No fewer than 10 young men have been reportedly killed in Sagamu area of Ogun State as suspected cultists went on rampage in the past few days.
Residents of Sagamu, who spoke with our correspondent anonymously, said they could no longer sleep with their two eyes closed.
On Monday night, it was gathered that there were heavy gunshots across the city, creating tension among residents, who feared being hit by stray bullets.
One person was reportedly shot dead on Monday during the clash between rival cult groups.
“One thing that surprised me most is that most of them are childhood friends, schoolmates, friends and brothers. But suddenly, in the name of cultism, they turned into enemies. Sagamu was a great town before cultism arrived. I remember we used to go from one carnival to another every Sagamu Day celebration and even during December time. Unfortunately, there is nothing like that again. May Almighty God put his fear into their hearts so as to have a rethink before it is too late. Say no to killings, say no to cultism. Let’s embrace. Let’s embrace love and peace,” a resident of Sagamu, Shittu Jamiu, said on Monday.
ODUDUWA NEWS reports that indigenes of the ancient city have taken to the social media to appeal to the Akarigbo and Paramount Ruler of Remo, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, to rein in the restive youths and restore peace to Sagamu, going the traditional way.
Baffled by the cases of cult clashes in Sagamu, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had on Tuesday visited the area to assess the situation and bring the situation under control.
Some of the suspected cultists have been arrested by the police, a source told our correspondent.
Contacted, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he could not confirm the number of those killed in the lingering cult clashes.
However, he disclosed that the most wanted cultists in Sagamu have been arrested.
“I don’t know where people got such figure (of casualty) from. I don’t know about the figure of 10 people being killed; but as of this morning, we have in our custody now, the most wanted cultists in Sagamu.
“In fact, they are two and the two of them are currently in our custody,” Oyeyemi stated.
The Oyo State House of Assembly has moved a motion to impeach the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan. The notice of impeachment was announced by the Clerk of the House at the just concluded sitting. ODUDUWA NEWS Correspondent at the sitting gathered that the impeachment process has been passed to Judiciary for legal steps and to forward the report of the impeachment proceedings to the House for final decision.
The impeachment process began at today’s plenary following a petition read at the floor alleging the Deputy Governor of oyo State of gross misconduct and abuse of office
It was learnt that the impeachment notice was signed by 24 lawmakers and the Deputy Governor has been given a 7-day ultimatum to respond to the petition.
The Ogun state police command has confirmed the kidnap of two Christian worshippers at a celestial church of Christ,Wasinmi, Ewekoro local government area of the state during a vigil
According to the police public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi an assistant pastor and a Sunday school teacher were kidnapped during the vigil.
“They were having a vigil in that church, so the kidnappers came to attack them there. They kidnapped two members of the church,” he said.
“We are on their trail, we are tracing them. It is our duty to rescue those people that were abducted and we are doing everything possible to do that”, Oyeyemi confirmed.
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He however advised residents to be vigilant and to inform the nearest police station whenever they intend to have events at night.
“People should be more vigilant because security is everybody’s business and our people are supposed to play their own part.
“We have given a statement before now that whenever you want to have a vigil, especially when it is in an isolated place, try as much as possible to inform the direct police station close to that place so that they will be having constant patrol of the area”, he said.
While assuring that the tactical tem of the police are on the trail of the suspected kidnappers, he also confirmed that the kidnappers have reach out to family members on a #50 million ransom negotiation.
Oyeyemi gave an assurance that the abducted victims will be rescued soon.
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said the party is united to ensure victory for its governorship candidate, Mr Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, during Saturday’s election in the state.
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Asiwaju Tinubu said all quarrels and squabbles in the APC family had been resolved and the party is approaching Saturday’s governorship poll and next year’s general elections as a united house that is ready to crush the opposition.
Speaking in Ado- Ekiti, Tuesday at the APC mega rally held ahead of the June 18 governorship election, Asiwaju Tinubu, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, said the Ekiti poll is an opportunity to make a statement that the Yoruba is ready for the Presidency next year.
