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Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Biography of Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi

December 02, 2025 No comments
President Bola Tinubu has suspended Godwin Emefiele as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation announced his suspension.

Director of Information, SGF office, Willie Bassey, in a statement on Friday, said the suspension is with immediate effect.

 acting CBN Governor -
 
The suspended Emefiele was directed to immediately hand over the affairs of his office to the Deputy Governor (Operations Directorate).

Mr. Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi (Board Member) is the Deputy Governor (Operations Directorate).

Mr. Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi, Acting CBN Governor
Mr. Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi, Acting CBN Governor

Shonubi will act as the Central Bank Governor according to director of information, SGF office. He has been serving since October 17, 2018 – to date.

Shonubi holds double Masters Degree respectively in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering, from University of Lagos.

He is a banker with over 30 years professional experience.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor in the Central Bank of Nigeria, he was the Managing Director/CEO in the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System PLC from 2012 – 2018.

Prior to his appointment as the Managing Director NIBSS PLC, Mr. Shonubi was Executive Director, Information Technology and Operations at Union Bank of Nigeria Plc; a member of the Board of Union Homes and Director, Information Technology and Corporate Services in Renaissance Securities Nigeria limited, with responsibility for the Group’ s IT infrastructure in Africa

Between 1999 and 2007, he worked in MBC International as Deputy General Manager and supervised their IT operational platforms, served in First City Monument Bank Limited as Vice President and in Ecobank Nigeria Limited as Executive Director.

Shonubi also had a stint with Citibank Nigeria Limited as its Head, Treasury Operations (1990-1993).

He has served on a number of sub-committees of the Bankers’ Committee, including the Ethics and Professionalism sub-committee.

Biography of Dr. Olajide Abdulazeez Adediran (Jandor)

December 02, 2025 No comments
Olajide Abdulazeez Adediran, who is popularly known as Jandor. 

Biography: Olajide Abdulazeez Adediran (Jandor), Net worth, Social lifestyle, Early Life

Jandor, a PDP governorship Aspirant in Lagos State is a renowned Nigerian politician, journalist, and entrepreneur. He served as the leader of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, a group under the All Progressive Congress (APC), but later decamped to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in year 2022. 

In 2022, Jandor was declared as the Governorship candidate for the 2023 Lagos State gubernatorial election, under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, alongside popular Nigerian actress, Funke Akindele (Jenifer), his deputy. 

Date of Birth : November 27, 1977 
  • Place of Birth : Lagos State, South-West Nigeria 
  • Nickname : Jandor 
  • Occupation : Journalist | Entrepreneur | Politician 
  • Wife : Mrs Maryam Olajide Adediran 
  • Children : Fareedah Adediran | Fadhilulah Adediran 
  • Net Worth : $10 million as at 2022 
  • Political Party: People's Democratic party (PDP)
  • Age: 45 Years old as at Nov. 2022
  • Social Media: IG @officialjandor 

Early Life Background, Family and Education:

Olajide Abdulazeez Adediran, also known as Jandor was born on the November 25, 1977, in Mushin area of  Lagos State, South-West Nigeria. His father is a Muslim, while his mother is a Christian. He is the 5th child out of 7 siblings that he has. 

Jandor had both his primary school and secondary school education in Lagos State, South-West Nigeria. He furthered to The Polytechnic Ibadan. He also attended Universities such as Modul University, Vienna; the Prestigious Howard University School of Business, Washington DC, USA; and Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, where he completed his other educational background and earned several degree of certificates.

Career:

His first career started with journalism. He developed himself as a skilled journalist; encompassing business, entertainment, and politics before finding a job in the  communication Industry as a consultant. He is also a participant in a number of professional associations, including the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON), the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). Jandor currently oversees Core Media Services Ltd., a full-service media company that engages in advertising and media consultancy, as well as Datanet Project Services, a company that specializes in oil installations, procurement, and construction.

Aside all these, Jandor owns Core-Bet, a casino and sports betting company. He also owns CoreTvNews, a 24-hour national digital terrestrial network on Channel 748. He is also the head of the Jandor Foundation, a non-profit organization in Lagos State that was founded to help the poor.

He has won many titles, to include that of year 2010, where he won Nigeria at 50 Young Achievers Award 

His Political Career:

Though, no much of details of when he started his political career, but he was recognized in Lagos politics when he served as the lead convener of the Lagos4Lagos movement, a faction of the state’s All Progressive Congress (APC) that eventually defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Jandor's political career came to limelight after he was declared the Lagos State 2023 gubernatorial candidate under the platform of the People's Democratic Party, PDP.
 
