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Hon. Segun Ogunwuyi Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the appointment of Hon. Segun Ogunwuyi as the Director-General of the newly-established Oyo State Investments and Public-Private Partnership Agency. A statement issued on Wednesday by Mr Moses Alao, the Special Assistant to the governor on Print Media, indicated that Ogunwuyi was a member of the state House of Assembly ... Read More »

As bizarre as it may appear, the story I am about to tell is real. This is far from fiction. A friend of mine told me the story and I have no reason to doubt him. Here is it: A Lagos landlord woke up one morning, went for a sharp machete and started cutting down all the coconut and sundry ... Read More »

(@Mbanire) The Nigerian polity is generally suffused with lamentations and complaints of leadership failure which is indubitably true in many respects. Governments come to power on the strength of failure of their predecessors to achieve what can amount to substantial, if any, progress to better the lots of the masses. Unfortunately, the same cycle of complaints sooner than later becomes ... Read More »

By Professor J. O. Olaleru (PH.D) The issue of sex-for-favour is not new to man. It cuts across generations, nations, tribes, social status, races, gender and virtually all professions. In fact, within marriages, this ugly practice is also reigning. Sex-for-favour is embedded in human deprived and corrupted nature. The fact that people publicly condemn it, even though many indulge in ... Read More »

The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to state that its operatives did not open fire on alleged protesters who had stormed its facility on 12th November, 2019. As a normal global security practice, the operatives stood in defence of their facility when some group of persons made unruly attempts to forcefully break into the place and effect the release ... Read More »

Cross River State Governor, Sir Ben Ayade Wednesday turned on the charm offensive in South Africa , wooing investors at the Africa Investment Forum (AIF), to invest in the state. A statement issued by Ayade’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Christian Ita, said Governor Ayade is at the Summit on the invitation of the President of the African ... Read More »

48-hours after the Appeal Court Panel sitting on Oyo State Governorship Election Petition gave its judgment, the copy of the judgment has not been made available to lawyers of the Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Seyi Makinde, investigations have revealed. Informed sources close to the judiciary in Ibadan told our Correspondent that the Lead Counsel to Governor Seyi Makinde on ... Read More »

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State has on Wednesday suspended the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, his deputy governor, Philip Shuaibu and the Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie. Naija News understands they were all suspended for alleged anti-party activities. A chieftain of the party, Mr. Patrick Ikhariale stated this while briefing journalists in Benin City, Vanguard reports. ... Read More »

A politician in Osun, Hon. Oyegbade Adebisi Abideen popularly known as Bisi Ilu, has expressed his surprise at what he termed ‘a malicious defamation of character’ by those he described as ‘leaders without conscience’. Bisi Ilu was addressing pressmen at the National Assembly yesterday after he submitted a letter and an affidavit to the Senate President. In the letter, which ... Read More »

Hon. Minister of Works & Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola,SAN(2nd left), Minister of State in the Ministry, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu(left) and Ministers from other Member Countries of the Trans Sahara Road Liaison Committee being briefed by the Director, Road Sector Development Team of the Ministry of Works and Housing, Engr. Ishaq Mohammed(right)  during the inspection tour of the ongoing construction work on ... Read More »