Osun state government on Wednesday approved the appointment of six new traditional rulers and elevated eleven others. The government, in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, gave the approval yesterday, at its 2024 first Executive Council meeting, held in Osogbo. According to the statement, all the appointments take…
The Omoluabi Caucus in the Osun All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed concern that the seeming determination of a handful political neophytes led by a former governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, to bring the party down at all cost for their selfish interests. It however noted that all efforts by Oyetola to denigrate the…
Over the last two years, jihadists have carried out attacks beyond their stronghold in northeast Borno State, the heart of the country’s 14-year-long Islamist militant conflict. Suspected terrorists abducted an unspecified number of traders travelling along the Kaduna- Birnin Gwari Road Twelve persons have been killed with two others injured in a fresh Boko Haram…
In a recent development, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and fuel marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, on Tuesday, clashed again over the removal of subsidy on petrol. The Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane, had during a live television programme on ChannelsTV on Sunday, explained that…
Cash withdrawals will not be possible from accounts opened for virtual and digital assets transactions, the Central of Nigeria has disclosed. Withdrawals from these accounts will only be possible by transfer or through a manager’s cheque, the apex bank explained. It revealed this in a new ‘Guidelines on Operations of Bank Accounts for Virtual Assets…
The Federal Government has banned 18 foreign universities operating in Nigeria, describing them as “degree mills,’’ warning Nigerians to avoid enrolling in such institutions. The directive affected five universities from the United States, six from the United Kingdom, and three Ghanaian tertiary institutions. Also, the Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced the temporary suspension…
An influential Ugandan pastor and outspoken supporter of President Yoweri Museveni was hospitalised after a shooting attack which killed his bodyguard, police said Wednesday. Aloysius Bugingo was shot on Tuesday evening when “unidentified assailants opened fire on (his) vehicle… before swiftly escaping the scene on a motorcycle”, said Ugandan police. They said an investigation had…
Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, on Tuesday, declared Osun State traditional rulers full support for Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration and it’s continuation for second term. The Monarch disclosed this during the inter-religion service held at the State Secretariat, Osogbo to usher in the government and the people into the new year. While giving his…
● Adeleke will do second term – Oluwo of Iwoland The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has attributed the achievements recorded by his administration in 2023 to divine guidance, saying his government’s recorded successes trumped the expectations of his political opponents. This is as the paramount ruler of Iwoland, Oba (Dr) Adewale…
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Monday, confirmed that the passport application automation process will begin operation on January 8, 2024. The minister had announced in December that the Federal Government was working to ensure a full automation system of passport application in the country. At the time, the minister said the automated application…
