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Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, the senator representing Oyo North and Chairman, Committe on ICT and Cybercrime, has described as pathetic the high rate of cybercrime in the country. Describing the situation as horrible, during the maiden edition of the South West Group of Online Publishers (SWEGOP)'s Breakfast Media Chat, where he was a guest. The event, held on Wednesday 30th November, 2016, at the SWEGOP office, CEOAfrica Building, Jericho, Ibadan, did not only avail the distinguished senator an opportunity to address some pressing national issues but also served as avenue for him to give stewardship of representation of his constituency in the past years. Below are some of the questions put to the senator. Excerpt.

The Oyo State Government will hold a town hall meeting on Thursday, December 1, 2016 to update the citizens about the recent developments in the state and to formally present its new education policy as contained in the recently released White Paper on the report of a Committee on Participatory Management of Schools to review the educational status of the State. The state commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun who made this disclosure in a statement in Ibadan on Tuesday, said that the town hall meeting which will give the citizens the opportunity to have robust deliberations with Governor Abiola Ajimobi and his team  will hold at the University of Ibadan Conference Centre by 10am. Arulogun stated that the government believes in engaging its stakeholders on its policies and activities saying that the government is ready to fully implement the White Paper Gazetted publication of the Oyo State Government No.26 Vol 41 which has led to the creation of Sc

The Chairman, Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercrime, Senator Abdulfatai Buhari will on Wednesday, November 30th, 2016, feature on the maiden edition of  a special media chat to be hosted by the South West Group of Online Publisher (SWEGOP).

The drive by the Oyo State Government to promote cultural tourism in the state has started yielding positive results, as some Brazilian tourists arrived Oyo State last week on a tour of sites and discussions on the development of a partnership between the Yoruba culture in Bahia, Brazil and Oyo State with a view to evolving a tourism axis in major cities of the Yoruba race.  Receiving the tourists led by Baba L’Orisa, Leopoldino Alves De Campos also known as Baba Ogundare, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun said that it was expedient to promote the potentials in the cultural tourism sector of the state, saying that the Ministry’s recent meetings with the Brazilian Embassies in Abuja and Lagos have started yielding fruits manifesting in the visit of the first set of Brazilians who have come to Oyo state on a cultural tourism mission. Arulogun said that the State government is committed to the Yoruba cultural exchange with the Brazilians,

As you read this and if things favourably fall in place for the Akwa Ibom Government then the world renowned Brazilian football wizard, Edson Arantes do Nascimento popularly known as Pele should be getting ready to return the total sum of $300,00 (about #135 million) back to the Akwa Ibom State Government. Being appearance fee paid him to grace the opening of the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo two years ago, which he failed to.

The Nigerian Association of Online Publishers has called on the Minister of Petroleum Resources, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Board of   the NNPC, which is headed by the Minister of State For Petroleum Resources Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to quickly review the recent movement of management personnel in the organisation Becaise it contains very palpable cases of vendetta and injustice.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has stepped up moves to bring investors from China to the state by assuring the investing public of their individual safety and that of their valuable assets, saying that the government is on a mission to improve the quality of lives of its people by bringing development to the state that would leap frog the economy.