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A top Nigerian marketing communications expert and Chairman/CEO Sodium Brand Solutions, Abisoye Fagade has said that it is his civil rights to aspire for any political office he is so desired in the country.  Fagade stated this on Friday during an interactive session at the South West Group of Online Publishers (SWEGOP)'s unification luncheon, where he was the special guest of honour. When asked to comment on the rumour making the rounds that he may challenge the incumbent governor of Oyo State Engr. Seyi Makinde for the governorship race come 2023, Fagade was very blunt and sincere in his response. ''If somebody is telling you that I am here to challenge Seyi Makinde, am I too young? No. It is my civil rights, and there is nothing that says nobody can do better than good. And the only thing Oyo State deserves now is the best." When pressed further to state categorically whether he is gunning for an elective post come 2023 and on which political party he may contest fr

By Festus Adedayo They all happened almost simultaneously, as if in a choreography. On February 9, 2011, a huge crowd of protesters had gathered at the Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Unruly, eyes dilating like pellets of ice immersed in mug-full Campari liquor, it was obvious that this was a crowd determined to change the status quo. They shouted anti-government slogans, calling for an end to oppression, economic adversities and collapse of the Arabian spirit in the Arab world. A couple of weeks before then, specifically on January 14, 2001, at the Habib Bourguiba Boulevard in Tunis, Tunisia, it was the same huge crowd, mobilized to end the decadent order. Similarly on February 3, 2011, a mammoth crowd of dissidents gathered at the Sana’a in Yemen, calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullahi Saleh. A couple of months after, specifically on a cold morning of April 29, 2011, hundreds of thousands of people at Baniyas, Syria, gathered to upturn the ruling order. The overall goal

T he South West Group of Online Publishers (SWEGOP) has called on journalists to keep drumming it to the ears of President Muhammadu Buhari the need to double up his efforts at overhauling the security architecture of the country. Speaking at 'Unification Luncheon' of the Group, held on Friday 7th August, 2020, at Development Support Centre (DSC), Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan, SWEGOP Chairman, Mr. Olayinka Agboola emphasized on the need for Nigeria to have a solid security system. "We must talk about it every time, we should go to our different Houses of Assembly to lobby our lawmakers there to discuss it and offer practicable solutions. Aboaraeni niaabo ilu. “We cannot say Kaduna is far, or Borno State is not near and thus, pretend not to be concerned. Nobody knows whose turn it will be tomorrow. Let us take the issue of insecurity more seriously. The assignment is not only for the government, we must be on our guard at all times.” Agboola also used the medium to congratulate the