The Olu of Ayepe-Olode, Oba Olajide Omisore, father of Sen. Iyiola a former Deputy Governor of Osun, has joined his ancestors. The former Deputy Governor confirmed the death of his father in a statement on Tuesday in Ile-Ife. According to him, on behalf of the Dynasty and with deepest sense of loss and gratitude, we announced the triumphant return of our beloved father, Oba Olajide Omisore, to his heavenly father. “The royal father, Oba Olajide Omisore Omigbade I,joined his ancestors peacefully on Jan. 4, 2022,” he said. He said that further announcement would be made in due course.(NAN)
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements in 2021 as a ‘joke of the year.’
Accuses Olaleye of masterminding the crisis Pandemonium broke out at the Bola Ige international market, Gbagi, Ibadan on Wednesday when the traders unleashed mayhem on the workers of a consultant, One Hub Technology Partnership limited allegedly appointed by the Commissioner for Trade, investment and commerce, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye as estate developer for the Bola Ige market. It was gathered that trouble started when the workers engaged by ONEHUB TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED, a consultant purportedly appointed by the said Commissioner approached the market to commence activities relating to management of the said market. The traders were angry when they noticed that…
While the gale of deconstruction of My Participations, an autobiography of Chief Bisi Akande, former governor of Osun State and pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) was going on last week, the photograph of another skyscraper property of his, built during his governorship of Osun and located in his hometown, Ila Orangun’s central market, went viral. It is different from the one that Baba Ayo Adebanjo queried where he got the money to build which one of my friends likened to a General Hospital in its humongous architectural arrogance. The Ila Central Market property, a four-storey building…
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, has said that former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is not fit to run for the presidency, alleging that he has no school certificates to tender to Nigerians. Speaking with Saturday Telegraph against the backdrop of a statement credited to Tinubu that he won’t reject overtures from Nigerians that he should contest for the Presidency in 2023, George said those urging the APC leader will be shown the ‘true identity of Tinubu.’ Tinubu, last Tuesday, after a meeting with…
The office of the Auditor- General for the Federation (AuGF) in its 2019 Annual Audit Report has indicted the management of the National Assembly over how it spent funds running into billions of naira. The AGF, Aghughu Adolphus, in the audit queries uncovered how over N8.5 billion from the funds released to the National Assembly were expended within the period under review without evidence. The report, submitted to the Clerk to the National Assembly in August this year as required by the constitution, said the monies under scrutiny were not backed by vouchers and retirement documents. The audit report uncovered…
The National Assembly has approved a N633.393 billion budget of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the 2022 fiscal year. The budget was approved after the Senate and the House of Representatives adopted the reports of their Committees on Telecommunications presented during plenary on Wednesday. Presenting her report, at the Senate, Chairperson of the Committee, Senator Olufemi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central), said out of the approved sum, N86,242,952 was for Recurrent Expenditure; N30,336,144 for Capital Expenditure and N42,445,864 for Special Projects; N466,868,323 was transfer to Federal Government; and N7,500,000 as Transfer to Universal Service Provision Fund. She said, the Commission’s…
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has asked a former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, to withdraw his book, ‘My Participation’. In a text of press conference obtained by our correspondent on Thursday, George warned Akande against causing trouble for himself because of the political ambition of Bola Tinubu, APC national leader. According to the PDP leader, the book written by Akande is malicious and offensive to Yoruba elders. While describing the book as “shameful” and “disappointing”, George said Akande must apologise to Yoruba elders publicly. He said,…
The acting leader of Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo has denied the allegation that his house in Lekki was built for him by Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to a statement by Adebanjo, the former governor of Osun, Bisi Akande in his recently released autobiography, ‘My Participations’ claimed that he brought pressure on Tinubu to build a house for him in Lekki. But reacting to the claim in a statement on Thursday, Adebanjo said he expected Tinubu to have refuted the “malicious falsehood about me emanating from his Man Friday” since he was at the book…
In the course of its routine media review, today, December 15, 2021, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) became aware of publications in some online media channels alleging the involvement of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State, in Mafab Communications Limited, one of the winners of the 5G spectrum sold by the Commission in a public auction conducted on Monday, December 13, 2021, at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. It bears restating that, consistent with the Commission’s long-established regulatory culture and tradition, the process leading to the auction of the 5G spectrum was open, fair and transparent in the…