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  • BREAKING: Serving Lagos Senator, Bayo Osinowo is dead

    BREAKING: Serving Lagos Senator, Bayo Osinowo is dead

    Reports reaching TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) has it that the representative of Lagos East Senatorial District, Bayo Oshinowo aka ‘pepper’ is dead.

    He died on Monday after a brief illness at the age of 64.

    He was elected Senator in 2019 and was subsequently appointed as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries.

    Senator Osinowo had his primary education at St. Augustin Primary School in Ijebu-Ode and his Secondary Education in Isoyin Grammar School, Isoyin.

    In 1977, he started his career as a Land Officer at the Federal Ministry of Works till 1979. He then became the Managing Director at NITAL International from 1986 to 2003.

    Senator Osinowo became the Managing Director at NIMCO International Co. Ltd from 1990 to 2003. He also worked as Managing Director, at Extreme Piling and Construction Company Ltd and NIMCO Dredging Company from 1990 to 2003.

    Osinowo began his political life in the second republic serving as a youth Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

    Osinowo was a four time member of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

  • JUST IN: APC chieftain, Muniru Muse dies at 80

    JUST IN: APC chieftain, Muniru Muse dies at 80

    Former lawmaker and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Muniru Muse has died after a brief illness on Tuesday.

    Muse died at the Ahmadiyya Hospital in Apapa, Lagos. He was 80.

    Muse, who represented Lagos Central Senatorial District in the Senate between 2007 and 2011, had celebrated his 80th birthday on May 17.

    He was succeeded at the Senate by Oluremi Tinubu who organises a football tournament annually in his honour.

    Muse was the manager at the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and a close associate of former governor of the old Gongola State, Bamanga Tukur.

    He was also chairman of Apapa Local Government between 1999 and 2002, executive secretary of the local government between 2003 and 2004, and reelected chairman of the local government again in 2004, a position he held until his election into the Senate in 2007.