The Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde has approved a 250-truck capacity parking space in Ibadan to ensure free flow of human and vehicular movements within the State. The park which was sited at Sanyo in Ibadan would reduce the level of road carnage caused by indiscriminate parking of haulage trucks by the highways…
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, ordered that the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore should be remanded in custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, till Friday when it will hear his bail application. Trial Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu remanded Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Adebayo Bakare (aka Mandate), shortly after…
The Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in the March 9 general election Oloye Adebayo Adelabu has described the death of Mrs Taiwo Ogunode who was the daughter of APC state chairman ,Chief Akin Oke as a big blow to the entire APC and Oke Family in Oyo state. According to Oloye Adelabu,Mrs Taiwo Ogunode’s…
•Read three things Nigeria must do to end extreme poverty About 90 million people – roughly half Nigeria’s population – live in extreme poverty, according to estimates from the World Data Lab’s Poverty Clock. Around June 2018, Nigeria overtook India, a country with seven times its population, at the bottom of the table. Put in…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four policemen for robbing a software developer, whom they accused of being an Internet fraudster, PUNCH Metro reports. The spokesman for the command, Bala Elkana, told PUNCH Metro on Sunday that the cops were being interrogated at the command headquarters, Ikeja. He noted that three other civilians, suspected…
There was tension in in Akure, Ondo State capital as a welder identified as Ojo Daniyan allegedly set his wife, Dorcas, ablaze over her refusal to release N900,000 proceeds of a land she sold. One of the five children of the woman narrated how their mother was roasted alive by their father. It was gathered…
President Mohammadu Buhari’s government has arrested Dr. Chido Onumah at the Abuja International Airport during his return from Spain where he bagged a Doctorate in communication studies. Onumah, an investigative journalist, anti-Corruption crusader and the Author Of “We Are All Biafrans”, who also manages a whistleblowers’ network, was taken to the SSS headquarters in Abuja….
Confusion in Akwa Ibom State as Masquerade, “Ekpo” festival turn violence where police, cultist, masquerade exchange bullet. The incident happened in Ifa Atai community in Uyo, local Government Area, of the state, on Saturday, September 28. It was gathered that, when the festival was ongoing, the police arrive the venue and started shooting at the…
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, Akin Oke is bereaved. Oke loses his one of his twin daughters, Mrs. Taiwo Ogunode, just few years after he lost his wife. It was gathered that Mrs. Ogunode died outside the country. Meanwhile, the party has commiserated with its chairman over the death…
The Minister of Youths and Sports, Sunday Dare, has promised to restore the lost glory of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium, formerly known as Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, during a visit on Sunday. The minister, who was on a working visit to the stadium, said he was not happy with the current state of facilities, saying the ministry…
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