Some gunmen have reportedly invaded the staff quarters of the University of Ibadan and killed an official of the National Examination Council identified as Vincent Odinko.
It was gathered that Odinko, who resided in the boys quarters was killed, while his gadgets including mobile phones and a laptop were carted away.
The incident reportedly happened in the night, last Friday, as the gunmen broke into the BQ of a staff building where Odinko resided with his family.
The police are yet to give detail of the sad incident. However, when contacted by our correspondent, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, said investigations had commenced to unravel the detail of the incident.
“Investigations have since commenced. Updates would be provided, please,” Osifeso stated in a chat with our correspondent.
The Osun man said to have married twin sisters from the same family in Ede has come out to debunk the viral claim and tagged it ‘a figment of imagination’.
Recall, a viral video circulating online had it that the young guy tied a knot with twin sisters of the same parents in Ede.
In a short video clip made available to ODUDUWA NEWS by the bridegroom to debunk the viral video alluded to the fact that he married only to one of the twin sisters who is Kehinde and not both twin sisters.
He claimed that people misconstrued the same attires put on by both the twins as a sign of having both hands in marriage.
He made clarification on the attire, saying it has been a usual practice of the duo to be wearing the same colour of attires since their childhood and that he couldn’t prevent such since they have freedom to their mode of dressing.
He however condemned insinuation going around that he married the twin sisters and claimed that such never happened.
Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of executing a concerted agenda to discredit the Osun State governorship tribunal through outright lies and misrepresentation of tribunal proceedings.
The PDP through one of its senior counsel, N.O. Oke, SAN has subsequently reported the APC to the Tribunal Chairman for lying about proceedings at the court. The Tribunal had proceeded to ask for those publications in response to the submission of the PDP counsel. Misrepresentation deserves necessary sanctions.
The party through its State Chairman, Dr Adekunle Akindele berated the APC for undermining the integrity of the judges by deliberately lying on common agreement reached by all counsels with the judges on how the proceedings should be conducted.
The Tribunal Chairman had from the beginning sought and secured the understanding of all counsels that objections to documents tendering should be reserved till the last day during addresses by parties. All respondents agreed to the request meaning that counsels can bring any document no matter how worthless but its merit or otherwise will be determined during the address stage.
It was in keeping with this agreement that the PDP did not object to all the worthless documents being submitted to the Tribunal. At the address stage, our team will knock out those so called documents tendered as they lack merit on all counts.
The Chairman affirmed that “all the documents being presented by the APC will not see the light of the day by the time the respondents take the stage for their addresses.
“Let me reaffirm that admission of the documents is not in anyway a confirmation of veracity of the contents. We all agreed that all sides can tender whatever they have. That was our agreement with the panel. What the Tribunal did in good faith is now being abused by the APC because it is more interested in media trial than just prosecution of its petition.
“The APC came up with many documents that are not even pleaded in their original submissions. They claim certificate forgery which we will dispel as Ademola Adeleke has certified certificates authenticated from all institutions he attended. The many lies APC is peddling is because it has no case against Senator Adeleke’s election as Osun state Governor-elect.
“It is indeed a disservice to the judiciary for the APC to go to town and misrepresent a common agreement. We did not object to those groundless documents because our turn is coming during address stage. APC is known for lies and that was one of the reasons why Osun people voted them out of office”,
Dr Adekunle reassured PDP supporters and people of Osun state that the electoral victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke is not shaking by the valueless submissions of the APC, declaring that ” as at today, it was APC that sought adjournment because it is aware all its lies will be demolished when we take the stage”
Akindele restated his submission that Senator Adeleke did not present any forged certificates as all his educational qualifications are original and bonafide.
“The APC and Mr Oyetola sent a team to the United States to investigate the certificates of Senator Adeleke. They found no smoking guns as all the schools confirmed our Governor-elect as their former student. APC is just chasing shadows.
