Players and officials of the Super Eagles on Friday left for Porto Novo by speed boat, ahead of tomorrow’s 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Benin Republic. The players were in high spirits as they boarded the boat. Some of them had raised concerns over the mode of transportation, but head coach Gernot Rohr, who has already made the trip, said it will be the best way to get across to the neigbouring country. “Last Saturday, I made the trip and we were flying on the water. “It was so quick and calm,” Rohr said. The trip by boat…
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The University of Ibadan, Oyo State has announced date for the Post Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening for candidates who chose the University.The University in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday said that the screening for the candidates would be computer-based. UI in the statement signed by its Registrar, Olubunmi Faluyi, added that the screening will start on Tuesday, 06 April and end on Saturday, 10 April, 2021. She added that CBT access fee of N1,000.00 will be paid by the candidates for the screening exercise. Faluyi in the statement said, “This is to inform prospective…
The Governor of oyo state Engr. Seyi Makinde has revealed his feelings towards Oriyomi Hamzat criticism, the governor said he feels a severe pain seeing himself being criticize by the media. Speaking at the commissioning of Agidigbo 88.7 FM, owned by Hamzat, Makinde said it does not take long before they reconcile. Makinde, who was accompanied by top aides, commended the proprietor for his vision, explaining that “I am happy to be here today firstly because what my brother, Oriyomi Hamzat, has in mind to do has come to a reality. There are a lot of people who have good…
A former National Vice-Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) , Chief Olabode George in the bid to quench the fire of crisis that has beclouded the atmosphere in oyo PDP will be visiting Ibadan today to mediate between the waring leaders of the party. Todaysplash gathered that the party chieftain is afraid of the implication of this crisis if not quickly resolved, especially in Oyo state which that has the only sitting governor from the party. This newspaper learnt that Oyo PDP has not been as before, especially as many top members of the party are not happy with…
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An artist, Adebowale Ajibade, on Thursday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 21-year-old union to his estranged wife, Motunrayo, on alleged serial adultery. Ajibade stated this in his counter-argument against his wife’s accusation of irresponsibility and insincerity she levelled against him. He further said that he was fully committed to loving Motunrayo, but for her unfaithfulness over a long period of time, which God kept revealing to him. “Immediately after our marriage, Motunrayo and I got a teaching job in a private school in Ibadan and she started dating the husband of my friend’s younger sister.…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commended the judiciary for convicting a Returning Officer, who connived with the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rewrite election during the 2019 general elections. PDP said the “three years jailed term handed to Prof. Peter Ogban, a professor of University of Calabar, for manipulating the result of Akwa-Ibom Northwest senatorial election in favour of Gods will Akpabio was a huge lesson for compromised individuals working to subvert the will of the people.’ The former ruling party stated this in a series of tweets via its official Twitter handle. According to PDP: “The @OfficialPDPNig asserts…
A political pressure group, the Arewa Mandate Initiative, AMI, has tipped ex-governors of Lagos, Rivers and Abia states as a potential successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The group said the endorsement was in line with the gentleman agreement reached by the leaders of the party at the formative stage in 2015. The AMI in a statement issued by Malam Muhammad Mubarak, FCT, Coordinator and Alhaji Aminu Muhammed, Sokoto Secretary respectively, noted its surveys among the APC supporters, on the 2023 presidential power shift indicated that the majority of the APC family fully support that power to the South.…
THE Presidency yesterday said that Nigeria has created and saved over two million jobs through the implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan, ESP, which began in June last year. The ESP, chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, designed the N2.3 trillion ESP as the country’s response to the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Inaugurating the Committee in March in 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari charged members among other things, to develop a clear economic sustainability plan in response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic; provide fiscal and monetary stimulus package, including support to private businesses; and propose…
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, and Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, held a closed-door meeting. The two political leaders went straight to the meeting which lasted two hours shortly after Bankole arrived at the Oke-Mosan secretariat around 4:12 pm. The former speaker defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress last week alongside the former Governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel, met with the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Monday. Our correspondent gathered that Bankole’s defection was seen as a grand plot to check the popularity of the former governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.…
