WEEPING FOR A LAUGHING MAN By Abdullahi O. Haruna Haruspice

Since Governor Yahaya Bello assumed office for his second term in office as Executive Governor of Kogi state, there has been a deliberate and sustained onslaught against his deputy, Edward Onoja particularly from people from his aisle of kogi East. In imaginary plots, they reel out how the governor isn’t longer comfortable with Chief Edward Onoja, how his towering influence in the Lugard House has waned abysmally and now sits idly like a beaten bird in the rain. Pictures flew around showing the man in subdued mien, according to them…

You led Oyo state into decadence, Gov Makinde replies APC

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has refuted persistent claim by the immediate past administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, that it built a modern Oyo.He also declared that the claim was unjustifiable and bogus. The Governor, who was speaking at the sensitisation programme on the new waste management system in the state, said his administration inherited a decayed system in the governance of Oyo State in May 2019. In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, the Gov…