President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Saturday, charged public officers to strive to leave behind enduring legacies that would outlive them after they had left office. He gave the charge while speaking at the funeral service in honour of the late Abom Emmanuel Eno Peter Umana, held at the Catholic Church Assumption Parish, Ukana, […]
A South-West chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, has urged the Federal Government to always provide adequate rewards for academic brilliance. He said “the situation where the Federal Government rewards athletes and footballers with huge amounts of money and other incentives, while it gives paltry sums to students who […]
The Olubadan-designate, Oba Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, has enjoined mogajis (family heads) and baales in Ibadanland to report anything that can cause security breach to law enforcement agents on time. Ladoja also advised them to be security conscious at all times. He gave these admonitions when mogajis and baales in Ibadanland visited him. A statement signed […]
Oyo State government has released the sum of ₦600 million as compensation to property owners affected by the ongoing Circular Road Project in Ibadan, the state capital. According to a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, on Thursday, the fourth batch of N200 million was released Thursday at the […]
Scientists in the country have described research, particularly at the instance of laboratory technologists, as a leg of the university tripod that cannot be overestimated. They are unanimous in the call to governments at all levels to prioritise better funding of research in Nigerian universities. The calls were made during the Fifth Biennial Conference/Workshop of […]
Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), says he is rejecting the reported plan by the federal government to raise the salaries of political office holders. According to him, such a move was insensitive to the current plights of Nigerians due to the present economic challenges. Oguntoyinbo said many Nigerians were […]
Former governor of Oyo State, the Olubadan-designate, Oba Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, has arrived in Ibadan, the state capital. Ladoja went straight to his family house in Born Photo, Isale-Osi, in the Ibadan South East Local Government Area of the state. He is expected to proceed to his Ondo Street private residence, in the Ibadan North […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has alleged that the Saturday by-election in Ibadan North Federal Constituency was marred by noticeable irregularities “which put the declaration of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner to question.” The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, on Sunday, announced Hon. Folajimi Oyekunle […]
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Monday morning, returned to the country from a brief vacation in London. This has put an end to the speculation that the Senate President was critically ill and admitted in a London hospital. Recall that Akpabio had attended the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva […]
Saturday’s Ibadan North Federal Constituency bye-election was marred by low turnout. The exercise also witnessed heavy deployment of soldiers, policemen and ancillary security personnel. Our reporter’s movement round the local government, one of the biggest in the South-West of Nigeria, showed that voters failed to turn out in droves, despite that electoral officers arrived at […]