Followers of Labour Party’s flagbearer Peter Obi recently took to social media to spread and celebrate his purported endorsement by billionaire American businessman and innovator, Elon Musk. The endorsement, according to the ‘Obidients’, was captured in a video where the American expressed admiration for their candidate, a purported validation Obidients held as further proof of his global popularity. Except that it wasn’t. An examination of the video in which Elon Musk purportedly spoke glowingly of Peter Obi during an interview revealed it to be fake and untrue. The video was created through what is widely known as ‘deep fake’, a…
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Former Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy and Media Director of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Council, Dele Alake has described how the APC candidate Bola Tinubu transformed Lagos and set new governance with the creation of novel ministries and deployment of technology in the fight against corruption. Speaking in a digital conversation staged on the popular microblogging site, Twitter, by the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Media Centre on Sunday, Alake attributed the rapid development witnessed in Lagos since the emergence of Tinubu in 1999 to the candidate’s administrative ingenuity and vision demonstrated through his unprecedented actions and policy initiatives. According to…
Sunday Adeyemo, the self-styled activist whose extrajudicial vigilantism landed him in trouble with the law, has lost the 20BN damage awarded to him by the Oyo State High Court after the Ibadan Division of the Court of Appeal set aside the judgment on Tuesday, ruling it outrageous and groundless. Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho, filed a suit at the Oyo State High Court seeking compensation for damages he suffered during an attempt by the DSS to secure his arrest over his vigilantism which included extrajudicial measures in a purported attempt to ‘counter insecurity’ – a duty exclusively assigned to…
In a remarkable shift in step with global trends, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has announced the pilot phase of the use of buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) for passenger operations in key areas of the state. The announcement was contained in a statement signed by its corporate communication consultant, Kolawole Ojelabi, on Monday. “In a bid to reduce tailpipe emission into the atmosphere by public transport buses, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) will from today commence the pilot phase of the use of buses powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for passenger operations…
Peter Obi’s adopted party, the Labour Party, has struggled to get its act together in Enugu State where a dispute over who won the party’s primary election among two PDP defectors has divided it into warring factions and caused a disruption in campaign activities. A solidarity rally staged in the state last weekend ended in chaos as supporters of Chief Everest Nnaji and Chijioke Edeoga, the two former PDP stalwarts laying claim to the party’s governorship ticket, clashed on the streets and took to violence in an incident that required police intervention for the restoration of calm. The chaos has…
Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has received an embarrassing public lecture from the Presidency on the legislative process involving Bill passage after betraying an indicting ignorance on social media with a hurried and ill-advised call to the President to sign the recently-passed Startup Bill into law. Atiku had in a tweet commended the two chambers of the National Assembly over the bi-partisan effort that enabled the passage of the Bill, ending it with a call to the president to sign the Bill into law. Offering a swift response, the Presidency set the records straight, educating the presidential…
Dele Alake, Director of Media and Communications of the Campaign Council of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the APC, has recounted the sacrifice and contributions of the former Lagos Governor during the June 12 struggle and how his courageous challenge of military dictatorship aided the restoration of democracy in 1999. Alake made this known while participating in a Twitter space conversation hosted by the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Media Centre on Sunday. The conversation was witnessed by thousands of young Nigerians and leaders of the APC, including Governor Babajide Sanwoolu of Lagos State. According to the veteran journalist…
A prominent lawyer and essayist based in Warri, Rivers State, has deemed as unconstitutional and a grave threat to national security and cohesion the presidential ambition of PDP’s Atiku Abubakar over the unsettled controversy surrounding his nationality. According to Onokpasa, the revelation by Senator Dino Melaye, Atiku’s longtime ally and spokesman, that the former Vice President considers the United Arab Emirates his country home, affirms existing doubts on Atiku’s loyalty – a matter that has been a subject of legal contests in the past – and rules his quest to be president a “violation of our national political ethos and…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Abuja Federal High Court has struck out the suit filed by Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, seeking the extradition of disgraced super cop Abba Kyari to the United States of America, following a request by the US embassy over his ties to Ramon Abbas ‘HushPuppi’ who is standing trial on allegations of wire fraud and criminal money laundering. The court ruled the application ‘incompetent’ and denied the request of the Justice Ministry, marking a momentary reprieve for Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police who is also facing…
The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP, Abba Kyari, will today know his fate on the attempt by the Federal Government of Nigeria to extradite him to the United States of America where he is expected to face fraud allegations over his controversial ties with Ramon Abbas ‘HushPuppi’ who is standing trial in the country for criminal conspiracy to launder money fraudulently obtained from business emails. The Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, acting on behalf of the Federal Government filed the extradition charges against Kyari at the Abuja High Court, praying the court to sanction his extradition to America.…