The Federal Government has inaugurated a 10-man inter-ministerial committee to enforce the Supreme Court judgment on Local Government autonomy. The Supreme Court, on 11th July, granted autonomy to Local Governments across the country. The seven-man panel, in a judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, declared that the 774 Local Government Councils in the country should […]
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, affirmed the lower court judgment that reinstated Philip Shaibu as the Deputy Governor of Edo State. The appellate Court while delivering judgment in the appeal brought before it by the Edo State House of Assembly, dismissed the appeal seeking to uphold Shaibu’s impeachment. Shaibu was impeached […]
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Protesting doctors. Photo Credit: Taiwo Bankole The Association of Resident Doctors of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, during a peaceful protest around the hospital on Monday, demanded the release of their colleague, one of their members, Ganiyat Popoola, who was abducted late December last year in Kaduna State. The doctors also demanded the freedom […]
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Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Anambra State have appealed for an urgent and unconditional release of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola. The doctors held a solidarity walk around the Akammiri permanent site of the teaching hospital in Nnewi with visits to some wards and ended it […]
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Governor Ademola Adeleke Osun State Government has warned those illegally encroaching on lands belonging to the State water sector to desist or be ready to face the law. It warned through the commissioner for Water Resources, Hon. Sunday Oroniyi, who said reports had reached his office about encroachers in the Ede Headworks Dam area, Akanka […]
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presents Staff of Office to Elereke of Ereke in Ilaje, Orungberuwa of Ode Erinje in Okitipupa Ondo State Governor, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has urged traditional rulers to leverage their positions to promote peace and unity among residents while enhancing the security of lives and property in their communities. He made this call during the […]
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By Kayode Fasua In the Holy Book of Information that Brings Life Everlasting (BIBLE), the story regales of the convoluted poverty and miasma of deprivation that summarised the existence of the Israelites sojourning in Egypt, as in the days of yore. It was not until the revolutionary moves of a divinely radicalised Moses before the […]
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Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has reached out to the Federal Government in a move to resolve the dispute with the Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. over the controversial Ogun Free Trade Zone. Abiodun reportedly consulted top federal officials on Thursday, as a professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, accused former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle […]
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Farmers in Osun State are facing a dire situation as their crops wither due to a lack of rainfall. In response, Muslims across the 30 local government areas of the state gathered on Sunday in their communities to seek divine intervention for abundant rains to revive their farmlands. The convergence occurred simultaneously across all communities […]
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Governor Ademola Adeleke Osun State House of Assembly has rounded up work on the passage of the amendments to the Osun State Local Government Areas Creation and Administration, Amendments(No.7) Bill, 2024. The bill provided for elective positions of the Chairman and its executives for proper administration and governance at the local government level. Also, the […]
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