Ayo Olaore's Blog

President of the United States of America (USA), Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, have allowed their 15-year-old daughter Sasha Obama, take up summer job at a restaurant. President’s daughter is said to be working on a four-hour shift, at a seafood restaurant. She works at the cash register, busing tables and prepping the restaurant before it opens for lunch. She is always accompanied by 6 Secret Service agents, as she makes some spending money. Source: naij.com

Yakubu Gowon , a former Nigerian head of state, says he became head of state 31 years ago by “accident of history” without nursing the ambition. General Gowon (Rtd) stated this when deputy chairman of senate committee on foreign affairs, Senator Shehu Sani, paid him a courtesy call in Abuja on Wednesday, August 3, 2016.  Gowon was reacting to calls by some Nigerians for the reduction of age limit to 30 years to contest for presidential position in the country. “What happened was the accident of history. “When you have lost your leadership and there was crisis and you don’t know what to do and it happened that those within your constituency chose you, what would you do? “I was lucky enough within the military at that time and all the officers knew me by reputation. “I had no intention to become head of state but it is the opportunity, if opportunity presents itself and people ask you to do it then do it. “What I have achieved is (because of) God. I had never thought of becoming head...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the $1.457 billion Abuja- Kaduna rail services.The President at the commissioning at Idu Station in Abuja on Tuesday said that the federal government would link all states and commercial centres in the country with rail lines.The president later took a train ride from Idu to Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja.Nigeria’s first high speed rails system which connects federal capital city Abuja and northern commercial capital Kaduna begin commercial operations as President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurates operation on July 27. The 186.5 km standard gauge track built by the China Railway Construction Corporation has double lines. The Abuja-Kaduna route has nine stations and the train can travel at upto 150km per hour

Thank you all, thank you so much. It is hard to believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this convention to talk with you about why I thought my husband should be president. Remember how I told you about his character and his conviction? His decency and grace? The traits we have seen every day as he has served our country in the White House. I also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world, and during our time in the White House we have had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls into poised young women. A journey that started soon after we arrived in Washington when they set off for their first day at their new school. I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those men with guns. And that's all their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing I could think was, What have we done? At that moment,...

The screening of Ambassadorial nomineesbegan today on a dramatic note as two of the nominee envoys couldn't recite the National anthem and pledge properly.When the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, asked the nominee from Anambra State Vivian Nwunaku Okeke to recite the national anthem, she mixed it up.Also, when she asked Ibrahim Isa, the nominee from Niger state to recite the National Pledge , he mixed it up too.A member of the committee, Senator James Manager (PDP, Delta South) corrected the nominees.The screening of the 47 career foreign service officers submitted for consideration as Ambassadors by President Muhammadu Buhari is still ongoing.

Senator Iyiola Omisore, the former Deputy Governor of Osun State may have settled for plea bargain in the money laundering case he has with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Pm News is reporting.The politician-businessman who lost the 2014 election to be governor of his state has agreed to refund the N1.310 billion given him by Colonel Sambo Dasuki, from the huge fund meant for the purchase of arms and the security of the nation.It was part of the deal to procure a bail outof EFCC cell. He was arrested 10 July.As a show of fidelity to the deal, he has refunded N100million to the EFCC, being the balance met in one of the accounts linked with the stolen fund.47