Author: Samson Adeyanju Uwala

ABEOKUTA: As the one month of Ramadan fast and prayer draws to a close, Okó Opó Foundation in partnership with Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has again rekindled the hope of widows in seven communities in Ogun State with rice and cash palliatives to break the fast and celebrate this year’s Sallah. The palliatives were shared to 150 beneficiaries who are widows and indigenes/residents of Isa – Laderin, Masa, Ekiti, Abule – Egbeda, Sokenu, Okotuntun and Agbese communities spread across two local governments in the state. Representatives of the NCS who came to The Podium within Pelican Valley Estate Laderin, one…

Calls for Immediate Action to Uphold Students’ Religious Freedom and Academic Autonomy The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Southwest has received disturbing reports that Muslim students at Adeleke University, Osun State, are being compelled to attend programs they neither signed up for nor expressed interest in. This act not only infringes on their religious rights but also violates the fundamental principles of academic freedom and autonomy. Universities are meant to be centers of intellectual exploration, personal development, and freedom of thought. Any attempt to impose programs on students against their will is a direct threat to these ideals. Such…

Students of The Apostolic Church Nigeria (TACN) LAWNA Theological Seminary, Ayegbaju, Ilesa, Osun State will on Monday commence the 2025 Students Union Government (SUG) Week. The SUG Week will begin with a medical checkup by 6:30am and Health Talk by 4pm. According to the SUG Week Committee Chairman, Theophilus Falude, said that, the SUG week program continues on Tuesday with Skills’ Acquisition on Zobo Drink, Shoemaking, Barbing, and Graphics Designing. Falude, also added that, on Wednesday, there will be Missionary Talk and on Thursday, the final match of the Provost’s Cup Football Competition, which will be between SUG and Jemigbon…

As the World marks the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025 under the theme; “For All Women and Girls: Rights, Equality”, the Association of Christian Correspondents of Nigeria (ACCoN) has once again urged the Nigerian government to take urgent steps towards securing the release of Leah Sharibu, who has remained in captivity for seven years. Leah, one of the 110 schoolgirls abducted on February 19, 2018, from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), was reportedly denied freedom for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. While her schoolmates were eventually…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has lend a supportive hand to a non-profit organization, Okó Opó Foundation, in furtherance of the foundation’s commitment to lifting the widows, children and downtrodden members of the society. The support came by way of donation of 30 bags of 50kg rice to the charity organisation at its corporate office, Laderin, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. This was a plan to lift up the widows and less previleged ones, especially during the Holy month of Ramadan, a season characterized by fasting and prayers by Muslim faithfuls. According to reports from a similar situation on December 26,…

Many people do not understand or even have a better understanding about what forgiveness is all about, though we do hear about it, we try to practice it, still we are unable to implement it and this is part of what still calls for the inadequacies in our lives, our societies and every where we do found ourselves. Forgiveness is not just a means of letting things go off temporarily, or just for the purpose of cleaning of your mind of the incident or act, rather it’s a means of letting an offence or mistake being done to you to…

The House of Representatives has clarified that none of the 30 proposals for new states met the constitutional requirements, stressing that it has not taken a position on the issue. The lower chamber also stated that the media reports that it is proposing the creation of 31 new states were inaccurate and misrepresents the legislative process. The House said that it is ultimately in the place of the Nigerian people to push their proposals through and take an informed decision on the contemporary issue of state creation. Speaking during an interview on Friday morning in Abuja, the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin…

The Apostolic Church Nigeria (TACN) has elected new National Officers of the Church as Pastor (Dr) Lawrence Olusesan Oladele from LAWNA Territory emerged as the new President with 388 votes. The election which was conducted at the National Headquarters of the Church in Lagos on Thursday, saw Pastor Oladele emerged as President against his closer contestant Pastor Jude Ekele who polled 196 votes. The results of the election were announced by the outgoing National President, Pastor (Dr) Sampson Igwe. According to the results of election as presented by the Chief Returning Officer, LAWNA Territorial Vice-Chairman Pastor David Ajibade saw Pastor…

The House of Representatives committee on constitutional review, on Thursday, said it has received proposals for the creation of 31 new states in the federation. Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker, who presided over the plenary session read the letter of the committee containing the proposed states. The states of the federation will increase from 36 to 67 if the proposal is approved. The proposed states include: NORTH-CENTRAL NORTH-EAST NORTH-WEST SOUTH-EAST SOUTH-SOUTH SOUTH-WEST SOURCE: BusinessDay Online

The Chief Executive Officer of Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, Ambassador (Dr) Babatunde Adeyemo, has declared that he has forgiven the trigger-happy operative of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), who recently shot at his vehicle. Adeyemo, also the founder of Okó Opó Foundation, disclosed this on Thursday in his Pelican Valley Estate Office in Abeokuta, shortly after meeting with senior officials of NCS over the shooting incident. According to Adeyemo, he had asked the erring operative “to go and sin no more,” even as he also pleaded with the NCS and its leadership to give the officer a “second chance” and…