Filling station owners are currently in panic buying mood, as many of them are stockpiling products ahead of the announcement of a new pump price for petrol in August, investigation has shown. It was also gathered that the price of the commodity might increase to about N150/litre as the committee saddled with the task of fixing petrol price had been meeting and would make the new price public soon. Marketers and officials of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency told our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday that the rise in crude oil price in the international market could lead to…
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Workers in Ekiti State will on Monday (today) begin a three-day warning strike over welfare and other sundry issues. This is as the 14-day ultimatum that organised Labour comprising Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and Joint Negotiating Council had issued to the state government expired in the midnight of Sunday, August 2. Rising from a meeting in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, the labour said, “The warning strike called by the organised labour in Ekiti will commence on Monday, August 3”. A statement by the state chairmen of the NLC, Kolapo Olatunde; TUC, Sola Adigun; and JNC, Kayode Fatomiluyi;…
More pressure has been mounted on candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo, Eyitayo Jegede, to pick Deputy Governor Hon Agboola Ajayi, as his running mate. It was gathered that the pressure on Jegede was spearheaded by some PDP Governors over fears of Ajayi’s possible defection to the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). Sources within the party said the Governors pushing for Ajayi claimed they want the party to go into the election a united family. Besides the Governors, some members of the NWC of the PDP were said to have keyed into the project and might resort to…
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has debunked social media reports that he had concluded plans to drag his predecessor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Akeredolu said he never threatened to expose Mimiko, whom he described as a friend of over four decades to the EFCC. The Ondo governor described the reports as untrue, puerile and utterly mischievous. He said it was a cleverly laid path for two friends to engage in needless mudslinging. The Ondo Governor who spoke through is Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, said it was not his desire “to…
There are abounding examples to clearly prove that the ability to record earthly achievements and make landmark impacts have nothing to do with age. After all, Methuselah was recorded as the oldest man in the bible, yet no outstanding achievement was attached to his 969 years sojourn on the planet earth. However, the same Holy Bible recorded it that David killed Goliath at a young age and also killed lions with the ordinary jaw bone of an ass; these were before he later became a king. Alhaji Tajudeen Adeyemi Adefisoye has dared and braved all odds to emerge as the…
Lawmakers in the National Assembly have been tasked by the main opposition party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to immediately begin the review of all agreements on foreign loans entered into by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government. The party said the negotiation of Nigeria’s sovereignty over loans to the nation was not only insulting to the Nigerian people but exposes the act of malfeasance by the Presidency with connivance by the ruling party, the APC. The party said the revelation of the absurd clause in the N500 million has confirmed her earlier alarm that the ruling party and…
With schools reopening for graduating pupils this week after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents of pupils in private secondary schools in Ogun State on Sunday kicked against the request of N25,000 COVID-19 test fee by the government. Many of the parents, who took their demonstrations to the streets, faulted the decision of the government to ask them to pay N25,000 on each pupil before they would be allowed to resume. The state government had said no boarding school pupil would be allowed to resume without a valid negative COVID-19 test certificate. The government also asked the…
The widow of late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Florence, has described her late husband as her greatest supporter and strength. She spoke while playing host to a delegation of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Oyo State on Saturday evening at her Oluyole residence in Ibadan. Ajimobi also counseled Nigerians to use the opportunity of her husband’s death to review their lives. She expressed confidence that her husband lived a fulfilled life, saying she would forever be proud of him. “My husband lived 70 years. 70 years of fulfilment, achievements and impact on many lives. Forever, I…
Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has said the state would ensure the repatriation of all its indigenes found to have been trafficked to Lebanon. The governor said that the state will not stand by and watch its indigenes suffer dehumanisation under any guise. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the governor made the pledge while receiving a brief on the plight of Oyo State indigenes trafficked to Lebanon from the Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters, Mrs Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu. “We will pay for the repatriation of all Oyo State indigenes who…
Former chairman of Forte Oil PLC, Nigerian billionaire businessman, and philanthropist, Femi Otedola is excited about his wife, Nana Otedola, as she marks another year today. The father of four lovely children shared the good news on social media with a picture of his better half and captioned it: “Happy Birthday to Darling Nana ? .…,” he wrote.