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The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, the Aje Ogungunniso I, has alerted the police high command to alleged moves by some residents of the city to cause mayhem. Oba Adetunji spoke yesterday at his Popoyemoja, Ibadan palace while hosting Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Foluso Adebanjo. He alluded to the case of Oloode village in Oluyole Local Government Area, where Lukman Alao was deposed as Baale and replaced on January 9 with Dauda Odeyemi Ejo. The first-class monarch said Alao had allegedly become a law unto himself, using the machinery he procured outside the state to molest and arrest law-abiding residents. Oba Adetunji said: “Part of his mode of operation is continuous use of number plate of Baale Oloode long after his removal from office. His co-traveller is the Onido of Ido, Chief Tajudeen Akinola Agura, who, although is not molesting anybody but is using the number plate of Onido of Ido. “If a chief is removed in accordance with our tradi...

MOTORISTS plying the Akure-Ilesha expressway have cried out over the incessant robbery activities by hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen who kidnap, rape, kill, maim and dispossess them of their hard earned money running into millions of naira in the last two months. Infact, deep rooted fear now grip motorists plying the highway  following reports of the daily robberies  carried out there. Reports have it that passengers in commercial buses result in fervent prayers when they are about getting to this axis of the highway and after escaping any attack, they give praises to God for their divine escape. Akure-Ilesha highway Within this period, some important personalities have lost their lives during the spate of unchecked robberies on the highway. More worrisome is the lukewarm attitude of security operatives in both Ondo and Osun states to the plight of motorists who cannot but ply this road because of a lack of an alternative. Of concern also was that the robbers carry out th...

Following alleged lopsidedness in the on-going registration of candidates by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB), the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) of the University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole has called on the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede to volitionally pen his resignation letter from office. The academic union also asked the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to call the registrar to order to lessen the difficulty being experienced by the candidates. According to the ASUU chairman, the board had outlived its usefulness and the best thing is to scrap it and allow universities design their standard examination for their own candidates. Dr Deji noted that the fact that a mock examination was stopped due to logistic reasons underscored the point of alleged incompetence of the Registrar, noting that if candidates could not do mock how sure are they to pass the examination. He said: “Why will anybody make life difficult ...

The ongoing syringe factory in the state is targeted at manufacturing 400 million syringes yearly, The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel , says According to the Governor, ten indigenes of the state , who are graduates of engineering in different fields , had been sent to Vienna for training on how to produce syringe and other hospital consumables . Speaking during the monthly prayer meeting , themed ‘ the path to greatness ’ at the Government House Chapel recently , the governor noted that South Africa has the biggest syringe factory in Africa, with 95 million syringes a year , but that the state government had already ordered eight production lines for its new factory and the equipment were expected to arrive in the state by the second week of May. He lamented that the setback recorded in his industrialisation programme last year was a result of forex crisis , but noted that there would be more employment opportunities for the people of the state before the third quarter o...

The Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended the efforts of the Ministries of Transport, Power, Works and Housing, Kaduna State government, Julius Berger Plc, others who made possible the official re-opening of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, ahead of the deadline. It will be recalled that the airport was shut down March 8 for six weeks to pave way for rehabilitation of the runway and was billed to be re-opened today, April 19. The President was elated that the authorities met the deadline 24 hours ahead of the official date of reopening. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, President Buhari said he “looked forward to such display of inter-agency cooperation and efficiency in the operation of the entire Federal Government machinery.” He also thanked Ethiopian Airlines for cooperating with the government during the period of the closure of Abuja airport, describing it as a good example of intra-A...

The Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended the efforts of the Ministries of Transport, Power, Works and Housing, Kaduna State government, Julius Berger Plc, others who made possible the official re-opening of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, ahead of the deadline. It will be recalled that the airport was shut down March 8 for six weeks to pave way for rehabilitation of the runway and was billed to be re-opened today, April 19. The President was elated that the authorities met the deadline 24 hours ahead of the official date of reopening. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, President Buhari said he “looked forward to such display of inter-agency cooperation and efficiency in the operation of the entire Federal Government machinery.” He also thanked Ethiopian Airlines for cooperating with the government during the period of the closure of Abuja airport, describing it as a good example of intra-A...

"IT may take years to find all the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014" Defence Minister Brig.-Gen. Mansur Ali has said. Boko Haram insurgents invaded the all-girls Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State and forcefully took away 276 pupils. Three years after the abduction, the insurgents are still holding on to 195 of the girls, with the Federal Government expressing readiness to negotiate their freedom. Speaking to VOA’s Hausa Service, monitored in Yola yesterday, Brig.-Gen Ali, said the military was committed to finding the girls and still combing Boko Haram hideouts in the Sambisa Forest. He likened the troops’ inability to find the girls despite retaking most of the territories initially occupied by Boko Haram to the United States (U.S.) efforts to find Osama bin Laden after the invasion of Afghanistan. The minister said: “It took the U.S. up to seven, eight, up to 10 years before they could get to bin Laden. We are continuing ou...