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Oyo Govt announce New Chairman for Park Management
Oyo State government has announced Alhaji Oluwatomiwa Omolewa aka Tommy, former Park Management System (PMS) Secretary, as the new Chairman. Alhaji Kasali Ajisafe Lawal aka Baba Bola is to serve as the Secretary. The appointment is part of the reorganization of the PMS embarked upon by the state government. Details later. Signed Sulaimon Olanrewaju CPS …
Makinde to set up interim management team for PMS
Oyo state government on Thursday expressed its readiness to set up an interim management team for the Park Management System (PMS) in the state. This is contained in a communique issued at the end of stakeholders’ meeting on repositioning of activities of the PMS held at state Secretariat in Ibadan. The stakeholders’ meeting had …
BUHARI CONFERS OON NATIONAL HONOURS ON KAYODE AJULO
OLUKAYODE ABRAHAM AJULO, ESQ: CONFERMENT OF THE NATIONAL HONOUR OF OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF THE NIGER (OON) I am currently outside the shores of Nigeria, and on an LNER Train to Aberdeen from London when I got the pleasant news that I am part of the eminent Nigerians listed for the conferment of one …
Day Oyo workers hailed Makinde’s responsible stewardship
The 2023 edition of Labour Day, a day set apart internationally to celebrate workers and to highlight issues pertaining to their rights and importance to the society, has come and gone. But the soundbites of that day have continued to echo around the corridors of the state, especially by helping to provide answers as to …
Nigeria 2023: President Buhari Congratulates Tinubu
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of this year’s Presidential Election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Reacting to the presidential election results announced this morning by Chairman of the Independent National ElectoralCommission (INEC), Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, President Buhari said: “I congratulate His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu …
OYO POLICE CONFIRM APATA KILLING, EXPLAIN DETAILS OF SHOOTOUT
Oyo state police Command has confirmed killing of one vigilante officer during a protest in Ibadan. The sad development was confirmed through a press statement issued by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Adewale Osifeso. A copy of the statement made available to journalists stated that the Oyo State Police Command wishes …
Ibadan Residents Raise Alarm Over Strange Aircraft Flying At Low Level
An unidentified yellow aircraft, that has been flying at low-level for more than three days in Ibadan, has left many residents worried. It was gathered that the aircraft takes off within the premises of the somewhere around Moniya from where it hovers around communities in the state. Aside from Akobo, the aircraft has equally been …
TRIBUNAL SACK OSUN GOV ADELEKE, HEADS TO APPEAL COURT!
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the judgement of the governorship tribunal as “a miscarriage of justice”, vowing to challenge the ruling at the Court of Appeal. The Election Petitions Tribunal hearing the All Progressives Congress’ Adegboyega Oyetola’s petition against the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Ademola …
Video : How Central Bank Of Nigeria Governor, Emefiele Gave Governors, Lawmakers, Other Influential Nigerians Billions Of Naira Loans Without Collateral –Kazaure, House Of Reps Member
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has been accused of granting scandalous loans to some ‘powerful’ Nigerians, with each of them getting a minimum of about N2 billion. A member of the House of Representatives for Yankwashi/Roni/Gwiwa/Kazaure Federal Constituency, Gudaji Kazaure, dropped the bombshell in a viral video, claiming he …
CLARIFICATION: NIGERIAN VETERAN ACTOR, FEMI OGUNROMBI aka PAPA AJASCO IS DEAD, FIRST Papa Ajasco is Alive!
Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, who was a stand-in character for Papa Ajasco in the popular 1996 Sitcom is dead. Meanwhile, Veteran Nollywood actor, Richard Abiodun Ayoyinka, also known as Papa Ajasco, has debunked reports claiming he is dead. Richard Ayoyinka is the first known as Papa Ajasco. The confusion has it …
Samuel Taiwo, a former Provost, 3 Other LAUTECH researchers win N89.1 million research fund
A team of four researchers from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso in Oyo State, have won N89.1 million as a research grant from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), under the 2021 TETFund National Research Fund (NRF) Intervention. The Principal Assistant Registrar, Public and Alumni Relations, LAUTECH, Olalekan Fadeyi, made this known …
CBN Bows To Pressures, Reviews Cash Withdrawal Limits
Following pressure from Nigerians, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reviewed cash withdrawal limits it issued earlier. A circular issued by Haruna Mustafa, Director of Banking Supervision says the CBN has consequently makes the following reviews: The maximum cash weekly limit for cash withdrawal across all channels by individuals is now N500, 000 while …
Oyo excited about AfDB’s special agro-processing zone project- Makinde
…as Bank commends Oyo govt Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Friday, maintained that the state government is delighted with the prospects and potential of the African Development Bank’s special agro-processing zone project sited in the state. The governor, who made this statement while receiving a team of the AfDB at the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, …
Sports Law and Practice Book debuts in Nigeria
For the first time in the history of Nigeria legal jurisprudence , a book specially devoted by to the tourism sector has been published and publicly presented in Abuja Nigeria. The book, a product of 1O years legal research was planted by Dr Emmanuel Oluwafemi Olowononi, a Senior Lecturer , Nigerian Law School , Abuja …
I shall be great, be next Alaafin, by Femi Kehinde
In 1968, the powerful Alaafin Bello Gbadegesin Ladigbolu passed on to join his ancestors. He succeeded Alaafin Adeniran Adeyemi II, in 1955. The 30-year-old young Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, then an Insurance executive, with the Royal Exchange Assurance Limited, gleefully pronounced himself as the succeeding Alaafin in an article in major Nigerian newspapers ably titled: “I …
