The Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit, yesterday, arrested five officials of the Lagos State Mobile Court for allegedly extorting money from motorists. It was gathered that the officials had paraded themselves as personnel of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences. The arrested officials who had written on their vehicles ‘task force’ and always moved in convoy, on Tuesday illegally arrested a motorist, Clara Oguguo, in the Ikeja area of the state for allegedly not wearing a face mask. The victim alerted the IG Monitoring Unit after the officials impounded her vehicle and extorted the…
Author: Goalpoacher
The state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest converged on Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, a fortnight ago to demonstrate reconciliation and unity among their warring factions. But, the public show leaves many questions unanswered in most of the six states, write Southwest Bureau Chief BISI OLADELE , RASAQ IBRAHIM (Ado-Ekiti), OSAGIE OTABOR (Akure) and ERNEST NWOKOLO (Abeokuta) When Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, won his election in March, last year, he instantly became the hero and the light of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest. His election was symbolic because he trounced the…
Four more prominent persons have died in Kano State in the last twenty-four hours. They include Alhaji Aliyu Daneji, father of National Coordinator, Presidential Task Force, PTF On COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, who died at the age of 96 on Wednesday night in Kano. Son of the deceased, Mahmud Daneji, who confirmed the death, said Alhaji Aliyu Daneji died after a protracted illness. However, the funeral prayers was observed early yesterday at his residence at Sabuwar Kofar, close to Kwalli Primary School, in Kano Municipal after which he was buried according to Islamic rites. Late Alhaji Aliyu Daneji was…
BROADCAST BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OSUN, MR. ADEGBOYEGA OYETOLA, ON THE REVIEW OF THE SECOND LOCKDOWN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK ON THURSDAY, 30TH APRIL, 2020 My Dear Good People of the State of Osun, The past four weeks have tested our collective resolve and tried our resilience as a people. Collectively, we have risen stoutly to the occasion and proved that standing together, we can push back against a battle as fierce as the COVID-19 pandemic. We have sacrificed our freedoms, endured hardships and put our businesses and livelihoods on hold. We have been our brother’s keeper…
ENEMY OF THE STATE You have possibly watched the 1998 action-thriller film with the above title, starring Will Smith. It was the box office hit story about a group of people plotting to kill an American Congressman, and the tape of the plot was discovered. Well, an Enemy of the State struck in Nigeria on Monday, but this time, it was no fiction. It was real life act of sabotage from somebody who does not wish his own country well at all, and who derived a sinister kind of pleasure from undermining the system. President Muhammadu Buhari was…
CELEBRATING OYO STATE WORKERS ON THEIR DAY TODAY For some years in the past, workers in Oyo State have had bad experiences in the hands of the past government of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is recalled that non-payment/delay in the payment of the workers’ salary was the order of the day in the state. Different kinds of workers like teachers; local government staff; workers at state ministries, agencies, departments and commissions; staff of the state’s higher institutions, among other others, have gone through excruciating moments. Now, here comes the game changer and man with passion to put…
Covid-19: Makinde inspects Oyo’s borders with neighbouring states ….says govt’ll make security agents monitoring compliance comfortable Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, embarked an on inspection tour of the state’s borders with neighbouring states, noting that the state will ensure strict compliance with the inter-state lockdown order agreed upon by governors of the South-West states. The Governor said that though compliance with the order has not been 100 per cent, the security officers monitoring compliance had been doing their best. The governor, who stated this shortly after inspecting the Oyo State borders with Ogun in Bakatari and Dalley…
Oyo State SDGs has encouraged Federal and State Government to Invest on Mental Health after COVID-19. The appeal was made today in Ibadan by the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seyi Makinde on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Hon. Kunle Yusuf MON. Yusuf said, since 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has been calling to “transform our world”. With 17 goals, 270 targets and measured though 230 indicators, the SDGs are complex, and prioritising and implementing them is challenging for many countries. Mental health cross-cuts most SDGs and has been given explicit focus in two SDG targets. Implementing the mental…
Members of the Executive Committee of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in 155 out of the 177 wards in Ekiti State have assumed office for a tenure of four years, after they were sworn in this morning, in accordance with the party’s constitution. The Ward Executive Committee members were sworn in by a Notary Public, Barrister Niyi Idowu, in accordance with the provisions of Section 65 of the PDP Constitution as amended in 2017. In a letter dated April 30, 2020 and addressed to the party through the State Legal Adviser, , Barrister Niyi Idowu said; “Kindly be informed that…
YORUBA NATION GAINS UNPO MEMBERSHIP, MAY JOIN ARMENIA, ESTONIA, GEORGIA, OTHERS WHO GOT INDEPENDENCE THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL BODY UNPO recognition, first stage towards achieving our goal of self-determination – Akintoye The Yoruba Speaking Nation of Nigeria has been accepted as the 45th member of the Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization (UNPO), the Yoruba Leader and Leader of Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye announced in an electronic statement sent to news men on Tuesday. According to the statement titled: YORUBA NATION GAINS UNPO MEMBERSHIP, Akintoye said the latest development represents a very important step in the collective quest…