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FROM THE STABLES OF A WRITER AND POET. SUCCINCTLY EXPRESSED BY, Awalme Gowal . TINUBU AND 2023 It takes a great mind to be strategic in his thoughts and actions. I have long been an admirer of Bola Ahmed Tinubu because of his his political dexterity and style of leadership. Leadership, as I see it, is about vision, organisation, and management. Having a clear cut picture of what you intend to paint and recruiting the right materials to give you the touch of the different shades you conceived  mentally. My knowledge of Bola Tinubu is relatively recent. Back in 1999 when he became the Governor of Lagos State. I was just graduating from secondary School and observed from a bird's eye view how he stuck to his ideology of a progressive  amidst all the arrows shot at him by the then President Oluesegun Obasanjo. His steadfastness to his beliefs was what appealed to my young revolutionary mind that in present reflection I can say I'm his fan. No one can take away the fact

A 28-year-old Nigerian man has been jailed for six and half years for raping a woman in a car in Hackney.  Kenneth Ajilore, of Prince George Road, N16, was sentenced at a Nightingale Court based at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, March 24.  Metropolitan Police in a statement said that Ajilore was found guilty following a trial at the same court on 14 March. Detectives began an investigation after they were called by a woman, aged in her 20s, who’d been raped in a car after a night out in Stoke Newington in the early hours of 17 September, 2021. She reported being invited into a vehicle by a man who then drove her to different locations across London. Later the same day, the woman visited a police station to report the attack. Specially-trained officers provided her with support and immediately started an investigation Thanks to the woman’s resourcefulness, detectives were able to use photos taken on her phone of the vehicle to trace it back to Ajilore who had hired i

Sunshine Queens FC of Akure goalkeeper, Elizabeth Johnson, has died hours after she trained with the team.  The Kogi-born goalkeeper died on Saturday, March 19, in Akure, Ondo State, after a brief illness. Her death was announced in a statement signed by the club's head of Media and Publicity, Femi Atolagbe. The statement added that the goalkeeper who was "hale and hearty" and trained with the team on Friday, died after complaining of fever and dizziness. "Very heartbreaking, Sunshine Queens lost one of it's Goal Keepers, Elizabeth Johnson (Janded) to the cold hands of death moments ago. "Johnson who was hale and heathy trained with the team yesterday at the Ondo State Sports complex, Akure "She earlier in the day complained of feeling feverish and dizzy. She was being taking to the hospital when she gave up the ghost on the way. Players, officials and management are still in shock."

Man beats wife to death over domestic row in Delta state Operatives of Delta State Police Command have arrested a 42-year-old man, Mr. Efe Erinoja, for allegedly beating his wife to death. Efe Erinoja is said to have beaten Faith Ekpe, 36, yesterday, March 16, in their residential apartment in Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government area of Delta state. The couple was involved in a domestic dispute when Efe allegedly killed his wife at about 6:30am. He then fled his home to avoid being attacked by angry locals. According to a local source, neighbours heard the shrill voice of Faith Ekpe but when they arrived at the scene, she was already dead. The fleeing husband was tracked and arrested following a report made at Orerokpe Police Station by the brother of the deceased, Monday Otobrise Ekpe, who led detectives to the scene. Security sources said: "When the Police detectives arrived the scene, they found the corpse of Faith Ekpe on the ground with signs of violence on her body.

The Senate on Wednesday March 16, passed a bill to amend the Money Laundering Act 2011. The new bill now makes it mandatory for banks and other financial institutions to report, in writing, to the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering under the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, any single transaction or lodgment in excess of N5m for an individual and N10m for a corporate body. While section 11(3) of the bill provides that “any financial institution or designated non-financial business and profession that contravenes the provisions of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of not less than N250,000 and not more than N1m for each day the contravention continues”, Section 12 of the bill prohibits the opening of numbered or anonymous accounts in fictitious names and shell banks. Section 13 further mandates financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions to identify and access the money laundering and

A Consultant Pathologist at the Central Hospital, Warri, Delta State, told a coroner that Dowen College student, Sylvester Oromoni, died from acute inflammatory pneumonia due to severe sepsis. Dr Clement Vhriterhire, who carried out the initial autopsy on late Sylvester Oromoni, gave his testimony on Monday, March 14, at the coroner inquest set up to look into Oromoni's death. Testifying on Monday before an Ikeja Coroner’s Court, the pathologist, while responding to questions from the Coroner, Mr Mikhail Kadiri, said contrary to social media reports, there were no signs of chemical intoxication found in the deceased. He said: "This is the final autopsy report that I issued. After I had settled down and reviewed my microscopic slide, in light of nothing significant from the toxicology, I married everything together. "In the absence of chemical intoxication, and different organs were showing inflammatory processes, I came about acute inflammatory pneumonia due t

Boat propeller kills billionaire banker's son as he tried to save fiancée who fell from boat The 31-year-old son of a billionaire banker was killed while trying to save his fiancée after she fell from the boot during a fishing competition in Florida over the weekend. According to the Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Escotet Alviarez died after he attempted to rescue his fiancée, Andrea Montero, when she fell off the stern of their 60-foot boat on Saturday, March 12 The two were catching sailfish as part of an event hosted by the Ocean Reef Club in north Key Largo. After entering the water, Alviarez was struck by a boat propeller and died from his injuries.  His fiancée Montero was eventually able to get out of the water "without consequences," according to a translated tweet. Alviarez is the son of billionaire Juan Carlos Escotet Rodriguez, the Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional, reported. According to Forbes, 62-year-old Rodriguez has a net worth of $3.5 billion and