The entry of Asiwaju Tinubu into the arena at 1.40 pm enlivened the crowd who greeted the presidential candidate with deafening ovation and applause to the admiration of the guests.
The APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who led other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) to the rally, presented the governorship flag to Oyebanji who was joined by his running mate, Chief (Mrs.) Monisade Afuye and the wife of the candidate, Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji.
The rally which was witnessed by a mammoth crowd was attended by all APC Governors: Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Babagana Zulum (Borno), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa), Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (Kwara), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) who were all introduced by the host Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
Asiwaju Tinubu, who had arrived the state on Monday, had prior to the rally, presented Oyebanji to the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, HRM Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe, during a courtesy visit to the palace. in company with Dr Fayemi, Oyebanji and other APC leaders.
He told the crowd pf supporters that President Buhari asked him to bring the message of newfound love, stability, oneness and unity in the party to its members and electorate in Ekiti to achieve total victory on Saturday and general elections in 2023.
Going down the memory lane, Asiwaju Tinubu recalled the developments that led to the formation of the APC in 2013 with the merger of legacy parties which successfully dislodged the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which he described as “Poverty Development Party” from power at the 2015 general elections.
The presidential flag bearer said Nigerians further trusted the party by re-electing it to continue in power in the 2019 general elections commending Buhari for supporting the clamour for return of power to the South in 2023 with him (Tinubu) as the symbol for the unity of the country.
The former Lagos State Governor threw his weight behind the election of Oyebanji noting that internal rancour within the party has now become a thing of the past and it is now united to achieve victory on Saturday to signpost its readiness to retain power at the centre in 2023.
Asiwaju Tinubu urged Ekiti Kete to re-elect APC to show their readiness to support the party that has entrusted its presidential ticket to a Yoruba candidate next year urging them to forget the grievances of the past and support the party in elections ahead.
He said: “President Buhari is a man of integrity, honour is better than riches. He has said we (APC) are going back to South for the next President of Nigeria and he has kept that promise for us and it is now left for us to work for the progress and unity of Nigeria.
“There is no house where we don’t have quarrels, democracy is full of twists and turns, hills and valleys. We will have quarrels but we will not burn down the house. I am a builder, a successful builder for that matter.
“Those of us that said we are fighting, you are lying. We have settled our quarrel. This is the first step in the elections ahead. The President has said I should be involved in this (Ekiti) election and we are going to succeed.
“I have not failed in any elections before; four years ago, myself, (Governor) Bagudu and others were here and you listened the us and we succeeded in that election.”
Speaking earlier, the National Chairman, Senator Adamu said the Ekiti rally was the first outing of the party since the conclusion of the national convention which produced Asiwaju Tinubu as the presidential flag bearer.
The former Nasarawa State Governor who was impressed by the huge crowd that thronged the rally assuring that Oyebanji would succeed Dr Fayemi as the next Ekiti Governor.
The National Chairman urged voters in Ekiti to vote Oyebanji whom he described as humble and service inclined candidate to prove a point that Ekiti is an APC state.
He said: “This Saturday will be historic and we thank Ekiti people for coming out en masse to welcome us. I have come to this state three times, I have not seen a crowd like this.
“We saw the vote returned during the election of Governor Fayemi but next Saturday, we want to see the double of that. Come out on Saturday and show all that Ekiti is an APC state.”
The former Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, urged those who are still aggrieved with APC to forgive the party ahead of the Saturday election.
Giving a word of admonition to the party faithful and the electorate in the state, Chief Akande who spoke in Yoruba said to err is human and to forgive is divine urging the aggrieved to forgive the party, it’s candidate and whoever that might have offended them.
The Chairman of the National Campaign Council for Ekiti governorship election and Kebbi Governor Bagudu urged voters in Ekiti to retain APC in power for good governance to continue in the state
Governor Bagudu said he and other fellow governors had visited the state within the last four years to commission key projects and witnessed the launch of the Rice Pyramid in Ekiti noting that the state must remain in the APC fold for such laudable policies and projects to continue.
The rally was a big carnival that attracted APC members from all the 16 local government areas who wore colourful attires with Oyebanji’s portraits as a mark of solidarity.
