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Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has admonished couples to have a vision and always take decisions jointly in order to have a successful marriage. He urged couples to hold themselves through the situations of life, saying their oneness would always bring greater results. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Governor Makinde stated this on Saturday, when he attended the wedding of the daughter of the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta states, Alhaji Dawud Makanjuola Akinola, in Ibadan.  The governor, while congratulating the parents of the new couple, enjoined them to leave the couple to make mistakes and correct themselves without any interference. He said: "Let me use this opportunity to congratulate you and pray that your home shall be fruitful. "Simply, my word of advice for everyone here and to the parents of the groom and bride is that you need to leave them to make mistakes and correct themselves. I believe

Th e Oyo South Senatorial district aspirant, Kolapo Kola-Daisi, has offered his condolences to the family of the Soun of Ogbomosoland, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III following an announcement of his demise on Sunday. In a statement made available through his official communications channels, the frontline senatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo South described the late monarch as a peaceful King whose reign will be greatly missed statewide. It said, "I deeply commiserate with my people of Oyo state, the Oyo State Council of Obas, the immediate family and especially sons and daughters of Ogbomosoland, on the demise of the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III. My days as a student at the Federal Government College, Ogbomoso, gave me a firsthand feel of Soun's peaceful and colorful reign. He was firstclass by reign and by nature and the entire Yorubaland and the nation will miss him. May his legacies remain celebrated and may Alm

The much awaited autopsy report of the slain Master's student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, is finally out and have been submitted to the police. Adegoke, it would be recalled, died in a controversial manner at Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife. The report was submitted on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, at Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja, top security sources close to the matter revealed. It was further learnt that a copy of the report was also submitted to Osun State Police Command headquarters in Osogbo. Part of the report revealed that Adegoke died of severe trauma while his internal and external organs were intact. The source also revealed that “the internal organs like heart, kidney, livers and others could not be subjected to test because they are already in the advanced decomposition stage as at the time of carrying out the test, so they could not do that. “They could not do a toxicology test on the body because the stomach has decomposed and was

After his elaborate wedding ceremony in Ibadan, Oyo State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin is set to hold thanksgiving service in his home town, Eruwa. The thanksgiving, as shared on Ogundoyin's social media platform, is scheduled for Sunday 12th December, 2021, at First Baptist Church, Eruwa. Recognition follows immediately after the thanksgiving service at Dec Hall, Along Lanlate Road, New Eruwa, Eruwa. It's tagged #DoTheHonoursIbarapa. "I’m going back to my hometown ERUWA for Thanksgiving to God Almighty for blessings and a new beginning," Ogundoyin said on his social media page. It would be recalled that Adebo Ogundoyin and his beautiful wife, Olamidun Ogundoyin (Nee Majekodunmi) were joined in the holy matrimony few days ago. It was a colourful and celebrities-studded party. The Church wedding held at the All Souls' Anglican Church, Bodija. While guests were thereafter hosted into a glamorous reception at the Polo Club Grounds, Eleyele-Road

"I commiserate deeply with the family of late Sylvester (Jnr) Oromoni, the 12-year old pupil of Dowen College, Lagos. As a parent, I share the grief Sylvester's demise has brought upon his parents and the entire household. The incident is not only sad, but disturbing and heartbreaking. Consequently, I have ordered a comprehensive investigation into the matter. But while that is going on, I would like to give Sylvester's parents and entire citizenry of Lagos, the assurance of my full support at this trying time.   I share their pains and sense of loss. Indeed,  words are inadequate to describe my feelings, but I pray that God Almighty will soothe their pains, and grant Sylvester Jnr eternal rest."