“Our lawyers are on top of the case. Mr Oyetola has no case. He is defeated and he should relocate to Lagos or Iragbiji”, the party Chairman noted.
The speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has urged Nollywood actors, producers and entertainers not to relent in their efforts to ensure that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, comes out victorious in the forthcoming 2023 election.
This was made known in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Eromosele Ebhomele on Friday.
Obasa gave the charge at the Assembly complex, Thursday, when he received a group, Progressive Coalition of Entertainers, led by actor, Saheed Balogun.
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji has presented a budget of N113.6 billion for 2023 to the State House of Assembly for consideration.
The bill, christened “Budget of Strong Beginning”, was made up of N80.36billion for Capital Expenditure and N34.06billion for Recurrent Expenditure.
Mr. Oyebanji explained that capital expenditure constituted 70 per cent of the Budget while 30 per cent represented recurrent expenditure.
According to the Governor, the budget will provide the roadmap for the implementation of his administration 6-point agenda.
He said that his administration would be irrevocably committed to openness, transparency and accountability towards ensuring fiscal discipline in government activities.
Governor Oyebanji said the budget was prepared in accordance to global best practices and added that the state Ministry of Budget and Planning will later give a detailed analysis of the budget.
Earlier, while welcoming the governor to the House for the first time as the Chief Executive of the State, the Assembly Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon. Hakeem Jamiu assured that the Assembly will continue to build bridges of understanding and collaboration with the government for the betterment of Ekiti people.
He assured that the House through its various committees will work expeditiously on the budget estimate with a view to passing it in a record time.
Osun State governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday presented staff of office and instrument of appointment to the new Ogunsua of Modakeke, Oba Joseph Olubiyi Toriola.
The governor congratulated the monarch for being considered worthy of ascending the throne of his forefathers and appealed to the people of Modakeke and beyond to continue to sustain the existing peace and shun all acts of violence.
Oyetola equally enjoined the people to join hands with the new monarch for the progress, unity, peace and the overall development of Modakeke. He assured that his Government will not relent in its effort to play its role in that regard.
He therefore wished Oba Joseph Olubiyi Toriola a successful tenure and prayed that the Almighty God bless him with long life, good health and prosperity on the throne.
The former chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party PDP and a leader of New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, Chief Bisi Olopoeyan has condemned the ‘light-up-Oyo’ project and tagged it a failed a project.
Olopoeyan made this disclosure today while granting an interview to journalists at his residence, Olopoeyan said he has never seen such project in his life where diesel would be used to power street lights as against modern system of solar-powered as being run in Lagos and other states.
He also talked about the inability of Gov Makinde to show his support to the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He said Makinde only have single term to spend and that if not because of the incumbency power he holds, he should have been suspended from PDP for conniving with others to stand against the decision of the party’s presidential candidate.
He also chides the supporters of Makinde and called them hungry people who wander around looking for what to eat.
“Go and look at his supporters, they are hungry, Makinde will only use single term and by the end of his tenure, people would desert him.
“He always claim he is paying salary of workers on the 25th of every month, is that not foolishness to be campaigning with payment of salary when you be campaigning with infrastructural development. If you pay on the 13th or 30th, it still the same thing and there is no different. Moreover, it is the entitlement of the workers not that you are doing them a favour.
“If he leaves government, we would see his shady deal and shall be exposed to the world”.
The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde has today presented the budget tagged “sustainable development” to the Oyo State House of Assembly.
The presentation was done by the executive governor at the ongoing Plenary session.
The majority leader, Hon. Sanjo Adedoyin while introducing the executive governor, highlighted some of the past achievements of the governor in the State which included improvement in internally generated revenue, revamp of the economy and infrastructural development.
Gov. Makinde while speaking on the 2023 budget was quoted as saying “three years ago when we came with our budget, we came with budget that would aide accelerated growth of the economy. In 2020, we budgeted Two Hundred And Eight Billion Naira (N208bn) for the state and we have moved from accelerated growth to sustainable development.
