The veteran actor, Alapini has been gifted a car by a fan based in Europe after crying out for help.
A fan identified as Lekan Enuope had earlier vowed to get a new Toyota Sienna for Alapinni during a fund raising live video organized by Kamo state.
Kamo state had earlier raised #3.7million before Lekan called to shoulder the responsibility of getting a car for Alapinni.
Kamo has however made it known during a live video monitored by ODUDUWA NEWS on Saturday, July 8, that the money will be shared between the duo of Lalude and Alapinni for renovation of their houses. Adding that Alapinni will be getting the largest share of #2million while his friend, Lalude will get #1.7million.
The Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes on Friday, 7th of July 2023 sworn in new leadership of the organization for another two year.
The ceremony took place at the Bode Amao hall during the Annual General Meeting of the council.
Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes is a conglomerate of over 150 social-cultural clubs in Ibadan, and the next in hierarchy to the Olubadan in Council.
The immediate past President-General, Prince Oluyemisi Adeaga appreciated Ibadan for given him the opportunity to lead the foremost social cultural organization in Ibadan and the world at large and equally pledged his support to the new administration for the development, advancement and sustenance of peace in Ibadan land.
The new President-General, Barrister Niyi Ajewole after the swearing in said that advancing Ibadan development is at the center of his administration.
Barr Ajewole while giving his Presidential speech reiterated his commitment to the development of youth, through periodic youth engagement and different empowerment programs, including building their capacity.
In attendance were representatives from different clubs, family and friends of Barr Ajewole, representative of the CCII youth wing, and well wishers.
The newly sworn in 2023/25 Executive council members are
Barr. Niyi Ajewole President General
Dr. Tirimisiyu A.G. Oladimeji 1st Vice President General
Baale Alamu Oloyede Ibikunle 2nd Vice President General
Mr. Adetokunbo Ayobami Subair Secretary General
Mogaji Ismail Sodeinde 1st Assistant Secretary General
Rafiu Iyanda 2nd Assistant Secretary General
Prince Caleb Akande Treasurer
Mr. Oyasogo Olumuyiwa Financial Secretary
Mr. Kola Olomide Publicity secretary
Alhaja Folashade Olayiwola Social Secretary
Mrs. Bolaji Olowookere Chief whip
Dr.Ademola Adetayo Taiwo Legal Adviser
Pastor Oyerinde Oyewale Abayomi Internal Auditor
Ibadan . . . a city without end. 1 City . 11LGs . 21 Towns . 1681 villages . 1 people.
His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde has approved the appointment of political aides for the office of the Wife of the Governor, Mrs. Tamunominini Makinde.
The governor, in a letter of approval dated July 4, 2023, appointed the following:
1.) Olayiwola Oyinlade Oluwadamilola- Personal Assistant 2.) Siyanbola Oladoyin Odunola- Senior Special Assistant, Project 3.) John-Morgan Abiola- Special Assistant, Domestic 4.) Adetunji Adewumi- Special Assistant, Administration 5.) Kolawole Bukunmi Rita- Special Assistant, Protocol 6.) Muhammed Ibrahim Opeyemi- Driver 7.) Adenodi Ademola- Driver 8.) Mathias Moses- Steward
The governor equally approved the appointments of Mr. Odemuyiwa Samson and Mr. Alfred Okata as Special Assistant (Photograph) and Special Assistant (Transport) respectively under the office of the Governor.
The duo, the letter, noted, have been seconded to the office of the Wife of the Governor.
A former governor of Oyo State, Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja was on Friday absent when the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun elevated eleven (11) High Chiefs in the ancient city to the position of Obas.
There are eleven local government areas in Ibadan being supervised by eleven High Chiefs in the Olubadan succession lines.
The Olubadan had earlier announced his plan to elevate the High Chiefs to the position of Obas.
According to the monarch, the eleven High Chiefs would be addressed as Obas henceforth.
Our correspondent, however, reports that the former governor, Rasidi Ladoja who is the Otun Olubadan of Ibadan was absent at the ceremony held at Mapo Hall on Friday.
All other ten High Chiefs who have been elevated to Obas were present at the ceremony.
