Real Reasons Atiku, Obi Couldn’t Defeat Tinubu — Haastrup, Ex-Osun Deputy Governor
Prince Adesuyi Haastrup, deputy governor to the first executive governor of Osun State, late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, has given a comprehensive analysis of how former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Labour Party, LP respectively lost to Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the February 25, 2023 election. The...
Tech-U To Begin Postgraduate Studies
The Abiola Ajimobi Technical University, Ibadan, has disclosed that preparations are at an advanced stage to commence postgraduate programmes. This hint, according to Nigerian Tribune, was given on Friday by the vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Adesola Ajayi, in his address during the university’s second convocation ceremony. He also hinted at an ongoing collaboration with the Atlanta Technical College to...
EASTER: No Work On Friday, Monday — FG Declares
The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace and patience...
CCII: Olubadan Sues For Peace, Returns Matter To BOT, Past Presidents For Resolution
The Olubadan of Ibadan, Ọba Mohood Olalekan Balogun, has waded into the leadership crisis rocking the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, CCII. At a meeting held on Monday at the monarch's palace, the newly appointed Chancellor, Sa'adatu Rimi University of Education, Kano state directed the CCII Board of Trustees, BOT, to liaise with past presidents-general for a concrete resolution. The BOT...
Oyo SDP Only Recommended Lana, Scribe For Suspension, Only NWC Can Approve — Source
Michael Okunlade, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, has said that publication of the suspension of Michael Lana, the party gubernatorial candidate and secretary, Idowu Owokoya, According to Okunlade, the party only recommended the suspension of the duo and that only the National Working Committee of the party has the right to approve or not. It had been reported on Saturday...
JUST IN: Oyo Student Inaugurated As FUTMinna SUG President
Busari Ibrahim Olamide has become the first student from Oyo State to be Student Union Government president of the Federal University of Technology, FUT Minna. Olamide is from Oyo town. At election which held on February 11, 2023 at the main campus of Federal University of Technology Minna Niger State, Busari polled 2,236 votes to defeat his main opponent who scored...
CCII Crisis: Jericho Businessmen Club Wades In, Wants Aspirants To Play According To Rules
Not happy with the turn of events as the Central Council of Ibadan Indegenes, CCII, Jericho Businessmen Club, JBC, Peoples by upwardly mobile indigenes of the state capital and committed to transforming Ibadanland into the epitome of development in Nigeria, has waded in. In a statement Monday evening, JBC, speaking though its president, Oloye Remi Ibrahim Babalola, expressed concerns over the issue. According to...
Ganduje Appoints Olubadan Chancellor Of Kano University
The Kano Executive Council has approved the appointment of Oba Mohood Balogun, the Olubadan of Ibadan as the Chancellor of the state-owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso. The state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, announced this after the council’s meeting held at the Council Chambers, Government House, Kano. Garba said that the council also approved the...
JUST IN: SDP Suspends Lana, Party Secretary For ‘Anti-party Activities’
Michael Lana, governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, as well as the secretary of the party in Oyo State, Idowu Owokoya, have been suspended. 31st March, 2023 The National Chairman, Social Democratic Party Headquarters, No 17, Nairobi Street, Wuse II, Abuja. Dear Sir, SUSPENSION OF MR FOLORUNSHO LANA AND MR IDOWU OWOKOYA AS A MEMBER OF SDP IN OYO STATE AND AS A STATE...
OYO101: Makindenomics— Rooted In The Wisdom Of The Crowd? | Muftau Gbadegesin
One of the biggest mistakes the leading opposition parties in Oyo state made in the early days of governor Seyi Makinde’s administration were to tag and brand it as an ‘audio government’. By audio government, they mean a government that makes noise with little substance. And truthfully, no government in the history of the state has tapped into the...
