Author: Samson Adeyanju Uwala
The 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, is dead. He passed away at the age of 90. Making this known, a former Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Toye Arulogun, confirmed the death of the revered monarch on Monday. Arulogun, who is part of the team handling media and publicity for the late Olubadan, said an official statement would be issued soon. “Confirmed. Official statement on the way,” Arulogun told newsmen in a brief response. It was gathered that Oba Olakulehin died in the early hours of Monday, during activities marking his 90th birthday and the first anniversary of his…
The National body of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has made known the divine intervention of the national body, after securing victory for justice and following the successful resolution of the protracted case involving Comrade Jamiu Owodunni Basola and the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB). Basola, was a graduate of Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), and was denied inclusion for the next batch of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilization, after being accused of making use of fake admission requirements by JAMB. In a statement signed by Comrade Adeyemi Samson Ajasa, National…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reactivated the portal of Jamiu Basola, a Civil Engineering graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, (FUTA) after he was previously flagged for possessing a fake admission. Reports gathered had it that Basola, who graduated in 2024 with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.41, said he sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2017 and was admitted into FUTA in 2018. However, an issue surfaced during his final clearance when the school’s Student Affairs Division informed him that his mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) had…
By YANJU UWALA No doubt the recent dismissal of the two senior Lecturers at the Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Olatunji Abanikada and Dr. Khadeejah Kareem-Ibraheem, must have sparked joyful reaction among the students and the lecturers, as well, because according to reports, the inhumane treatment meted out to students and lecturers by Prof. Abanikada for the past five years as a Dean of a faculty within the institution, is nothing to augur well with all. Also, among reasons for their dismissal is gross misconduct, involving sexual harassment and fraud Though, the dismissal was approved at the LASU Governing Council’s…
Pastor Sams Olubiyi, the Area Superintendent of The Apostolic Church Nigeria (TACN), Obantoko Area, has stressed the importance of Christians being a dependable follower of Jesus Christ, and not just a believer without a particular purpose to fulfill on earth. He, also added that the real man of a particular person is inside the body and not outside, which is just a figure or emblem of whom the person is all about. Pastor Olubiyi, made this known in his short exhortation, with the theme, “THE DEPENDABLE CHRISTIAN”, during the First Area Combined Service of the Area, held at the TACN…
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has urged Journalists to play the vital role towards safeguarding democracy by holding leaders accountable at all times. He made this call on Friday at a two-day capacity retreat for members of the State House Press Corps (SHPC) in Enugu. Mbah, represented by Prof. Sam Ugwu, Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, widely described the media as the nation’s conscience. “As a bastion of democracy, it is essential that journalists must never lose sight of their sacred responsibility to hold leaders accountable and strengthen institutions. “In today’s world, where truth is increasingly under assault,…
By YANJU UWALA For the past three days within some communities in Abeokuta, Ogun State, rainfall has really been a panic to the people of these communities to the extent that even after the mighty outpouring, residents of these places were not able to get out of their houses, some even have had their properties carried away and destroyed, as a result of the rainfall and the flooding that might have resulted from the rainfall. When passing some of these communities and even seeing the pictures, it was indeed perplexing to see some of these flooding enveloping these places, not…
Creation for four more new states in the North East region, has been demanded by some groups in the region and these states are to include; Savannah State to be carved out from Borno, Amana State from Adamawa, Katagum State from Bauchi and Muri State from Taraba. The groups presented their demands on Friday during the opening of a two-day zonal public hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution which held in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. The Director of Media and Publicity, Amana State Movement, Ahmad Sajor, in a statement said the demand for the state creation…
The Federal Government has fixed July 23 and 24, 2025, for a national stakeholder forum to address mounting concerns over petrol pricing and supply dynamics in the downstream sector, amid growing agitation by independent marketers for price regulation. The planned summit, organised by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), is expected to bring together industry operators, marketers, refiners, and government officials to deliberate on petroleum pricing standards, feedstock adequacy, and strategies to stabilise the deregulated market. The Executive Director of Hydrocarbon Processing Plants, Installation and Transportation Infrastructure at the NMDPRA, Francis Ogaree, confirmed the date and summit…
The House of Representatives will on Wednesday July 10, organise a 3-day national summit on nutrition and food security, to address malnutrition in the country. The Chairman, House Committee on Nutrition and Food Security, Chike Okafor, representing All Progressive Congress (APC-Imo), made this known at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. He said that the theme of the summit is, “Curbing Malnutrition and Food Insecurity Through Effective Synergies.” The lawmaker said that in spite of decades of national policies and sectoral programmes aimed at improving nutrition and food systems, Nigeria continued to grapple with alarming rates of malnutrition and…