Month: January 2021

Oyetola tasks Osun residents, citizens on justice, equity

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The Governor, State of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Sunday tasked citizens and residents on the need to deal justly with one another as this would help Osun sustain its status as the most peaceful State in Nigeria. The Governor maintained that peace and security were hundred percent achievable in a society where people deal justly and with fear of God among one another. Oyetola, who gave this admonition in an address declaring open a one-day seminar for members of the Sharia Panel held at the Muslim Secretariat in Osogbo, lauded…

World Hijab Day 2021 : FOMWAN felicitates Nigerian Muslim Women

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Federal of Muslim Women(FOMWAN) today felicitated with Nigerian Muslim families, particularly the women and girls to count their blessings and woes as they joined the one hundred and forty countries of the world to observe the world Hijab Day.   This year’s theme #Endhiabophobia” strongly seek to clarify all those points of misunderstanding about the intent and purpose of the hijab.   In a release issued in Abuja,FOMWAN stated that It behooved Muslim women and girls to interact at the personal, community and professional levels to allay all fears about…

Police arrest 7 for multiple abduction, car theft,women abuse,Int’l child pornography

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The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has said that the action plan being implemented by the Force to curb Sexual and Gender Based Violence, particularly all forms of abuse on women and children in the country, was yielding positive results. The IGP made the affirmation on the heels of the arrest of five (5) members of a kidnap for ransom gang which specialized in the abduction of women and the girl child, sexually abusing them and obtaining ransom from their families before their release.   The five (5)…

APC Still strong in Bayelsa – Sylva

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By Anjola Folajimi     The Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva on Sunday said inspite of the electoral misfortune of the All Progressives Congress (APC) last year, the party is still strong in Bayelsa State. He said this after revalidating his membership of the ruling party at the on-going nationwide membership registration, update and revalidation exercise at New Camp Unit, Ward 4 (Agadama), Brass LGA, Bayelsa State. The one time Governor of Bayelsa State then urged all the APC members in the state and those that are yet…

FULANI-HERDERS- FARMERS CONFLICTS IN OYO STATE: LITTLE HAS CHANGED; LITTLE MAY CHANGE By Taofiq Adesina Azeez

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The recurrent Herdsmen Farmers Conflicts across Africa is over a century old. If we limit our focus to Nigeria, we will be wrong , as usual, to pin down the crises either to the middle belt or the South West of Nigeria. It is, also, evil to regard this criminality as fulanisation/Islamisation. For good or bad reason, Hausa-Fulani Conflicts continue to date. There is hardly any complaints against the mauradding and pillaging herdsmen anywhere in Nigeria that are not applicable to the Hausa land. The Battle fields are Zamfara, Kaduna,…

Payback time

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I have concluded in my mind, I will not change it. Oh dear, what is it you don’t want to change. During my National Youth Service in Abakaliki, I suffered a lot and it was due to my Bank inefficiency. My other colleagues in other banks would have collected their allowance and we will be expecting an alert from our bank after 7 days. I summed up the courage one day, I went to complain about the persistent delay, the person who attends to me said, no matter how late…

NCC debunks online report on MVNO Licence Framework

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reacted to a report in an online publication purporting that the Commission had concluded work on the licensing framework that will open Nigerian telecoms market for the launch of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO).   The Commission in a release signed by the Director, Public Affairs,Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, however, categorically stated that such report was untrue, speculative and unfounded and should be disregarded in its entirety by the members of the public.   NCC said: “The MVNO licence framework, an important precursor to the licensing of…

IGP commissions Nigeria Police PR school ….. says the school ‘Il breed a more people-friendly, human rights compliant Police Force

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The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, today, 29th January, 2021 commissioned the newly constructed Nigeria Police Public Relations School, Lafia, Nasarawa State.   The Police PR School, which is one of the legacy projects of the Force within the past 2 years, will help to breed a more people-friendly, professional and human rights compliant Police Force, in addition to improving capacity and bridging public relations knowledge gaps amongst personnel of the Force.   The IGP, in his key note address, noted that the construction of the School was…

We’ll rather die than accept Seriki Fulani back, Igangan residents vow

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Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa North-West Local Council Development Area of Oyo State have vowed never to allow the now-ejected Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu, to return to the community.   According to them, accepting the Seriki Fulani back in the town was tantamount to self-suicide, adding that they would rather die than to accept Saliu back in the town.   “The entire town would rather go into self-suicide than to accept Seriki back. We would rather lay down our lives than for us and our generations to come to…

Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry: Counsel calls for amendment of Section 84 of Sherrif ,Civil Process Act … as petitioner narrates how he escaped death

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As Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings on Thursday continued its sitting, a counsel to the petitioner, Barrister Muyideen Abiodun Adeoye has called for the amendment of Section 84 of Sherrif and Civil Process Act. Barrister Adeoye said the amendment of the Section would strengthen justice administration, the quest to ensure and enhance acceleration of justice dispensation and as well strengthen the execution of justice in cases involving police brutality. The legal practitioner attributed the delay in the implementation of…