Author: Ifetayo Adeniyi

Influence Peddling: LPDC Vindicates Olanipekun, Dismisses NBA’s petition   Influence Peddling: LPDC Vindicates Olanipekun, Dismisses NBA’s petition The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has dismissed a professional misconduct petition filed by the Nigerian Bar Association against Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Wole Olanipekun and partners of his firm, Olanipekun & Co. Ms Adekunbi Ogunde, a partner in Olanipekun’s firm, solicited a brief from SAIPEM Contracting Nigeria Ltd, which had already engaged the law firm of Henry Ajumogobia, SAN. The NBA deemed this action a violation of the rule of practice and dragged Ogunde before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC).…

ERELU OKIN: FOOTPRINTS OF A BENEVOLENT PEACOCK. History is replete with women of note, who had the most impact on the world, but only a few refine the industrial and humanitarian tropes of endeavor like Dr. Pearl Chidinma Ogbulu, the Erelu Okin of Orile Kemta, Lagos State. An historical figure that Erelu Okin shares split semblance with, in legacy and panache, would be Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1814-1906, the first woman to have been a peer, Burdett-Coutts was made a baroness by Queen Victoria for her humanitarian strides to the poor. Prevented from working at Couttus Bank despite inheriting her grandfather Thomas…

Sports and Counseling will be deployed to curb drugs abuse and social vices…Dr Bagudu Press Release The Wives of the Northern Governors have reiterated their resolve to curbing drug abuse and other social vices bedevilling the society, according to Dr.Zainab Shinkafi Bagudu. Dr. Bagudu Stated this on Friday in Birnin Kebbi when the members of the Forum paid a courtesy call on her husband, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu. She told her husband that they were in Birnin Kebbi as part of their routine meetings to contribute to national development. “We are here, as usual, to meet and…

Group Lauds Olu of Warri For Increase In Oil Production, Fight Against Oil Theft. The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III and Chairman, Ocean Marines Solutions Limited has been commended by the Anti-Pipeline Vandalisation/Crude Oil Theft and Illegal Bunkery Task Force Group for ensuring a seamless increase in the nation’s production and sustaining the fight against crude oil theft in the creeks of Niger Delta. National Coordinator of the task force, self-acclaimed Gen. Fiawei Pathfinder, in a statement, said the monarch had kept aglow the original plan, dreams and vision his in-law and Founder of Ocean…

One Year After: Ex-President Jonathan To Deliver Memorial Lecture Saturday In Honour Of Capt Hosa In a follow up bid after a successful One year memorial Thanksgiving service held in Benin City, Edo state, Monday in honor of late Captain Hosa Okunbo, the family of late Okunbo, Wednesday disclosed that former President Goodluck Jonathan will deliver a keynote memorial lecture in honour of the departed business mogul and philanthropist on Saturday 13th August. According to a press statement endorsed by the media aide to the late Capt Hosa, Mr Adeniyi Ifetayo said the former President will deliver a…

Obaseki, Ibori, Awolowo & Others Eulogize Capt Hosa One Year After  …As Okunbo’s family converge in Benin. It was a deluge of praises and commendation as the family of late business mogul and philanthropist, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo marked one year memorial of his demise that witnessed personalities from all works of life. The event which was held at the Well Hosa’s Greenhouse Farm along the Benin bypass also had religious and traditional leaders in attendance. The Deputy Governor of Edo state, Comrade Philip Shaibu who stood in for Governor Godwin Obaseki said Okunbo “lives on and will continue to…

*Captain Hosa Okunbo: Some times you find the living among the Dead and the Dead Among the Living* *By: Douglas Ogbankwa Esq* *Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go* *Jean de La Fontaine* The life and times of Captain Hosa Wells Okunbo , the Benin Born Business Mogul and Philanthropist , can be aptly captured in the words of Julius Caesar , which was depicted in a letter by him to the Roman Senate ,after one of his many victories at war around 47 BC , thus : *Veni, Vidi, Vici: ‘I Came,…

The Place of Timing…4 By Idede Oseyande “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dreamed”~ Bible It was Daniel while in Babylon as a slave, in fulfilment of Jeremiah’s prophecy that the children of Israel would be in servitude for seventy years as a punishment for their neglect of Jehovah, who once sought redemption for his people. According to Daniel’s report, he said he understood through books that they will spend seventy years in captivity. When the seventy years were over from his calculations, he intensified his prayers, remembering God…

Capt Hosa Okunbo: Remembering A Legendary Philanthropist, Bridge Builder One Year After. By: Ifetayo Adeniyi & Patrick Ochoga It was former South Africa President, late Nelson Mandela that wrote, “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and country, he can rest in peace”. While one of the greatest and famous Scientist that lived, Albert Einstein wrote about death, “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted on the…

Capt Hosa’s Family Disclaim Fake Invite  For Memorial Program Family of the late Benin born business mogul, Captain Hosa Okunbo, has disclaimed an invite purportedly making the rounds that the first year anniversary programme of his remembrance has been fixed for Monday, August 7, 2022, at St. Mathew’s Anglican Church situated on Sakponba Road, Benin. The estate of the late philantropist said that the fake invite is signed by an impostor claiming to be his widow. According to the family of the late business mogul the authentic programme is slated for Monday, August 8, 2022, at the…