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Strategic leadership expert, lawyer and public speaker, Toye Sobande, has launched a new book to help positional leaders in corporate and non-corporate spaces, employees and managers and navigate through organisational politics. Titled: ‘Leadership and Organisational Politics: How to Win Office Politics and Thrive in a Competitive Environment,’ Sobande is poised to equip those who want to lead in their fields with principles of effective leadership with practical examples. Sobande, who is also the Lead Consultant and President of Stephens Leadership Consultancy LLC, said: “Politics plays out in every area of human endeavour. Wherever there are two or more people, there…

•Promises to make Lagos a 21st century success story Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, at the formal launch of his reelection campaign bid, said the success of his first term propelled his confidence to seek re-election. The governor, who spoke through his Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, at the unveiling of the Brand Campaign heralding the start of his 2023 official re-election campaign, amidst fanfare and a boat regatta on the lagoon, said he was determined to make the state a 21st Century success story. With the theme of his re-election campaign tagged, ‘A Greater…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and other top dignitaries will  converge on the  Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, for the public presentation of The Letterman, a book on the ‘secret’ letters of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. The book, written by the Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed, will be unveiled in front of what promises to be a packed audience at Bolton White Apartments in the Wuse Zone 7 District of Abuja. Aside Mr Jonathan, who is the special guest of honour, an array of other top political, business and government functionaries are expected at the event which has a Senior Advocate of Nigeria…

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, expressed concern about happenings in the political space, saying he has a lot of fears about the outcome of the 2023 general elections. The former vice chancellor of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), however, expressed optimism that the nation will pull through current challenges and have a successful poll. Jega stated this in an interview with journalists at a colloquium in honour of Senior Fellow of Centre of Democracy Development (CDD), Prof. Adele Jinadu, on his 79th birthday celebration, with the theme, ‘Adele Jinadu and Electoral Democracy in…

A new book on letters by former President Olusegun Obasanjo tagged, The Letterman: Inside the ‘Secret’ Letters of Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’, is attracting accolades from senior citizens, including a former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku; the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah and a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Ifueko Omogui Okauru. The book was written by the Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed. Commendations also come from Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, United States;…

• WHO: 650,000 people died from HIV-related causes, 1.5m acquired HIV worldwide in 2021 • 38.4m persons living with HIV at end of 2021, 25.6m in Africa • 41% of HIV new cases in Nigeria occur among youths • Ensure zero new infections, zero stigmas, and discrimination, especially in young girls, says AHF • UNICEF, WHO, and UNAIDS say progress towards HIV goals stalled, resources shrunk • NACA announces decline in deaths, new infections nationwide • FG spent more than N18b in three years on HIV capital projects • Investigation shows persons living with HIV still pay fees for ‘free’ treatment…

Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has said it is championing moves to ensure its enabling Act is reviewed by the National Assembly (NASS). The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, NSC, Emmanuel Jime, who spoke in his office in Apapa, Lagos, lamented that apart from the council’s challenge of lack of power of enforcement as a regulator, it is currently confronted with lack of adequate funding to carry out its mandate. According to him, the agency’s main source of revenue generation is the two per cent from the seven per cent Port Development Levy collection at the port, which he said…

As scarcity of the premium motor spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol, continues to spread across many states in the country, as a result of drop in supply by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, the inability to access foreign exchange at the official rate, and the continued subsidy on PMS, among others, Gasoline Associates International Limited has reinstated its commitment to bridging the energy demand and supply gap in the country. Gasoline, the license holder and promoter of a 100,000 barrels per day refinery and petrochemical plant located at Ipokia, Ogun State, is a foreign direct investment (FDI) that seeks…

• Agba: They rather build flyovers, and skyscrapers but leave a fight against hunger • Sokoto has the highest number of poor people, followed by Bayelsa • Yahaya: Governors committed to improving the livelihood of rural dwellers • Rising inflation, falling wages increase poverty, social unrest, says ILO In its first official response since the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed two weeks ago that 133 million Nigerians, representing 63 per cent of the population are currently living in multi-dimensional poverty, the Federal Government, yesterday, attributed the prevailing high level of poverty in the country to the attitude of some governors…

Oyetola’s appointees left with official vehicles, others, Adeleke reveals The Osun State Government, yesterday, said that two-thirds of appointed officials in the immediate past administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola carted away vehicles attached to their offices. This was contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed. According to Rasheed, Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed the officials to return the property to their possession within 48 hours. The statement, which also revealed that the former officials removed computers and pillaged their official residences even to lamp fittings, further stated: “The directive was sequel to large scale…