#Babajide Olatunji

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Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian, 1989), 'Tribal Marks' Series II No.8, 2015. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 149 x 210 cm.

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Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian,b. 1989)

Portrait of Dọlápọ̀ as a Young Sculptor, 2024

Pastel, casein and acrylic on primed canvas

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Babajide Olatunji - Girl with green scarf, 2023

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Babajide Olatunji, ‘Tribal Marks' Series II No.8, 2015. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 149 x 210 cm.

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Do you know this awesome guy ? What an incredible Talent ! He has gifted hands. This is Africa... Artwork By Babajide Olatunji, Nigerian Artist. IG: @babajideolatunji babajideolatunji.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram: @blawoarts www.blawo.art #BlackArtInTheWorld #Blawo #blackart #artafricain #africanart #africanpainting #africanamericanart

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Lagos PDP suspends chairman, deputy; constitutes disciplinary committee

Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ratified the suspension of its Chairman, Pastor Philip Aivoji and his deputy, Mr Tai Benedict, pending the outcome of court cases. Aivoji and Benedict were suspended respectively by their ward executives on April 14 over alleged gross violation of the party’s Constitution. The party’s Publicity Secretary in Lagos State, Alhaji Hakeem Amode, stated on Tuesday in Lagos that the State Working Committee reached the resolution after appraising the outcome of 2023 general elections. He stated that at a meeting held on Tuesday, the committee deliberated on saving the soul of the main opposition party in the state. He added that the committee consequently confirmed Lagos PDP Vice-Chairman (West Senatorial District), Chief Sunday Olaifa, as acting chairman, pending the outcome of court cases. He stated also that the committee settled for Olaifa being the vice-chairman from the suspended chairman’s senatorial district. Amode stated that the committee also constituted a seven-man disciplinary committee to look into all matters affecting the suspended officials. Members of the disciplinary committee are Chief Abayomi Kuye (Chairman), Mrs Esther Egbi (Secretary), Alhaji Isiaka Shodiya, Princess M.A Coker, Messrs Kayode Ariwayo, Femi Oluokun and Segun Oriyomi. Amode added that the post-election disciplinary committee was expected to revert to the State Working Committee one week from the date of its constitution. Members of the State Working Committee at the meeting were Olaifa, Mr Agboola Akinpelu (Youth Leader), Mr Ismail Olatunji (State Auditor) and Mr Adio Salami (State Organising Secretary) and Amode. “The five members in attendance constitute the majority of the nine members in the State Working Committee out of the original 14 members that can take the decision. “Three of the original 14 members had decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), thereby reducing the membership of the State Working Committee to 11. “The embattled chairman and his deputy were part of the 11 remaining members and since they can’t adjudicate in their own case, only nine members were left to take decisions. Some Lagos PDP leaders abandoned the party’s governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, on the eve of the March 18 gubernatorial election to support either the Labour Party (LP) or the ruling APC. The development was believed to have contributed to Adediran coming a distant third behind the winner, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of APC and the first runner up, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the LP. Crisis is also rocking PDP at the national level with the suspension of its national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, shortly after the Feb. 25 and March 18 general elections. Read the full article

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Babajide B Olatunji’s Tribal Marks

Babajide B Olatunji is a Nigerian artist whose hyperrealist paintings have earned him international recognition. His acclaimed series of works titled “Tribal Marks” examine the practice of scarification, by showing the faces of those who bear its marks.

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Babajide Olatunji, and this isn’t a photo...

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Check it out

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Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian, 1989), Tribal Marks Series III #21, 2017. Charcoal and pastel on paper

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Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian,b. 1989)

Babájídé as a Young Artist, 2024

Pastel, casein and acrylic on primed canvas

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Artwork By Babajide Olatunji, Nigerian Artist. IG: @babajideolatunji babajideolatunji.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram: @blawoarts www.blawo.art #BlackArtInTheWorld #Blawo #blackart #artafricain #africanart #africanpainting #africanamericanart

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Dirty couple of Lagos power house the story of the Tunji Bellos

