Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed “immoral” in the area. The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming…
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The Federal Government and major automobile importers in Nigeria have agreed to fashion out a collective action plan for the…
Former Oyo State Head of Service, Mrs Kudirat Adeleke and eleven other accused persons who are being prosecuted by the…
The Director-General of Oyo State Public Works Department, Engineer Taiwo Akintola has attributed the free flow of traffic in Ibadan and other parts of the State to the massive road rehabilitation, construction of bridges and the Urban Renewal Programme of the Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration. Akintola, while speaking on the NTA, Ibadan personality interview programme […]
The Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has announced the portfolios of commissioners recently sworn in into the state executive council. According to a statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media to the governor, Mr. Wale Sadeeq, four of the commissioners who were reappointed into the cabinet, Messrs Adebayo Ojo, Muyiwa Gbadegesin, Zacheus Adedeji […]
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has reiterated the commitment of the state government to reducing maternal and child mortality…
As calls for the Sovereign National Conference dominate daily public discourse, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said that the Federal Government does not need a conference to perform its constitutional duties, saying that the sudden U-turn of the central government is diversionary. Delivering a lecture at the 4th Convocation lecture of the Joseph …
IMPERATIVES FOR A SOVEREIGN NATIONAL DIALOGUE presented by His Excellency Dr. Kayode FAYEMI Governor, Ekiti State, Nigeria at the 4th Convocation Ceremony of the Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU) Monday, November 25, 2013 Protocols I am delighted to be here today at this epochal event. I salute the founders and administrators of this great citadel …
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has inaugurated a five-man steering committee for the Abia -Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji (4th from left), winner of Gulder Ultimate Search 10th Edition, Dennis Okike (5th from…