Kosofe Reporters

    *Call for Unity among party members   * To embark on one-week house-to-house campaign       The All Progressive Congress chieftains in Kosofe Local Government, Agboyi/ketu and Ikosi/Isheri LCDA yesterday geared up for the Lagos East Senatorial and Kosofe Constituency II by-elections which are billed to take place on December 5th with a joint stakeholders meeting which was held at Mende Town hall, Mende Maryland.   The joint stakeholders meeting which started off around 12 noon was designed primarily to maintain peace, unity and understanding among the party chieftains and members ahead of December 5 th Lagos East Senatorial and Kosofe Constituency II by-elections.   In attendance at the Joint Stakeholders meeting were Otunba, Busira Alebiosu, Omooba Muyiwa Sosanya, Chief Stephen Oyedele, Hon. Sanni Okanlawon, Hon. Dayo Alebiosu, Chief Temionu, Hon. Yetunde Arobieke, Hon. Gbemi Ketiku, Hon. Musiliu Aigoro, Hon. Busayo Adeba...

  Self-acclaimed African giant, Burna Boy, has been nominated for the 2021 Grammy awards scheduled to hold on January 31, 2021. His recent album, Twice As Tall, has been nominated in the Best Global Music Album category at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards. His previous album, African Giant, was also nominated at the 62nd Grammy Awards ceremony but Angélique Kidjo went home with the award. Also, South-African comedian, Trevor Noah, has been penned down as the host for the award ceremony. The 63rd annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast by CBS from Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. However, not much is known about the ceremony. After 40 years, the show’s longtime producer, Ken Ehrlich, has retired from the awards, but Ben Winston (known for his work on James Corden’s late-night show and “Carpool Karaoke”) will be taking over. To be eligible for the 2021 awards, albums and songs must have been released between Sept. 1, 2019, and Aug. 31, 2020. And there were a few tweaks to the catego...

  The Nigerian Youths and Student Coalition (NYSC), the Central Bank of Nigeria and some state governments are planning to raise about N100 billion to empower about 70 million youths across the country.    The programme termed the ‘Nigerian Youth Empowerment Project’ will explore the capital market, CBN intervention funds, and other international partners to raise the funds which will empower youths in the development of affordable homes and agricultural expansion.    The project support by FHT Ventures Pl, a real estate firm, would see to the training and empowerment of 1000 youth entrepreneurs across the 36 states and the FCT in the first phase of the project, running from November 2020 to November 2021    The Executive Chairman, FHT Ventures Plc, Olubunmi Adewa-Faboro, said in Abuja that the firm and its partners are reaching out to state governments for the provision of land as project sites. He added that the Central Bank was being approached for ...

  The All Progressives Congress has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to stop the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, from participating in the upcoming Lagos East Senatorial District by-election over an allegation of forged West African Senior School Certificate Examination result. The defendants in the suit are Gbadamosi and the Independent National Electoral Commission. In the suit filed by its lawyer, Mr Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), the APC claimed that its check on WASSCE website showed that Gbadamosi, in 1985, registered and sat for eight WASSCE subjects, but the certificate he submitted to INEC indicated that he only registered for and took five subjects. “The number of subjects recorded for the 1st defendant on the platform of WASSCE materially differs from the number of subjects recorded for the 1st defendant on the purported WASSCE Certificate submitted to the 2nd defendant. “The certificate was forged and or falsified to conceal the fact that t...

SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM KOSOFE LG APC LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE(LOC)  

  ·         Set to continue discussion with key stakeholders     ·         To resume house-to-house campaign in all the wards     ·         To mobilize party members.       As the rescheduled Lagos East Senatorial By-election draws closer, the All Progressives Congress Local Organising Committee (LOC) in Kosofe Local Government is taking nothing for granted at ensuring overwhelming victory for the candidate of the party Mr. Tokunbo Abiru in the Local Government as it has set political machinery in motion for the senatorial By-election which will take place on Dec. 5   Kosofe Reporters learnt that the Local Government LOC comprising of Kosofe Local Government Chairman, Hon. Afolabi Sofola; Kosofe LGA APC Chairman, Alh. Kehinde Bello; Former Minister for Works and Housing, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe; Director of Speci...

    Three people on trial for the alleged murder of a 400-level Lagos State University (LASU) student, Favour Daley-Oladele, have been remanded in prison. The trio – a prophet, Segun Philip; a woman, Bola Adeeko; and her son, Owolabi Adeeko – were on Friday arraigned before an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital over the murder. The prosecutor from the Ministry of Justice, Kemi Bello, had brought the suspects before the court on two counts of conspiracy and murder. The charge was not read for the three accused persons and they did not have counsel. The presiding Judge, Justice Grace Onibokun adjourned the matter to March 3rd and 10th, 2021 for hearing and ordered they should be remanded in a Correctional Facility. The Ogun State Police Command arrested the self-acclaimed prophet alongside Owolabi over the killing of Daley-Oladele a final year Sociology student at the Lagos State University. After the arrest, Owolabi narrated how he used his girlfrie...