World Malaria Day: National Malaria Coordinator Stressed Urgency in Tackling Malaria

In a recent Facebook interview, Dr. Godwin Ntadom the national coordinator for Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Program, shed light on the causes and symptoms of malaria while emphasizing the crucial distinction between fever and malaria. EDITOR’S PICKS Abduction Of Harmless Journalists: A Tragic Return To Military Rule Tactics National Grid Collapse, DisCos Fiasco And Adelabu’s … Read more

114 Roads’ Initiative: Epe Local Government Holds Stakeholder’s Meeting Ahead Of Road Construction

The road construction is among the ‘114 roads’ initiative. The ‘114 roads’ initiative is an initiative sponsored by the 57 LG/LCDA chairmen in Lagos The road construction set to take place on Olalekan Killa/Animashaun Close, Epe, Lagos State. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Chairman of Epe Local Government, Princess Surah Animahaun has engaged relevant … Read more

NIMASA: Tasks And Expectations From Mobereola

The trajectory of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has always been in the news for negative reasons. For instance, among its past Directors-General, we have those who have faced corruption charges in the law courts. EDITOR’S PICKS Abduction Of Harmless Journalists: A Tragic Return To Military Rule Tactics National Grid Collapse, DisCos … Read more

On Professor Isaac Adewole’s 70th Birthday Celebration!

Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole, obstetrician, gynaecologist, academic, administrator and former Minister of Health, is 70 years old. EDITOR’S PICKS Abduction Of Harmless Journalists: A Tragic Return To Military Rule Tactics National Grid Collapse, DisCos Fiasco And Adelabu’s Band-wagon Don’t Clip Our Wings: Why Crypto Can Be A Lifeline For Nigeria’s Youth, Not A Threat So, … Read more

Otedola Family Donates Food and Sanitary Items To Thani-Oladunjoye Older People Care Centre

Otedola Family Donates Food and Sanitary Items To Thani-Oladunjoye Older People Care Centre

Sir Michael Otedola hailed from Odoragushin, Epe. Sir Michael Otedola was a former Governor of Lagos State Thani-Oladunjoye Older People Care Centre was commissioned in January 6th 2022 Eko Hot Blog reports that the Otedola Family has donated several food items and sanitary materials to the Thani-Oladunjoye Older People Care Centre. EDITOR’S PICKS Abduction Of … Read more

Orisa-Ijebu At 90!

Awujale!!! Orisa-Ijebu At 90!

Alayeluwa Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Ogbagba Agbotewole ll, the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland is not an ordinary man. He is not an ordinary mortal. And he has refused, like Prince of Aragon in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, to ‘choose what many men desire and be ranked with barbarous multitudes!’ EDITOR’S PICKS Abduction Of … Read more

National Amnesia Whitewashes The White Lion

Bello and Enenche: A Tale of Two Lions

Sleep is the next-door neighbour to good memory. This is the view of neurologist Andrew Budson and neuroscientist Elizabeth Kensinger in their book, “Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory,” published in 2023 by Oxford University Press. EDITOR’S PICKS JAMB And Candidates: A Case Study Of Nigerian Institutions’ Disdain For … Read more

Education: Southwest Nigeria Has Lost Its Edge!

Education in Southwest

The purported ranking of states by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), based on their performance in the 2023 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE),is the focus of this piece. In the said publication, ‘Lagos State, which hosts many private schools and home to virtually all Nigerians, is in the 6th position. The next Southwest … Read more

Concerned Nation-Builders Initiative Provides Food Relief To Vulnerable Residents In Epe Division

Concerned Nation-Builders Initiative (CNI) Provides Food Relief To Vulnerable Residents

  Eko Hot Blog reports that the Concerned Nation-Builders Initiative (CNI) has distributed food palliatives to over 250 vulnerable people within Epe Division. Editor’s Pick  Admiring President Bola Tinubu’s Exemplary Leadership Breaking Boundaries: Tunde Onakoya’s Historic 60-Hour Chess Marathon Chibok: Destroying The Future of Our Tomorrow? The group provided the palliatives on Tuesday, April 30th, … Read more

Why Epe is Losing Its Agricultural Pedigree – Abdulkareem Onakoya

Why Epe is Losing Its Agricultural Pedigree - Abdulkareem Onakoya

Eko Hot Blog reports that Dr Abdulkareem Onakoya, from the Political Science Department of Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) has provided some of the reasons why Epe is losing its agricultural prowess. Editor’s Pick  Admiring President Bola Tinubu’s Exemplary Leadership Breaking Boundaries: Tunde Onakoya’s Historic 60-Hour Chess Marathon Chibok: Destroying The Future of Our … Read more

Omola Of Odomola Confers Oloritun Chieftaincy Titles On Akeem Olowu, Lawal Kehinde, Others

