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| some of the girls free last month |
Thursday, 10 November 2016
21 CHIBOK GIRLS FREED SAYS THEY WERE NOT RAPED BY BOKO HARAM!!!
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
THE KING OF MONEY
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| Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan |
So much has been written and said about Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan, the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, from his love for the oil
business to his $1m wristwatch, his queen-type Rolls Royce and his very
expensive out of the world palace, yet nothing has been said of how the Olugbo
has helped placed Ugbo kingdom to vantage recognition.
In March 2014, world’s
foremost money magazine, Forbes, named Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan as the richest Nigerian King with an estimated net worth
exceeding $300m, this acknowledgement helped triggered some form of curiosity
as regard The King and his kingdom; and historians and Journalists ever since
discovered how much their pen loved “Ugbo Kingdom and Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan’.
A primary setting in the popular Moremi legend, Ugbo Kingdom is
a town in Ilaje local government
area of Ondo
State,
southwestern Nigeria, with fishing and
farming as the dominant occupation. The Olugbo ( King of Ugbo) is a First class
Yoruba Monarch who rule over many smaller communities from OdeUgbo, their
ancestral power seat.
The
current Olugbo, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan was born in 1950, to the royal family of
Sir Frederic Adetolugbo at Ugbo. Obateru started Obat oil in 1981 with
the vision to build a corporation of great reckoning. Today, Obat oil owned one
of the largest tank farms in Africa with over 50 gas stations across Nigeria,
with a refinery in the offing.
Oba Fredrick
Obateru Akinruntan is noted to love the splendorous lifestyles as rumors of his
diamond laced shoes and other accessories have being the toast of many
journalists.
TALKING ABOUT QUEEN GUSHI..
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| Queen Sekinat Elegushi |
Gone are the days when traditional First-ladies comes ‘out-of-date’ and goes un-reckoned, today these African Queens are as beautiful, gorgeous, industrious and attractive like diamonds in the sun.
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| Oba Saheed Elegushi and Olori Sekinat |
Talking about diamonds and the African pride, Queen Sekinat Aramide Elegushi, the wife of the king of Ikate-Land in Lekki Peninsula, sure exudes these characteristics and more.
Always one to keep out of the spotlight except when she is beside Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, but like the gold fish that has no hiding place, LEKKI PEOPLE magazine reporter sighted the gorgeous queen at a recent event organized by the international Women’s society, IWS, Ikate where she was a key-note speaker at the graduation ceremony of 112 participants in the society’s skill acquisition scheme.
Apart from donating Trophies and gifts to spice up the event, Queen Aramide, a rising figure of gender empowerment and a key supporter of the International Women society, enjoined the graduands never to stop learning as skills learnt is bound to come handy during life’s tough moments.
She said, “You may have graduated today from this program but you will never graduate from learning. You will go through many ups and downs but it is the skills you have acquired that will be the pillar you can always lean on.” Talking about beauty and brains…
Her husband, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, popularly called King Gushi by praise-singers, is the Oba of Ikate land and he is among the wealthiest and most flamboyant kings in Lagos state. Until his installation on 27th April 2010, he was a big player in the real estate sector of Lekki Peninsula and has served as a top official in the Lagos State government from 2003 to 2010, when the demise of his father called on him to serve the people of Ikate land as the youngest king in Lagos state.
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
LAGOS STATE READS RIOT ACT TO BUILDING DEVELOPERS, CONTRACTORS!!!
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday read the riot act to developers and
contractors alike, saying that the Government would no longer tolerate flouting of building
regulations in line with its resolve to restore confidence in the building control and supervision
process to ensure a safer Lagos. He said that much as his administration is addressing the challenge of housing deficit, the issue of safety concerns in the building sector was also top priority.
Governor Ambode, who gave the warning at the celebration of 2016 World Habitat Day organised by the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development with the theme, ‘Housing at the Centre’, held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa, said that Lagos State will create an additional 187, 500 new houses in the next five years which would go a long way to reduce the housing deficit estimated at 2.5 million in the state.
Friday, 7 October 2016
President Barack Obama has said that he and his family will remain in Washington, D.C., after they leave the White House in January so that his youngest daughter, Sasha, can finish school. And it looks like the Obamas have settled on a neighborhood.
Obama and first lady Michelle will lease an 8,200-square-foot mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood of D.C., according to Politico. The residence is reportedly owned by Joe Lockhart, Glover Park Group co-founder, and his wife, Giovanna Gray Lockhart, the Washington editor of Glamour.
Bruno Mars Releases '24K Magic,' His First Solo Song in Four Years
He's back! Bruno Mars released "24K Magic," his first solo song in four years, on Thursday, October 6. The song is the title track from the singer's upcoming third studio album, due out November 18. It's his first album since 2012's Unorthodox Jukebox.Mars, 30, whose last music release was the megahit "Uptown Funk," which he collaborated on with Mark Ronson at the end of 2014, also dropped a music video for the new song on Thursday night. The colorful clip features a "what happens in Vegas ends up in this music video" theme.
7 PERSONS KIDNAPPED IN SCHOOL!
On Thursday 6th of October 2016, the ugly
incidence of Kidnapping rocked the nearby town of Epe when around 8:15am, a
group of assailants stormed the premises of Igbonla Senior and Junior Model College, Epe Town, Kidnapping
some students and teachers of the Secondary institution.Although it was not made very clear how many people were kidnapped, however insiders within the School told LEKKI PEOPLE Magazine that five students and two teachers were abducted. According to a student who witnessed the attack, four men and a woman armed with guns came into the school premises and forcefully took an assistant principal and five students at gun point, while shooting into the air to scare away everybody.
In a chat with LEKKI
PEOPLE, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni assured that
the rescue operation had commenced already and promised the parents and
families of the victims that in due time they will be reunited with their
families.
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