Those who have been crowned and presented staffs of office include the Balogun of Ibadan, High Chief Owolabi Olakulehin, Otun Balogun, High Chief Tajudeen Ajibola, Osi Olubadan, High Chief Eddy Oyewole Foko and Osi Balogun, High Chief Lateef Gbadamosi Adebimpe and Ashipa Olubadan, High Chief Abiodun Kola-Daisi.
Others are; Ashipa Balogun, High Chief Kolawole Adegbola, Ekerin Olubadan, Hamidu Ajibade, Ekerin Balogun, High Chief Dada Isioye, Ekarun Olubadan, High Chief Adebayo Akande and Ekarun Balogun, High Chief Abiodun Dauda Azeez.
The event was attended by the state governor, Seyi Makinde.
Other dignitaries at the event include former Deputy Governor and PDP Deputy National Chairman, Taofeek Arapaja, former Deputy Governor, Hamid Gbadamosi and Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin.
Makinde while speaking, noted that the consenting authority is the Olubadan and not the governor.
He added that the elevation was in line with what the people of the ancient city requested.
Makinde said, “We are here for one thing, the Olubadan of Ibadan is crowning his High Chiefs as Obas. It is not the government that is giving the High Chiefs crowns. I am not aware of the crown. I am not in the line. What is happening today is internal.
If the royal father said there is a need for reform, me, as the governor, I will support them. Out of the 11 High Chiefs we have in Ibadan, 10 of them have been crowned today. Even in a democracy, the majority will have its way and the minority will have their say and we have had them, anyone that is not satisfied can go to Court.
“The consenting authority today is the Olubadan and not the governor. Those who go to Court will waste their time. What the people want, we have done it for them. I want to charge the new Obas to do good to their people. I thank all my people in Ibadan. Thank you”.
Ekiti State Government has prohibited the staging and hosting of an event tagged: “Kiss-A-Thon in the state.
The government in a letter conveyed through the state Ministry of Arts, Culture and Tourism to State chapter of Hoteliers Association warned them against holding such event.
A flier obtained by journalists in Ado Ekiti, the state capital yesterday, about the event has the inscriptions “SUGARTEE KISS-A-THON: 3-Day Kissing Marathon Date: July 7th – July 10th. In an attempt to break the Guinness World Records for the longest kissing marathon”.
The letter signed the state tourism director, Mr Adebanji Adelusi on behalf of the ministry Permanent Secretary, Dele Ogunsemoyin described such event as absurd and immoral. The organizers and whosoever that is willing to participate in such risk 3-year jail term.
The letter reads, “The attention of the State Government has been drawn to a planned hosting of ‘Kiss-a-thon’ in Ekiti State.
“According to information at the disposal of this Ministry, kiss-a-thon, a 3-day kissing marathon event, has been scheduled to hold on 7th of July, 2023 at one of the hospitality outlets in the State.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has blasted the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari for having the effrontery to cancel Isese Festival, saying he committed a crime against cultural heritage of humanity.
Soyinka, in an open letter to the Emir on Thursday, said it was sad to see the ancient city of Ilorin, a confluence of faiths and ethnic varieties, reduced to this level of bigotry and intolerance, manifested in the role of a presiding monarch.
“The truncation of a people’s traditional festival is a crime against the cultural heritage of all humanity. Year after year, the Ramadan has been celebrated in this nation as an inclusive gathering of humanity, irrespective of divergences of belief.
“Not once, in my entire span of existence, have I encountered pronouncements by followers of any faith that the slaughtering of rams on the streets and market places is an offence to their concept of godhead. Vegetarians hold their peace. Buddhists walk a different path. Prior to Ramadan, non-Moslems routinely join in observing the preceding season of fasting as a spiritual exercise worthy of emulation,” he said.
Soyinka said he recalled for instance how a procession of Corpus Christ was once attacked, some killed, by a brood of Muslim fanatics, for daring to process along the streets of that same Ilorin, lamenting that such abominations had become routine, as community is sacrificed to bigotry.
The Nobel Laureate added: “Your Royal Highness, it is conduct like this that has bred Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP and other religious malformations that currently plague this nation, spreading grief and outrage across a once peaceful landscape, degrading my and your existence with their virulent brand of Islam.
