The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) wishes to announce as at date the release of 3,751 inmates comprising Convicts and awaiting trial persons who met the criteria set. It will be recall that the President had ordered the decongestion of detention centres in country to sustain the fight against spread of COVID-19. Consequently, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola Minister of Interior on 9th April, 2020 during the flag-off of the Presidential amnesty at Medium Security Custodial Centre Kuje-Abuja announced that a total of 2,600 will benefit from the release by 36 states and Federal Capital Territory, however some states Chief Judges during…
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The Federal Government has declared Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May, 2020 as Public Holidays to mark this year’s EIDUL-FITRI Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated all Muslim faithful for the successful completion of the Ramadan fast. Aregbesola who called on them to replicate the life of kindness, love, tolerance, peace and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him), also expressed his concern about the spate of ethnic conflicts that has resurfaced in some parts of Northern Nigeria in recent…
The Oyo State Commissioner of Youth And Sports, Hon Seun Fakorede on Wednesday paid familiarisation and on the spot assessment tour to Crown Football Club, Ogbomoso at the Club Secretariat, Soun Stadium, charged them to be united and work towards taking the club to enviable heights. The honourable commissioner who was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary,Pastor Dele Oyadeyi , and Director of Sports Administration , Mrs Adegoke Olubisi in the ministry as well as the Special Adviser on sports to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr Tobi Oyewumi and an aide to the Honourable commissioner, Alhaji Ogundele Quadri used the…
Our attention has been drawn to a PRESS RELEASE on “RESUMPTION OF PUBLIC WORSHIP” dated May 20,2020, which was purported to have been made by His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde, the Executive Governor of Oyo state and signed by one Adeniran Adenuga who claimed to be the “Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to Governor”. For the avoidance of doubt, it has become imperative to make the following clarifications: 1. His Excellency, Engr Seyi Makinde, the Executive Governor of Oyo State had indeed received appeals from religious leaders over the possible relaxation of the ban on religious gatherings but has…
COVID-19: Oyo Govt has not lifted ban on public gathering *statement by one Adenuga is fake-Govt *Churches, Mosques are advised to obey existing restriction order. There is a fake press statement presently in circulation, referencing some Executive Orders allegedly issued by the Executive Governor of Oyo State, His Excellency, Engineer Seyi Makinde. The individual who signed the statement is one Adeniran Adenuga, who assumed the title of ‘Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Governor. This fake news is not from Governor Makinde’s Media Office and the so-called Executive Orders are FALSE IN ALL MATERIALS PARTICULAR. Being a member…
The strike action embarked by Nigerian doctors in Lagos state yesterday has been called off. The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State branch has called off the strike action it embarked on yesterday as it asked its members to resume work. Recall that the stay-at-home order which started on Wednesday was as a result of police brutality. The NMA had on Wednesday criticized over-zealous police authorities harassing essential workers, such as doctors and journalists during curfew on Tuesday.
The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has delivered the long-awaited judgement on Ese Oruru, a teenager reportedly abducted, taken to Kano State and forced into marriage by one Yinusa Dahiru. The court presided over by Justice Jane Inyang sentenced Dahiru to 26 years in prison. Jane acquitted Dahiru on Count one but jailed him five years (count two), seven years (count three) seven years (count four) and seven years, count five. The sentences, according to the judge. would run concurrently.
The long arm of the law has caught up with seven suspected armed robbers terrorising residents of Olodo area of Ibadan. They were arrested by officers of the Oyo state special squad, code named Operation Burst. According to the Director General of the Security outfit, Col. James Ajibola Oladipo (RTD) the suspects were nabbed following intelligent report by some residents of the area. The seven suspects were caught with various weapons around 9pm on Tuesday evening and have been linked to series of armed robbery attack in the area. Oladipo said the suspects would be handed over to the…
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC) yesterday condemned the approval obtained by Governor Seyi Makinde from the Oyo State House of Assembly to draw a fresh N20 billion infrastructure loan from a commercial bank. It would be recalled that the state assembly had on Tuesday approved a sum N20 billion for the government. The party, through its Assistant Publicity Secretary,Prince Ayobami Adejumo,in a statement described the development as a source grape in the mouth of the people. Adejumo said the development was a clear manifestation of the People’s Democractic Party (PDP) administration’s resolve to subject the…
The Oyo state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its dismay over a press statement credited to one of the opposition parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state for condemning a move by the state government under the leadership of governor Seyi Makinde to borrow the sum of twenty billion naira (20 000 000 000) from a commercial bank in Nigeria to improve on critical sectors of the state and provide for economic relief. The ruling party in a press statement signed by its state publicity secretary, Engr Akeem Olatunji, on Wednesday, said that the…