Author: Alex Enemanna
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Dare Sunday Awoniyi, Ademola Seriki, 38 others scale through Senate screening as Ambassadors
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of 38 non-career and one career ambassadors-designate that would represent the country on foreign missions. The list also included Dare Awoniyi (Kogi), who is the son of the late Sunday Awoniyi, former Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum and Ademola Seriki (Lagos). President Muhammadu Buhari had requested the…
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GOVERNOR YAHAYA BELLO, Dutiful Partyman With Successful national Assignments…
By: Omoluabi Bode Adeyemi It was Winston Churchill who said The Price of Greatness is Responsibility. For Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the fourth Executive Governor of Kogi state, his waxing prominence in the national political firmament gets the faint-hearted trembling. This is not achieved through any magic than the responsibility of diligence in national service. Never…
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COVID-19: Fayemi tests positive
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi says he has tested positive for Covid-19. Fayemi said this in a tweet on Wednesday, adding that he would be handing over to his deputy, Adebisi Egbeyemi. “I took my third Covid-19 test yesterday and it came back positive. I’m generally ok and I’m already self-isolating at home and receiving…
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Dangote truck kills father, son in Kogi as youths fume
A truck belonging to Dangote Cement Company was on Tuesday set ablaze in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, following the killing of a man and one of his sons. Eyewitnesses told our correspondent that the truck was about negotiating the bend leading to the Zone 8 when it lost control and crushed a pedestrian and…
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Presidency kicks as Senate insists on resignation of service chiefs
The Senate on Tuesday asked heads of the country’s armed forces to step down following the killings of soldiers fighting insurgency and banditry in parts of northern Nigeria. But the Presidency, in its reaction, disagreed, saying it is the prerogative of President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint and sack the service chiefs Debating a motion moved…
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Court slams life imprisonment on 35-year-old man for defilement of minor
On Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, has sentenced a 35-year-old man, Adekunle Olalere, to life imprisonment for defiling a two-year-old girl. Olalere was, on Tuesday, convicted of one count of having sexual intercourse with the victim. The convict, who resides at No. 18 Bashorun Street, off Unity Road, Olowotedo, Mowe, had pleaded…
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Kogi state government launches light up Kogi East project
Says it is a covenant made that is being kept The Kogi State government on Tuesday flagged of a project to light up Kogi Eastern Senatorial District as part of its efforts to drive rural development. Gov. Yahaya Bello who was represented at the event by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr.…
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Reps honour Arotile
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, honoured Nigerian Air Force’ first female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, who died last week. The NAF had said Arotile died on Tuesday last week at the age of 24, when she was inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force Secondary School…
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Two nabbed for allegedly stealing motorcycle in Ogun
The personnel of the Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, arrested two suspected robbers, who allegedly specialised in snatching motorcycles from their owners at gunpoint in Ijebu-Ode and its environs. The suspects were reportedly caught while trying to snatch a motorcycle after they had dispossessed two riders of their motorcycles. The Police Public Relations Officer…
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Court jails jails 35-year-old Osun man for stealing plantain
A 35-year-old man Maruf Ojo, was on Monday jailed for one month by an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife for stealing plantain. The defendant, who stole bunches of plantain worth N55,000, pleaded guilty to the one count of stealing pressed against him by the police. The police prosecutor, Sunday Osanyintuyi, said the convict…