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Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the first executive governor of Lagos State (1979-1983) who died on Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 91, was a rare combination of administrative genius in public governance and humility, even self-effacement, in personal life. He was a remarkable giant in public life who never made anyone feel small in his presence. Without doubt, Jakande was one of the ablest public administrators that the country has ever produced.
An encounter with the man popularly called LKJ by one of the top aides of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu illustrates the profound modesty of the spartan politician. Jakande, as the aide told me a few years ago, was in the governor’s office to see Tinubu. He had obviously announced his presence to one of the assistants in the governor’s outer office. Incidentally, he conceived and started the construction of that building. But he never occupied the office before the military seized power in December 1983. Perhaps the governor’s assistants we
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The Nigeria Immigration Service has thrown its weight behind the calls for the regulation of social media in the country.
The Comptroller General of the NIS, Mohammad Babandede said social media is good, but criminals are now manipulating it for the wrong reasons.
Babandede who spoke against the backdrop of fake recruitment in the Service warned the public to be wary of recruitment fraudsters who are manipulating social media to deceive people, warning that recruitment into the Service is not for sale.
He gave the warning on Thursday at Afaha Offiong Village in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State while responding to request for employment by the paramount ruler in the LGA, Elder Dr Manasseh Akpan, during the commissioning of the newly constructed Forward Operation Base.
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Some Nigerians on social media have berated the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, for using the verified Twitter handle of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture to discuss the controversies surrounding the ongoing membership registration of the All Progressives Congress.
The minister had used the official
Twitter handle of the federal ministry to state his position on the party’s registration on Monday.
In a thread, the minister demanded that the party’s registration should be cancelled in Kwara State, where he hails from.
The PUNCH had reported that there is a leadership crisis in Kwara APC, with Lai Mohammad leading one of the factions against the governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.