Governor Adeleke Summons Security Council Meeting, Orders Statewide Patrols by Security Agencies The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has summoned an emergency meeting of the state security council to review ongoing operations designed to checkmate criminal activities in the state. This was disclosed on Tuesday in a press statement signed by the…
Ahead of his highlyanticipated Lagos concert, popular Afrobeats star, Davido, has paid a visit to Lagos Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa. O.B.O explained the safety of his fans and everyone else who’d attend his ‘Timeless’ concert slated for April 23 at the Tafawa Balewa Square, necessitated the visit. According to him, collaborating with the police…
Osun Amotekun Corps said after a lot of pressure was mounted on some unknown kidnappers that kidnapped Muhammed Jubril, the victim has been released. He was released after the Operatives of Amotekun were closing in on the kidnappers. It’s unknown as at the time of filing this report if any ransom was paid. The operatives…
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that Nigeria must prioritize its unity, cohesion, and progress by doing away with prejudices such as ethnic profiling, religious bigotry, and the promotion of divisive rhetoric, particularly by Nigerian elites in the quest for power. Osinbajo stated this while delivering a lecture, “Creating a Homeland for All: Nation…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state capital, has sentenced two persons, Gidado Shuaib and Olufemi Alfred, to three months imprisonment over a case of criminal conspiracy and defamation levelled against them. The offences contravened Sections 97 and 392 of the Penal Code. Their arraignment followed a petition by Hillcrest Agro-Allied Industries Limited along…
A medical practitioner, Dr Lanre Adebayo, has decried the rate of blindness in Nigeria even as he disclosed that eyecare service in the country is grossly inadequate. Adebayo who is the Project Director for Eye Care Hospital, Diabetes and Cancer Research Centre of the Lions Clubs International District 404, explained that the project initiated by…
A total of 1, 336 suspected cases of cholera, including 79 deaths, have been recorded in 12 states this year, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said. The states are Abia, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Kano, Katsina, Niger, Ondo, Osun, Sokoto and Zamfara. The NCDC, in its situation report yesterday,…
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the Federal Government will begin payment of the planned increase in civil servants’ pay by the end of this month (April), The PUNCH can report. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, is expected to give his final assent for disbursement any moment from now. If the proposal sails…
The Osun State Government has today inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Population and Housing Census with a focus on ensuring that facts and figures about the state are correctly compiled during the forthcoming National Population and Housing Census Governor Ademola Adeleke who was represented at the inauguration of the Inter-Ministerial Committee by the Secretary to…
