I am a Nigerian. Our movie industry (Nollywood) is rated as the 2nd or 3rd biggest in the world. I personally think we deserve a better rating, considering the amount of domestic, industrial and political drama we witness. Those who do the ratings obviously limit their scope to home video and exclude other dramatic part of our National Life from our Tertiary Institutions, Government Houses and of course, hallowed chambers. Pollywood (our politics variation of Nollywood) alone has the capacity to overtake Hollywood as the biggest drama industry. Thankfully, the social media makes viewing easier as you need not subscribe…
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The Ondo state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned in strong terms, the brutalization of one of its members, Friday Osagie Otabor (of The Nation newspaper) by some overzealous policemen attached with Governor Yaya Bello of Kogi State, who is the chairman of Ondo state APC Governorship Primary Committee. In a Press Statement signed by the state Chairman of the Union, Adetona Aderoboye and the State Secretary, Leke Adegbite, NUJ described the uncivilized action of the security men as barbaric and fall short of democratic tenets. The Security operatives from Kogi state who are guarding Governor…
Coalition for A Better Nigeria celebrates Gowon @ 86, Soyinka @ 86, Osoba @ 81, Jemibewon @ 80, Benedict Alabi @ 55, Famurewa @ 50, felicitates with Nigerian US Co – Pilots, Nigerian UK VC, NASS Clerk, mourns Tolulope Arotile, Isa Funtua, Adamu Modibbo We, Coalition for A Better Nigeria, celebrate the former youngest Nigeria’s Military Head of States, during whose regime large deposits of oil were discovered in Nigeria, Gen Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), National Leader of Nigerians Pray as he clocked 86, alongside another prominent Nigerian, an irrepressible international figure, Epitome of Integrity and Africa’s 1st Nobel Laureate, Prof…
Claims that the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the suit between the Oyo State government and the sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) local government chairmen did not uphold their dissolution have been described as self-serving and unfounded. A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart in Ibadanland, Mr. Bolaji Gbadamosi (Beejay), stated this on Monday, noting that attempts by the “illegal local government chairmen” to deceive the members of the public on their status following the judgment of the Court of Appeal would not succeed. In a chat with newsmen, Gbadamosi, who contested for the Ibadan Southwest/Ibadan Northwest Federal Constituency…
Incumbent governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has won the governorship primary election held on Monday landslide. Akeredolu polled 2,725 to become the candidate of the party, Olusola Oke came second with 262 votes while lsaacs Kekemeke came a distant third with 19 votes Over 3,127 delegates voted in the election which commenced by 2pm and ended by 820pm. Akeredolu led in all the 18 council areas of the state. The governorship primary was held at the international Event Centre, the Dome in Akure, the state capital. Eight aspirants contested the election after four stepped down for the incumbent governor.…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has approved the nomination of the following party members to serve on the GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY ELECTORAL COMMITTEE. The committee is mandated to conduct the primary election that will elect the Party’s Flag bearer in Ondo State, for the upcoming 2020 Governorship Election in the State. COMPOSITION: 1. H.E. Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Chairman) 2. H.E. Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri (Member) 3. Barr. Mrs. Chidi Onyemelukwe (Member) 4. Emeka Etiaba, SAN (Member) 5. Alh. Mohammed Imam (Secretary) The exercise is scheduled for Wednesday July 22, 2020 in Akure City,…
Professor Dele Layiwola is contesting for the post of the Vice Chancellor of the university of Ibadan. He is the most senior out of all the Professors in the contest. He is the most experience of them all. He is from Oke Ogun. If the Ibadan people are promoting their own, let us also promote ours. Their cleche now is that an Ibadan indigen has never been a Vice Chancellor of U.I The question is, has an Oke-Ogun man ever been Gov of Oyo State? Are the Ibadan people ready to concede ? Must they always take everything? Oke Ogun…
…As NMA says there is trouble if the virus is airborne Chairperson, Oyo State COVID-19 Decontamination and Containment Team, Prof. (Mrs.) Olanike Adeyemo,has said the unpredictability nature of the coronavirus is the most dangerous thing about the virus. Prof. Adeyemo, who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnership), University of Ibadan,Ibadan ,stated this while speaking with The Guardian in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,on the possibility of coronavirus being airborne. It would be recalled that the Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu had a couple of days ago said the latest evidence suggested that virus…
No fewer than thirty-five applicants, this Monday, received their Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O) as the Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde distributed the Certificates to the second batch of recipients under sixty days scheme of the Oyo State Government Home Owners Charter Programme. The Governor, represented by the Oyo State Commissioner for Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Barr Abiodun Abdu-Raheem handed over the (C-of-O) to applicants who have fulfilled necessary requirements. While assuring the applicants of the validity of the Document, the Commissioner further added that the exercise shall be a continuous one. Barrister Abiodun further explained that in fulfillment…
Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has decried the incompetence and complicity within the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, which has worsened the trafficking and dehumanizing conditions of Nigerians abroad. She said this recently during the Committee’s meeting, noting that the Minister for Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige has turned down the Committee’s invite for the umpteenth time. The release signed by her Special Assistant on Media, Olamilekan Olusada read that, “It appears that there is a clear incompetence or complicity within the ministry that has led to this compromise in the trafficking and abuse…