Chief (Mrs) Olusola Ayoka Adebayo (JP), a former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ekiti State is dead. Reports said Ayoka Adebayo died on Saturday, 18 May, 2024, at the age of 88. It would be recalled that at the celebration of her 86th birthday in October 2021, she narrated how she escaped death by the whiskers twice within the year, thanking God for bringing her back to life after she slumped. Mrs Adebayo said then that the incident was enough to roll out the drums to appreciate God for His mightiness in her life. She spoke during the family thanksgiving…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike A father of two, simply identified as Amas, reportedly lost his life on Friday on a high-tension pole after being electrocuted in Ekeki Police Station, Azikoro Road, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Amas, a non-staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, who lives in the neighbourhood was on the pole to connect clients to the federal line before the incident which took his life occurred. It was gathered that due to the poor power supply in the state, the preferred and stable line remains the federal line with assurance of 12-13 hrs power daily.…
Governors from the Northwest states have approached the United Nations for humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation of their geopolitical zone. Many states in the Northwest have been adversely affected by banditry and terrorism in recent years, causing untold hardship on the people of the area. A statement on Friday by the National Information Officer, UN Information Centre (UNIC), Oluseyi Soremekun read that Governors from the Northwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria same day met with the United Nations Country Team led by the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mohamed Malick Fall, and they have asked the UN to support their states to deal…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, May 17, 2024, handed over the sum of $22,000 recovered from a convicted internet fraudster, Hakeem Ayotunde Olanrewaju, to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI, in Lagos. Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos had, on August 15, 2023, ordered that the money recovered from Olanrewaju, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment for identity theft and impersonation, be restituted to his victim in the United States of America, U.S.A. Speaking during the handover ceremony in Lagos, the Acting Director, Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC,…
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, 16 May, 2024, received President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and called for an alignment of purpose and structure in West Africa to effectively address the challenges confronting the region. Speaking during a meeting with the Senegalese President at the State House, President Tinubu said West Africa must work together to defeat the hydra-headed problems of terrorism, banditry, human trafficking and poverty. He advised that leaders in the region must make the people the point of convergence in governance, noting that the essence of democracy is lost when the people are not the focal point.…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has approved the appointments of new board Chairmen, Executive Advisers, a Special Assistant and board members. The Governor, in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Hon. Segun Ogunwuyi, indicated that Alhaji Babalola Afobaje has been appointed as the Chairman of the Oyo State Rural Water and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA). A former Chairman of the Oyo State Road Transport Maintenance Agency, Dr. Akin Fagbemi, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Oyo State Hospitals Management Board. Similarly, a former Chairman of Ibadan North Local Government, Hon. Ademola Omotosho, has been appointed as the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Operatives of Kwara State Police Command have arrested five health workers over alleged mysterious disappearance of umbilical cord and placenta of a newly born baby in Oke-Ero local government area. It was gathered that the incident happened at the cottage hospital in Iloffa Sunday, 12 May, 2024. It was gathered that the suspects, who are currently being detained in Ilorin after interrogation on Thursday, 16 MAY, 2024 include one Dr Ajibola, nurses Rukayat Adeloye, Aishat Awolusi, Peace Alabi and Toyin Adewunmi, a ward attendant. Sources said it took efforts from elders of Odo-Owa community to prevent the…
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) Commission, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has assured the British High Commission of the Commission’s continued support in tackling visa racketeering in Nigeria. Dr. Aliyu stated this when he received Mr. Coran Oakley, the International Liaison Manager of the Home Office International Operations in the British High Commission, Abuja in his office. The ICPC boss stated that he was aware of the existing working relationship with the High British Commission and promised that the ICPC would always be prepared to continue to work with the High Commission noting…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Oyo State Government is set to recruit 7,000 teachers for public primary schools across the state, just as it also also revealed plans to recruit 100 caregivers for special schools across the state. The executive chairman of Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Nureni Adeniran, made this disclosure on Friday, 17 May, 2027 during a press conference held at the Board Room. He added that for the 7,000 fresh teachers to be engaged by the government, at least 75 per cent deficit of the gap will be plugged. “For so many months or years back, there has…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Aluko Tunmise, a self-acclaimed social media influencer and model, to one year imprisonment for celebrity scam.He was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrimes.One of the counts reads: “That you, ALUKO TUNMISE JUWONLO (A.K.A. KEANU REEVES), sometime between January and March, 2024 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, directly made a false statement, wherein you held yourself out as a white man by…