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The chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Dele Ekunola, has assured the people of the state that the gubernatorial candidate of the party in the just-concluded election, Segun Oni, will reclaim his “stolen” mandate in the court.

Ekunola stated this on Monday while addressing newsmen at the party secretariat, in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, assuring that the party has concluded that it would go to court to reclaim its mandate as expressed by the people of Ekiti State over the weekend.

“I can assure you that we have concluded our plans to take the injustice meted on Ekiti people to the tribunal based on the weighty evidence before us. We are in the vantage position to reclaim our mandate because it was full of irregularities; ranging from vote buying and selling, intimidation, harassment of voters and destruction of electoral materials openly in the presence of the security officials.”

He continued, “What manner of adding salt into the inflicted injury on Ekiti people by refusing to pay them their entitlement ranging from salary, pension and gratuity, leave bonus arrears and welfare packages and such a government shared money ranging from five thousand naira to twenty-five thousand naira to buy votes?

“What kind of situation did we find ourselves in this part of the world?A non-performing sitting government buying votes with the money that belongs to everyone of us from the electorate, capitalizing on their situation due to the harsh and impoverish policies and programs of the government. Where did we get it wrong for God’s sake? Ekunola queried.

The soft-spoken chairman used the occasion to thank the good people of Ekiti State for their unrelenting efforts and steadfastness through their votes against the alleged misrule of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State and assured them that they should keep the hope alive and informed that the mandate would be retrieved back to Segun Oni in no distant time.

Ekunola demanded cooperation of party members and the good people of Ekiti State in the course of prosecuting the court case as victory, according to him, is assured.

Six suspected members of the dreaded Eiye Confraternity that had overtime held Sagamu in Ogun State restive, have been nabbed.

The group, said to have been terrorizing the area with their characteristic incessant clashes, leading to the death of no fewer than four persons since the beginning of this year, were rounded up last week during a nocturnal meeting by the Ogun State Anti-cultist Unit of the police.

Stating this in a press release, the police spokesman (PPRO) in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that the CSP Shobiyi Oluwatoshin-led Anti-cultist team acted on a credible information that the group had converged at a spot on Ayepe-Odogbolu Road for another round of onslaught, and swooped on them, where the six suspects were apprehended.

Oyeyemi gave the identities of the suspects as Rafiu Osokoya, (a.k.a Osama); Azeez Abiola (a k.a Scofield); Ogunsanwo Waheed (a.k.a 50cent); Toheeb Ayodele (a.k.a Emir); Kolawole Adegbenro and Azeez Taiwo.

According to him, “On interrogation, the suspects confessed being members of the dreaded Eiye cult group, and have been unleashing terror in Sagamu since the beginning of this year”.

“They confessed to the killing of one Animashaun in Sagamu and another person, simply identified as Ekwe, in Sabo area, also in Sagamu”, the PPRO said.

The police spokesman stated further that in their confessions, the suspects owned up to the effect that their group was responsible for the death of one Adigun and Elewure, both killed at Isote area of Sagamu early this year, during one of their nefarious operations.

Meanwhile, according to him, the state Commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, commended the team for a job well done, and had ordered a massive manhunt for the remaining members of the gang.

“The CP also directed that the arrested suspects be arraigned in court as soon as possible”, the statement added.

A radio host, @Mrbhadoosky, has taken to Twitter to decry the rising insecurity in Nigeria after a Point-of-Sale (POS) business owner died after he was shot severally and robbed of N800,000

According to him, the POS owner, Adebayo Adekunle, was attacked on June 14 in Ibadan.

He tweeted: “We just lost another young guy whose only crime is fending for himself by doing POS business. On 14th of June, he was attacked, shot severely, & robbed of N800,000. Hospital operated him but didn’t complete it because of fund. I got info yesterday, & was told he’s dead today.”

Sharing a screenshot of a Whatsapp message and some voice notes, @Mrbhadoosky alleged that the man died after the hospital stopped his treatment for lack of funds.

In one of the voice notes, a lady who identified herself as the junior sister narrated what happened to Adekunle.

According to her, her brother was returning from the bank where he went to withdraw N800,000 when he was attacked and shot several times.

She explained, “He was on the bike when it happened so some of the shots missed. However, he was hit in the stomach and on the head. He was rushed to the hospital at Ibadan Central on Tuesday, and the doctor demanded N1.7m for the surgery.

“We begged them and they (doctor) performed the surgery and the bullet was removed from his stomach. The doctor said some internal organs had been affected and his chances of survival were 10 per cent but we thank God that went well.

“We now asked about the bullet in his head and we were told to deposit at least N1.2m.”

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Popular Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has urged traditional rulers in a video trending online, to keep the Yoruba tradition sacred and respect it, while seeking out those to be conferred with chieftaincy titles.

While congratulating the Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Francis Olushola Alao on Sunday for his 59th birthday, Igboho bemoaned how some traditional rulers in Yoruba land are conferring titles on those, according to him, who do not deserve it.

Recall, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Mohood Olalekan Ishola (Alli Okunmade ll) on Saturday at Mapo Hall, Ibadan, conferred the titles of Aare Fiwajoye of Ibadanland and Yeye Aare Fiwajoye Of Ibadanland on Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and his wife, Prof. Hafsat Abdullahi Ganduje, respectively.

Igboho in the video pleaded with the Olugbon to advise such traditional rulers against continuation of such trend.

On Yoruba nation, Igboho insists there’s no going back on his agitation, adding that the Yoruba land has all that it needs to flourish as a nation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.”