“It is conduct like this that has turned, before our very eyes, a once ecumenical city like Kaduna into a blood-stained mockery of cohabitation. It is conduct like this that makes it possible for a young student, Deborah, to be lynched in the very presence of armed police, on mere allegation of having belittled the image of a revered prophet. It is action of this nature, perpetrated in obscure as well as prominent outlets of the nation that turns a young generation into mindless monsters, ever ready to swarm out and kill, kill, kill. Simply kill for the thrill of it, but under presumption of religious immunity.
“It is conduct like this that then nerves one extremist to wake up one day in a Scandinavian country, publicly announce his intention, and proceed to make a bonfire of copies of the Qur’an. Reprisals follow, equally mindless, trapping humanity in an ever-ascending spiral of costly but gleeful violence.”
He decried that the African continent had endured centuries of disdain and despoilation at the hands of alien religions – Christianity and Islam at the forefront.
Soyinka stated that both religions had been sanctimoniously deployed as justification for unspeakable atrocities, for the dehumanization of the black race.
“Do I need to teach you your own history, or is it that you prefer to forget? To encounter, in this century, a convert to alien spiritual dogma, appropriating the cloak of piety to impede the observation of our antecedent spirituality is not just racial treachery but an assault on civilized conduct as a universal aspiration of humanity, where every discovery, every new encounter usher in new propositions of enlightenment.
“Humanity builds on the past, preserving alternatives of world views, not destroying that past which, in any case, is indestructible. Your conduct is an affront to my sense of racial being, and that holds true for millions beyond these national and continental borders, stretching into the Americas and the Caribbean.
“There you will still encounter ISESE and allied spiritualities. There, ISESE still exerts its hold on the human spirit. Visit Brazil, go to Columbia, explore Cuba, and be humbled by the tenacity of this spirituality among the descendants of black humanity,” he said.
Soyinka stressed that even the sturdiest of thrones crumbled and that long after “you and I are gone, generations will continue to endure the effects of present anomalies, pretensions, hypocrisies, will continue to harvest the bitter fruits of the seeds of discord being sown by their forebears.”
He urged the monarch to rein in those agents of division, of triumphalist intolerance, such as the Majlisu Shabab Ulamahu Society.
The Nobel Laureate stated that there is a thin line between power and piety, urging Gambari to call Yeye Ajasikemi OIokun Omolara to his side, make peace with her and make restitution whichever way he could for this grievous insult to “our race.”
“We know the history of Ilorin and the trajectory of your dynasty – but these are not the issues. The issue is peaceful cohabitation, respect for other worldviews, their celebrations, their values and humanity. The issue is the acceptance of the multiple facets of human enlightenment.
“The greatest avatars that the world has known were not without human frailties, flaws, and errors of understanding. You are NOT Omniscient. And you are not Omnipotent,” he said.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday in Abuja expressed his unwavering support for the National Population Commission (NPC) to conduct an accurate Population and Housing Census in the country.
He, however, emphasized the need for the commission to be prudent in their assignment and work towards producing census data that would be credible and reliable.
Speaking at the State House in Abuja after receiving a briefing from NPC Chairman, Nasir Isa Kwarra, the President expressed concern over the delay in conducting another enumeration in the country since the last exercise done in 2006.
He urged the NPC to view this delay as an opportunity to cash in on the advantages of the current electronic and digital age.
”It is disappointing that up until now we have not been able to conduct another enumeration of our people. I hope that this delay will be converted to a great opportunity in this electronic and digital age.
”The challenge is yours and I hope that during the demarcation you did, you would have noticed the migration of people to urban centers because of the extreme poverty and unemployment.
”Digitalizing the process will make your job easier and I don’t see why we don’t, by now, have a reliable database in Nigeria to identify ourselves and ascertain our numbers for planning purposes and in time of disaster.
”I have listened to you and we will support you. Accuracy and integrity of your data is very important to Nigerians and for our national economic development programmes.
”We will support you but you have to be prudent and be determined to make a name for yourself. Goodluck, ” the President said.
In his remarks, the NPC Chairman noted that the Commission was on the verge of conducting the final training for the Census before they were caught up with the transition programme for a new government and funding challenges, necessitating the postponement of the exercise by the immediate-past President.
He briefed the President on the Implementation Status of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, requesting the issuance of a proclamation for a new Census date later this year or early next year.