“These are not just figure, in reality, we have moved our people from poverty to prosperity. In education, we have consistently maintained 18-20 % allocation. We have also grown Internally Generated Revenue by over 90% without raising tax on anybody and we did this through private partnership as we focus on comparative advantage in agribusiness to grow our economy.
“Today, through infrastructural development, we can say with pride that our dear state is interconnected through road construction and rehabilitation”, said Makinde.
He highlighted his achievements in sports and youth development, he claimed that the state has brought the lost glory of over 28 years back as a result of the recent international football match that was played at Adamasingba Stadium.
He talked about the health sector, where he claimed to have invested heavily in primary healthcare and installation of health equipment in Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital and other state hospitals.
He further hinted on the importance of ‘light-up-Oyo’ claiming the project has contributed to the drastic reduction in crime rate in the State.
“Time would fail me if I should continue to highlight some of our achievements but I can boldly say we have raised internally generated revenue from N1.7bn in 2018 to N3.3bn. Our budget revenue performance stands at 59.7% while expenditure performance remains at 54.8%.
“Today, we are presenting Three Hundred And Ten Billion Naira (N310bn) Budget of Sustainable Development to meet the needs of the good people of Oyo State without compromising the best standards”.
He premised the details of the 2023 budget on the internally generated revenue which stands at N83.5bn while the statutory allocation stands at N50bn, with VAT generated to be N60bn.
N154.348bn has been budgeted for capital expenditure, accounting for 49.7% of the total budget, while recurrent expenditure stands at N155.651bn making 51.3% of the total budget.
Education to receive N58.213bn being 18% of the 15-20% of the UNESCO recommendation, health care gets 36bn while agricultural sector to receive N11.198bn.
The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Debo Ogundoyin while speaking commended the governor for the laudable projects he has embarked on in Oyo State. He therefore used the ocassion to implore him to do more for the good people of Oyo State.
Interior minister Rauf Aregbesola and the Controller General (C-G) of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Haliru Nababa, have said Abdulrasheed Maina is feigning ailments to aid his escape from lawful custody.
The duo stated this in their joint counter-affidavit opposing Maina’s originating motion filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja.
In the application, dated and filed October 31, the duo said: “It has become glaring from intelligence report at their disposal that the applicant (Maina) only feigns the ailments for him to be taken out of the custodial facility to aid his escape from lawful custody.”
The Chief Superintendent of Correction, Diamond Bako, who was an officer in charge of the clinic at Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, deposed to the application.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Maina, the former Chairman of defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), had, on October 17, filed a motion ex parte motion to get treatment.
Maina (the applicant) listed the minister and the C-G of NCoS as first and second respondents in the motion dated and filed on September 27.
The former PRTT chairman, who is currently serving an eight-year jail term at Kuje Prison for pension fraud to the tune of N2 billion, had told the court that he was suffering from a life-threatening disease in the prison and needed urgent medical attention.
The ex-pension reform boss prayed the court for an interim order directing the minister and the C-G, via their workers or agents, to immediately take him to a reputable and recognised hospital for treatment of his life-threatening diseases pending the hearing and determination of his originating motion.
Reacting, the respondents, in the counter-affidavit, said contrary to Maina’s claim, he was never refused access to medical services, but that Maina would not be allowed to hide under medical services to escape from lawful custody.
They described the medical reports he produced as “self-induced”.
“The exhibits attached to the affidavit in support of the applicant’s (Maina’s) originating motion only goes to shows that contrary to the claims of the applicant that he was denied access to medical facilities, the applicant had access to medical attentions at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, where he has severally been attended to; and the exhibits amply bore out these facts.
“Contrary to paragraph 13 of the affidavit in support of the applicant’s originating motion, there was no time the applicant collapsed in Kuje Medium Security Custodial facility…”
Following resumed hearing yesterday, Maina’s lawyer, Ibrahim Idris (SAN), informed that the respondents’ lawyer, Abdulmumin Muhammad, had just served him with his application.
