Author: NPO Admin II
Tunde Lekan Olatunji easily doubles as a motivational speaker. At least, that is what the NPO Reports’ encounter revealed about him. The Chief Whip of Osun State House of Assembly is eyeing a doctorate even in the face of his many tasking initiatives as he dashes from lawmaking to community projects and agriculture. When he sat with Nofisat Marindoti for this interview, his responses as published below would simply shake your poor prejudices about the typical Nigerian politician. Read him and we are convinced the Computer Engineer, Banker and politician rekindles your hope that it is not all rotten in Nigeria’s house…
The remains of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji has arrived the palace amidst mourning Sunday afternoon. Information available to the NPO Reports through a palace source said the late monarch will be buried according to Islamic rites at 4pm today. NPO Reports had earlier reported that the Oba joined his ancestors at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan in the early hours of Sunday. An ambulance had brought the remains at about 12noon as hundreds of residents gathered at the palace to receive the remains. Details later…
His sobriquet, “Lagos Boy” refuses to go away even as a septuagenarian. Olabode Ibiyinka George is a proud Lagosian who went sailing many years ago. He is easily remembered for his parting words to the people of Ondo State while quitting as the Military Administrator of the South-West Nigerian state, “A Lagos boy passed through Ondo.” This ebullient political warhorse became a force especially as National Vice Chairman of once a behemoth, the Peoples Democratic Party during its most shining years and when the party lords bestrode Nigeria like Colossus. As Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, George was perceived…
The maverick writer is an enigma of a form. With lyrical precision, he dissects the Nigerian affairs with biting metaphors. He stages satires that shocks the oppressing gang of elite. His prose pokes into the eyes of maladministration. Odia Ofiemu isn’t your regular man on the streets. Here is a bard brewing popular poetry. At 70, you can guess an interview with him would bring forth strong views, regrets and pains. It did with NPO Reports’ DANIEL FAYEMI caught up with him in Lagos ahead of events marking the milestone. Excerpts: How does it feel to be a Nigerian as you turn 70?…