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Day: July 21, 2019

Lanre Gentry says Mercy Aigbe is back in his house, read Mercy’s reactions

Lanre Gentry, ‘estranged’ husband of actress Mercy Aigbe has said that she is back to his house, two years after their marital crisis and alleged battering got to public space, Naijagbedu reports. Recall that LIB exclusively broke the news of Mercy and Lanre Gentry’s separation on grounds of domestic violence after 7 years of marriage….

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Makinde, Open Society And Its Enemies | Festus Adedayo

About two weeks ago, the governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, shocked a Nigeria not used to the open society that democratic governance advocates. While the norm among holders of office in Nigeria is to dictate alleged details of their pre-office worth to their media handlers for the world to feast upon, Makinde went…

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Why Ajimobi released ministry official jailed for killing husband- Ex-AG (Punch’s report)

A week before the end of his tenure in May 2019, the then Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, pardoned an official of the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, Yewande Oyediran, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing her husband, Lowo. Oyediran, who was a lawyer, was in November 2017, convicted for…

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Police invitation letters to Dakolos contain strange offences, came from ‘dissolved’ unit (ICIR’s report)

THE invitation letters sent to Busola and Timi Dakolo on Saturday by the police contain allegations that cannot be traced to Nigeria’s criminal law and were signed by a police unit that was dissolved last year for lack of professionalism, The ICIR can report. The police already confirmed inviting the couple and explained that their…

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Oyo Govt. to Ajimobi’s aides: stop defending the absurdity says alleged vehicle theft not a smear campaign

The Oyo State Government on Sunday reacted to a news over the weekend that some officials of the immediate past administration in the state raised issues about the manner in which the state is retrieving vehicles illegally carted away by some of their colleagues. According to the statement by the state government, officials of the…

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Makinde to his critics: you can’t distract me from my open governance

…Says Oyo open to investors Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde on Sunday declared that critics of his style of open governance cannot distract his government from recording giant strides in the State. The governor, who made the declaration while speaking at the inauguration of the South West Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…

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Fulani Herdsmen to Southerners: we have no plan to relocate and we’ll defend “ourselves”* if attacked

Herdsmen under the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has said they have no plan to relocate to Northern Nigeria from the Southern part of the country. The herders also vowed to remain where ever they are nationwide and defend themselves if attacked. This is in reaction to the call for them to…

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Notorious Nigerian drug dealer dies of ovarian cancer at 56

Textile merchant, Monsurat Asabi, popularly known in the Nigerian social circuit as Toyin Igbira, has died of ovarian cancer at age of 56 year old. The mother of three reportedly passed on in the early hours of Saturday at a private hospital in Surulere, Lagos. A toast of Fuji musicians, Igbira was a school dropout…

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NIHORT trains unemployed youths on Citrus, plantain, banana value-chain production

Citrus and plantain and banana have been described as important economic and food security crop capable of improving livelihood and employment generation. Major General Garba Mohammed, the chairman of National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Governing Board stated this recently during training and empowerment of unemployed youths on citrus nursery practices, plantain and banana rapid multiplication…

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Rev. Mother Esther AJAYI gives Ayomide, orange seller scholarship (photos)

The popular orange seller who hit the internet recently singing song of Tope Alabi has finally given scholarship by Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi. Remember that it was this Rev. Mother that recently helped Popular comedy actor, BabaSuwe and one other actor who were sick. The female cleric has done it again by giving scholarship to…

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