Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, lauded the players and management of the Shooting Stars Supporters Club (3SC) for securing a much-needed victory on it’s way to promotion to the Nigerian Premier Football League. The Oluyole Warriors, as the 3SC is fondly called, defeated the Bendel Insurance Football Club by two goals to one on Tuesday in Enugu. Makinde, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, hailed the spirits of the 3SC players, charging them to go for glory and reclaim the glory of the 3SC. The governor had earlier released a N1 Million incentive…
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Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are also rooting for 2023 presidential ambition of former governor Bola Tinubu have dragged the party to Federal High Court in Ekiti, seeking an injunction declaring the outcomes of the July 31 ward congress and the September 4 local government congress unconstitutional, illegal, null and void. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the aggrieved members also prayed for sack of governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, declare as illegal and unconstitutional all actions taken under him as the chairman of the APC. In a suit marked FHC/AD/CS/21/2021 filed at the Ado-Ekiti…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Sunday, said that his administration will continue to balance political appointments between Christians and Muslims in the state. The governor, who stated this at the 1443/2021 Hijrah Luncheon held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, added that Muslims and the people of Oyo State know that his administration is doing the right things. He said: “I want to use the opportunity of today’s event to address the issues some people brought up. Everytime I go through the social media and read what people are saying, those who know how we did campaign in 2019…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Saturday, declared that his administration will turn Ibadan to a 21st century city through the provision of developmental projects across the city. The governor stated this at the inauguration ceremony of 2021/2023 Executive Council of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), led by its President General, (Prince) Oluyemisi Adeaga, at an event held at Ibadan House, Oke-Aremo, Ibadan. The governor explained that the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes is an influential association in the whole of Oyo state, saying that he believes in the ideals of the association. A statement by the Chief…
“Where the cat is a kitten, the court is wretched… No man there would rest at night because of rodents, for we mice would destroy many men’s malt, and you rats would tear men’s clothes were it not for the cat of the court who can pounce on you. If you rats had your way, you could not rule yourselves” – William Langland, ‘The Parliament of Rats and Mice’. There is this bitterly hostile rivalry between cats, mice and rats that is as old as antiquity. Unable to find a solution to this constant rodents/cats squabble, Odolaye Aremu, Kwara State,…
Former Commissioner of Oyo State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu has commended party members Itesiwaju Local Government Area of Oyo State for their peaceful conduct and maturity during the local congress of the party on Saturday. The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC scheduled the party’s local congresses throughout the country for Saturday, September 4th 2021. The former Commissioner Omodewu alongside other political gladiators in the council area participated in the peaceful exercise held at Baptist Primary School, Otu in Itesiwaju LGA. The local congress was conducted by 3-man…
Following the directive of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), camps of Ogun State Governor, Mr. David Abiodun and his predecessor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun have conducted parallel inauguration of ward executives of the party in the state. The State Affairs NG reports that factional ward executives had emerged across the 236 wards in the state. Our correspondent confirms that a faction led by the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, had on Thursday evening inaugurated its ward executives, while the faction led by a former governor of the state, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, took their oath…
Former Commissioner for Environment in Oyo State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Lowo Obisesan has stated that Ibadan Southwest Local Government Area of Oyo State is on the watchlist as one of the council areas where the election of party executives to steer the affairs of the party for another four years will be keenly contested. Barr. Obisesan gave this hint in an exclusive chat with News Agency of Nigeria. According to him, “as at the last count, 13 very strong and articulate members of the party in my local Government have signified interest in contesting…
The news came like a thundering typhoon last week. For the first time in its 44 years history, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had made a profit. Net profit after tax stood at N287 billion in Year 2020, sequel to the completion of the statutory Annual Audit exercise. What year? 2020. Year of the Coronavirus pandemic, when most of the world, including Nigeria, was under lockdown! And here was NNPC, recording profit first time in its history. How did it happen? How can it? Well, it happened because perhaps for the first time in the history of the country,…
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, September 2, 2021 sentenced one Olaleye Rosheed, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Offa, to one year imprisonment over offences bordering on attempted cheating and internet fraud. Olaleye, 21, was prosecuted on one count by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The charge reads: “That you, Olaleye Rosheed (Christiana Lopez) sometime in January, 2021 at Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court pretended to be one Christiana Lopez, a white female with a gmail account, christianalopez105@gmail.com, and thereby…