The Parroters

  An NGO, Peace Heritage Foundation, has called for active participation of women in political and public decision making. The Chief Executive Officer of the foundation, Dr Christiana Omidiji, made the call at a town hall meeting jointly organised with Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) on Thursday in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the town-hall meeting was funded by the Ford Foundation. The IWD is observed all over the world every March 8, to celebrate social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The 2023 IWD is themed “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality”, to explore the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic, social and education inequalities. According to Omidiji, the focus of the IWD 2023 celebration spotlights the importance of protecting the rights of women and girls in the digital space, and addressing online and ICT facilitated gender based violence. She said that achieving ...

Chief Obafemi Awolowo once said,  "After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow." It is on this note that I welcome you all to this press briefing.  I wish to specially thank all my teeming supporters, sympathisers and followers for the trust reposed in me by trooping out to cast their vote for me on the 25th February, 2023. Although the INEC deliberately compromised the process and awarded pyrrhic victory to the candidate of the ruling party, we are positive of reclaiming our stolen mandate in the course of time. INEC, the official umpire has compromised her integrity by not complying with the provisions of the electoral act as stipulated in the guidelines released by the commission on the procedure of voting in the election. The pattern adopted during the last Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections on the 25th February, 2023; was deliberately sch...

Lagos State -based Mrs. Abimbola Oladipo has cried out to the residents of the state over an alleged inability of an estate developer to fulfill his own part of the bargain after she had reportedly paid for two shops for her sister in Yaba area of the state. Speaking with the media, Mrs. Oladipo revealed that she paid N3. 2 Million on May 14, 2021 to purchase a shop for her sister, who lives abroad at Sabo Model Market in Yaba, Lagos and that the shop was downstairs in the shopping complex and that she paid another N2 Million on May 17, 2021 for the purchase of another shop upstairs. Oladipo revealed that on completion of the first batch of the shops only the one upstairs was allocated instead out of the two shops. "Thereafter, the construction continued and last year we were made to pay an additional N1.8 million, though we were meant to have been allocated the second one in the first batch and the developer, Chris Onyekachi asked his secretary to take me and my sister to a place...

   We wish to welcome all our teaming members, supporters, sympathizers, and candidates of Accord Lagos for Governorship and House of Assemblies press briefing.    We want to sincerely appreciate your commitment, tenacity, sagacity, and most importantly your loyalty to the party during the last presidential and National Assembly elections. You all have shown concern in making Nigeria great again.   We notice the double dealings of the expelled group led by Rev. Adeniyi, despite the last minute shortcomings, we were still resolute in casting our votes which we tagged Vote of Liberation.    We want to reiterate that, Accord Lagos under the amiable chairmanship of *Engr. J. Ola Beckley* fielded candidates for the March 11th 2023 elections with *Hon. Hakeem Olaogun Dickson* as the standard bearer of the party.   We have campaign and tour the length and breadth of Lagos presenting our manifesto to residents and electorate in Lagos state, we are committ...

    My name is Professor Christopher Imumolen who ran on the platform of the Accord party in the just concluded presidential elections. First, let me congratulate all Nigerians for the passion and patriotism that inspired their participation in last Saturday's general elections. Their level of awareness and involvement in the electoral process was a clear sign that they understood the enormous powers they wield in deciding the outcomes of such polls, and by extension, the candidates upon whom they ultimately entrust their collective destinies. I am in no doubt that this newfound awareness will inform their commitment to future elections, and set the foundation for a more virile, stable and prosperous nation. Starting with the governorship and state houses of assembly elections still to come on March 11, I wish to enjoin all voters, and indeed all Nigerians, to maintain the same manner of sportsmanliness, calm and decorum that defined their engagements in Saturday's elections. ...