Kwarra also highlighted the funding challenges faced by the Commission, saying they were waiting on the President to support NPC and give the go-ahead for the conduct of the census.
He said the commission had demarcated the entire country, stating that only one or the two places were left and that this would be done soon.
Kwarra said the commission had also trained 60,000 instructors that would further train enumerators and supervisors.
In a paper titled “Implementation Status of the 2023 Population and Housing Census,” the NPC requested the release of the allocated N31 billion capital allocation, in the 2023 budget, for preparatory activities.
The commission put the total cost of the Census, after a methodology review, at N546.72 billion.
Kwarra also requested the President’s approval for an additional N225.2 billion to cover training and fieldwork allowances, retraining of trainers, and the conduct of a second-class Trial Census.
President Tinubu was also asked to approve and convene a stakeholders meeting with the organized private sector and foreign partners to galvanise funds for the Census.
Kwarra informed the President that Nigeria has developed a database that can be useful in national planning, infrastructure development, and revenue generation for the government.
”NPC having completed Mapping in March 2022, tested the market with the geospatial data by making it available to researchers at a ‘test price’ where it generated over N50 million through REMITA.
”To this end, with a full integrated spatial and statistical data, government geospatial policy and coordination, NPC can generate up to 14 billion dollars and further save a lot of resources for the nation through automation of economic planning by 2028,” he said.
There seems to be growing concern among staff, politicians and the people of Ado-Awaye town over the missing excavator of the Araromi Local Council Development Area of Iseyin Local Government.
According to independent findings, the council excavator was taken away to an undisclosed destination for several months by the Council Chairman, Mr. Timothy Ogunleke.
A source also confirmed that the Council Political Head, Timothy Ogunleke had since been questioned by top politicians and stakeholders in the town over the whereabouts of the excavator meant to be generating revenue for the Council.
Exclusive reports on the issue coming soon as more details are currently being gathered.
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has sent a note to the people of his state and his well wishers, thanking them for their prayers and goodwill messages – which he said have been a soothing balm for him in recovery. Recall that Akeredolu had gone on a 21-day medical leave on June 13, while handing over to his deputy. It is however not clear whether he will be resuming at the expiration of the leave. Arakunrin Akeredolu has been battling an undisclosed ailment. This morning, the statement below was released on his official social media pages
“My Dear People of Ondo State,
I pen this message with a heart overflowing with immense gratitude and deep appreciation. Your dedication, understanding, ceaseless prayers and messages of goodwill during my journey to recovery have been nothing short of a soothing balm for my soul. Your unwavering support and genuine affection have sustained my determination to renewed vigor and, most importantly, to continue serving you, the good people of Ondo State.
I am profoundly grateful to our esteemed President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and his team, as well as all political party leaders, my brother Governors, the State Executive Council, and the members of the State House of Assembly for their unwavering support. Your collective strength and solidarity have uplifted my spirit and reaffirmed my commitment to our shared vision for progress and development.
While I remain on the path to recovery, I eagerly await the moment when I will stand among you once again. Rest assured, I am in high spirits and have full faith in the expertise of my doctors. I will return to you ALL as soon as they deem it expedient.
My dear people, once again, your prayers, support, and the rejuvenating elixir of goodwill you have bestowed upon me have fortified my resolve. I am resolute in my dedication to serving you and working tirelessly for the betterment of our beloved Ondo State.
The Vice President of Nigeria, Senator Kashim Shettima, today arrived at the Stadium Complex, Adekunle Cantonment, Odogbo Barracks, Ojoo, Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, for the Nigerian 2023 Army Day Celebration.
Shettima who was received at Odogbo Barracks with rousing welcome lauded the Nigerian Army for its role in protecting the territorial integrity of the nation.
He also spoke on the need for the security agencies to form a synergy towards combating insurgency and other crimes in the country.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Christopher Musa, while speaking at the event advocated deserved promotion for troops, particularly soldiers, as well as officers, fighting insurgency, saying it is painful to someone giving all his best when promotion goes to someone else.
The CDS who aso spoke at the lecture/book presentation as one of the events to mark the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) 2023, held yesterday at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan said the efforts of the gallant men of the Nigerian Army in combatting both internal and external aggression can never be undermined.
