The Osun State House of Assembly has begun a probe into allegations that a sum of €10,000, Osun United’s share in the transfer fee of Nigerian striker Odion Ighalo from Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua to Manchester United last January, has been diverted into private pockets, The PUNCH has learnt. Osogbo-based Osun United, formerly known as Prime FC, was the last local club former Super Eagles striker Ighalo played for before moving abroad to join Norwegian side Lyn Oslo in 2007. Sources close to the club said Osun State Commissioner for Sports, Yemi Lawal, was among those invited to a meeting…
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A 15-year-old girl (name withheld) has reported her father to the office of the International Federation of Women Lawyers in Ekiti State over alleged attempt to force her into marriage against her wish. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the girl fled her home in Plateau State to Ekiti State on September 17 to stay with her brother to avoid the forceful marriage. Briefing journalists on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, the Chairperson of FIDA, Toyin Odunayo, said the association had initially provided shelter for the girl following her inability to locate her brother. Odunayo said: “By the time we got…
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A candidate contesting for the position of Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Ademola Dasylva has raised eyebrow over the irregularities that has trailed the selection process. Dasylva, of the Department of English in a petition sent to the Pro Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Nde Joshua Mutka Waklek, mni, rejected the outcome of the election on the ground that the process lacked transparency and was technically compromised. In the petition, Dasylva insisted that the election process was tainted by technicalities and flagrant contraventions of electoral processes, hence the result should be declared null and void. He…
The High Court of Edo State has held that the failure of the Nigeria Correction Service to release the name, sex, country of origin, date of birth, offence, date of arrest, date of prison detention and case status of foreign detainees in their custody is illegal, unlawful, oppressive and vexatious. In the case of Freedom of Information (FOI) Counsel v. Comptroller General of Nigeria Correction Service in (Suit No: B/63/os/2019), the applicant filed a leading civic group involved in FOI litigation support, advocacy, research and training commenced the action in 2019 after a letter was sent to the organization for…
Hours after launching the Iyepe Political Movement for 2023, a political group intended to actualise his governorship ambition, Hon AbdulHakeem AbdulLateef’s appointment as Special Adviser to the Speaker on the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has been terminated. On Tuesday, 29 September, 2020, AbdulLateef launched his Iyepe Political Movement meant to be the platform on which his governorship will be driven. However, hours after that, his appointment with the Speaker was terminated. The letter terminating his appointment was signed by Honourable Dayo Saka Fafunmi and dated Tuesday, 29 September, 2020. The major reason for the termination…
The Office of the Inspector-General of Police has charged the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, with fraud involving $120,000. The case marked CR/975/2020 was filed before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on September 9, 2020. It contains four charges of conspiracy, fraud, cheating and forgery. It was filed on behalf of the IGP by Rimamsomte Ezekiel, a lawyer in the Legal Prosecution Section of the Force Criminal Investigation Department at the Force Headquarters. The prosecution alleged in the case that Binuyo in January 2017 in Abuja “conspired with others…
Great Nigerians! Service to the Community! It is with a grateful heart that we thank God that we are in level 1 of the national lockdown. As we remain conscious of our personal protection, while we go about our endeavours, we would like to sincerely thank all those who supported the NCWC COVID-19 project at the different phases. Without your generous giving it would have been very difficult and impossible to come to the aid of our community members in a time when they were in dire need. Thank you very much. We also wish to thank the entirety of…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ratified the removal from office of the Osun State Chairman of our party, Hon. Adesoji Adagunodo, following the validation of a vote of no confidence passed on him by the State Executive. Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary made this available to newsmen on Tuesday. The decision of the NWC is consequent upon the report of the Sub-Committee set up by the NWC which investigated and validated the allegations as well as the Vote of no Confidence passed against Hon. Adagunodo by the state executive, in line section 59…
For a second time within 48 hours, the President-General of Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye has called on well-meaning Yoruba people within and beyond the nation of Nigeria that want to stage liberation protest on October 1st never to engage in confrontation with the men and officers of the Nigerian Police and other law enforcement agencies, saying “violence would cause a damage distractions to the liberation struggle and give us a bad image”. The renowned Historian and Second Republic Senator said the Yoruba people are intellectually sophisticated, brilliant, intelligent and grounded enough to achieve their liberation without…
