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The Federal Government on Monday said about N7.3 billion was yet to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries of its 774, 000 Special Public Works Programme (SPWP). The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, gave this hint during a budget defence session organised by the Senate Committee on Labour and Productivity, in Abuja. The Federal Government, through the programme, which is being supervised by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), had engaged 774,000 Nigerians across the country to carry out public works for three months and to be paid and N60,000 each for the duration. Senators had…

Residents of Ayete and Tapa communities in the Ibarapa North local government area of Oyo State have raised the alarm over a looming attack by Fulani herdsmen. A Save Our Soul (SOS) letter titled “lnevitable Attack ls Looming” and signed by one Adeagbo Taiwo, has been addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko. According to the letter, herders threatened to attack the communities within seven days, counting from Saturday, October 30, 2021. Taiwo in the letter alleged that 70 Fulani herdsmen, each with an AK-47 rifle on Friday, October 29 came from Ogun State and settled in…

Newly elected chairman of All Progressives Congress(APC) in Oyo State, Mr Isaac Omodewu, has spoken about the legitimacy of his mandate. Speaking with journalists shortly after his affirmation on Saturday, Omodewu said his emergence completed with the party’s rules and regulations. Watch video below; https://youtu.be/x08Da1OowYM

Hon. Yusuff Sahib Oladayo (Agba Egbe) has congratulated the newly elected national officers of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), urging them to always put the party first above other interest. Having Ambassador Toafeek Arapaja as the newly elected deputy national chairman (South). In a statement issued on Monday by his spokesperson, Mr. Bodija Akinwale also tasked members of the party to make sacrifices, noting that the only way to achieve the party’s goals and aspirations was to unite as members of one political family.The statement reads: “I congratulate the newly elected executives of the PDP at the national level of…

The controversy surrounding the State Congress of the All Progressives Congress(APC),in Oyo-State, is getting messier as documentary evidence contradicts the claim by the embattled chairman’s disclaimer of the four members who distanced themselves from the congress. In a statement released early on Monday,Mallam Kontagora had claimed that the congress was conducted by the Secretary and three members on his authority. This was after four members had released a statement on Sunday that they were not part of the congress. The four members namely Hon. Olanrewaju Edun, Mallam Abubakar Abdullai, Mr Diran Iyantan and Chief Ralph Igbokwe. had claimed in their…

After just four months in charge of Tottenham Hotspur, Portuguese manager, Nuno Espirito Santo has been sacked. Spurs were forced into an emergency meeting over the weekend following the 3-0 defeat to Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday. The London club are eighth on the Premier League standings after five wins and five losses in the entire ten games Nuno managed in the league since he replaced Jose Mourinho at the start of the season. The former Wolves manager was sacked along with his coaching staff due to the poor form which has extended into Europe. Spurs…

Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youth and Sports, has insisted that only an all-inclusive, transparent and fair congress could save the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state from imminent crisis. The minister, in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Ibadan, urged party members to remain calm. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dare was reacting to the palpable tension among party faithful after the disputed party congress which was boycotted by a sizeable number of party leaders. NAN reports that the minister and other party leaders on Saturday kicked against…

Strong indications emerged on Sunday that the Peoples Democratic Party might no longer give preference to retired generals and other former military officers in the sharing of positions. Sources, who confided in The PUNCH, explained that the party’s 13 governors were unanimous in their conviction that it was time to allow “politicians to play politics and do away with ex-generals.” A few weeks before the PDP national convention, the governors had agreed on a former President of the Senate, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, as the consensus candidate for the national chairmanship position against an ex-Senate President, David Mark, who is a…

A 40-year-old man, Soji Bakare, has been arrested by Police detectives for allegedly raping a 10-yr-old primary school pupil in her parents’ bedroom in Akure, the Ondo state capital. The suspect was caught while assaulting the victim at her parents’ house located at Aiyeyemi street, Isolo area of Akure, the state capital. Vanguard gathered that the mother of the victim was in the market where she sells soup ingredients when the suspect sneaked into their house and assaulted her daughter. It was gathered that the suspect, whose wife also sells in the same market as the victim’s mother, headed for…

Oyo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has released names and positions of all the newly elected executive members of the party. TODAY SPLASH recalls that the party had its state congress on Saturday in Ibadan, the state capital. The congress was held at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium, Oke Ado, Ibadan. Our correspondent gathered that the emergence of the executive members was sequel to a motion moved for the endorsement of the names by Hon. Dokun Odebunmi. The motion was seconded by a former majority leader of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Kehinde Subair. The party has however…