him a consensus candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC without his knowledge.

For those who want to earn a post-graduate degree in business management, Aviation, and Corporate Governance, securing a few hours with Barr. Allen Onyema will not be out of place. This is because the wealth of experience you will gather in less than 30 minutes will avail you of pragmatic information you might not be privileged to get in a classroom. The Air Peace boss is, indeed, a walking encyclopedia. Early in his sojourn in life, he knew he was going to be a man destined for greatness, hence, he never took the fast route to wealth but was calm and strategic in his approach to business. Despite starting as a property merchant before moving to import, export and exhibition, he made heads way as one of the biggest investors in Nigeria’s aviation sector with the floating of Air Peace. Having studied why some defunct airlines folded up, he leveraged his intelligence in business to move from few planes to owning fleets, hence, putting Air Peace in the leagues of industry players in Africa and the rest of the world. Despite all attempts to dent the reputation he has built over the years with dedication and hard work, he has always been vindicated.

The cosmopolitan Anambra-born business magnate who has sowed in tears is currently reaping bountifully as the Air peace is being showered accolades by all sundry for their seamless services, and customers relation. In his quest for peace owing to his pedigree as a student in the university, during the fuel scarcity crisis the country faced recently, Allen ensured peace by interceding between government and Airline operators to ensure airlines are not grounded due to the unavailability of Aviation fuel. Many commended him for being patriotic making sure situations were sorted out amicably and everything returned to normalcy.

In a bid to show that Air Peace, under Onyema, is a leading light in the Aviation sector, the Airline was the first to announce its regional and international routes would be boarding from the newly constructed Muritala Mohammed International Airport terminal 2 MMIA2 terminals Airport in Lagos.

Yobe State Governor’s wife, Gumsu Fatima Abacha Mai Mala-Buni is currently experiencing the seventh heaven as her secret prayers are being answered by her creator to her delight. Finding unconditional love in the heart of Governor Mai Mala-Buni is something she will never take for granted. At every slight opportunity, she displays her man on social media while flaunting her wedding band and referring to the governor as the source of her happiness. For Gumsu, giving love a chance to reign again in her life was a hard decision. But it took a man who is a caring, loving, selfless, soft, and supportive man like Buni to make her forget the pains of her past and unlock the code to her heart.

Despite Governor Buni’s busy schedules and travel itinerary, the duo spends quality time together. Sources say they talk on the phone over 10times every day. They make those around them jealous while they confess undying love for each other at every given opportunity. Sources added that more reason their love has continued to wax stronger daily is as a result of Gumsu’s intelligence, brilliance, and loyalty.