Oyo State Governor, ’Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, said that his administration will continue to judiciously utilize the resources of the state for the good of its people. The governor, who was speaking through the Head of Service, Alhaja Amidat Agboola, at the year 2021 Public Service Forum, with the topic: "The Millennial Public Service: Springboard from Poverty to Prosperity", held at the Theophilous Ogunlesi Hall, UCH, Ibadan, said that the welfare of the workers and pensioners are germane to his administration.  A statement by the Chief Press to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted Makinde as saying that the transformation of any society or system depends on the effectiveness and efficiency of its civil/public service. He said: “I feel highly delighted to be in your midst this morning on the occasion of the year 2021 Annual Public Service Forum. Let me join the Head of Service to welcome all Civil/Public servants to this year’s event which should have held last year but for

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has directed all serving political appointees with 2023 political ambitions in the State to resign on or before Jan 31 2022 to pursue their dreams. A statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kunle Somorin, said the directive had become expedient to avoid observed distractions and loss of focus in the discharge of their responsibilities. Whilst noting that it is legitimate to have such ambitions, the Governor, however, said: “As an Administration unwaveringly committed to delivering on its electoral promises, any activity that is capable of undermining the implementation of the Building Our Future Together Agenda of the Administration will not be tolerated”. Governor Abiodun counselled that those who cannot wait till the appropriate time for 2023 electioneering process should  take their leave to pursue their ambitions without constituting a clog in the wheel of the implementation of government programmes and act

Over the last one week, the gist in town has been how Oyo Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin and his better half, Olamidun Ogundoyin (nee Majekodunmi) shut down Ibadan. It was a celebrity-studded party, and indeed a mega one, probably, to round off the events diary of the Ibadan social establishment for the year. Ibadan was on total lockdown. The wedding ceremony, which started with Engagement and Traditional wedding on Thursday 25th November, 2021, at International Conference Centre within the premises of the University of Ibadan, attracted to the ancient city, top celebrities from all walks of life, across Nigeria and beyond. Popular gospel singer, Yinka Ayefele was on the bandstand for the traditional wedding. The Church wedding, during which Most Revd Joseph O. Akinfenwa joined the beautiful couple in holy matrimony, held at All Souls’ Anglican Church, Bodija, Ibadan. As expected of the status of the two families involved, “the Ogundoyins and Majekodunmis,” the two parties

A  former President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Bolaji Rosiji is dead. Rosiji’s death was announced by one of his friends and colleague, renowned flutist Tee Mac Omatsola Iseli. Until his death, he was the founder and brain behind Guarapad Charities. He said burial arrangements will be announced in the coming days. The late Rosiji founded Gaurapad Charities in 2004 and was the former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Network of NGOs (NNNGO). He is survived by wife and children. Credit:  thenationnewspaper   

A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the bail request by the detained founder of Oduduwa University, Ile-Ife, Dr. Ramon Adegoke Adedoyin. Adedoyin had, in an ex-parte motion, filed with a fundamental rights enforcement suit prayed the court to admit him to bail pending the conclusion of investigation by the police or pending the determination of his fundamental rights suit. On the alternative, he asked that he be allowed access to quality medical facilities of his choice pending the conclusion of police’s investigation and his possible arraignment. Ruling after listening to Kunle Adegoke (SAN), who led a team of lawyers for Adedoyin, Justice Inyang Ekwo declined to grant any of the prayers. Instead, Justice Ekwo ordered Adedoyin to serve the motion and other processes in the case on the sole respondent–the Inspector General of Police (IGP)–and adjourned till December 9 for hearing. Adedoyin, said to be the owner of the Hilton Hotel, Ile Ife, Osun State, where a Masters student of

Oyo State Governor, ’Seyi Makinde, on Monday, charged the civil/public servants in the state to be committed to their work. He also admonished them to sustain ethics of the service. The governor, who was speaking through the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun, said that his administration has trained over 9,000 civil/public servants to enhance service delivery. A statement by the Chief Press to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted Makinde as saying that his administration will continue to train and retrain the state's workforce in order to enhance its performance in order to engender high productivity. The statement indicated that Makinde gave the charge while speaking at the training workshop organised by the ministry of establishments and training for civil/public servants, held at the Ibadan Business School, old Bodija, Ibadan. He said: “When I took over the mantle of leadership on May 29th 2019, I assured the good people of Oyo State that I will bri

