Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described the attack on Owo as a message to the South West. Soyinka said this during his condolence visit to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Friday following the attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church on Sunday. “He was targeted and there is no question about that. It was not an accident, and it is passing a message to the rest of us,” Soyinka said according to a statement issued by the governor’s media aide Richard Olatunde. That is why I’m here. I want the Governor to know that we have received the…
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The Ondo State Government has canceled this year’s June 12 celebration earlier slated for Sunday 12th June, 2022. This is consequent upon the terror attack on innocent worshipers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, on Sunday 5th June, 2022. The cancelation is to enable the entire people of Ondo State mourn their loved ones who lost their lives in the horrific attack. Recall that the Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, had directed that all flags in the state be flown at half -mast for seven days in honour of the victims of the terror attack. Signed: Richard Olatunde…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has confirmed total of 10 new cases of Monkey Pox within one week. According to an update issued by the Centre yesterday, it said that the country has so far recorded a total of 110 suspected cases of Monkey Pox disease from January to June 5. It also said that the total number of confirmed cases of Monkey Pox within the same period has risen to 31. According to the NCDC report, there were 44 new suspected cases reported in Epidemic Week 22 (May 30th to June 5th 2022) from 14…
The Rivers State Government yesterday announced its decision to prosecute former Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, for alleged fraudulent sale of state assets and diversion of $50m. To be prosecuted with Amaechi are the state’s governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tonye Cole and his company Sahara Energy. Governor Nyesom Wike directed the state’s new Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zaccheaus Adangor, to commence immediate action on the prosecution. He spoke at the swearing in of Adangor and two other new commissioners in Port Harcourt. The governor said it was important that Rivers people and the rest of…
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday appointed the Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma into the Presidential Council on E-Government and Digital Economy. Uzodimma along with 26 other Nigerians will henceforth fashion out ways in which digital technologies will be employed to transform every sector of the country’s economy. At the inauguration of the Council, Buhari said the choice of Uzodinma and others was arrived at after “a painstaking and thorough process.” He told Uzodinma to ensure that he works hard to justify the confidence the nation has reposed in him. He said the governor would be working alongside five other governors,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha a.k.a. Mompha flouted the court’s order and travelled to Dubai with a new international passport. This, the anti-graft agency said, was despite that his traveling documents had been submitted to the court. Justice Mojisola Dada had on March 28 ordered Mompha to submit his international passport to the chief registrar of the high court as one of his bail conditions varied from N200 million to N25 million. Mompha is facing an eight count charge of N6 billion money laundering charge…
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Friday, urged the striking workers of the National Assembly to call off their industrial action and instead, embrace dialogue for speedy resolution of the disputes. Lawan according to a statement by his Special Adviser (Media), Ola Awoniyi, in Abuja, made the appeal at a meeting which he summoned to find a way out of the lingering issues between the workers and the management of the National Assembly. Workers of the National Assembly under the aegis of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) had embarked on an indefinite strike since Monday to press home their…
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday appointed the Imo State Givernor, Senator Hope Uzodinma into the presidential Council on E-Government and Digital Economy. Uzodinma along with 26 other Nigerians will henceforth fashion out ways in which digital technologies will be employed to transform every sector of the country’s economy. At the inauguration of the Council, President Buhari said the choice of Uzodinma and others was arrived at after “a painstaking and thorough process.” He told Uzodinma to ensure that he works hard to justify the confidence the nation has reposed on him. He said the Imo State Governor will be working alongside…
The Ondo State Police Command has denied the arrest of the attackers of St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, where no fewer than 40 people were killed and many injured last Sunday. A social media report said the suspected terrorists were arrested by a joint team of men of the Nigerian Army, Amotekun Corps and other security agencies as well as the local hunters, on Thursday. The report said the suspects were taken to the palace of Olowo. It was gathered that when people heard about the news, they started besieging the palace to catch the glimpse of the suspects. But…
I admit from the outset that I can no longer recall who the author of the undated quote I am about to paraphrase here for the sake of this important intervention for the people of Okitipupa Constituency One in Ondo State. Nevertheless, the paraphrased quote is quite critical to the essence of this essay as it encapsulates, without saying, the very subject matter of the intervention -Christoper Odunayo Ayebusiwa -on his ambition to represent the good people of Okitipupa Constituency One on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in 2023. With my plead for intellectual right imitation over,…