Author: TheLagosianMagazine

BY KYLIAN MBAPPÉ To the kids in Bondy,To the kids in ÃŽle-de-France,To the kids in the banlieues,I want to tell you a story. It will probably not surprise you that it’s about football. With me, everything is football. You can ask my father. When I was three years old, he got me one of those little 4×4 toy trucks for my birthday. You know, the ones with the electric motor? You could actually sit inside and drive it around. It had pedals and everything. My parents would let me drive from our house to the football pitch across the street,…

Reveals Why Her Husband Has Not Been Given Proper Recognition By Buhari’s Government Mrs Aderonke Omololu-Olunloyo, wife of one-time governor of old Oyo State, Dr Victor Sowemimo Omololu Olunloyo has pronounced that Nigerian politicians are the most ‘laid-back, selfish and self-centered set of people’ she’s ever met. She made this explosive pronouncement on Tuesday while featuring on the weekly radio show, Parrot Xtra Hour On Radio aired on Space 90.1fm, Ibadan. It was anchored by Olayinka Agboola. The politician’s wife also advocated that politics should be made to be less attractive. Her words “Once they become a politician, then, they…

The Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has felicitated with the Member representing Ughelli North/Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency, Hon. Francis Waive, on the occasion of his 54th birthday. In a special congratulatory message personally signed by him, Senator Omo-Agege extolled the leadership qualities and astute contributions of the cleric, accountant and politician. Omo-Agege also commended the lawmaker for his life-long commitment to the service of God and humanity, even as he recalled the immense role he played in his reelection as senator representing Delta Central Senatorial…

In continuation of his amazing international humanitarian activities, Prophet TB Joshua, renowned global televangelist has donated the sum of $30,000 (thirty thousand dollars) to the Israel-based Galilee Medical Center, the largest hospital in the Galilee Region of Northern Israel to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The sum is an equivalent of 100,000ILS. The donation was considered a great boost to the efforts of the hospital which serves diverse groups of ethnicities including Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze adherents in that country. While receiving the donation, the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Masad Barhoum, expressed the hospital’s appreciation of the…

The National Universities Commission (NUC), which has the statutory mandate to accredit academic programmes in all Nigerian Universities, has given full (100%) accreditation to all the academic programmes being run by the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Science of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Programmes being run by other Faculties were also accredited by the NUC while all programmes at the Postgraduate level were also fully accredited. Commenting on the results, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, lauded the patriotic zeal of the Professor Abubakar…

After several years, the long arm of justice finally caught up with Yinusa Dahiru, the man who abducted teenager, Ese Oruru and forced her into marriage. Today, Thursday, a  Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State sentenced Dahiru to 26-year imprisonment. It would be recalled that then 13 years old Ese Oruru was abducted by Dahiru on the 12th of August 2015 at her mother’s shop in Yenagoa and taken to Kano, where, the court ruled, she was raped, forcibly Islamized and married off without her parents’ consent. In her judgement today, Thursday, Justice Jane Inyang acquitted Dahiru on…

Usman Gur Mohammed, Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN has been sacked by the Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman. In a release this evening by the ministry, Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz was announced as a replacement albeit in an acting capacity pending his confirmation as the substantive TCN boss. More details later.

As feared by many, President Mohammadu Buhari this afternoon extended the nationwide Covid-19 Curfew by another two weeks. In a statement this afternoon by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and the Secretary to the Federal Government, Boss Mustapha, the extension was necessitated by prevailing circumstances. Below is the text of the address by Mustapha: REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION/CHAIRMAN OF THE PTF ON COVID-19 AT THE NATIONAL BRIEFING OF MONDAY 18TH MAY, 2020​I welcome you to the National Briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 for Monday, 18th May,…

a.k.a AJAGUN LAWARIKAN AGBEJA NLABOFA. Young Prince Ademiluyi was born around 1860 at Otutubiosun Royal Compound of Lafogido Ruling House of Ile -lfe old Western part of the British colony before the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorate that formed the present country called Nigeria. The name of his father was Prince Ademakin and his mother was Olori Obitola. He was the second child of his parents who had five children namely Adesanya a.k.a Ogidan Ademiluyi a.k.a Ajagun Jolaadepo (the only female), Adebowale and Adeyeye. Young Prince Ademiluyi took to farming and hunting which was the vogue among many…

The Arole Oduduwa & Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II has lauded the prominent media guru, Basorun Dele Momodu on his 60th birthday, stating that the publisher of the widely read Ovation Magazine has done well the nation. In a statement by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Comrade Moses Olafare, Ooni Ogunwusi described Momodu who alongside late journalists; Dele Giwa and Dele Agekameh grew up in the ancient Palace of Ife under the watch of Ooni Adesoji Aderemi as a man of many parts. “Dele Momodu is a freedom fighter who was top among the…