The Omola of Odomola has honoured deserving individuals with a chieftaincy title. The chieftaincy title, Oloritun, was awarded to five individuals. The Omola also conferred two different chieftaincy titles on two other individuals. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Omola of Odomola, HRM Oba Adeshina Sulaimon Adebowale, has conferred the chieftaincy title of Oloritun on … Read more

Poka Needs Everyone’s Support For Progress, Oba Aliru Charges Indigenes

Return Home And Support Developmental Efforts, Oba Ayodele Aliru Urges Poka Indigenes

The Aladeuraka of Poka land says the progress of the town is up to all indigenes. He notes that indigenes must be ready to lend their helping hand in any capacity. The monarch also wants indigenes abroad to return home to engineer the development of Poka. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Aladeuraka of Poka … Read more

Opinion!!! Bobrisky and Tax Reforms in Nigeria

Opinion!!! Bobrisky and Tax Reforms in Nigeria

The charade of Nigeria is never-ending! Only recently, one of Nigeria’s best-known cross-dressers, Idris Okuneye, alias Bobrisky, was arrested on charges of abusing banknotes. He was later convicted and sentenced to six months in prison. Not long after, popular socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, aka Cubana Chief Priest, was also arrested for alleged naira abuse and he’s … Read more

Bello and Enenche: A Tale of Two Lions

Bello and Enenche: A Tale of Two Lions

If charisma was a commodity, Pope John Paul II would have been the producer of its purest form. It wasn’t for nothing that the Pope survived an assassination attempt in 1981 and forgave his assailant, Mehmet Ali Agca, an escaped Turkish prisoner. In his time, Pope John Paul II was the global ambassador of Christ. … Read more

Chibok: Destroying The Future of Our Tomorrow?

Nigerian Troops Rescue 2 Kidnapped Chibok Girls

By abiodun KOMOLAFE The 10th anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolchildren from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, has again brought an eerie feeling of despair and panic. EDITOR’S PICKS Fisayo Soyombo And Customs: A Mockery Of ‘See Something, Say Something’ Nigeria’s Electricity Tariff Hike: A Blow To Citizens’ Wallets And The Economy … Read more

Aladepekun Of Odo-Egiri Empowers Youths Amidst Kilajolu Celebration

Kilajolu: Aladepekun of Odo-Egiri Empowers Youths

The Odo-Egiri community recently celebrated the 2024 Kilajolu Festival. The festival is a unique event celebrated with masquerades delivering strokes of the cane to bless community members.  The Aladepekun of Odo-Egiri used the occasion of the 2024 edition to support some youths in his kingdom. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Aladepekun of Odo-Egiri, Oba … Read more

Bobrisky, Cubana Chief Priest and Indabosky Bahose

Bobrisky, Cubana Chief Priest and Indabosky Bahose

By Tunde Odesola Abido Shaker! Life is a widening gyre where women fear cockroaches, cockroaches fear cocks, cocks fear men, and men fear women. A few years ago, Chukwemeka Cyril Ohanaemere was an ordinary name in Nigeria until fakery kissed bombast and vainglory took materialism to bed, birthing ‘The Lion Himself’, ‘The War’. ‘The Fight’, … Read more

Wasiu Ayinde, Bobrisky and the Nigerian Army (2)

Wasiu Ayinde, Bobrisky and the Nigerian Army (2)

Bobrisky: In this day and age of social media, journalism, one of the few fearless professions, treats soft news with almost the same attention it treats hard news. EDITOR’S PICKS Fisayo Soyombo And Customs: A Mockery Of ‘See Something, Say Something’ Nigeria’s Electricity Tariff Hike: A Blow To Citizens’ Wallets And The Economy Banditry, Kidnapping, … Read more

Kilajolu Festival: Excitement As Epe Celebrates Freedom From Slavery

Eko Hot Blog reports that there was a unmistakable air of excitement in the Aleke and Ebode communities of Epe, Lagos State, as they celebrated the Kilajolu festival. EDITOR’S PICKS Fisayo Soyombo And Customs: A Mockery Of ‘See Something, Say Something’ Nigeria’s Electricity Tariff Hike: A Blow To Citizens’ Wallets And The Economy Banditry, Kidnapping, … Read more

Oloja Of Epe Reveals Historical And Cultural Significance Of Kilajolu Festival

Oba Kamorudeen Ishola Animashaun, Arolugbade 1st, the Oloja of Epe

  Eebi Festival is an annual festival that is celebrated in Epe Eebi Festival showcases the culture-rich Kilajolu masquerade Kilajolu masquerade symbolises the end of slave trade in Epe Eko Hot Blog reports that the Oloja of Epe land, Oba Kamorudeen Ishola Animashaun, has revealed the origins and profound significance of the Kilajolu festival. EDITOR’S … Read more