Though it is not too late for Oba Lekan Balogun and his co-rebellious obas he’s leading to retrace their steps, so as for him to ascend the Olubadan throne. Their current obstinacy and illegal selection won’t give him the throne at all. Though such retracing actions won’t be a total legal way out because they will have to be re-installed as high chiefs again by an Olubadan. According to the Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration of 1957, the kingmakers are required to forward the name of the next king to the state government within 14 days from the death of the last…
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The National Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has excluded Oyo State in its visits to Southwestern States of the country, this newspaper reports. A reliable party source exclusively told this paper that Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led national reconciliation committee would not be visiting Oyo State to meet feuding tendencies within the party. According to the inside source, “We’re not coming to Oyo State because the only petition the national reconciliation committee received from APC leaders in Oyo State was written by some party members in Oriire Local Government Area. Instead, the committee will be meeting with some Oyo…
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)
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,…