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  • Letter to Osinbajo

    Sir: I read in one of the national dailies that the federal government feeds school children weekly with 594 cattle, 138 000 chickens and a whopping 6.8 million eggs. I would like to say that school children also need good infrastructure. I am an educationist and I know that children who learn under good and conducive infrastructure tend to learn better and faster than children learning under dilapidated condition.

    Education is supposed to be the bedrock of our society; it ought to be at the forefront. Entertainment, especially music, has taken over the trail. Our education which happens to be the legacy our parents crave to leave for their children no longer hold water. Children tend to prefer entertainment to education.

    It would interest you to know that our children now prefer musicians as their mentors and role models than our scholars. These are the musicians whose songs are solely based on codeine, Indian hemp, sensuality and sex. To make matters worse, the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation is not helping issues. They don’t censor these songs again unlike in the days of yore. Television and radio stations prefer to air these songs free of charge than educational programmes. Educational competition comes with a meagre prize of N100,000 while a mere entertainment competition prize will come at stupendous millions of naira. Is this not a deterrent to our educational system in Nigeria?

    I can bet it that if we handpick 20 children randomly and they are asked to choose between you, Olamide or Whizkid as a role model, I believe strongly that only one of them will choose you while the rest will choose between Olamide or Whizkid. The reason is not far-fetched. These children believe that musicians have more impact and make more money in our society than our so-called scholars. Schools no longer interest our children!

    Sir, don’t just feed them; provide a good infrastructure for them too as this will afford them the opportunity to learn under a conducive environment. While propagating your feeding programme, please note that conducive environment is paramount to quality education. What is good for the goose, is good for the gander. Every child, just like yours, deserves a better education.

     

    • Dada Monday Oluwaseyifunmi,

    <mondayseyi2003@gmail.com>

  • Breaking: I won’t step down, Ndume vows after meeting Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday met behind closed doors with the former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume.

    Ndume has been aspiring to be President of the 9th Senate due for inauguration in June.

    He had declared his intention to run for the number three highest political office despite endorsement of the current Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan for the position by the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC).

    Ndume, declined to speak on camera with State House correspondents on Monday at the end of about one- hour meeting with Osinbajo.

    Read Also:  Osinbajo, Ndume meet in Aso Rock

    But he indicated that he was not ready to step down from the race.

    When asked by reporters whether he would step down, he asked rhetorically: “Me?”

    He declined to speak further on the Senate Presidency race as he maintained that he was still holding consultation.
    “This is not the time to talk now because I am still holding consultation,” he stated.

    Details shortly…

  • Breaking: Osinbajo, Ndume meet in Aso Rock

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday met behind closed doors with the former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume.

    The meeting started around 3.20pm when Ndume arrived the Vice President’s office.

    Ndume has been aspiring to be President of the 9th Senate in June.

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    He had declared his intention to run for the number three highest political office despite endorsement of the current Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan for the post by the ruling All Progressives Congress.

    The meeting with Osinbajo was still in progress at the time of filing this report.

    Details shortly…

  • Osinbajo, Blair meet in Aso Villa

    The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday met behind closed doors with the former United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    The closed doors meeting was described as ‘private’.

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    At the end of the meeting, there was no press interview.

    There was also no official statement issued concerning the meeting as at the time of filing this report.

    Blair was the UK Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party between 1994 and 2007.

  • Breaking: Osinbajo, Fayemi, Yari meet in Aso Rock

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday evening met behind closed doors with two All Progressives Congress (APC) governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    The governors were Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State.

    They met for about thirty minutes behind closed doors.

    When approached after the meeting, they simply told State House correspondents that it was a private meeting.

    Read Also; How Tinubu led ACN to reclaim lost states in 2007, by Osinbajo

    But it was gathered that the Court of Appeal in Abuja would on Thursday night deliver judgment in the Ekiti governor dispute case.

    The Ekiti State Election Tribunal had in January delivered judgment affirming the victory of Kayode Fayemi of APC in the election.

    Appeal Court had also nullified APC primaries in Zamfara State.

  • How Tinubu led ACN to reclaim lost states in 2007, by Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo on Thursday went down memory lane to relate the roles played by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in reclaiming states lost by the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after the 2007 general elections.

    Osinbajo, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari as Chairman of the 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium, told the gathering the All Progressives Congress (APC) National leader hired 63 finger print experts mainly from the UK police to help prove cases of over voting in the 2007 elections.

    He said with the help of the finger print experts who worked hard for six months, it was discovered while it takes an average voter about five minutes to conclude the voting process, it took PDP agents less than five seconds to thump-print ballots that were counted in its favour in 2007.

    He said it was the political dexterity of the former Lagos state governor that ensured the ACN reclaimed Edo, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo states, adding the last to be won through that process was Osun state.