Ace Fuji musician King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal and other artistes entertained the crowd during the rally.
The Osun governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke has lambasted the Oyetola administration over its criminal neglect of infrastructures at Ila Orangun and surrounding local governments.
Addressing mammoth crowd of residents at Ila Orangun and Ifedayo areas, Adeleke expressed shock at the poor state of roads, wondering why the state governor deliberately abandoned the people of the federal constituency.
Referencing recent demonstration against the Governor by Ila Orangun students, Adeleke noted that the infrastructure decay under Oyetola is state-wide as the same scenario is prevalent in both eastern and western senatorial districts of the state.
” Let me assure you that help has come. I expressed empathy at the poor state of infrastructures in Ila and Ifedayo local government areas. I assure the people of Ila and Ifedayo local governments of adequate provision of motorable roads, hospitals with qualified doctors and health practitioners, modernised schools with qualified teachers, stable electricity supply, security for the safety of lives and properties, empowerment programmes, skill acquisition and employment opportunities amongst other necessities of life.
” Our five point agenda has infrastructure as a major focus. Our local contractors and professionals will be fully engaged. We will ensure Osun fund rotate within Osun economy. We will implement infrastructure projects in a way to create jobs for our teeming youths. Ours will be a government that cares for the people”, Adeleke stated with thousands of residents singing exit song for Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
Also speaking, the Director General of Senator Ademola Adeleke Campaign Organisation, Hon. Sunday Bisi said that the earth-shaking jubilation and ovation that greeted the PDP rallies established the people’s confidence and preference for the PDP and its candidate over and above Oyetola, who has failed them on all fronts.
According to the DG, “the good people of Osun State are aware of the outright failure, hopelessness and misgovernance of the APC in the State. Our people have confirmed the increasing unpopularity of Oyetola government by the day while soaring the popularity and acceptability of PDP candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, across the voting demography of Osun state.
” Just as Ile Ife embraced us yesterday, Ila Orangun and Ifedayo have accepted imole and the candidature of Senator Adeleke. We plegde not to disappoint them when the PDP win the July 16 elections”, Hon Bisi stated.
Prior to the rallies, the Senator Ademola Adeleke Campaign Council paid a courtesy visit to the royal palace of Asa Ooni of Ora-Igbomina, His Royal Highness, Oba Tinuoye Atolagbe and proceeded to the palace of His Royal Majesty, Oba Samuel Oladoye Idowu, Akesin of Ora-Igbomina, Ifedayo local government area of Osun State.
The Campaign Organisation, as a matter of respect for the Royal stool, visited, His Royal Majesty, Oba Adedokun Abolarin Omoniyi, the Orangun of Oke Ila, Aroyinkeye 1 and finally, His Imperial Majesty, the Orangun of Ila, Oba Abdulwahab Oyedotun, Bibiire 1.
In all the towns and palaces visited, the campaign team were receieved by warmly engaged by the residents with the royal fathers praying fervently for PDP victory in the July 16 election.
Soyinka, the renowned researcher and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has died.
According to a statement by his family, Mr Soyinka died in the early hours of Tuesday at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State.
He was 85.
Mr Soyinka was the younger brother of Nobel laureate and professor of comparative literature, Wole Soyinka.
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Read the family’s statement below:
The Soyinka Family of Ake/Isara, Ogun State, has announced the passing of their father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle Professor Femi Soyinka, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Born in 1937 Professor Femi Soyinka received a Medical degree in Medicine and Surgery MBchB from University of Heidelberg, 1964; and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the same University in 1965. He specialised and practised as a Dermatologist, Venereologist and Allergologist at the University of Giessen,1969.
In 1972, he obtained a Master of Public Health degree from Hadassah Medical School, (MPH) Israel.
He worked in the academic field for 30 years, holding various positions from Chief Medical Director to Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Provost of College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was also involved in ex-tensive research work on Tropical Skin Diseases and Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in collaboration with the Federal government, international donor agencies and organizations such as the World Bank, UNDP, DFID, the British Council; and the International Development Re-search Centre, Canada.
