Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the sum of N12.5 Billion Naira for the reconstruction, rehabilitation and dualisation of 35.6km Iwo Road Interchange-Olodo-Lalupon-Odo Oba Road. The contract covers the Oyo State end of the Oyo-Osun boundary linking Ibadan in Oyo State to Iwo, Osun State. This was disclosed to newsmen, on Tuesday, by the Commissioner for Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Professor Dahud Kehinde Sangodoyin, shortly after the state executive council meeting presided over by the governor. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the project is expected to be…
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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau In keeping with the law, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final list of candidates contesting for the presidency in the 2023 General Elections. This is according to a circular released by the electoral umpire on Tuesday in Abuja obtained by Prompt News. Among those cleared by the electoral body are former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ex-Governor of Anambra state, Peter Gregory Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and former Governor of Kano state, Rabiu Musa…
The Benue State Government has set a target to recruit ten thousand persons into the State Community Volunteer Guards. Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed this on Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 while speaking at the funeral of his foster father, Elder Joseph Vanger Iyorhon held at St. Athanasius Parish, Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area. The Governor assured the people that his administration remained ever committed to the protection of lives and property. He explained that the recruitment of 10,000 persons as Community Volunteer Guards is intended to complement the efforts of conventional agencies in providing security to the state.…
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Chief Gani Adams has condoled with Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on the demise of his mother, Mrs Grace Akeredolu. Adams, who commiserated with the bereaved family in a statement on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Kehinde Aderemi, described the death of the Akeredolu’s matriarch as a big loss. According to him, the love and care of the late matriarch will be missed by the family. Adams, however, urged members of the Akeredolu family to learn and draw their strengths from the exemplary life of their late mother, whose life…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a daycare owner, Veronica Vincent, accused of sexually assaulting a one-year-old babygirl in her care. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Vincent was charged with two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that there was no evidence to show that defendant sexually assaulted the baby (name withheld) as there was no blood stain on her on the day she was in care of the defendant. Taiwo maintained that the timing of the acclaimed sexual assault and when the mother of the child saw…
An FCT High Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixes Oct. 24 and Nov. 1 for hearing in a case of alleged intent to defraud preferred against a property agent, Mohammed Bello and Danmunde Properties Limited. Bello was re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on two counts of intent to defraud a client. The defendant who was earlier arraigned before Justice O.O. Goodluck, who has been elevated as a judge of the Court of Appeal, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Justice, Aliyu Shafa, fixed the date after his ruling on the oral bail application made by…
The Senate will screen the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),Justice Olukayode Ariwoola on Sept 21. President of Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan made the disclosure, while delivering his opening remark at the resumption of plenary on Wednesday. Lawan also said Senate would receive the 2023 budget estimates from President Muhammadu Bihari in Oct. “Distinguished Colleagues in the next three months our focus will largely be on the confirmation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, work on Medium Term Expenditure Framework / Fiscal Strategic Paper (MTEF/FSP) 2023 – 2025, Budget 2023, working to support our defense and security forces, amongst others.…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has been accused of lacking originality by promising to do what the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has already put in place. Making this accusation, the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju that Obi’s recent interview on the US news network, CNN, showed that he is not in tune with what is happening in a country he is aspiring to lead. “Like many Nigerians, we listened to the twice-postponed pre-recorded CNN interview, and we were stunned that a man that had been pontificating about Nigeria’s…
The World Athletics has ratified the world record set by Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-final at the Athletics Championships in Oregon in July, 2022, according to a statement published Tuesday, on the athletics body’s official website. Amusan ran a time of 12.12 seconds to defeat former world record holder, Kendra Harrison, who had set the world record in the 100 metres hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds in 2016, at the London Müller Anniversary Games. The 25-year-old was, however, not done as she followed that remarkable performance with a wind-assisted 12.06 (2.5m/s) to win the…
Governor of Tehran accused protesters of attacking police, destroying public property during demonstrations ignited by the death of a young woman while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Mohsen Mansouri, in a post on Twitter on Tuesday said “the main elements of the gatherings in Tehran were fully organized, trained and planned to create disturbances in Tehran”. However, the deputy police commander said in the northern province of Gilan, that police arrested 22 people for destroying public property. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdistan province, fell into a coma and died following her arrest in Tehran last week…