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Drama during ministerial screening as Melaye asked Festus Keyamo to recite second stanza of the National Anthem

There was a mild drama ensued during ministerial screening at the upper chamber on Friday as Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Dino Melaye asked Ministerial nominee, Festus Keyamo to recite the National anthem. “I know you to be intellectually mobile, I want you to recite the second stanza of the National Anthem,” Melaye tells…

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Commissioner nominees: Makinde allays fear of ZLP, SDP, other coalition parties says everybody will be carried along

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has said that appointment of commissioner nominees into his administration is “work in progress.” A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted the Governor as dismissing insinuations that his government was shutting out some of the coalition parties, especially the Zenith Labour Party…

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Ajimobi lauds Buhari on choice of Sunday Dare as Oyo ministerial nominee

•Describes Dare as quality choice, Urges Oyo APC members’ support Immediate past Governor and the Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has lauded the choice of Dr. Sunday Dare as a ministerial nominee from Oyo State by President Mohammadu Buhari. The former Governor also commended the President on…

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Soun of Ogbomoso commends Buhari for Sunday Dare’s nomination as a minister

Soun of Ogbomosoland, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for nominating Mr. Sunday Dare for a ministerial position. Describing the choice of Dare as a round peg in a round hole, the paramount ruler described the ministerial nominee as a patriotic son of Ogbomoso land. The monarch in a statement signed by…

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PDP says Buhari’s ministerial list repletes with incompetent individuals

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list presented to the Senate today as colourless, stagnant, uninspiring and do not convey any sense of hope or purposeful governance under the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a release made available to journalist and signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the…

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Meet Sunday Dare, Oyo ministerial nominee

Mr. Sunday Akin Dare is the Executive Commissioner (Stakeholder Management) of the Nigerian Communications Commission. Until his appointment, he was the Convener of the Social Media Clinic (SMC), a Media/Information Technology (New Media) initiative committed to educating private citizens on IT development and also in the use of telecommunication as an information tool and creating…

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Ministerial list: Ogbomoso born Sunday Dare gets Oyo’s slot (See full list)

Contrary to expectation from People of Oyo State on who wins ministerial slot from the state, the Ogbomoso born, Sunday Dare has been picked as nominee from the state. Before now, speculation was rife that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bayo Adelabu, who lost out to Governor Seyi Makinde at the 2019 gubernatorial…

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Oyo Govt. to Ajimobi’s aides: stop defending the absurdity says alleged vehicle theft not a smear campaign

The Oyo State Government on Sunday reacted to a news over the weekend that some officials of the immediate past administration in the state raised issues about the manner in which the state is retrieving vehicles illegally carted away by some of their colleagues. According to the statement by the state government, officials of the…

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Oyo PDP, APC chairmen in war of words over Makinde’s N48bn assets

The Chairman of Oyo State Peoples Democratic Party, Alh Kunmi Mustapha, has attacked the APC chairman, Chief Akin Oke in a reactions to voluntary declaration of assets by Governor Seyi Makinde at Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB. The PDP chairman described the statement as reckless, unpatriotic, uncivilized and a wicked approach to discourage men of…

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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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