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Lagos Majority Leader Defeats Rival In APC Primary Election

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Lagos Majority Leader Defeats Rival In APC Primary Election - sweeps all 6 wards in Eti-Osa

Lagos Majority Leader Defeats Rival In APC Primary Election

– sweeps all 6 wards in Eti-Osa

Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Noheem Adams, on Wednesday floored his rival, Saheed Adesegun Bankole, in the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Eti-Osa Constituency 1.

Adams polled 7,638 to defeat Bankole who scored 1,225 in the poll held at Ward K3, Olomu primary school, Ajah.

The result of the election was announced by Basirat Kamoru, who declared Adams, the incumbent lawmaker, as the APC candidate for the Lagos State House of Assembly in the constituency.

While Adams had a landslide in five of the wards, election in the sixth ward J was declared inconclusive.

Commending the turn-out of party faithful for the exercise, Noheem thanked the APC leadership for what he described as “free and fair election.”

The lawmaker also promised to deliver the constituency to President Bola Tinubu, Obafemi Hazmat as well as the party’s candidates for Senate and House of Representatives in the general election.

“I feel great and honoured. It is the will of the people. It’s democracy and the people have spoken today.

“Prior to today, my leaders from the GAC, chairmen of local government councils and party heads, all ward chairmen endorsed my re-election bid and all my constituents converged two weeks ago to declare their support.

“They asked my opponent to step down, but he insisted on the primary election.

“Today, we have seen the result. For example in ward A3 , I had like over 2000 votes, my opponent had a little above 203. In Ajah, we had 1262 and he had minor votes. In Oniru, we had 2500 votes , he had just 143. In ward 3, we had over 600 votes and be had like 400.

“In all the six wards, we won overall by 92 percent.

With the six Divisional Police Officers in the constituency affirming my victory, I hope that the Wil of the people will be sustained by the party.

“The people have promised me that they will make sure I win the main election by 95 percent. They have also promised to ensure victory for our President, the governorship candidate and others.

“I am, therefore, assuring the president that this time around, we are going to win this place for him,” he said.

 

Lagos Majority Leader Defeats Rival In APC Primary Election
- sweeps all 6 wards in Eti-Osa

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BREAKING NEWS:  HRM Queen Amb. Cletus Chikaodi Leaticia Appointed to Lead Administration of UKA Throne

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HRM Queen Amb. Cletus Chikaodi Leaticia Appointed to Lead Administration of UKA Throne

*UKA Royal Court* – His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Nobilis Prof Solomon Wining, Reigning Monarch and Emperor of the United Kingdom of Atlantis, has announced the appointment of *HRM Queen Amb Leaticia Chikaiddi Cletus* as *Admin Queen to the Throne*, effective 20th May 2026.

The appointment was issued directly from the Throne under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Atlantis. In this role, HRM Queen Leaticia Chikaodi Cletus will oversee administrative operations, support royal governance, and coordinate activities that ensure efficiency, organization, and excellence across matters of the Throne and the Kingdom.

Speaking on the appointment, the Imperial Throne emphasized the importance of loyalty, integrity, wisdom, and dedication in service to the Kingdom. The appointee is entrusted with upholding the laws, values, and royal decrees of the United Kingdom of Atlantis in all official functions.

“This appointment reflects the Throne’s commitment to strengthening administrative structure and ensuring smooth governance within the Kingdom,” the statement from the Royal Court noted. “HRM Queen Leaticia Chikaodi Cletus shall serve at the pleasure of the Throne and carry out duties in alignment with the vision of the United Kingdom of Atlantis.”

The appointment takes effect immediately and remains valid at the pleasure of the Throne.

The United Kingdom of Atlantis operates as a macrostate or Sovereign nation with defined territory, government and population that is recognised internationally. A large established country under the leadership of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Nobilis Prof Solomon Wining, representing a recognized sovereign government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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APPRECIATING NEDC’S INTERVENTION IN NORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL STRUGGLE

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*APPRECIATING NEDC’S INTERVENTION IN NORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL STRUGGLE*

By Audu Moses

 

For several years, schools in the North Eastern part of Nigeria, and indeed it’s entire educational system were in ruins and rots. They were visibly and intentionally targeted.

Schools were burned, teachers and learners were killed, while thousands more were displaced or abducted, with entire communities left with an equal generation of children, whose only history and places of abode are IDP camps and displacement homes.

It has been over 15 years of traumatic and horrific stories. This reality confronted the entire country and even the international community. The insurgents did not only attack schools, the inflicted violence on the psyche, attempting to destroy it’s fundamental ideals, and fabrics through demoralizing and radicalizing the system.

Education is not just about grades and certificates, it’s about survival, and a generation.

It is within this context that the North East Development Commission’s educational program of rebuilding and sustainability, across Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba, and Bauchi States, deserve not just mere bureaucratic acknowledgement but public appreciation.

Since June 2016 through 2018, the story has been terrible and horrific; schools were reduced to rubbles, textbooks were burned, teachers and learners killed or displaced.

For the NEDC, the approach is not about press releases but the prioritization of actual reconstruction of classrooms, laboratories, libraries, conveniences, and protective perimeter fences. This is because, they understand that there can be no school without a roof, because no child learns under the tree, especially during the rains, or when the sun bites.

Truth is, a roof and a blackboard may not guarantee learning but the sure make it possible.

Those structures are clear testaments that something foundational and normal is already taking place, and that the initial barriers has been eliminated , and the people were never abandoned by their government.

