Eminent personalities and cultural enthusiasts including the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Governor Engineer Oluseyi Makinde; Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111 and Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, among others, are expected to grace this year Ajilete Carnival in Ogbomoso. The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade; Onpetu of…
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) said on Monday that eleven persons were lost in the attack on the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State A statement by the spokesman of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Francis Enobore on the Sunday’s attack revealed that a staff of the NCoS, one of the attackers and…
Senator Kola Balogun has promised to ensure justice for the family of the late Timothy Oludare Adegoke who was brutally murdered at Ile-Ife, Osun State, early this month. The senator, representing Oyo South Senatorial District, made the promise when he paid a condolence visit to the family of the deceased in Eruwa in Ibarapa East…
The Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State came under attack by gunmen who reportedly stormed the facility in large number with sophisticated weapons. The invaders were said to have arrived at the Custodial Center at about 1720hrs and immediately made for the main gate where they engaged the armed squad personnel in a…
The Northern Youths Movement (NYM) has demanded for an independent probe of the controversies over the N19. 33 billion Kogi salary bailout funds the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, claimed it recovered to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Rising from its meeting in Abuja on Saturday, the NYM also chided the EFCC over…
Senator Kola Balogun has written a letter to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, calling for a thorough investigation into the brutal murder of the Oyo State-born Timothy Adegoke Oludare. The late Oludare was reportedly murdered in the night of 5 November, 2021 in his room at the Hilton Hotel and Resorts, Ile…
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has described campaigns of calumny by some aspirants, linking him with the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, as “dead on arrival,” pointing out that it will not guarantee anyone the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket. The former governor who reiterated his endorsement of…
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the federal government will remove fuel subsidies by 2022 and replace them with N5000-a-month transportation grant to the poorest Nigerians. She disclosed this at the launch of the World Bank Nigeria Development Update (NDU) on Tuesday. Zainab explained that the grant would go to…
The Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Wale Olokode, on Monday, disclosed that one of the suspects held over the death of Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, had confessed that Roheem Adedoyin, son of the owner of Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Rahmon Adedoyin, arranged how the corpse was evacuated…
Popular Yoruba actor and comedian, Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe, has passed away. The prolific actor gave up the ghost on Monday after a long battle with an illness. Born on August 22, 1958, he was married to comedienne Omoladun Omidina, who died in September 2009. Baba Suwe dominated the Yoruba movie industry…
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