“The applicant, on several occasions, made self-induced complaints about his health and he was taken (not rushed) to a specialised and reputable hospital for medical services.
“He was kept in the hospital for several hours without any sign of readiness on the part of the hospital management to attend to him.
“While in the hospital, he was visited by several friends and relatives who sat with him, chatted with him and he was engulfed in conversations with them, laughing occasionally, without any sign of any ailment and/or pain.
“When, after several hours of waiting and effort by the operatives of the second respondent (the NCoS C-G) to the management of the hospital to come forward and attend to him failed, it became obvious that the referral to the hospital was a mere gimmick to take the applicant out of lawful custody.
“It was at that point the operatives of the second respondent received a confidential, top secret intelligence report that the applicant must, as a matter of expediency, quickly remove from the hospital and return to the custodial centre; otherwise, armed gunmen suspected to be loyal to the applicant would strike and take the applicant away to an unknown destination,” they alleged.
“It was on the face of this high-powered spy, intelligence report bordering on possible plan to snatch the applicant away from the few operatives of the second respondent on the ground at the hospital, and in order to avoid this imminent danger, that the applicant was returned to the yard to forestall the danger of attack,” they alleged.
The duo also alleged that Maina, who was arraigned on October 25, 2019, on a 12-count charge, though pleaded not guilty, jumped bail after being granted the bail on health grounds.
They said Senator Ali Ndume, who stood surety for Maina, was remanded in Kuje Prison until Maina was rearrested.
The minister and the C-G told the court that Maina was only raising false health alarms.
Following resumed hearing yesterday, Maina’s lawyer, Ibrahim Idris (SAN), informed that the respondents’ lawyer, Abdulmumin Muhammad, had just served him with his application.
Justice Ekwo adjourned the matter till tomorrow for hearing.
Afenifere leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti has said that the meeting of the socio-political organisation will henceforth hold in Akure, capital of Ondo State.
He said the leaders of the group will no longer converge on Isoya Ogbo, Ijebu home of the acting leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo.
Following the shifting of meeting venue to the residence of the leader, Adebanjo may have ceased to be acting leader.
Fasoranti, frontline educator and Second Republic Commissioner for Finance in Ondo State, reiterated the group’s endorsement of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
He rejected the insinuations that he was paid to endorse the Jagaban Borgu, saying that he has been a man of principle all his life.
Fasoranti said those who started meeting at Ogbo after naming Adebanjo as acting leader misunderstood and misinterpreted him.
He lamented that these people shifted the meeting of Afenifere to Adebanjo’s residence because they felt he was becoming senile.
Fasoranti said some people felt he could not comprehend things, adding that the person who said that has regretted it.
However, Fasoranti said he is not senile, adding that “there is no shaking.”
He stressed:”The reason the meeting was shifted was due to misunderstanding and misinterpretation of some people that I was going senile and that I cannot comprehend. When I heard that, I reacted and the person saying that regretted it. “
In a viral video at his Akure residence, the old ‘Action Grouper’ said he will now communicate meeting schedules to Afenifere members after liasoning with the secretary and other leaders on meeting agenda.
He maintained that most Afenifere chieftains have said they will not go to Ogbo for meetings.
Following the return of meeting venue to Akure, many Afenifere chieftains disclosed that Adebanjo has ceased to be acting leader.
A chieftain, who spoke on phone, said:”There can’t be two leaders at a time.”
Another chieftain said Adebanjo may fight back, but from a weak position, adding that the group should prepare for crisis management.
The Afenifere leader said there is no meeting point between Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, pointing out that they are two different ethnic organisations.
Fasoranti promised to leave a legacy of stability and honesty in Afenifere.
He said the organisation will continue to pursue restructuring as a cardinal belief.
The elderstatesman threw his weight behind the agitation for the use of arms and ammunition by Amotekun to effectively protect the Southwest, stressing that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who is championing the crusade was on course.
He also urged government to defend education to halt falling standard.
