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The international community, yesterday, expressed concern and deplored the upwelling wave of military coups in Africa, as Gabon became the seventh African country to fall to a military coup. Gabonese army officers, under the aegis of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions, CTRI, yesterday, sacked President Ali Bongo, placed him under house […]
Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has mourned the death of the designer of Nigeria’s national flag, Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, OFR, describing it as the end of an era for creative national heroes and heroines of Oyo State extraction. Governor Makinde, who noted how the writer of the Nigerian national pledge, Prof. Felicia Adedoyin, had passed […]
The Minister of Interior, Bunmi Tunji-Ojo has said the president, Bola Tinubu, has issued a marching order that all fleeing inmates across the country should be recaptured. Between 2021 and 2022, there were at least seven attacks on custodial centres across the country where a large number of inmates escaped from the centres. The seven […]
The Oyo State Government has begun the rehabilitation of Ring Road, Mobile as part of the Government efforts to eradicate potholes in Ibadan and the state at large. This was made known on Tuesday by Honourable Busoye Ogunlade, the Executive Chairman of Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency (OYSROMA) during inspection tour of the roads. Honourable […]
The Oyo State government has said the sum of N8,633,996,464 was earmarked for palliatives by the Sustainable Action for Economic Recovery committee in the state. The commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, disclosed this during a press briefing after the executive council meeting on Wednesday. The Commissioner said Local Government Areas in the State, […]
The Nigerian Army has denied an attempt to seize land in Osun State over a proposed community intervention project. Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen Onyema Nwachukwu disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘Re: Complaints of Orolu Community, of Orolu LGA over Alleged Proposed Community Intervention Project by the Nigerian Army’ on Tuesday […]
The Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Wale Adedayo, has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting the statutory Federal Allocation due to the state’s Local Governments in the last two years. Adedayo, in a letter written to former Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Sunday, and obtained by our correspondent alleged that […]
Nigeria needs to develop a national strategy to harness the power of AI for sustainable development, the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, has said. A document titled, ‘Co-creating a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Nigeria,’ which he shared on his X handle on Monday, disclosed that Al has become […]
The Ondo State Government on Monday denied selling a cocoa plantation and sending farmers away from their farmlands at Ilua Community in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The farmers residing in the community on Saturday staged a protest alleging that the government had sold their cocoa plantations and other farmlands to some […]
The National Commission for the Coordination and Control of Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons has said it plans to employ and train about 300,000 personnel across the federation to tackle illegal arms proliferation. The commission said about 7,000 personnel would be engaged in each state of the federation including the FCT. […]
