By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Wednesday expressed appreciation to the elders of the state for the role they played in resolving the recent political crisis in the state. Particularly he thanked the elders under the leadership of the revered elder statesman, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, whose formal petition to President Bola Tinubu […]
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The 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. This came against the backdrop of the depreciation of the naira against the United States dollar at both the official Investors & Exporters Window […]
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By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Government on Wednesday directed the suspended caretaker chairmen of the 18 Local Governments and 33 newly-created Local Council Development Areas to vacate their offices in line with a court order. Also, it directed the Heads of Local Government Administration in the councils and LCDAs to retrieve government property in the […]
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By Banji Ayoola As lobbying for appointment into the vacant seat of Ondo State Deputy Governor intensifies, an association of youths in Owo, the Honorable Social Youth Club, has tipped four prominent indigenes of the town for consideration by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The seat became vacant eight days ago on December 27, 2023, with the […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Digital Media Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Ondo State has described the appointment of the chief executive and publisher of TRACE News Magazine, Prince Ebenezer Adeniyan as strategic to the political communication of the administration of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. In a congratulatory message on Wednesday under the […]
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The new Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, is caught between retaining the state executive council constituted by his late predecessor and satisfying his loyalists who are seeking appointments as compensation for their loyalty, Peter Dada writes. The atmosphere in Ondo State is still mournful following the death of the former state Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, […]
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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that the decisions taken by his administration in the political crisis in the state were not borne out of fear, but for peace to reign in the state. Also, he explained that the resignation of the factional Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, from his […]
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MANY years after Nigeria transited from military dictatorship to civilian rule, it is alarming that there are currently 50,000 soldiers involved in internal security operations around the country. The Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, substantiated this aberration during an end-of-the-year event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, saying, “Over 50,000 of our colleagues” are on […]
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The National Assembly has raised its 2024 budgetary allocation by 74.23 per cent to N344.85bn. This will be the highest-ever budgetary allocation to the National Assembly whose initial allocation in the 2024 budget proposal was pegged at N197.93bn. The increase in allocation to the Senate and House of Representatives is happening amidst a cost-of-living crisis […]
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The United Kingdom on Monday announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa route. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the country’s Home Office reiterated that only those on postgraduate research or government-sponsored scholarship students will be […]
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