Month: November 2025

News

Sanwo-Olu arrives Iperu, Ogun State for Southern Governors Forum meeting

Gboyega Akosile, Special Adviser – Media and Publicity to Sanwo-Olu, said the governor is among the 13 governors who have arrived for the Southern Governors’ Forum meeting held at the private residence of Governor Abiodun in Iperu.

Other governors who have arrived for the meeting are Vice Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Anambra, Chukwuma Soludo, Biodun Oyebanji (Ekiti), Alex Otti (Abia), Lucky Aiyedatiwa (Ondo), Peter Mbah (Enugu), Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi), and Siminalayi Fubara (Rivers).

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Sanwo-Olu proposes N4tn budget to drive key growth

e coming year.

Sanwo-Olu said the budget would be anchored on four key pillars of growth — a human-centred approach, modern infrastructure, a thriving economy and effective governance — which, he noted, align with his administration’s T.H.E.M.E.S+ Agenda and the parastatal monitoring framework.

The governor, on Tuesday, presented the proposal, christened the “Budget of Shared Prosperity”, to the House of Assembly. He explained that the 2026 expenditure was designed to widen access to opportunity, deepen social support systems, expand job creation, accelerate infrastructure delivery and push new frontiers of development.

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Agunloye forged Mambilla contract in alleged $6bn fraud – Witness

The third prosecuting witness in the ongoing trial of a former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, on Monday, November 24, 2025, told Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that the contract award document for the execution of the Mambila project was forged.

Agunloye is facing trial on an amended seven-count charge, bordering on official corruption and fraudulent award of the Mambilla Power Project contract to the tune of $6 billion (Six Billion US Dollars).

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Ex-minister warns Nigeria ‘normalising terror’ under Tinubu

Former Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Chief Nduese Essien, has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s appointment of defence ministers, saying they lack the experience needed to address Nigeria’s worsening insecurity.

Essien, a former member of the House of Representatives, said the country’s security challenges require leaders with “strategic insight, operational competence, and deep knowledge of security matters.”

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