The leadership of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria in Osun State has pledged support for the State’s Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to seek a second term in office. Addressing journalists in Ikirun on Wednesday, the Osun ALGON chairman, Mr. Sarafadeen Awotunde, said Adeleke’s endorsement for another term by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic…
A new Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr. Akintayo Adaralewa has been deployed to Osun State Command. Adaralewa is succeeding Agboola Sunday who has been redeployed to Ekiti State. This was contained in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Kehinde Adeniyi on Thursday and obtained by SAHEL STANDARD correspodent in…
Osun State Commissioner for Transportation, Hon. Sesan Oyedele has called for the blockage of revenue leakages as well as staff commitment to duty as ways to improve the State’s Internally Generated Revenue(IGR). He identified wastages and leakages as the bane of robust IGR generation in the State over the years, stressing that the administration of…
Osun State Government has warned residents, builders, tipper drivers against dumping of sand and other building materials on the road side within the state. The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ademola Adeleke on Transportation, Hon. Salaam Adewale stated this while responding to questions on a popular radio programme tagged ‘Aabo Loju Popo’, monitored in Osogbo….
….Says he will keep praising God for His goodness Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has urged religious leaders to always preach against fake news as it can set the nation on fire. The Governor made the plea on Wednesday in Osogbo while hosting members of the Ilesa Methodist Church Dioceses, who came on annual intercessory…
The Central Bank of Nigeria, in the early hours of Thursday, appointed Hassan Imam as the new Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Keystone Bank. Imam takes over leadership of the commercial bank from Olaniran Olayinka, who served as CEO from March 2020 until the CBN dissolved the boards of Keystone Bank and two…
Barely hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria dissolved the boards and managements of Union Bank of Nigeria, Keystone Bank and Polaris Bank over alleged corporate governance infractions and non-compliance with regulatory requirements, the financial regulatory body appointed new executive directors to oversee the affairs of the deposit money banks. A statement by the acting…
A female marketing employee of a bank in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has committed suicide. The deceased, 32-year-old Amarachi Ugochukwu, was said to have drunk an insecticide. SAHEL STANDARD learnt that the incident happened on Monday within the premises of the bank. Ugochukwu had around 1pm made her way into the restroom, where she drank the…
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator (Dr) Ademola Adeleke, has congratulated Comrade Christopher Abimbola Arapasopo, on his election as the Chairman of the Osun State Chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Speaking through a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Adeleke charged Comrade Arapasopo to consider his election as a crucial…
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano State, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of an 18-year-old man, Yusuf Haruna, in a correctional centre for allegedly stabbing an Imam, Sani Mohammed, to death. The defendant, who lives in Tudun Nufawa Quarters, Kano, was charged with culpable homicide. The prosecutor, Mrs Fatima Ado-Ahmad, told the court that Musa…
