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EKSU mass sack: Affected staff tasks alumni association, urges gov Fayemi to consider those illegally sacked

..accuses alumni association of complicity in the sad development From Adewole Kehinde Some staff members of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) have tackled the Alumni association of the school on the recent sack of over 1000 staff members of the institution, accusing the association of complicity in the development. In a statement by a group…

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Henceforth! Couples to pay N51,000 before marriage in churches, PFN reacts

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has poured out dissatisfaction over the new law from the Ministry of Interior head by Rauf Aregbesola that compulsory payment of N30,000 by Churches to perform statutory marriages and N21,000 for each marriages certificate. PFN has alleged that churches are being targeted by the Federal Government following the new…

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Oyo prosecutes 31 environmental offenders, promises to fight saboteurs to a halt

Oyo State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has on Wednesday prosecuted thirty persons found culpable of violating environmental laws of the State, before a Magistrate court sitting in Ibadan. This was revealed by the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Rt. Hon. Kehinde Ayoola today, after an Environmental sanitation exercise, led by the State…

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Popular pastor accused over missing baby in a viral video arrested, detained by DSS (watch video)

The Department of State Services has arrested the Founder of Sotitobire Miracle Centre, Akure, Ondo State, Alfa Babatunde, following a petition against him about a missing child in his church. Babatunde was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after the DSS invited him for interrogation at their office in Akure, the state capital. Eniola Kolawole was declared…

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Makinde reinstates 300 sacked workers by Ajimobi

The Oyo State Executive Council on Tuesday approved the reinstatement of 300 out 1,803 civil servants sacked by the immediate past administration of Sen. Abiola Ajimobi. Mr Olasunkanmi Olaleye, the state Commissioner for Establishment and Training, made this known while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the weekly State Executive Council meeting. The News Agency…

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PHOTOS: Wicked mother beats her one year old son to death for pulling down flat screen TV

A one-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death by his mother last week after he pulled a TV off a table. Rhionna Nichols, 20, claimed to have shaken one-year-old Viston and hit him with a slipper when medics rushed to her Detroit home last Thursday. But the child is understood to have been taken into…

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Family of secondary school girl who died during lovemaking demands bride price from boyfriend

A secondary school girl, Daisy, has reportedly died during lovemaking with her boyfriend at PamaStones Shopping Complex in Zimbabwe. The sad incidence, according to H-Metro, happened on Saturday. It was gathered that the deceased was a form three student at Highfield High 1 School. However, her age was not revealed. It was also gathered that…

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PHOTO: How Buhari rejects Fowler’s bid for reappointment as FIRS chairman

New facts have emerged that the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, wrote to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, seeking for a second term before he was replaced on Monday by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Presidency on Monday replaced Fowler with a tax expert, Muhammad M. Nami….

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Ekiti Assembly passes 2019 statistical bill

From KEHINDE ADEWOLE, Ado-Ekiti As part of the collaborative efforts in building and achieving a knowledge based economy, one of the five points agenda of Kayode Fayemi’s administration, The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed the 2019 statistical bill. The house had at it’s sitting on the 24 of October committed the bill to…

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Pathetic! OAU lecturer mysteriously found dead in school office

The lifeless body of a lecturer, Dr Nicholas Igbokwe, was on Saturday found in his office at the Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile-Ife. Until his death, Igbokwe was a lecturer in the Physical and Health Education Department of the university. Although there is no official statement yet as to how the incident happened, a source in…

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