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Folorunsho Ola Western eulogises Tinubu on his 70th Birthday

A party chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Amuwo-Odofin Constituency I, Hon Folorunsho Ola Western, has joined numerous well-wishers, political associates and followership of the National Leader and Presidential hopeful of the APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to eulogized and felicitated with the political icon.
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Nigeria’s Misplaced History – Comrade Ganiyu Abdullahi

There was no country called Nigeria, before 1897. Therefore, it is exactly 125 years ago that the name “Nigeria” was coined by Miss Flora Louise Shaw, a British correspondent, who later got married to Lord Lugard (Nigeria’s first Governor-General). Her concept for this name was contained in her article, published in the London Times of 8th January, 1897. According to her “the name Nigeria, applying to no other part of Africa, may without offence to any neighbour, be accepted as co-extensive with the territories, over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the Colonies of Lagos and the Niger Protectorate, on the coast; and from the French territories of the Upper Niger.”
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Why Seye Oladejo deserves to represent Mushin II at House of Reps – Sesan Oluwaseun

John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address on January 20, 1961, said "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." Kennedy's inaugural address has inspired generations to see the importance of public service for the development of their community, state and nation.