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Year: 2019

Hajj: Popular actress, Kemi Afolabi slumps, hospitalized in Saudi

Popular Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi has been reportedly slumped and rushed to a hospital in Makkah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. The actress, who came to perform hajj, fell ill due to the stress associated with the hajj exercise. The Nation reporter in Saudi Arabia had observed that Afolabi has been showing symptoms of illness while…

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Insecurity: state policing, best strategy to arrest challenge, Ogunsakin, ex-AIG tells FG

…as he celebrates traditional festival with Ogoga of Ikere, in his hometown From WOLE BALOGUN, Ado Ekiti Former Assistant Inspector General of Police, (AIG, rtd), and security intelligence specialist, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin has urged the Federal Government to urgently consider state policing alongside community policing to combat the security challenge the nation is facing, saying…

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Iseyin people express disappointment for exclusion from Makinde’s commissioners’ list

The people of Iseyin community have expressed their anger to the recent announcement of a list of fourteen Commissioners’ nominees sent to the State House of Assembly for screening, describing the exclusion of indigenes from the community on the list as disappointing to them. Governor Seyi Makinde had sent the list of fourteen Commissioners to…

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Senator Abbo to Aregbesola: 7 years ago you donated your salary to me

At the ongoing ministerial screening at the senate on Monday, Elisha Abbo, Senator representing Adamawa north, on Monday narrated how Rauf Aregbesola, the ministerial nominee from Osun state, gave him his one-month salary to contest the chairmanship election in his hometown in 2012. Speaking during the screening at the senate, Abbo said Aregbesola showed him…

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Crowned Ibadan High Chiefs return to Olubadan to settle rift over Ibadan Obaship

Some council members in the Olubadan-in-Council on Monday settled rift over Ibadan obaship during visit to the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso 1 at his Popoyemoja , Ibadan palace. The reconciliation team consisting of Otun Olubadan, Lekan Balogun, Osi Olubadan, Rasidi Ladoja and Ekarun Olubadan, Amidu Ajibade who arrived the palace…

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Gov. Makinde unveils 10-man committee to review contracts awarded by Ajimobi

10- man committee has been set up to by the Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde to review contracts awarded in the state by the former government of under the leadership of Fmr. Governor Abiola Ajimobi, The committee is headed by Engineer Damola Falade-Fatila. The committee is expected to review all projects awarded from 2017 –…

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Updated: Appeals court sets aside lower court judgement against Kola Balogun

Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Monday dismissed earlier judgment in a suit filed by Alhaji Hazeem Gbolarumi and pronounced by Federal High Court against selection of Sen. Kola Balogun as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). Recalled that Gbolarumi had challenged the selection of Balogun as the party’s…

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Corps member cries out for mistaking his picture for slain Owolabi Precious

A serving member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), Oraeki Chijioke, has cried out for mistaking his picture for slain Corps reporter of Channels TV, late Precious Owolabi. Chijioke recently declared “I am not demised but alive.” Chijioke who is currently serving in Agbara, Ogun State, told ITREALMS, that he has been inundated with…

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Kenyan, South African pastors claim to invite ‘Jesus’ from heaven (video)

Two pastors, one from Kenya and the other from South Africa has claimed to have found ‘Jesus’ and invited him from heaven. According to the yet-to-be identified pastors, they reportedly invited the ‘Jesus’ to their churches and had him dressed as the biblical version of the son of God. Two twitter users, @DeSaylor1 and @Kennytexxkkk…

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Gov. Makinde Commissions Arosad’s N150m Abuja Mansion

The Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde has commissioned a N150million worth of mansion in Abuja which belong to his closed associate, Mr Arowosaye Saheed Adeyemi. Arowowaye, who hails from Oyo town and an Abuja-based Housing Estate industrialist has developed many residential estate within and outside Abuja. Some of his estate include Tranquil Garden…

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