Your Excellency,Mr Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki,Governor of Edo State,Government House,Benin City.Congratulations on your victory at the Supreme Court which has effectively laid to rest all matters arising from the last election. As I had repeatedly reminded you during our several meetings, our relationship has through the years developed beyond being friends to being brothers of different parents. Whatever happened is unfortunate and I believe God has a reason for everything. I have put all behind me and moved on. As I have consistently advised, please be magnanimous in victory. You are the Governor of all Edo people regardless of political leanings.…
Author: Top Flyers
While the nation mourned Lt Gen Ibrahim Atairu and other fallen soldiers of the ill-fated NAF201 Jet yesterday, the APC governors were in Kano to celebrate and party. It is already an open secret that the Commander in Chief of Armed Forces who Atairu directly reported to didn’t find it worthy to attend his funeral rites. His vice who in the public domain is literally known as the “minister of burial” didn’t even deem it necessary to represent his boss at least, he has been doing that creditably well. Oh, Atairu! Your only crime was that you stood to…
Social media has literarily put serious pressure on the conventional media. Since the advent of social media, the phrase “breaking news” has literarily disappeared from the conventional media. Social media emergence has birthed the concept of citizen journalism otherwise known as street journalism. This emerging type of journalism has literarily turned the audience who hitherto were content receivers to content creators. The advent of citizen journalism has broadened the competition in the media industry. Before now, the competition of who “breaks” the news first was between the conventional media but today, private individuals, bloggers, and independent journalists have joined this…
The joys of many Nigerians knew no bounds as Emmyak Universal Links Ltd, one of the fast growing companies in Nigeria, located in the nation’s capital, Abuja, was formally commissioned on Tuesday, 18th of May, 2021 by Dr. Uche Ogah, Hon. Minister for State, Mines and Steel Development. According to the MD/CEO of Emmyak Universal Links Ltd, Comrade Yakubu Emmanuel, a former Executive Director on youth affairs to Edo State government, the need to create a system imperative for societal and human capital development as well as cover the lacuna in societal and human capital development prompted the establishment of…
Chief (Dr.) George N. Moghalu is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). Before his current position, he has served at various level both in the private and political sector. In this exclusive interview with Topflyers Magazine, he speaks about the new NIWA and his ambition to occupy the soon-to-be-vacant Anambra State Government House.Excerpts. What does it feel like to be the managing director of NIWA?I will simply say that it is challenging because when you do what you like to do and when you have set timeline and target for yourself it becomes a…
Many Nigerians and individuals in the world at large are suffering from Sickle Cell Anaemia and this is quite traumatizing considering that the problem is not a result of the sufferers but ignorance of the parents of the sufferers. This trauma is what Miss Adaora Stephanie Nwodo, CEO of Miss Dee for Sickle Cell foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization set up to create awareness of the sickle cell disease and cater to the less privileged living with the ailment in Nigeria addresses. Excerpt: May we know you ma, what is your name? My name is Miss Adaora Stephanie Nwodo.…
Queen Racheal Oghere Matthew is the winner of the prestigious annual Face of Topflyers 2020 pageant. The queen who had her National Diploma in Public Administration, Yaba Technology (YabaTech), Lagos State hails from Okpella in Edo State but resides in Lagos State, Nigeria. In this exclusive interview with Topflyers Magazine International, she speaks on her joys of being a Queen and the hurdles to attaining such height. Excerpts: You recently won Face of Topflyers 2020 pageant. Is this your first time contesting in a pageant? Yes it is. How did you know about the pageant? I came across…
The National Security has busted a 13-member gang suspected to be involved in the printing and distribution of fake currency notes to unsuspecting victims, mostly foreign nationals. A statement issued by the National Security Secretariat, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the gang, led by one Yassei Alia, a 45-year-old Syrian resident in East Legon and owner of Hardford Auto Service in Accra, together with Danjuma Zakaria, alias Alhaji Mohammed, 49 and resident of Tema West, were rounded up in a warehouse within the premises of NacCharter Cargo and Freight Company, near KLM offices within the Kotoka International Airport,…