Jandor was  the 2023 PDP governorship Candidate in Lagos State, alongside his deputy - popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele; who was announced on July 6, 2022 and he will be contesting alongside Gbadebo of the LP and Sanwo-olu of  the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. 

Impact of Jandor's Foundation:

Due to his passion to help humanity, He established the Jandor Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to uplift the underprivileged, particularly the Lagosians. Thus, the organization is present in all the 54 local government areas in Lagos State.

As at 2022 record, the Jandor foundation has over 2,000 volunteers, 11,000 lives have been changed, and more than 1,700 projects have been commissioned and he is still impacting lives in Lagos.
 
Olajide Abdulazeez Adeniran (Jandor) is active on social media. You can connect with him via his official handles on Facebook, Instagram and X. .

Monday, 1 December 2025

So Far So Good - A National Review on Issues Affecting Nigeria

December 01, 2025 6 comments
We can decide to make rants,  asking what could be the major problem of Nigeria and what our fifty nine years of independence has taught us? The reality in Nigeria has shown us the hard side of life with no remorse whatsoever.
You ask further - Could it be we are accursed? 

Without argument, it is said that predominant happenings in Nigeria are on the highly negative  side, giving lesser or no hope to an aspired future.  Going from the nature of social problems, developmental problems, economic crisis, political unrest, security problem, etc, we are certain that life itself has imparted a sense of adversity to Nigerian  citizens.

Nigeria

The major uproar now in Nigeria is the pandemic across the world affecting the four walls of Nigeria COVID-19. The pandemic came to Nigeria first month of this year and according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control ( NCDC) the confirm cases has grown to four thousand one hundred and fifty one (4151) as at 9th may, 2020 with a discharged cases of seven hundred and forty five (745) and the death of one hundred and twenty eight (128) .

Does this speak volume of hope to the nation?

The lock down is another issue her citizen would not want to adhere to mainly because of the lack of trust she has on her leadership. During the first lock down, her citizen took upon herself through social media on the necessity of getting food on the tables as eighty percent of her population live on a daily income. The second lock down declared by the president on Monday, 13th April, 2020 opened the nation to insecurity problems as the AWAWA BOYS and ONE MILLION BOYS became the fear of the day.

What was the reason for the fear?
Why the cause of commotion?

To some, it was food. Some said it was the boredom and yet another came saying it was a political plot of the leaders to her citizens.  The issue is yet to be settled as the Ogun and Lagos States Commissioners released in statements in the early hours of the morning 13th of April 2020, saying it was just uproar and a false alarm by the citizen that the nation is at peace with her. However, the citizens would not have it as vigilante groups were formed at different areas in the Abule egba axis, Iyana ipaja, Sango, and Ogun environs. On social media, videos of apprehending the thieves were sent across to show what stay the country is indeed is. 27th of April of the year 2020 was another day of the delivery of the President's speech which reduced the tension of her citizen on the ease of the lock down on the 4th of may of the year 2020.

The issue which is predominant had shove every other problem that is faced by the country for now and the people strongly believe that this could be a sign of rest that the nation leader should take advantage of and give thought to solution and attention to problems of the nation.
Should we hope they make use of the advantage?


The pandemic also didn't leave the students out as academic curriculum is left to an halt due to lock down of public places and gatherings of more than twenty people. It has shown the level in full picture the level of our academic student. As social media which has been a major tool during this lock has it how patiently the citizens of the nation wait for current from the developed countries. Although, the reaction the citizen has is the fact that there might not be no pandemic which is just a general myth by the nation's citizen because of the level of interest of the government. The vaccine that was rumoured to be a possible cure for the for the affected cases was said to be tested in Nigeria pioneer by Bill Gates. The people went a full force in rejecting such act because of lack of trust and the reasoning of who among the affected countries beeds it the most?

The coming of the Chinese doctors is another issue that brings the lack of sincerity on the part of the government towards her citizen. On Twitter it was attend that their was no need of the doctors coming over, even while the doctor's of her beloveth country Nigeria gave their non approval of the coming if the doctor's it came as a shock when the minister of health on channels gave his talk on the government not knowing the coming of the doctors neither did the government invite them but they were a gift from a Chinese company.

Who are our leaders?


We may not say all is bad. We only have a positive position to all that is happening and continually say, "Where there is life there is hope"