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has revealed that there students of Dowen College, Lekki are currently assisting the Command  in its investigation into the death of Sylvester Oromoni junior, a 12-year-old student of the college. Odumosu, who disclosed this on Tuesday, said three of the five students mentioned by Sylvester before he died are already in custody and cooperating with the police in their findings. Although, the Police chief did not give the identities of those in custody,  insisting that they are key suspects. Odumosu explained that the Command is set to go for the post mortem of the body in Delta state to ascertain the cause of death.   He assured that police authorities in both Lagos and Delta State are keenly interested in the outcome of the investigation to unravel the mystery behind Sylvester’s death. Meanwhile, the Oromoni family has hired the firm of a foremost human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, to prosecute its case against the institu

On Wednesday, 8th December, 2021, Oba Adedokun Abolarin, the Orangun of Oke Ila in Osun State will be 15 years old on the throne of his fathers. I am not from his kingdom, but I am very connected to his domain. It was in the forested corridors of Ila and Oke-Ila Orangun that dawn met me and I discovered my ori inu. Oba Abolarin is one king who knew before the very beginning that obaship in its pristine, unadulterated form in Yorubaland has a synonym in 'I-surrender-all'. We spoke before his climb onto the sacred stool of his fathers. "Eru nba mi. I must not fail," he told me during one of our nightly calls. And I responded that he was too good to entertain any fear of failure. But that feeling was normal. Men of sterling resolve, at that stage of liminality, grapple with such foggy fears. What shall tomorrow with its vagueness of looming roles birth? "Our doubts are traitors," said William Shakespeare, "they make us lose the good we oft might win by fea

Sylvester Oromoni Snr, the father of a Junior Secondary School two pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has vowed not to bury his son until justice is served. This is just as the family marked the deceased’s 12th birthday posthumously on Saturday during which a cake designed as airplane and pilot uniform was cut in memory of his ambition. The news of Sylvester Jnr’s death went viral on Wednesday following a social media post by his cousin, Perry Oromoni, who alleged that some senior pupils of the college beat him up in his hostel room for refusing to join a cult. But the school denied the claim, stating that the boy complained of pain in his legs and hip following an injury he sustained while playing football. The Lagos State Government had shut down the school indefinitely to ensure thorough investigation. Sylvester Snr, in an interview on Saturday, said his son would not be buried until justice was served – no matter how long it takes. He said, “How can he be

In the last one week in the American and Nigerian cities of Michigan and Lagos, 1983 Nobel Literature winner and British author, William Golding, was literally woken up from the dead. Golding, novelist, playwright and poet, wrote the highly celebrated novel, Lord of the Flies. If you underestimate the holy writ’s admonition that foolishness resides (is bound up) in the heart of a child, then you need to read this Golding’s 1954 debut novel. Woven round myriad thematic concerns, chief of which was the innate bestiality in man, Lord of the Flies, as a name, derived its etymology from the word, which in Latin means Prince of Devils and in Hebrews, a Philistine god, the Beelzebub. It is the story of a group of British schoolboys, while Britain was entrapped in a raging war, who had the plane evacuating them shot down and were lucky to survive in a deserted tropical island. Stranded on this desolate and uninhabited island, the boys then resolved on the need, which eventually turned disastro

Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has maintained that couples must have joint dreams in order to make a success of their marriage. He stated that for peace, love and harmony to exist in the home, husbands and wives would have to put individual dreams aside. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Governor Makinde stated this on Saturday, when he attended the wedding of the daughter of the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, in Ibadan. The governor, while congratulating the parents of the new couple, said the marital journey is never an easy one but one that both parties would need to work together to build. He said: "I want to congratulate the parents of the couple, the Afolabis and Engineer and Professor Olaniyan. I congratulate you all.  "It is just one simple advice I have for the couple. What the Holy Bible says is that you will leave your parents, come together and you will become one. So, decisions have