Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said that he does not have sleepless night over the number of his Owo kinsmen plotting to unseat him both in the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the October 10 governorship election. More than 10 aspirants who have purchased nomination and expression of interest forms in the APC and the PDP are from Owo, hometown of Governor Akeredolu. They have vowed to stop his re-election bid to enable them serve out his second term. Akeredolu spoke when he visited the Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Gbadegesin Ogunoye III…
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SEARCH Leadership Nigeria Newspaper NEWS Troops Raid Bandits’ Hideout In Benue, Kill One, Recover Arms Published 11 seconds agoon June 21, 2020 By Agency Report The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Whirl Stroke on June 20, conducted a raid on suspected bandits hideout at Ginde in Guma Local Government Area (LGA)of Benue. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Sunday, said the troops, operating under Operation Accord, acted following reports of bandits activities in the area. Enenche said that the bandits fled as troops closed in on them, adding that one bandit was neutralised…
Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has reacted to allegations that he was responsible for the action taken by the Police against his Deputy, Hon Agboola Ajayi, on Saturday night. The Ondo State deputy governor was held back at the Government House as Ondo Police Commissioner, Bolaji Salami, insisted that he would not leave with his official vehicles. A video trending on the Social Media showed the state police commissioner stopping Hon Ajayi from leaving the premises of the government house on Saturday night. A statement by Akeredolu’s Chief Press Secretary, Segun Ajiboye, described the report as a complete falsehood…
Resident doctors under the aegies of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have suspended their indefinite strike action, which started on June 15. They acknowledged provision of personal protective equipment (PPEs) in some hospitals but said there were still needs for sustained supplies. The doctors also announced the Medical Residency Training funding has been included in the revised 2020 budget through the intervention of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and will be implemented as soon as the budget is assented to by the President. They however gave the Federal Government four weeks to make good its promises. NARD President Dr. Aliyu Sokomba…
THE Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has intervened in the disagreement between Federal Government and members of the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in respect of which they are on strike. NGF’s Head, Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, said in a statement that NARD’s leaders met with his forum and decided to put their faith in the Governors Forum and suspend the strike action. Part of the statement reads: “The entire executives of the NARD were at the NGF Secretariat Abuja on Thursday at the instance of the Director-General of the forum, Mr. Asishana Bayo Okauru, where they met…
Honourable Agboola Ajayi, the deputy governor of Ondo state was on Saturday stopped from moving out of the government house with his aides and Political associates, Nigerian Cable news online can report. Agboola who was billed to commence his defection to PDP from his ward in Kiribo was billed to officially obtain his membership card from PDP today in his country home but was prevented from moving out of the Government House. Security operatives who claimed to be acting on the order of the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Salami, blocked the way to prevent the Deputy Governor’s official…
Many persons were trapped when a tanker exploded at the Kara axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Sunday morning. Although the incident happened after midnight, a lot of vehicles were on the bridge as a result of the curfew imposed to check the spread of coronavirus. The federal government had ordered a nationwide curfew from 10pm to 6am and vehicles which are unable to make it to Lagos or leave the nation’s commercial capital before 10pm are usually stranded on the bridge till 6am when security operatives open the road to traffic. Details of Sunday’s incident are still sketchy but…
Ahead of the official defection of Ondo State deputy governor, Hon. Agboola Ajayi, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, the friction between him and the governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu took a new dimension on Saturday, as Ajayi was not allowed to move out of the Government House. Agboola who was billed to commence his defection to PDP from his ward in Kiribo was billed to officially obtain his membership card from PDP today in his country home but was prevented from moving out of the Government House. Security operatives who…
The immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has underscored an urgent need for National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling party to meet and institute a Caretaker Committee whose main responsibility will be to arrange for a special National Convention through the invocation of “the doctrine of necessity”. Chief Odigie-Oyegun, in a statement titled “BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE”, called on leaders of the party, particularly the Governors and President Muhammadu Buhari to bring a stop to what he called the “disgraceful and humiliating charade” occurring within the National Secretariat of the…
The remains of Ibidunni Ighodalo, the deceased wife of Lagos-based pastor and founder of Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, have been laid to rest today. Recall that the ex-beauty queen, who would have clocked 40 in July, died on Sunday of suspected cardiac arrest in her hotel room, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. On Wednesday, Trinity House held and streamed a service of songs and candlelight in her honour. Details later …