Babatunde Raji Fashola
28 Mar
As the morning sun's warm embrace gently skims the horizon, I find myself perched upon my balcony, enveloped in a symphony of sights and sounds that define the tapestry of Nigerian life. I had just closed the book titled “Nigerian Public Discourse – The Interplay of Empirical Evidence and Hyperbole” by Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN.
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Former Governor of Lagos State and immediate past Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, and the Chief Operating Officer, Green Energy International Limited (GEIL), Kayode Adegbulugbe..
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Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has charged students of Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos State, to be creative and use skills learned from school to transform Nigeria.
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