Day: February 13, 2020

Oyo revokes parcels of land in Agodi, Jericho GRA over alteration of Land Use, others

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The Oyo State Government has approved the revocation of some plots of land located within the Agodi Government Reservation Area (GRA) and Jericho axis of Ibadan, the state capital. The revocation order, which was dated February 10, 2020, indicated that the affected plots of land were revoked for overriding public interest and for the use of the State Government. The revocation order read in part: “Notice is hereby given to members of the public that by virtue of powers conferred on the Executive Governor of Oyo State under the provisions…

HURIWA urges Buhari to tame fifth columnists undermining war on terror

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The Civil Rights Advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately activate mechanisms to unravel the role of fifth columnists who are undermining the goals, objectives and gains of the current war on terror being undertaken by gallant operatives of the Nigerian Military. The Rights group in a statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf said that it was of the considered position that the recent killings and losses suffered by innocent…

APC Inaugurates National Reconciliation Committee

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The All Progressives Congress, APC has inaugurated a 12-man National Reconciliation Committee to heal the wounds of the aftermath of 2019 general elections. National Chairman of the Party, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole inaugurated the committee at the party office in Abuja.     Chief Bisi Akande, one of the founding Fathers of the party is to serve as the Chairman, the Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase is the Vice Chairman while Mr. John Enoh is the Secretary. Other members of the Committee are: Governor Abubakar Sani Bello…

Lai Mourns Music Icon Olaiya, Calls Him Legend of His Time

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the late music icon, Sir Victor Olaiya, as a legend of his time, whose music signposted a great epoch in the history of Nigeria. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister said Sir Olaiya’s death, even at a ripe old age, came as a rude shock. He said the demise of the music legend was a great loss to the Creative Industry in particular and the entire country in general ”Sir Victor Olaiya’s was not just…

TRIBUTE: 5 THINGS FOR WHICH I’ll NEVER FORGET LATE SENATOR LONGJAN By Mark Longyen

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First, was in 1994. Armed with a 1992 BSc (Hons) in International Relations from OAU IFE and fresh from the NYSC in Calabar where I served in the Press Unit of the Government House (1992/1993) I stormed Lagos and arrived in Baba Longjan’s office, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marina, Lagos Island. I told him I wanted him to help me secure my dream job in the Nigerian Foreign Service. Baba had just returned from posting by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgium. He gladly received my…