The Oyo State Police Command has declared the sacked Chairman of Park Management System (PMS), Mukaila Lamidi aka Auxiliary, wanted, the authorities revealed during a briefing on Friday.
The move follows another raid of his hotel where more dangerous weapons were recovered yesterday.
Channels Television reports that policemen had stormed Auxiliary’s Ibadan residence recovering weapons and ammunition.
During the operation, the suspect reportedly escaped, while some of his lieutenants were however arrested by the police.
There was palpable tension in some parts of the state after the raid, especially in major car parks and garages in Ibadan, the state capital.
The embattled Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Oleyelogun Bamidele David has dispelled the rumour of his resignation.
The Speaker was quoted in a statement made available to Oduduwa News as read in part:
“This is to notify the general public that,I Rt Hon Oleyelogun Bamidele David did not resign my position as the Speaker of the House.
“The purported letter of resignation which is in circulation is the handiwork of the fifth Columists who are bent on throwing Ondo State into anarchy, particularly the House of Assembly.
“The purported resignation is no doubt the the figment of the imagination of the peddlers of such heinous act as l did not contemplate or discussed such move with any member of the Assembly or family members.Let me tell members of the public that the purported letter of resignation did not emanate from me as it was forged by purveyors of such letter.
“The Clerk of the House,Mr.Benjamin Jaiyeola (ESQ)has informed me that he did not receive any letter of resignation which has given credence to the fact that the faceless writer is not informed of the process through which such weighty exercise can take.
“I have not informed the Executive Arm of Government of such resignation and I urge my Honourable Colleagues, Staffers of the House of Assembly, Members of my Constituency to disregard the letter in its entirety and also urge the Security Agencies to investigate this false and malicious letter that has emanated from the enemies who are working against the existing peace in the State”.
Stakeholders in the Oyo State transport asked ‘Seyi Makinde, Governor of the state, to appoint a technocrat to supervise their activities.
This was one of their recommendations at the town hall meeting to address the violence that usually trails the activities of the union in the state.
The town hall became necessary following Monday’s sack of the Park Management System, PMS, as well as its leader, Lamidi Auxiliary by Makinde.
Recall, ODUDUWA NEWS had earlier reported how Police sacked the home of the deposed Park Management System Chairman, Oloye Mukaila Lamidi known as Auxiliary where some of his men were arrested with large cache of arms recovered.
The management of the College of Hygiene and Health Technology Iseyin has on Thursday matriculated 300 new students for the 2022/2023 academic session.
The College, through the Proprietor, Mr Owoseni Adewale while speaking with reporters at the event, congratulated Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on his inauguration as a second term governor.
He said the institution which has been duly registered with the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology as well as the National Commission For Colleges of Education (NCCE), will work with the State government to achieve its goals at eradicating poverty through stanndard and affordable education.
Owoseni opined that the free education Programme of the Makinde administration has helped propel the rate of school-going teenagers and gradually erasing the negative impacts of illiteracy and underdevelopment.
He said further that the institution has a special scholarship programme for brilliant but indigent students and would assist the students to follow their chosen career lines after their academic endeavors.
“We are happy that His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde who has shown immense love for educational development in Oyo State in his first term in office has been sworn in for second term, this is a pointer to the fact that the burning fire of educational growth in the State will continue.
“For us at The College of Hygiene and Health Technology, Iseyin, it is our joy that the State’s policies on education are at par with the primary goals with which we established the two colleges, which is to give education to the children of the poor and the wealthy to achieve zero poverty and a State where peace and prosperity will engender commercial growth.”
He called on the people of Oke-Ogun and Oyo State to make good use of the opportunity that the two institutions presented to them, so as to have education that is affordable and close to their doorsteps.
The Institution which has an affiliation with the College of Health of Science, Ijero Ekiti promised to give necessary supports to the students to achieve their academic goals.
The Provost of the College of Health Science, Ijero Ekiti, Dr. (Mrs) Cecilia Adebayo who was represented by the Director Affiliate Programmes, Dr. (Mrs) Osatuberu Modupe assured the students that the institution has come to stay as all needed official requirements have been done.
“Be assured of our support, we are here to give you the moral shoulders to rest on, it is well with you,” she told the matriculating students.
Among the programmes at the event was entertainment whereby students of the institution showcased their talents in poetry chants and choreography.
Oyo State Government has started airlifting intending Muslim pilgrims with the State Pilgrim Welfare’s Board (Muslim Wing) to the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia for the 2023 Hajj exercise as the first batch airlifted.
The First Batch who were airlifted on Thursday, aboard Aero Contractor Airline departed Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State to Medina, Saudi Arabia around 11:50pm.
The total number of the pilgrims airlifted is Four Hundred and Seventy-Five (475) comprises 236 male and 239 female.
Second batch of the intending pilgrims are expected to be airlifted on Friday and will be followed by third and fourth batches.
The Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is currently bedridden in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital and is unable to sign official documents, top sources in the government revealed.
The Governor is in critical condition, and sources revealed he would be flown out of Nigeria for medicinal treatment. “All security agents and a few top politicians around were asked to put off their phones,” said sources.
Meanwhile, the governor according to the sources will hand over the affairs of the State over to his deputy.
“The governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has leukemia, he is really down,” one of the sources in the Alagbaka Government House had revealed at that time.
The family Court sitting in Iyaganku area of Ibadan, Oyo State has today remanded three boys for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl in Ibadan.
The culprits said to have been arrested following an intelligence report by ODUDUWA NEWS and made available to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Nigerian Police Force, Iyaganku, that a young teenage student was raped and was neglected by the whole community after the rape incident.
The case file was brought to the hearing of the Judge today at exactly 10am and subsequently referred the file to the Department of Public Prosecution DPP of Oyo State.
She thereafter ordered that the culprits be remanded at Abolongo Prison in Oyo Town pending the time that the Department of Public Prosecution will conclude with its legal advice.
The culprit identified as Abdulahi said to have perpetrated the dastardly act with two other accomplices at Alagogo, Ajibode Community, Akinyele Local Government.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has dispelled rumours that it devalued the Naira, describing the news as fake.
The CBN made the denial on Thursday in a statement by Isa AbdulMumin, CBN acting director, Corporate Communications.
The CBN was reacting to a viral news that it had devalued the Naira from about N465 to N630 to a dollar.
“The attention of the CBN has been drawn to a news report by Daily Trust Newspaper of June 1, titled “CBN Devalues Naira to 630/one dollar ”.
“We wish to state categorically that this news report, which in the imagination of the newspaper, is replete with outright falsehoods and destabilising innuendos,” he said.
According to Mr AbdulMumin, the report reflected the potentially willful ignorance of the media organisation as to the workings of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the exchange rate at the Investors’ and Exporters’ (I&E) window traded this morning June 1, at N465/one dollar and has been stable around this rate for a while.
“The public is hereby advised to ignore the news report by Daily Trust in its entirety, as it is speculative and calculated at causing panic in the market.
“Media practitioners are advised to verify their facts from the CBN before publishing in order not to misinform the public,” he said.
The Oyo State House of Assembly has resolved at its Plenary today to refer the recommendations of the Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters on the removed Chairman of the Irepo Local Government, Sulaimon Lateef Adeniran (Santana).
The sacked Chairman of the Council was earlier suspended following the allegations of gross misconduct and anti party activities.
Recall, ODUDUWA NEWS had earlier reported how the sacked council chairman was alleged of anti-party activities by members of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the Local Government.
House in its resolution referred him to the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency to investigate the alleged misappropriation and corruption leveled against him.
The House noted that the accused Chairman is removed from office in line with Section 21 of the Local Government Law, 2001as ammended.
It therefore directed the Vice Chairman to immediately assume the position of acting Chairman while the Leader of the House, Mr Busari Adegbenro is to fill the position of the acting Vice Chairman
The report found the Local Government Chairman culpable of allegations of diversion of public funds meant for the purchase of Toyota Camry 2016 model. Report said he purchased Lexus for his office without approval and also purchased substandard Toyota Corolla for the office of the Head of Local Government Administration.
Recall that the Chairman, Mr Lateef Sulaiman Adediran had earlier been indicted by the Office of the Auditor-General for Local Government in the State and the report of the special investigation was submitted to the House.
The House also directed the Executive Arm of Government through the Ministries of Local Government and Chieftancy Matters and Justice to ensure that Mr. Lateef Sulaiman Adediran refund a sum #4,616,800.00 to the coffers of Irepo Local being the difference between unreasonable #5.8m spent on replacement of covers of exercise books.
The leader of the Council Mutalubi Adigun whose account was credited with the sum of #2,676,000,00 as deduction of party dues from salaries of political office holders from February, 2022 to March, 2023 should immediately refund the sum of #2,676,000,00 to the coffers of the Peoples Democratic Party, Irepo Local and the evidence of payment be submitted the House within one week
Kayode Fayemi, former governor of Ekiti state, is under interrogation at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The ex-governor is at the zonal command of the anti-graft agency in Ilorin, Kwara state capital.
According to sources privy to the development, Fayemi arrived at the EFCC facility at about 10am on Thursday.
Operatives of the anti-graft agency, ODUDUWANEWS understands, are grilling the former governor over allegations of N4 billion misappropriation.
The probe is said to be connected to the handling of funds during his tenure as governor of Ekiti state.
Fayemi, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was governor of the state from 2018 to 2022. He handed over to Biodun Oyebanji after the latter won the governorship election in June 2022.
The former governor had reportedly written the EFFC seeking to delay his invitation over the alleged misappropriation of funds.
