Jerry Douglas' Blog

The joy of the people of Agura community in Ikorodu, Lagos State, knew no bounds on Wednesday when light shone for the first time after 21 years of darkness. The dream of the community was actualised when the member representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, inaugurated the transformers she donated to them. Beside Agura, eight other communities benefitted from the lawmaker’s gift of 15 transformers, which had already been installed. Other beneficiary communities were Ijede, Ikorodu, Solomade, Imota, Aga, Mowonla, Igbopa, Igangbe and Okoitan. The communities also benefitted from no fewer than 15 solar-powered boreholes. Chairman of the Community Development Association in Agura, Chief Saliu Erubami, described Dabiri-Erewa as a worthy ambassador. He said the last time the community “tasted” dividends of democracy in the area was 21 years ago during the time of the Social Democratic Party. Erubami said, “It is wh...

  "It's all bad belle people, they think there may be bad news and when you don't give them that news they start to create it because bad news sells more than good news. First of all, there was no twitter fight, people go online and use photoshop to create my profile and then they go and create Wizkid's profile and say he said this and that - even when it never happened. What happened is that we have been working on Wizzy's project to make it work internationally and when you are getting to that level, things change.” This was said by the EME big shot when he was in Dubai for Tuface Idibia’s wedding. Banky further said that all the tweets about his fight with the young talent were all fabricated. “He has his own idea of what he wants to do and we are in 100% support of that and these were the things we dreamed of back in 2009 when I signed him....Wizkid is still signed to the E.M.E!!!” he said. On Wizkid's Starboy Entertainment that he just floated, he has...