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Trade Union Congress (TUC) has demanded the return of petrol prices to what they were as of June 2023. “We want the price of the product to go below what it was before; not just reverse to what it was before but to go below,” said TUC President, Festus Osifo, at a press briefing in […]
A court of appeal in Abuja has affirmed the judgment of the federal high court that voided the presentation and passage of the 2024 budget for Rivers state. In an unanimous judgment delivered on Thursday, the appellate court held that the appeal filed by Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, lacks merit. The court declared that […]
The Senate on Thursday passed the bill sponsored by Senator Sharafadeen Alli (APC-Oyo South) on the establishment of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Igboora, in concurrence with the House of Representatives. This is contained in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Akeem Abas and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Ibadan. […]
Oyo State government has concluded the year 2025 Budget Planning Consultative Meetings held across the six geo-political zones of the State. The State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, while speaking at the closing ceremony of the sixth zonal stakeholders’ consultative engagement in Ibarapa zone, assured that the submissions of stakeholders at the meetings would reflect in […]
Oyo State Government has banned heavy-duty trucks and trailers from utilizing the newly commissioned Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomoso Expressway . In a statement, Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade said that the decision became necessary in safeguarding the integrity of the road which is pivotal for enhancing agrarian transportation, trade, and intercity commuting. The Commissioner further […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday sentenced a 67-year-old Lebanese national, Zuhier R Akar, to 14 years imprisonment for sexually exploiting two teenage girls. NAN reports that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Kano Command, arraigned Akar of Gidan Wanka, Unity Road, Fagge Local Government Area, Kano […]
A 34-year-old resident in Akintola village in the Odigbo area of Ondo state, Mr Monday Chukwu, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his friend, Kefa Ofando, to death. Monday, alongside eleven other criminals nabbed for offences including murder and armed robbery related matters across different location in the state were paraded by […]
A man by name Musa Abdulai suspected to be an agent of the bandits in Ekiti State and supplying food items to them at their hideouts have been arrested. According to the press release made available to Newsmen on Thursday morning, the Head of the Communications Department of the Ekiti State Amotekun Corps, Officer Adeleye […]
Oyo State Governor,Engineer Seyi Makinde has urged the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party ,PDP to comprehensively embrace the recommendations of the party’s reconciliation committee. He said this at the PDP National Reconciliation Committee’s press briefing held at the Agodi Government House Ibadan at the end of its assignment in South West. […]
The National Identity Project,a government’s program to sensitize Nigerians on the significance of the National Anthem and National Value Charter has been flagged off. At the event put together by the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Abeokuta Ogun State ,Director of the agency, Mrs Olufunke Salako said the orientation initiative was aimed at providing […]