By Tunde Okikioposu Fifty eight year old Lawyer, Journalist, Publisher and serving Secretary to the Lagos State government Mr Tunji Bello is not a happy man presently: he bemoans the fate that has made Lagos House slipped off his hands, yet again. Bello a native of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital laboured alongside other pro democracy activists for the actualisation of the June 12 mandate, made no pretence about his desire to become Lagos State helmsman. He was among the team detailed to set up Vintage Press Limited publishers of The Nation newspaper. He was drafted in public service as the Managing Director of Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency LASSA and he later served as Commissioner for Environment in the Babatunde Raji Fashola administration. He was appointed Secretary to State Government by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode a position he held till date. While many others will be content with their political lot; not Bello whose greatest political goal is to become the Executive Governor of Lagos State. Bello a Muslim was among those who discreetly tried to stop the emergence of a Christian Governor in 2014 believing the lot will fall on him. He was pained a relatively apolitical Ambode was the choice of the national leader Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the exalted position. From inception of the Ambode administration he continually bombarded Bourdillon residence of the national leader with alleged tales of "official recklessness and abuse of office" on the part of Governor Ambode, threatening to resign at a point. He complained that Ambode gave out "juicy assignments" meant for his office to the commissioners. He was so unruly that Tinubu had to caution him to control his emotions, promising that he will call Ambode to order. Tinubu had to wade in by directing Ambode to recall the "juicy assignments" back to Bello's office. Bello's pain which many understood is the fact that, not only was he bye passed and Ambode chosen, he was also bye passed for Babajide Sanwoolu, though he was considered but his ill health in 2014 for closed his choice back then, even as the Deputy Governor. He had a mild stroke hence he was not anointed as the Deputy Governor. Senator Remi Tinubu was the one who picked Sanwoolu, this medium gathered she was not comfortable with Bello's wife: Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji Bello who is a fellow Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, but extremely greedy, vicious and proud. Ambode in his characteristic manner refused to join issues with him and others who took it upon themselves to report the activities of his government to Tinubu, with the absolute believe that his performance will suffice at the end. Tunji Bello currently oversees the media unit of the Babajide Olushola Sanwoolu Campaign Organization BOSCO though Comrade Sesan Daini is the face of the unit. Daini is a mere tool in the hands of Bello who controls the budget and purse of the unit which ran into hundreds of millions of naira. He determines which project flies and which one will not. Bello is responsible for the negative press Governor Ambode got from The Nation newspaper. He acted in partnership with Mr. Dele Alake and Mr. Wale Edun the Chairman of Vintage Press. They are worried that the scales have fallen off the eyes of their principal, Tinubu, who was shocked at the reality from the miserly result polled by Lagos APC in the first phase of the general elections that two Saturdays ago. Unknown to many Bello was among the saboteurs of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative of the Ambode administration. He had a recycling company that bided for the recycling arm of the business, but lost to others. He used his contacts from his days as Commissioner for Environment to sabotage Visionscape Sanitation Services, instigating these firms not to cooperate with Visionscape. Bello was allotted 28 waste evacuation detail contract in Lagos; but he deployed only one truck, to cover these details, yet collects 28 truck payments from Lagos State Waste Management Agency LAWMA. He is indeed a greedy fellow. He had serious altercations with Fashola who accused him pointedly to stop scheming, he was among the cabal that occasioned the media blackout of Fashola's post tenure book launch. He was stunned alongside his clique when President Muhammadu Buhari name Fashola as the federal cabinet appointee for Lagos State. Bello spends heavily on his UK based mistress,a married woman called Ronke,he ferries her to Nigeria from London monthly for trysts at Eko Hotels in Victoria Island, passing the bill to the state government. Bello's wife Ibiyemi the Deputy Vice Chancellor Acedemics later acting Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University: she was miffed and deeply pained that Ambode as the Visitor of the institution did not make her the substantive Vice Chancellor, but directed the Senate of the school to shop for a competent and qualified hand that led to the emergence of Prof Olarenwaju Fagbohun, an Awori prince as the institution's Vice Chancellor. The Bellos have taken it upon themselves to be of total service to the Sanwoolu's. In fact Prof Ibiyemi is the one running domestic chores for them as well as being in charge of Dr Sanwoolu's wardrobe. She continually bear false witnesses against others who are acquintances with the Sanwoolu's, her involvement has made others give a wide berth to the Sanwoolu's even at this critical hour. Media industry practitioners blamed the collapse of Concord Press Limited publishers of Concord newspaper and her sub titles on Bello's mismanagement. Concord newspaper failed under his watch, his former embittered colleagues offered that Bello is not worth the position of class captain. Read the full article

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Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian, 1989), Tribal Marks Series III 57. Charcoal and pastel on paper adhered to aluminium backing, 96.5 x 136.5 cm.

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Babajide Olatunji (Nigerian,b. 1989)

Amiya as a Sexagenarian, 2024

Pastel, casein and acrylic on primed canvas

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BREAKING NEWS: Sanwo-Olu approves 17-man inauguration committee, appoints ex - campaign DG as chairman. Ahead of May 29 swearing in for elected officials, Lagos Governor-elect, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, @jidesanwoolu has approved a 17-man committee to oversea preparation for his inauguration ceremony. Sanwo-Olu approved the list nine days after directing his deputy-elect, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, @drobafemihamzat to co-chair the 20-man Transition committee with Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Tunji Bello. In the list exclusively obtained by The Guild on Thursday, the governor-elect appointed former Director-General of babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu Independent Campaign Group (BOSICG), Mr Tayo Ayinde as chairman. Also on the the committee were: the state All Progressives Congress (APC) woman leader, Jumoke Okoya-Thomas, @official_jumokeokoyathomas the party’s organising secretary, Enilolobo Abdullahi and Lagos Island East Local Government, Kamal Salam-Bashua. Olabopo Odiachi, Taiwo Abiodun, Ayiri Oladunmaje, Funke Bucknor-Obnithe, @funkebucknor, Ajala Rasaq, Princess Obiageli Onu, Idris Aregbe, @idrisconnectinglagos, Bolaji Durojaiye, Lanre Adeyinka, Osifeko George, @osifekoolusegun, Onabanjo Bimbo, @greatestgeneral, Olatunji Rilwan @olatunjirilwan and Kappo Emmanuel. Sanwo-olu is planing to certify people that worked at his disbanded campaign offices and others that contributed immensely to the Governor-elect victory. #pulsenigeria #goldmynetv #nigeria #naija #9ja #nigeriadecides #lagos #instalagos #instanigeria #lasgidi #pulseviral #instablog9ja #hiptv #postnigerianews #chefchi #naijacelebrity #tundeednut #dgallerytv #dgalleryontv #eventsinlagos #lagosparty #9jaevents #abujaevents #lagosevents #naijaevents #awadaexpress #yorubademon #wakandaforever #nollywood - https://www.instagram.com/p/BwaKaPrHOuR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18cpzk6o9dnje