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The major reason for the fuel scarcity hitting various cities in Nigeria has been given by marketers in the upstream and downstream sector in the statement released to newsmen.

In the statement, it was gathered that certain volume of contaminated Petroleum Motor Spirit PMP has been in supply chain. It has been identified and quarantined but it has caused some supply hiccups that will get worse before it gets better.

According to the press release, the marketers were quoted as saying, “to ensure safety of vehicular and equipment safety, the limited product of the impacted product has been isolated and withdrawn from the market including loaded trucks in transit.

Our technical team in conjunction with NNPC Ltd and other industry stakeholders, will continue to monitor and ensure quality petroleum products are adequately supplied and distributed nationwide.

“I be nobody ex”- Ooni of Ife’s estranged wife, Queen Naomi, has shared her first video on social media weeks after announcing her separation from the monarch.

Recall that in December 2021, she announced she was leaving the monarch. Unconfirmed reports claim some prominent Nigerians mediated and the Royal couple resolved their issues.

She reposted a video on her Instastories last night after a makeup session. The video had a song by singer Beeley playing in the background.

The lyrics of the song goes; “I’m a beauri, I be spec, I drip glory, I be nobody’s ex, haters go hate o, potatoes will potate”

A 30-year-old housewife, Cynthia Olukiowu, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her husband’s 18-year-old nephew, identified as Habeeb Aremu, to death over a minor disagreement. The incident reportedly occurred in their residence at no 2, Apogidonoyo street, Jafa Agbado, Ogun state, on Saturday, January 5.

According to a statement released yesterday by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested after the Agbado divisional headquarters received a distress call that a boy had been stabbed on the neck by his uncle’s wife after a misunderstanding about a mirror he allegedly broke.

“It was the allegation that led to disagreement between the deceased and his uncle’s wife, subsequent upon which the suspect took a kitchen knife and used it to stab the deceased on his neck.

Upon the distress call, the Dpo Agbado division CSP Kehinde Kuranga quickly led his men to the scene, where the suspect was promptly arrested, and the victim who was in the pool of his own blood was rushed to hospital. He was unfortunately confirmed dead by the doctor on duty and his corpse was deposited at Ifo general hospital mortuary for autopsy,” Oyeyemi wrote.

The state commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the suspect be immediately transferred to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.

The Ogun State Police Command has denied arresting a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Olanipekun Oladayo Irenimofe, on Friday for buying a pregnancy test kit and contraceptive.

Rather, the Police Public Relations Officer, DS, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the police were doing their duties by questioning her whether she had a doctor’s prescription or not.

When our correspondent reached out to him on the matter, he said “The command has released her since morning. She was questioned if she has a doctor’s prescription.”

A Twitter user, Olukoya Oluwatosin on Friday raised an alarm over the arrest of her sister for buying a pregnancy test kit and emergency contraceptive pill.

She said, “My sister, a student of Mapoly just got arrested for going to buy postpill and pregnancy strip. She’s at a police post in Abeokuta.”

In subsequent tweets, she revealed that her sister had been released, but that policemen went searching for her again.

Olukoya later tweeted that police went to arrest the pharmacist who sold the products to her sister.

“Please help oooo, she just told me they’ve gone to arrest the pharmacist that sold them to her.”

After weeks of suspension, some school girls caught smoking shisha in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, have been told to return to school.

The girls, who are all students of Abeokuta Girls’ Grammar School, Onikolobo, Ogun State, were caught smoking shisha while filming themselves at the residence of one of them.

After the video went viral, the management of the school was said to have suspended the students indefinitely.

The Ogun Ministry of Education, Science and Technology had taken up the matter, with efforts put in place to rehabilitate the school girls.

As of Tuesday, the teenagers were said to have undergone a series of counselling before they were returned to class.

The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Abayomi Arigbagbu, during a visit to the school, said the students would be put under manual labour as a form of punishment in the school to serve as a deterrent to others.

In her words, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mrs Abosede Ogunleye, charged students in the state to shun acts that would jeopardise their future.

Ogunleye pleaded that the reinstated students should not be stigmatised, saying, “The learners have been counselled and made to undergo some punishment and I want to believe they have changed for the better. So, I want to encourage you not to abuse, stigmatize or call them names, instead advise them and be their friends.”

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is to hold this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from May 6 to May 16, 2022, it was announced on Saturday afternoon.

In fact, the registration for the UTME and that of Direct Entry will hold simultaneously from February 12 to March 19, 2022 at various centres across the country.

These were disclosed by officials of JAMB during an interactive session with newsmen on Saturday.

According to the examination body, mock registration will hold from February 12 to 26 while mock examination will also hold on April 16, 2022.

Details later…

The Central Committee of Ibadan Cultural Festival Week 2022 under the leadership of Balogun Gaphar Ojetola on Sunday decorated both Engr. Sunday Gbenjo and Mr Abiola Alli with award of honor in recognition of their contribution to the development of Ibadan land.

According to the organizers, the award is part of the pre-event of the 2022 Ibadan Cultural Festival given to Ibadan sons and daughters who has contributed immensely to the growth of Ibadan.

Mr Abiola Alli was the immediate Chairman of Ibadan Cultural Festival Week while Egnr. Sunday is currently serving as the Chairman of sub committee of Ibadan Cultural Festival Week; Contact & Mobilization.

The presentation of the award took place at Ajorosun Club, during the General Meeting of the Club. Responding to the award, Engr. Sunday appreciates CCII and the Ibadan Cultural Festival Week Committee and said that this is an encouragement for him to do more for Ibadan and humanity.

The President of Ajorosun Club, Alhaji Abiola Alli equally appreciates CCII, including the Organizers of the awards and reiterated his commitment to the development of Ibadan.

ODUDUWA NEWS has just gathered people of Abeokuta, Ogun State were totally filled with grief and surprise when three teenagers arrested by the Police for allegedly killing their friend’s girlfriend and burning her head for money ritual were paraded.

The suspects, identified as Wariz Oladeinde, 17, Abdulgafar Lukman, 19, and Mustakeem Balogun, allegedly committed the hideous crime in Oke Aregba community.

It was gathered that in the early hours of Saturday, January 29, one Mr. Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard, had observed that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road.

It was gathered that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene to get three of the boys arrested as one had fled before police arrived.

A source, who confirmed the incident said the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; she was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in police net. He was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to sl#ughter her with a knife.

“Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested. They killed Rofiat, cut her head, packed the headless body in a sack and started burning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for money ritual.”