A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has called on the party leadership, President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly structure to, as a matter of urgency, implement the party policy of decentralisation of Policing to halt the seemingly unending high profile crime of killings and kidnappings across the country. On the heels of last Thursday’s …

A leader in the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has felicitated with the Christian faithful and the entire people of Nigeria as they join the rest of the world in celebrating Christmas. In a statement by his Media Office in Abuja on Friday, Olawepo-Hashim urged Christians and Nigerians, in the spirit of the season, to uphold the principles of …

A leader in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on last Thursday’s Supreme Court verdict, which validated his victory in the 25th February presidential election, while also urging him to now face the job of “rescuing Nigerians from the daily grim realities they face, with more seriousness”. The candidate of the …

A stakeholder in Nigeria’s energy sector, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has indicated that the country may be set for a huge economic growth owing to the current financial and economic reforms by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the past one month of his ascension to power. According to reports, the new administration inherited a floundering economy with gross domestic product growth …

A politician and business man, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has appealed to the labour movement and other social groups to accept the removal of the subsidy on petroleum product as a painful surgical procedure instituted to excruciate a dangerous cancerous cell in the life of a patient in order to save the critically ill. In a statement from his media office …

A leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has congratulated the Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on his emergence as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF). In a statement on Wednesday by his media office in Abuja, Olawepo-Hashim explained that AbdulRazaq’s emergence, coming on the heels of his recent re-election and few days to …

A leader in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has appealed to leaders and stake holders in Kwara State to re-elect Governor AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq for a second term in Saturday’s gubernatorial election. In a chat with reporters in Ilorin, Olawepo-Hashim explained that although “I am aware that many leaders are angry with the governor (I also have …

A leader in the ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has maintained that the present brand of politics driven by personal ambition and self interests is the reason why politics is currently meaningless in Nigeria. Olawepo-Hashim explained to the media in Ilorin recently that only commitment to ideology and principle can bring the desired sanity and stability …

A leader in the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has maintained that the failure to heed his warnings that “crude and narrow interests of the various power centres will determine the outcomes of primaries rather than what is best for the country” might have put the 2023 elections in a critical mess that may further entrap the nation. …

By Oluwasegun Abifarin 28th May 1989: The cloud had gathered over the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. The drumbeat of the anti-SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) uprising had sounded in Port Harcourt, Benin, Zaria, Ibadan, etc. And the “drummers” were in Akoka already. The stakes were high, and the odds equally high against the protest on campus that night. The University of …