A group, Forum of Ibarapa Indigenes in Diaspora has told the Oyo state Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde that the Ibarapa zone of the state needs infrastructural development not birthday celebration. The group in a statement signed by its chairman, Adebayo Adedigba and secretary, Taiwo Kareem and made available to newsmen on Monday said they have gathered that Governor Makinde will be celebrating his birthday on 25th of December this year at Ibarapa zone. While lamenting the rate of insecurity in the zone, the group criticized the Seyi Makinde-led government for neglecting the zone while other zones in the state are…
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Member of the House of Representatives, representing Ibadan Northwest/Southwest Federal Constituency, Ibadan, Oyo State, Hon. Adedeji Stanley Olajide who is popularly known as Odidi Omo is set to empower his constituents on Saturday, December 11. Odidi Omo in a release he personally signed and made available to journalists disclosed that the Mega Empowerment Programme has been scheduled to take place on next Saturday at his constituency office in Iyana Adeoyo, Ring-Road axis of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. The Federal Lawmaker disclosed that the empowerment programme would come into place in line with fulfilment of the promises made during…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Adegboyega Adegoke, has threw its weight behind the National Assembly for adopting direct primaries for political parties to pick their candidates for elections. This is just as he said Nigeria need a benevolent dictator to turn things around in the country. Adegoke said these while participating on a political programme on an Ibadan-based radio, Solutions 93.9 FM, titled, Politics in Focus. The Senate and the House of Representatives recently passed the harmonized version of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which allowed for direct primaries as a means…
The Senate’s Committee on Local Content has walked out the Deputy Managing Director of Daewoo Engineering and Construction Limited, Mr. Yeon Seop Jung, who appeared in place of the Company’s Managing Director. Daewoo and Saipem’s Managing Directors had been invited by the Senate’s Committee, to give evidence following several petitions it had received on allegations of breach of Local Content Law in the execution of the Train-7 project. The Train-7 project is Nigeria’s largest gas project and valued as around $10bn (ten billion US dollars). The project is owned by the Nigerian Liquefied and Natural Gas Company (NLNG) and involves…
Amidst the call for justice for the slain student of Dowen College, a mother shares her experience on how her daughter almost died at the same school. According to a narration by Lizzy Kalu on Instagram, her last daughter who was a student of the said school fell sick and was admitted for weeks at the school’s sickbay. Mrs Kalu added that the school made no effort to contact her family until one of her children in the school put the call through. Woman narrates how her daughter almost died at Dowen College Read her narration below… “All my children…
Operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) headed by DCP Tunji Disu have arrested four suspected members of a trans-boarder robbery gang who specialized in snatching vehicles from Nigeria and taking them to other West African countries where they are sold at give away prices. Preliminary investigation revealed that the gang also smuggled weapons from neighboring West African countries into Nigeria. Recovered from them were two Ak 47 rifles, five cut-to-size guns, 10 live cartridges, one magazine and two foreign plate numbers which they used to change those of stolen vehicles. The suspects: Adebabatunde Okunola, 31; Ismaila Suraju, 27;…
Buruji Kashamu family has absolved Michael Adewale Kashamu of involvement in the murder of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College. Sylvester died a few days ago after he was allegedly attacked by “some senior colleagues” for refusing to join a cult group. He was said to have mentioned the late lawmaker’s son alongside four other students before he died. In a statement issued by one Mutairu Kashamu, the family confirmed that Michael Kashamu is indeed the son of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu. However, the family noted that despite the late Sylvester’s claims, the ongoing cyber-bullying and name-calling…
Pending the hearing of the substantive suit filed by Alhaji Hassan Sherif, Bauchi State High Court has ordered Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to administer the oath of office on the Hon Babayo Misau-led executive members of the party in the state. The ruling was delivered on Friday. Alhaji Sherif, a loyalist of Nigeria Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, approached the Bauchi High Court to stop the inauguration of the executive council members. The recent development is the height of the crisis that trailed the conduct of the APC…
In the last one week in the American and Nigerian cities of Michigan and Lagos, 1983 Nobel Literature winner and British author, William Golding, was literally woken up from the dead. Golding, novelist, playwright and poet, wrote the highly celebrated novel, Lord of the Flies. If you underestimate the holy writ’s admonition that foolishness resides (is bound up) in the heart of a child, then you need to read this Golding’s 1954 debut novel. Woven round myriad thematic concerns, chief of which was the innate bestiality in man, Lord of the Flies, as a name, derived its etymology from the…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Sunday sets up a three-man Committee to resolve the lingering crisis in the State chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ). The NUJ said, ‘two wrongs can never make a right” and there is the need “to immediately put the outcome of the recent leadership tussle of NAWOJ behind us as one big family.” To this end, after wide consultations, the Chairman, Comrade Ademola Babalola has put in place three veteran leaders of NUJ to midwife a truce. They are the State Chairman, League of Veteran Journalists, Pa Banji Ogundele; Alhaji…