Babatunde Fashola
7 Dec
My recent visit to Lagos in October for a wedding sparked a mix of nostalgia and dismay. After the wedding, I embarked on a journey from Lagos to Akure via the Ore Road, a route I hadn’t taken in nearly 29 years.
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Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday, threw his weight behind the growing calls for a single term for elected officeholders, arguing that any form of autonomy for local councils in the country is against the tenets of true federalism.
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Anambra State Governor and ex-Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) chief, Chukwuma Soludo; ex-Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola; the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara
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A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has called on the Federal Government to go after foreign exchange stashed in private vaults and sell crude oil in naira. Dogara made the call at The Platform Nigeria, a Democracy Day program by Lagos-based church, Covenant Nation, on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. He lamented…
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Former minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has called on the Federal Government to develop infrastructure that would make art,
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