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Month: July 2019

Funke Olakunri’s Killing: NBA proposes community policing as best panacea

From WOLE BALOGUN, Ado Ekiti The Nigeria Bar Association(NBA), has told the Federal government to quickly concede to the agitation for community policing as a way to rescue the nation out of the wanton killings being experienced across the nation. The body insisted that it will be difficult for the NBA proposes community policing to…

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Makinde has no plan to scrap SGB’s policy by Ajimobi, says SUBEB chairman

Oyo state government on Friday disclosed that it had no plan to proscribe the School Governing Boards (SGBs) policy of the Abiola Ajimobi led administration in public schools, but had worked on reviewing the mode of operation of the initiative. This disclosed by the Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Adeniran who…

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Makinde lied! debt incurred by Ajimobi is N90b not N150b, says Ajimobi’s appointees (See details in the story)

Political appointees who worked under the immediate past administration of ex-Governor Abiola Ajimobi in Oyo State, on Friday tackled Governor Seyi Makinde over his claim that the Ajimobi administration left a debt of N150bn. This was gathered by Newspeakonline during an address by the appointees led by a former Commissioner for Education, Prof. Adeniyi Olowofela,…

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Inaugural lecture : FUOYE don advocates harnessing music, dance, drama to solve Nigeria’s problems

From WOLE BALOGUN, Ado-Ekiti A university don, Prof Rasaki Ojo Bakare, and former Director General, Abuja Carnival on Thursday advocated the use of music, dance and drama in solving myriads of problems plaquing the country. Bakare, a Professor of Choreography and Performance Aesthetics at the Federal University Oye Ekiti, said the three instruments of entertainment…

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Oyo lawmaker, Adebayo Babajide calls on Makinde to renovate Agbowo shopping complex

The Oyo State lawmaker representing Ibadan North constituency II, Hon. Adebayo Babajide has called on the State government to consider the renovation of the dilapidating State owned Agbowo shopping complex, as an opportunity to increase the internal generated revenue of Oyo State. Lamenting the worrisome state of the State property on Thursday during the Oyo…

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Adeleke replies Oyetola, says ‘it’s better to be a dancer than a looter like you’

The candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the September 22, 2018, governorship election in Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Thursday replied Governor Gboyega Oyetola over his recent comment on him. Governor Oyetola had on Wednesday, July 17, said he felt ridiculed to have contested against Adeleke during the election. Senator Adeleke in a…

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2 senior army officers, 4 soldiers killed in Boko Haram ambush in Yobe

No fewer than two senior army officers and four soldiers killed in an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents in Yobe. The troops said to be ambushed on their way from Borogozo where the headquarters of the army’s 29 task force brigade is to Benisheikh where they have a forward operating base (FOB). LiveTimesng.com gathered from…

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Oyo Govt. seals 6 shops, canteens, butchers’ stands in Ibadan over violation of environmental sanitation laws

Six shops including a food canteen and a butcher’s shop were sealed on Thursday along Old Ife road and Gbagi area in Ibadan for flouting the State’s environmental Sanitation and Waste Management Law. The act was in accordance with the recent agreement made by Stakeholders during an advocacy programme on environmental laws organised by Oyo…

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Ajimobi denies rejecting ministerial appointment… as report reveals how his nomination was rejected

Immediate past governor of Oyo State, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, has denied reports that he had rejected an offer to serve on President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet as a minister. Reports went round earlier in the day that he had rejected the ministerial appointment offered him by President Buhari, saying the appointment should rather go to a…

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