The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will chair the colloquium to celebrate the 69th birthday of All Progressives Congress stalwart, Bola Tinubu, TODAY SPLASH has learnt. Our correspondent gathered that the President will preside virtually over the event organised by the office of the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo . The theme of the colloquium is, ‘Our Common Bond, Our Common Wealth: The Imperative Of National Cohesion For Growth And Prosperity’. The event, the 12th in the series of the Bola Tinubu Colloquium, will hold virtually on Monday, March 29, 2021. The relationship between Buhari and Tinubu has been a subject…
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No fewer than 19 Super Eagles players have arrived camp for the remaining two 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho. According to the team’s media officer, Babafemi Raji, the players were already in camp as at late Monday night. The players in camp are captain Ahmed Musa, William Troost-Ekong, Ola Aina, Semi Ajayi, Henry Onyekuru, Oghenekaro Etebo, Adekunle Adeleke, Chidozie Awaziem, Abdullahi Shehu, Anayo Iwuala, John Noble, Alex Iwobi, Leon Balogun, Joe Aribo, Tyrone Ebuehi, Maduka Okoye, Jamilu Collins, Francis Uzoho and Paul Onuachu. https://twitter.com/NGSuperEagles/status/1374105170167087108?s=19 “Update! 18 players now in camp. Musa, Troost-Ekong, Aina, Ajayi,…
The Pharmacists’ Council of Nigeria (PCN) has stepped up enforcement activities across the country with the shutting of three illegal dealers for breaking the seal and 48 unregistered shops in Oyo State.The PCN, in a statement signed by its Director Enforcement, Stephen Esumobi, on behalf of the Registrar, Elijah Mohammed, said the Council’s enforcement team visited Oyo state from October 12 to 16, 2020 and some illegal premises were sealed off while investigations continued to ascertain the status of owners, scope of illegal activities in those premises and their collaborators.Mohammed said as a result of this intervention, some premises upgraded…
Towards achieving it’s desired goal of retaining the reigns of Governance beyond 2023, the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning committee of the All Progressives Congress will today (Tuesday) inaugurate a 62-member high powered committee. The committee which has former Governor of Oyo state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala as a member is saddled with the responsibility of making contacts and formulating strategies aimed at better repositioning the party towards the 2023 election. The memo signed by the acting national Secretary of the party reads: The National Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), H.E. Mai Mala Buni has approved the constitution of a…
Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Taofeek Akewugbagold, on Monday approached Justice Moshood Abass of the Oyo state high court, seeking withdrawal of case against the abductors of his twins last year. Six people – Ridwan Taiwo aged 30, Rafiu Mutiu 35, Olumide Ajala 36, Rafiu Modinat, Female, aged 29, Bashiru Mohammed 33, and Opeyemi Oyeleye 25 had been arrested for the kidnap of the twins. The twins, aged two years and four months, were abducted at gunpoint at their parents Ojoo residence on April 17, 2020 when their father went to record a lecture in his studio. They were released eight…
As the tour or reconciliation and unification meeting embarked upon by Hon (Mrs) Kafilat Mojisola Olakojo, the PDP Candidate in the forthcoming Local Government Poll in Atiba Local Government, continues, yesterday was the turn of Political Group of the Vice Chairman, Oyo State Pacesetter Transport Services, Akinrogun Segun Taiwo at Sabo Area, Atiba Local Government. Akinrogun Segun Taiwo described the emergence of Kafilat OLAKOJO as Providence and decision of Almighty God that goes beyond anybody or any leader. He further expressed his satisfaction to the positive steps being taken so far by OLAKOJO by visiting the Local Excos of the…
Facts have emerged on how former Ogun State Governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun and members of his anti-Tinubu group, including Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, are making efforts to take over the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State. The aim of the group, Newspeakonline learnt, is principally to hijack the party in the state as a way of weakening the chances of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from picking the presidential ticket of the party in the 2023 election. The party structure is currently in the hands of followers of the late governor Abiola Ajimobi who are loyal to Tinubu. It…
The people Democratic Party (PDP) local government candidate, Ibadan North, in the just concluded party primary election in Oyo State State, Hon Shahib Oladayo Yusuf (Agba Egbe), has described the newly established Agidigbo Fm radio station belonging to the Ace Broadcaster Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat as a pace setter and a shining light to other radio stations in the state especially in the area of transforming theory into practice when it’s comes journalism and broadcasting Agba Egbe, during his Courtesy visit to the management of Agidigbo Fm has commended the management for demonstrating high level of professionalism both in facility put…
The Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has warned the secessionist movement led by Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho to stay away from his state. According to the Nation Newspaper, Akeredolu said Ondo people have elected to stay in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as constituted at present. He said no part of the entire state, known and delineated as Ondo State, would permit any gathering or agitation which may suggest, however remotely, that the people are in support of what he termed ‘unthinking rabble rousing.’ Akeredolu who spoke while swearing in Princess Catherine Oladunni Odu as the new Secretary to the…
A group within Oyo People’s Democratic party, PDP like-minds has blasted Oyo state governor’s ally, Mr. Dare Adeleke for his recent statements on Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose and Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Diran Odeyemi. The group described Dare Adelekeas a facile bootlicker, a man who is doing everything like a lapdog to please governor Seyi Makinde. In a statement signed and released to journalists by its cordinator, Hon. Micheal Adepoju, the Oyo PDP like-minds enlightened members of Oyo PDP and people of Oyo state about the fake life and eye services of Mr. Dare Adeleke, the Chairman of Oyo…
