Author: NPO Admin II

The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola Yayi, Senator Tolulope Odebiyi, veteran journalist and Presidential candidate, Chief Dele Momodu are some of the dignitaries expected on Saturday at the final burial ceremony of the late Olofin Adimula Oodua of Ado-Odo, His Royal Majesty, Oba Abdul Lateef Adeniran Akanni. Those also expected to grace the occasion include His Royal Majesty Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, the Olu of Ilaro and paramount ruler of Yewaland who will host other paramount rulers and other traditional rulers from Ogun State and…

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Less than 24 hours to the scheduled governorship primaries of the All Progressive Congress in Osun, there are uncertainties and tension over the exercise. The tension is precipitated over the hardline postures of two warring factions of the party. The two factions, The Osun Progressives (TOP) and the Ileri Oluwa Camp are poised for ‘war’ of supremacy as the party organizes primaries on Saturday. The last two weeks have witnessed deadly attacks, accusations and counter-accusations between the factions as they inch towards tomorrow’s exercise. While the incumbent Gboyega Oyetola who leads the Ileri Oluwa camp is determined to win the…

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A personal assistant to music sensation, David Adeleke (Davido) Afaere Israel, has been involved in an accident where he crashed his newly acquired Toyota Venza. The accident, according to a video, happened in Benin, the Edo State capital. Davido had gifted his aide the car in January to the excitement of the personal assistant. Afaere however said that no one was wounded in the car which had the drivers side badly damaged.

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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has called for appropriate strategy crucial to transforming Africa into knowledge-based and innovation-led society. Osinbajo made the call through Mrs. Maryam Katagum, Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, who represented him at the maiden edition of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Young CEOs Summit. He identified Africa’s vibrant human resources as its greatest hope for development. “Young people make up the bulk of Africa’s population with an estimated 75 per cent of the continent’s population below the age of 35 years. “From a demographic point of view, this calls for a paradigm…

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The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have suspended their planned strike after an intervention by the NNPC Ltd. The parties also pledged collaboration on ensuring nationwide availability of petroleum products. The suspension notice was made known in a communique following a critical stakeholders engagement between the NNPC Ltd., the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), PTD, NARTO, and NUPENG on Thursday, in Abuja. The communique was jointly signed by Malam Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, NNPC, Otunba Salmon Oladiti, National Chairman PTD ,…

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Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Thursday extended an olive branch to the Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau-led faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Responding to the judgment after a thank you visit to the APC national secretariat in Abuja, Ganduje asked the Shekarau-led faction to give peace a chance. The Court of Appeal in Abuja dismissed the judgment of a lower court which upheld the parallel congresses of APC conducted by the ‘G-7’ faction of the party led by Shekarau. The appellate court insisted that the Federal high court, FCT division lacks the jurisdiction to sit on the APC…

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Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) on Thursday in Ikeja expressed dismay over comments credited to the National Assembly Joint Committees on Aviation, accusing airlines of flight delays and cancelations without compensation. Chairmen, Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Aviation, Sen. Smart Adeyemi and Hon. Nnolim Nnaji, respectively, had earlier alleged that airlines delayed flights for four hours to nine hours without paying adequate compensation. Adeyemi and Nnaji had said that should the local carriers failed to sit up, foreign airlines would be invited to operate domestic flights. In its reaction, however, AON’s president, Alhaji Abdulmunaf Yunusa, stated that such…

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Former Governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola has said that he begged Governor Gboyega Oyetola not to destroy the All Progressive Congress in Osun for two years but the Governor refused to listen. Aregbesola, while addressing crowd of supporters in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of Osun on Thursday, said he knew that the implications of weakening the APC ahead of the election were grave not only for Osun but for Nigeria. The former Governor said having failed to perform to the expectations of the people of Osun, there is nothing wrong if the people remove him. He said those…

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The Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA) has announced the death of another Nigerian in South Africa, following a vicious attack on the Nigerian by gangsters in the former apartheid nation. The President of NUSA, Mr. Collins Mgbo, announced the death of Mr. Nicholas John in a statement issued from South Africa on Thursday. John, an indigene of Ogun in Southwestern Nigeria, was attacked by a mob at his shop in Kimberly in South Africa’s Northern Cape on February 12. South Africa has continued to be graveyard for many young Nigerians, who went to that country to find their daily bread.…

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