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The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, has asked the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 election, Mr. Adebayo Adelabu, to rise above cheap politics in his criticisms of the state’s Prosperity Bond unveiled last Wednesday. Adisa, in a statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan, declared that the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has a duty to the people of Oyo State and Nigerians in general to make sound inputs into economic debates and justify that he truly merited a seat at the apogee of the Nigerian Financial sector, where he once sat as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The media aide to the governor also maintained that the terms that will be agreed to by the state, whenever discussions on the Bond issuance begin, will protect the interest of Oyo State people, as Governor Makinde has continued to show that the protecting the interest of Oyo S

Responding to the 48 hours ultimatum given him by Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila-led House of Representatives, the former governor of Akwa Ibom State and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has released the list of lawmakers involved in the alleged fraud in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).    This is sequel to the letter Akpabio had earlier sent to the National Assembly that, he did not accuse the lawmakers of receiving 60 percent of the contracts at NDDC. However, the part where the minister stated the names were not read on the floor of the house but were in the letter forwarded by the minister to the National Assembly. The National Youth Council of Nigeria who released the document to the public in Abuja on Sunday expressed disappointment that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, refused to disclose the list of federal lawmakers who benefitted from the contracts awarded by the (NDDC). According to the docu

The Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Tolu Akande-Sadipe K on Thursday said about eighty thousand Nigerians are currently held as sex slaves and in forced labour across the world, in countries like Lebanon, Mali and across the Middle East. Akande Sadipe who said this during plenary in Abuja, condemned the complacency of Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Employment, which has subjected young Nigerian girls to modern-day slavery, sexual exploitation and organ harvesting among other ills. Mrs. Sadipe also noted that the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the guise of diplomacy is working towards the release a Lebanese trafficker, Wafic Mohammed Hamze, apprehended by National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons who is complicit in the trafficking of sixteen girls to Lebanon. She said, “Records show that Wafic Hamza was complicit in the trafficking of 16 girls, 10 of which have been repatriated back to Nigeria whils

The family of the late Ibadan-born business tycoon, Sir (Chief) Bode Akindele has released how their patriarch will be buried. As expected, the grand and befitting burial ceremony is going to be 4-day events. According to the outlined programs by the family, the funeral proceedings will commence in Lagos State on Tuesday 28 July, 2020, with a Commendation Service, at Hoaros Memorial Methodist Cathedral, Yana, Lagos. By Wednesday 29 July, 2020, there is going to be Evening of Songs/Evening of Tributes, at the deceased's Ibadan residence, Ibiyemi Villa, Old Standard Breweries, Alomaja, Ibadan. On Thursday 30 July, 2020, Lining in State and Christian Wake will hold between 12noon-3pm and 4pm-6pm, respectively. The Funeral Service however comes up on Friday 31st July, 2020, at the historic Methodist Cathedral, Agbeni, Ibadan, between 10am-11am. After which the remains of the deceased will be committed to mother earth. All the programs, according to Akinde