He pioneered several researches in the field of HIV/AIDS and worked as consultant to various international and local agencies including the World Health Organization, DFID, UNDP and Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health based on his extensive experience on the subject in various parts of the country.
Prof. Femi Soyinka was in the forefront of mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. By translating the outcomes of his researches into clinical practice. He impacted significantly not only in the lives of numerous individuals and families living with the disease, but also on the nation as a whole.
He initiated the Ambassador of Hope program in Nigeria, encourag-ing people living with HIV/AIDs (PLWHAs) to speak up, thereby bringing the much-needed public awareness to the disease at a time when knowledge was low and stigma was high. He also demonstrated technical knowledge and was involved with many other HIV/AIDs related programs including HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, ARV programs, voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and home-based care for PLWHAs in Nigeria.
Subsequently, he contributed significantly to capacity building of indigenous organizations across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria through his non-governmental organization – New Initiative for the Enhancement of Life and Health (NELAH) previously known as; Network on Ethics/Human Rights, Law, HIV/AIDS-Prevention, Support and Care (NELA). He was a past president of Society for AIDS in Africa and he successfully coordinated the International Conference on AIDS and STIS In Africa (ICASA) in Abuja, Nigeria in the year 2005.
He is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Burial arrangements would be announced by the family later.
It seems the popular jibe thrown at Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun by the presidential flagbearer of All Progressives Congress Primary(APC), Bola Tinubu has become a title that has come to stay.
Recall Tinubu on June 3, during the heat of a presidential campaign in Abeokuta lambasted Abiodun, whom he described as ‘Eleyi’ (this one) to buttress that he (Abiodun) wouldn’t have become governor without his support.
On Tuesday, Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi while introducing guests at the mega governorship rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state said he was told that he did not introduce Abiodun properly as the “Eleyi of Ogun state”.
The former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Presidential flagbearer of All Progressives Congress APC has claimed that he has never failed an election in his life and that by the grace of God, he is very sure of victory in 2023.
He made this statement today in Ekiti during the campaign and flag presentation to the All Progressives Congress APC gubernatorial aspirant in the next Saturday’s governorship elections in Ekiti State, Oyebanji BAO.
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“I must state it clearly that it is turn of Yoruba and ’emi Lokan’ . I salute President Muhammadu Buhari for keeping his promise to rotate the presidency to the Southwest.
“I therefore use this medium to implore you to vote for Oyebanji BAO as the next Governor of Ekiti State come next Saturday”.
The campaign rally which took place today at the State capital had in attendance the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the Governor of Nassarawa State, Tanko Almakura, the incumbent Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the party chieftain, Chief Bisi Akande among others.
Gunmen attacked motorists on the Old Ila-Orangun/Ijabe Road in Osun State, injuring four passengers.
ODUDUWA NEWS learnt that the van transporting the passengers from Ila-Orangun to Ijabe community in Odo-Otin Local Government of Osun State was ambushed by gunmen who fired numerous shots at the occupants.
According to a security source, a passerby alerted Amotekun operators in the state, prompting a quick response to the assault.
“They attacked the four passengers early Sunday,” he added, “but Amotekun’s troops arrived on the spot and engaged the attackers.”
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According to the source, one of the attackers was apprehended, but four people were injured.
Comrade Amitolu Shittu, the Field Commandant of Osun Amotekun, verified the incident yesterday.
Islamic customer of a sex worker and his companions lynch and bludgeon a Lagos sex prostitute for keeping the Quran in the room.”
The event occurred in Alaba Rago, which is home to many Northern Islamists. Hannah Saliy, a Klled girl from the north, was also from the north. Their complaint was that she wasn’t supposed to be carrying the Quran because of the nature of her profession.
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The girl was a prostitute who was patronized by a customer who paid N1,000 for her services after sleeping with her.
The Northern Islamists, who were with the client who the girl accused of stealing her money, asked her whether she was sure he did. As a result, they made the decision to search her room which they did.
While searching the room, they found Quran under her pillow and started asking what she was using the Quran for as a prostítute. So, they started attácking her; They Stabbed her, took her out and set her Abláze.”
