Abuja Media Circle

First son of late actress, Henrietta Kosoko,  Taiwo Olowu, who is  known as LT in music circles told  Sunday Scoop , that he did not release his latest single, Mama, because he wanted to capitalise on his mum’s demise to promote the song. “I did something to celebrate mothers. The song is a celebration of life and death. I didn’t do this song to advance my  career, it is to express myself. We all have different ways of mourning. I am not using her death to sell my music. I have been an artiste before now and my late mum was supportive of my career before she died,’’ he said. Twenty-seven-year-old LT started music is 2009 and  released  his first single, Se Jeje, in 2013.   He is one of the twin boys late Henrietta had before she got married to  actor, Jide Kosoko. His twin brother, Kehinde,  is also a music producer. When asked about Jide Kosoko and the attendant drama that followed the burial of his late mum, LT said the relationshi...

The Kogi State Auditor General, Alhaji Yusufu Okala, has said that the state lost roughly N213,034,857,280.44, to a category of persons he called “Ghost Workers/Unintended Beneficiaries.” The Auditor stated this when the Staff Screening and Validation Committee, jointly led by himself and the Auditor General of the Local Governments Areas, Mallam Usman Ahmed Ododo, submitted their report to the State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, at a Stakeholders Forum held in Government House, Lokoja, on Monday. The committee was set up by the Governor with the mandate to review and authenticate the report earlier submitted by the Staff Screening and Verification Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. Jerry Agbaji. According to Alhaji Okala, “As at the time of inaugurating the Staff Screening and Verification Committee on February 22, 2016, the total staff on the nominal payroll of the State (State MDAs and Local Governments) was 88, 973 with monthly wage bill of N 5,809,578,703.72. However, afte...