A traditional in Akure North local government area of Ondo state, the Obalogun of Igoba, Chief Adinlewa Adeniyi has been docked before a State High Court sitting in Akure. Adinlewa who is the head of Igoba Community was arraigned on eight count charge of conspiracy to commit felony and false pretence to defraud on land ownership in the town. He and two other defendants namely Chief Adegbola Omoye and Adelana Aderemi were also arraigned before the court for alleged forgery of document and breach of peace. A mild drama ensued at the commencement of the arraignment over the real…
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A traditional in Akure North local government area of Ondo state, the Obalogun of Igoba, Chief Adinlewa Adeniyi has been docked before a State High Court sitting in Akure. Adinlewa who is the head of Igoba Community was arraigned on eight count charge of conspiracy to commit felony and false pretence to defraud on land ownership in the town. He and two other defendants namely Chief Adegbola Omoye and Adelana Aderemi were also arraigned before the court for alleged forgery of document and breach of peace. A mild drama ensued at the commencement of the arraignment over the…
Founder of Daar Communications Plc Raymond Dokpesi has been discharged from the University of Abuja Treatment Centre After Testing Negative to Coronavirus. In a letter of appreciation signed by the media mogul, Dokpesi expressed gratitude to God for seeing his family through the trying period. “I am exceptionally indebted to God Almighty for keeping and protecting me and my entire family all through our isolation at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada Isolation Centre” Accoridng to him, the past two weeks at the treatment centre provided him with a first-hand experience of the enormous challenge before Nigeria as…
Education as the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values and beliefs is one of the strongest values of life. The administration of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state have achieved tremendously in the education sector and this has contributed to the development of the state. Governor Seyi Makinde believes that irrespective of race, creed, breed and gender, education makes it possible for people to stand out and rub shoulders with other persons from different walks of life. From the moment he was sworn in as the 18th Chief Security Officer of Oyo State and 9th…
ENTER THE PRESIDENT’S NEW CHIEF OF STAFF 200 years ago the Aare Kakanfo of the ancient Oyo Empire and the self-proclaimed Oba of Ilorin, Aare Afonja, rebelled against the Alaafin of Oyo and entered into a military alliance with a Fulani advisor, sorcerer and mercenary by the name of Alimi. Predictably Alimi betrayed him and he ended up being tortured, dethroned and murdered. Not only did Alimi and his Fulani warriors kill him but they also murdered all his sons in the most cruel and barbaric fashion. Alimi and his family took the throne for themselves and consequently the…
Oyo govt pays counterpart fund for World Bank project on rural access roads …project to provide 1,600 km of rural roads—Coordinator …we promptly paid N350m fund to aid project—Makinde Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, revealed on Wednesday that his government promptly paid the counterpart fund for Development Partners-backed Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) to ensure accelerated development of the rural communities in the state. The governor, who was speaking at the inauguration of the Project Monitoring and Technical Steering Committee, at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, said that the sum of N350 Million was paid two months…
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a Permanent Secretary in the Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture, Alhaji Rasaq Kolawole, for allegedly defrauding one Ibikunle Alonge of N4,400.000 (Four Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira). Kolawole was arraigned before Justice Aderonke Aderemi of the Oyo State High Court on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, on one-count charge of obtaining money under false pretence. The offence is against Section 1 (2) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act. The victim…
FROM CUPP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13TH MAY 2020 APPOINTMENT OF PROF. IBRAHIM GAMBARI AS THE NEW CHIEF OF STAFF TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AS DIE HARD AGENT OF ABACHA, OPPOSITION COALITION (CUPP) WELCOMES GAMBARI’S APPOINTMENT WITH CAUTION. …OPPOSITION PARTIES SHALL WATCH HIM CLOSELY AND JUDGE HIM BY HIS ACTIONS. …CUPP URGES GAMBARI TO USE HIS EXPERIENCE TO PULL BUHARI FROM PIT OF INCOMPETENCE Nigeria Opposition Coalition(CUPP) have received the official news of the appointment of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, as the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari to replace the late Abba…
Oyo State Government has revealed that it is set to install All-in-One Solar Powered lights at palaces, hospitals and major markets across the geopolitical zones in the State. This, it said would further tighten security in the nooks and crannies of the State and develop its infrastructures. This was revealed by the State’s Commissioner for Public Works and Transport, Prof. Raphael Afonja, today in Ibadan, while addressing pressmen. “With a view to further expand the security network of the State and consolidate on this administration’s recorded achievement in this sector, it has therefore, become highly imperative and urgent to…
…Inaugurates State Project Monitoring and Technical Steering Committee …Relaunched RAAMP Project to Boost Economy Oyo state Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde has declared the state readiness to construct and rehabilitate about 1,000 kilometre rural and farm roads that would assist in expanding the state’s economy through a Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). Makinde revealed this on Tuesday while inaugurating the state project monitoring and technical steering committee as well as relaunching of RAAMP in a ceremony held at the government house. The Governor, who doubles as the chairman of the committee, stressed the need to ensure all projects initiated…