Makinde Inaugurates Committees on Prevention of Gender-based Violence Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde has inaugurated a Steering Committee and Technical Working Committee on Gender-Based Violence, GBV in the state. The committees were inaugurated today during the commemoration of the International Day of Zero tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation held at the Local Government Service Commission Staff Training Centre, Secretariat, Ibadan. Inaugurating the committees, Governor Makinde, represented by the Head of Service, Mrs. Olubunmi Oni, stated that the body is saddled with the mandate of developing and implementing programmes and policies for the prevention of gender-based violence in Oyo state.…
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Abiodun, Aiyedatiwa, Mimiko, Others for Pa Akinmade’s burial in Idanre All roads lead to Idanre, Ondo State, on Saturday, February 15, as the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, his Ondo State counterpart, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, former governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, members of the National Assembly and other dignitaries attend the burial ceremony of the Obamoluwa of Idanre kingdom, High Chief Moses Akinmade. The event will also attract former Military Administrator of Lagos State and Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, Senate Majority Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, Senator Ali…
Rivers State Govt Responds to Supreme Court Ruling on Sim. Fubara Suit Against Pro-Wike’s Assembly The Rivers State Government has provided clarity regarding its ongoing legal case in the Supreme Court, emphasizing that the matter concerning the 2024 budget and the leadership of the State House of Assembly is still under review. In a statement released on February 10, 2025, Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Edison Ehie, explained that the recent Supreme Court ruling was tied to the Court of Appeal’s decision that the Governor should re-present the 2024 budget before the Assembly led by Martins Amaewhule. However,…
Court of Appeal Did Not Reinstate Sacked Council Bosses – Osun Govt .. directs security operatives to arrest trouble makers. The attention of the Osun State Government has been drawn to the judgement of Court of Appeal, delivered today, Monday, 10th of February,2025 wherein the originating summons filed by the PDP to challenge the validity of the election held on 15th of October 2022 was dismissed on the ground that the notice of the election had not been published by OSSIEC before the suit was filed. The simple implication of today’s judgement is that the PDP never filed any case…
President Tinubu Releases Birthday Tribute To Kayode Fayemi My relationship with Dr Kayode Fayemi dates back to our time together in the pro-democracy movement in the 90s when we mounted local and international campaigns against military dictatorship. During the challenging General Sani Abacha era, civil rights and pro-democracy activists, especially those in exile, had to rely on their ingenuity to survive. Kayode’s brilliance, commitment, and strategic skills were invaluable to our cause. The struggle for Chief MKO Abiola’s release from incarceration and the de-annulment of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, then considered the freest and fairest in Nigeria, led…
Abiodun Mourns Alaperu of Iperu-Remo Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has described the transition of the Alaperu of Iperu-Remo, Oba Adeleke Adelekan Idowu-Basibo, as a deeply shocking, irreplaceable personal loss. Abiodun, a prince of Iperu-Remo kingdom, added that even though he was still trying to come to terms with the news of the passing of the royal father, he acknowledged the immutability of the counsel of Almighty God whose decision on human life no mortal can question. Abiodun, who described the late monarch as a royal father, friend and confidante, said he was devastated to learn of the sudden…
FG Scraps JSS, SSS, Introduces 12-year Basic Education Model The Federal Government has announced the scrapping of all Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary Schools in the country and introduced a compulsory 12-year uninterrupted basic education model after which a Nigerian child can aspire to higher education. With this development, the Nigerian Government is seeking the abolition of 6-3-3-4 education system and replacing it with 12-4. This is even as it has sought the approval of the National Council on Education to officially adopt 16 years as the minimum entry age requirement into the country’s tertiary institutions. Minister of…
Group Accuses Kaduna Governor of Keeping Political Prisoners …Urges Amnesty International, others to wade in A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) known as the Voice of Truth Nigeria (VTN) has accused the Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani of keeping political prisoners in spite of valid and subsisting orders of court of competent jurisdiction granting them bail. In a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by VTN’s Programmes Coordinator, Dare Quadri, the group stated that the political prisoners are Jimi Adebisi Lawal, the former Senior Advisor and Counsellor to ex-Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai; Umar Waziri, the former Accountant-General of…
House of Reps Committee Proposes Creation of 31 New States The House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution announced on Thursday, that it has received 31 proposals for the creation of new states across the six geopolitical zones. Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu read a letter from the committee during plenary, outlining the conditions that must be met before any state creation requests can be approved. According to the letter, the proposals include five from the North Central, four from the North East, five from the North West, five from the South East, four from the South…
Nigerian Professor, Dubem Okafor Kills Wife, Self in US One of Nigeria most respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64, cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister Reading home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. A small-caliber handgun was found near the…