Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde will on Monday, June 10,2019 inaugurate the 9th Assembly in Oyo state. The new assembly comprises of 26 Peoples Democratic Party PDP lawmakers, 5 All Progressives Congress APC and One Action Democratic Party ADP lawmaker. The outgoing speaker Hon. Olagunju Ojo while highlighting the achievements of the 8th assembly…
Heavily fortified security operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Service have surrounded the premises of African Independent Television (AIT) after the station came back on air late Friday. AIT, Raypower Group Managing Director of DAAR Communication Mr. Tony Akiotu speaking to newsmen said shortly after AIT commenced operation, security forces gathered…
Below is a video showing a woman who was tied up in a car with her son by her husband and his friend who intended to use them for money rituals. Things were going according to plan for them until the woman screamed for help. Her cry attracted passersby who approached the vehicle and rescued…
The Kaduna State House of Assembly has passed a bill that seek to ban open religious preaching in 23 Local Governments of the state. Speaker of the House, Aminu Abdullahi Shagali while reading the bill during plenary, said a state inter-faith Regulatory council has been established with a chairman to be appointed by the Governor…
The chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo State chapter, Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye, has alleged that supporters of Governor Seyi Makinde and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, are after his life as a result of his resistance to the dissolution of the local government councils by the governor. In…
The government of Oyo State has named Ms. Tara Adefope as the Director General of Due Process Office. Adefope’s letter of appointment, which was dated June 6, 2019 and signed on behalf of Governor Seyi Makinde by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Bisi Ilaka indicated that the appointment takes immediate effect. The…
Following his assumption as Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday said he has started losing weight as a result of the enormity and pressing demands of the office. “I dare say that I have lost weight and probably I will lose a little bit more but I think it’s what the job entails and…
•Hoodlums vandalized shops, police arrested 21 Suspected members of the Black Axe cult group in Ikorodu area of Lagos State at the wee hours of Friday murdered a couple and a mentally unstable woman. The killings occurred around 3:42am at Itupate after armed men said to be over 80, stormed the area in search of…
Paradigm Initiative has in strong term condemned the action of the National Broadcasting Commission in stifling free expression and the freedom of the press by revoking the license of broadcasting channel, AIT/RayPower for clearly undemocratic reasons. In a statement issued on Friday, Paradigm Initiative said: “the NBC claims that its monitoring reports reveal that the…
A housewife, Amina Dauda who was accused of killing her husband, Mohammed Matazu, a former reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), in Kaduna State was on Friday discharge and acquitted by an FCT High Court in Maitama. Dauda, 28, was arraigned before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, on May 22, 2013, on a one…
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