For the people of the North East, the greatest challenge remains the “lost cohort”, those children who were within the 12 years to 17years bracket, who suffered the real pangs of insurgency, and had missed school for between 4years to 6years. To this group, the thought of jumping classes, or just being promoted notionally to the Junior Secondary School class will not just be counterproductive but stigmatizing. Hence, the innovative accelerated learning centres and integration program for IDPs and almajiri students.

Although critics will conclude that the plan is not a perfect one, but it remains the most pragmatic approach, as it gives the out-of-school children a second chance, with the possibility of not just eliminating the situation created by grown-ups sitting in the same class with children young enough to be their children, but granting the perfect ambience for formal education, an an alternative for vocational training, as it stops the cycle of permanent exclusion of thousands.

The focus on local capacity building remains cardinal approach that functions side-by-side with infrastructural development, as infrastructure without teachers will only be a shell or a museum.

Notably, fixing the teachers through retraining, is like fixing the pipeline which results in fixing the future. While, the incentives for educators to study educational courses abroad, with a return-to-serve condition, solves a job security challenge for the teachers who will now return back home to a sure ready job.

Through this local teaching workforce, sustainability is entrenched by a group of teachers who understand the context of the environment and are not afraid to remain, ensuring and consolidating the development of an enduring system who have a stake in the state.

This is a trite fact that, interventions in the educational sector are slow, expensive, and at times vulnerable to the setbacks against the sidelines of insecurity and conflict.

But by making education the core pillar of NEDC sustainability program, in its collaborative fight against insecurity and insurgency, NEDC has demonstrated it’s avowed commitment in ridding the region from child recruitment for instability by insurgents, at the same time stabilizing the region.

NEDC indeed has demonstrated that it is an agent of confidence and trust building as it continues to train and produce more graduates, thereby growing the human capital base that is necessary for the future sustainability of the region.

It stands to the NEDC that it has remained focused over the years on a sector that does not necessarily create or attract headlines.

However, the superlative works of the NEDC has to be amplified and applauded by well-meaning patriots, as this will certainly reenforce it’s focus and priority.

Indeed, NEDC has changed the narratives in the North East from destruction to rebuilding, and from displacement to reequiping and retraining.

They have also restored the dignity of thousands of communities who were told that the government has abandoned and forgotten them because they do not matter. NEDC has eliminated the supply chain of insurgents recruitment into violent groups, giving youths better positive alternative, while building huge human capital base needed by the region as it progressively recover from the years of destruction due to insurgency and conflicts.

A functioning school in town that was once a ghost town is good for all, no matter the political party, religion, or race. This is not flattery, it is a push to keep moving on, because the next generation needs education and the North East needs a chance to redefine itself beyond conflicts and insurgency.

Soon the narratives will no longer be “out-of-school children” but will become “what these graduates have achieved and produced.”

This conversation is worth having and the North East Development Commission (NEDC) is making it happen. This indeed is worth appreciating and supporting.

Moses wrote this piece from Abuja.

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APC Primaries: How Primate Ayodele Foretold Ned Nwoko, Gbenga Daniel’s Loss (VIDEO)

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Primate Ayodele Never Said Seyi Makinde Would Become President’’ – Media Aide Clarifies*

*APC Primaries: How Primate Ayodele Foretold Ned Nwoko, Gbenga Daniel’s Loss (VIDEO)

 

The All Progressive Congress primary election that is currently ongoing has brought about surprises in some states, especially the Senate primary that was held yesterday.

The election, so far, can be described as one that has fallen even the mighty ones. We have seen grown men wailing and lamenting because they couldn’t accept the fact that they lost their bid to return to the national assembly despite their support for the government.

For some people who have been in the party for years, newcomers dislodged them during the election, and they have been crying foul, threatening to start legal actions, and the situation is bad for them because they can’t move to another party anymore.

Among those who were shockingly taken out of the way are Ned Nwoko, the senator representing Delta North and former governor Gbenga Daniel, the senator representing Ogun East senatorial district. Their loss is so humbling that they almost didn’t get any votes in their respective election.

Ned Nwoko lost to the former governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa, while Gbenga Daniel lost to the incumbent governor of Ogun state, Dapo Abiodun.

However, their losses had been foretold by popular Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, who is renowned for his prophetic insights on issues about politics, governance, education, and nations, to mention but a few.

In different live services, Primate Ayodele had warned both politicians about their ambition, foretelling what would befall them if they went ahead with the primaries.

For Gbenga Daniel, Primate Ayodele stated that a higher authority has taken his right from him, while advising him to forget about the position because they will only mock him. He revealed that the case has already been settled and it’s not in the former governor’s favour. This was months before the primary was held.

These were his words:

“The issue of Dapo and Gbenga Daniel. Gbenga Daniel doesn’t know that his party doesn’t love him. What happened is from the higher authority, and that may be the end of the case, so if Gbenga is struggling, they will just be mocking him.”

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As he said, despite the fact that Gbenga Daniel tried his best to see that he gets a return ticket to the senate, he had to step down a few hours before the primary election as the odd wasn’t in his favour.

For Ned Nwoko, Primate Ayodele had stated that the ticket would be given to Okowa even when nobody believed it.

These were his words:

“Okowa and Ned senate ticket; they want to give it to Okowa, so watch , they will fail you Ned.”

As he said, Ned lost woefully in the election while Okowa won him with a margin that can never be closed.

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