Gunmen have kidnapped three workers of former President Olusegun Obasanjo at a village in Abeokuta on Wednesday. A source told our correspondent on Wednesday that the gunmen waylaid the three workers at the Obasanjo Holdings in Kobape in the Obafemi-Owode Local Goverment Area. The source said the workers abducted are the financial controller, group auditor and group store manager of …
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-As Miyetti Allah pleads for assistance from Lagos state government Many stakeholders at a public hearing held at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday, agreed that prohibition of open cattle grazing was the best way for the state to ensure security of lives and property. This was as the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Mudashiru Obasa, …
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The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Mudashiru Obasa, on Wednesday, said the proposed law on Value Added Tax (VAT) would help the state meet more of its developmental goals. Obasa said this during a public hearing on a bill for the Lagos State Value Added Tax (VAT) and for other connected purposes. This was …
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The Department of State Services has filed terrorism charges against two detained aides of Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho. The charges were filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja after over two months since the secret police arrested and detained the two aides of the activist and the DSS refusal to grant them bail …
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The Counsel for the Department of State Service, I. Awo, told the Federal High Court, on Wednesday, that the case file relating to the Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement application filed by the aides to Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, was stolen by armed robbers. He told Justice Obiora Egwuatu that his colleague who was to bring the case …
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The battle to get Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, released from detention is delayed by the vacation embarked upon by judges in Benin Republic. This is according to the spokesperson for the Umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye, on Tuesday. The PUNCH had reported that the Beninese Court had ordered …
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The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday committed the bill on open grazing to the committee on agriculture after it scaled second reading. The House also read for the first and second time the state’s Value Added Tax bill and asked the committee on finance which is handling it to report back on Thursday. Speaker of the House, Rt. …
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Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says he has accepted his detention at a prison facility in the Republic of Benin as his “journey in life between me and God.” On July 20, Igboho and Ropo, his wife, were arrested at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou by Benin Republic’s security forces while he was trying to …
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Pundits have given reasons why the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are keeping an eye on former President Goodluck Jonathan to dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pitch tent with the ruling party. Since the visit of APC governors led by Yobe State governor and chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on the occasion …
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The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Mohammad will today grill seven Chief Judges over conflicting court orders that emanated from their various states. Although only six of them were initially summoned by the CJN over the issue, the summon has equally been extended to the Chief Judge of Delta State. Those to be quizzed are the Chief Judges of …
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