    The Vice President commended the roles played by the APC leader in the success of the party in the just -concluded elections, adding the choice of the phrase next level as campaign slogan was simply to tell Nigerians that the country was moving to the next phase of development.

    He said: “We celebrate a man who has spent the last thirty years of his life in creative and catalytic public service. He is not a lawyer as many of us know but there are few Nigerians who have provoked so many legal controversies and constitutional challenges resulting in several landmark judicial pronouncements especially in the area of federalism and what today is loosely described as restructuring.

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    “Many of us know that he is not an engineer but a lot of his vision is what is responsible for what we see today in Lagos, the BRT, the Lekki industrial zone, even the Eko Atlantic project and of course the reform in the tax system of Lagos State.

    “Today, Lagos as we know, earns more revenue, more IGR, than 31 states of Nigeria put together. That by itself began in 2001.”

    Speaking on the next level, the Vice President said: “As you know, the expression Next Level, itself, is our political campaign slogan in this last election. And what we were saying was simply that there was a next phase to what our country has seen.

    “There are many who will say that there many things that were promised in 2015 which have not yet been realised.

    “I think the best way of putting is to say that our country, for the first time, is witnessing the type of leadership that is bound to lead us to where it is that we are proposed ourselves as a government.

    “In my view, the honest leadership, leadership with integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari, is a very important component of getting anywhere at all in all of our development plans.

    “I said before at the last colloquium that Nigeria’s main problem is not the lack of ideas, it is not the lack of projects and programmes.

    “It was most of the time, especially the leadership in the past, and corruption in particular as the reason why we were finding it difficult to make progress.

    “I explained that that’s why we earned $383billion in four years, the highest ever in the history of our country, and yet Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was not done.

    “Lagos-Kano Railway and all that is being done today, not done. We cannot point to a single major infrastructure project that was completed in the 10-year period, despite the high earnings, including power.

    “So, a government coming after so many years of waste must be a government, first that emphasizes fiscal prudence, a government that emphasizes integrity in public finance so that it would manage the

  • Breaking: Osinbajo, Bindow, Abubakar meet in Aso Rock

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday met behind closed doors with the Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed Abubakar and the Adamawa State Governor, Jibrila Bindow at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    The two governors are seeking second tenure on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    But the governorship results of the March 9th elections in the two states were declared inconclusive.

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    The agenda of the meeting on Thursday was not made public.

    It was still in progress at the time of filing this report.

  • Osinbajo delivers polling unit for APC

    The governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Conhress (APC) in Lagos state, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has been declared winner in polling unit 033 in VGC where Vice President Yemi Osinbajo voted today.

    The APC candidate polled 223 votes to defeat his main challenger, Jimi Agbaje, of the Peoples Democratic Party, who got 176 votes.

    Also in the state house of assembly votes, APC (193 votes) defeated the PDP (155 votes).

    This is a departure from the presidential and national assembly elections where the PDP won in the two polling units in VGC two weeks ago.

  • Group rejoices with Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been congratulated by the Buhari Osinbajo Hope Movement.

    In its message to the vice president, the group described Professor Osinbajo as an intelligent, resourceful and dutiful public officer.

    The group lauded Osinbajo as he turned 62 in a statement signed by Mr Seyi Bamigbade, the National Coordinator of the group.

    He said:”We are proud of the vice president. We felicitate with the prolific and quintessential vice president on this important occasion.

    “We rejoice with the vice president as we reminisce on his evolution from a highly cerebral law teacher to an exemplary, consummate and venerated public administrator.

    “We are indeed glad and proud of His Excellency as we lay claims to him as a Grand Patron. He was a great Attorney-General and Justice Commissioner for eight years under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.’’

    According to the Buhari Osinbajo Hope Movement, the vice president, in his public and private conduct, has epitomized and crystalized himself as a loyal ally and assistant to his leader, the President, who has in recent times, described Osinbajo as a “venerable, diligent, and intelligent public officer as well as a tireless, committed, dedicated, patriotic resourceful and dutiful statesman’’.

    Seyi said that these attributes had become trademark peculiarities of the VP, to the popular acclaim and admiration of all and sundry.

  • Osinbajo is a dependable deputy, says Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN on the occasion of his 62nd birthday.

    The President, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, joined Osinbajo’s wife, Dolapo, her children and Nigerians across the country and around the world to celebrate the erudite scholar, Minister of the Gospel and ‘‘very dependable deputy with whom I share a very special bond.’’

    President Buhari said he was grateful to God for preserving the life of Prof. Osinbajo, who in the past four years has diligently championed the values of setting the foundation for the peace, progress, and stability of Nigeria, by working very hard to build a resilient economy while promoting transparency and accountability.

    On this special occasion, the President extended special appreciation to the Vice President and wished him many more years of robust health, happiness and fulfilment in his service to God, the nation and humanity.

    Buhari said that he looks forward to sharing many special moments of celebration with his deputy as they take Nigeria to the Next Level in the years ahead.