The Nigerian Communications Commission has launched 615 as the new Emergency Security Number in Oyo State especially for distress call. The Emergency Security Number is a toll free. In a tweet on Monday, Governor Seyi Makinde said the new number was part of his administration’s plans to have a more effective communications centre in the…
Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has approved the mobilisation of contractors handling different projects for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Office back to site, charging them to ensure that they deliver the projects to specification and time. This was as the SDG Office has announced its readiness to introduce a community engagement initiative, a…
U.S. President, Donald Trump has written to congratulate Nigeria on her 59th Independence Anniversary. on Monday, Trump also extended his congratulations in a message to President Muhammadu Buhari which was published on the website of U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria. In the message, Trump said Nigeria is one of U.S. strongest partners in Africa,…
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….
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