The Osun State Government led by Governor Ademola Adeleke has been alleged of selling the Mega Station of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), owned by the state government, to a family member. According to reports trending on social media, Governor Adeleke had concluded plans to sell the facility to the said family member at a sum of N100 million, instructing the Osun State Investment Company Limited (OSICOL), who manages the facility to terminate the agreement it has with NNPCL on the property. OSUN DEFENDER reports that the Mega retail station, with 26 nozzles and other state of the…
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Warns workers against sabotaging govt’s activities Ekiti State government has said that it would announce wage awards to civil servants on or before December 31, 2023, to alleviate their suffering due to the removal of fuel subsidy. It, however, warned civil servants in the state not to sabotage government’s activities, saying that the success or failure of any government is measured by the quality of its civil service. The state’s Head of Civil Service, Sunday Komolafe, who stated this, yesterday, during a media briefing organised in commemoration of this year’s Civil Service Week, said that the state is not lagging…
The name ADELEKE is revered in the annals of the history of Osun State, nay Nigeria, due to so many reasons. I met Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke (Serubawon) during my days as the President of the Students’ Union of Great Ife. He had invited us as leaders of the students to broker peace between the students and the management of the university even though Great Ife as a federal university did not operate under his immediate authority. He did his best to convince us but we could not find a point of convergence. He said he would give us time to…
There are people to be taken seriously within Anambra political circle, and there are others whom history has consigned to a place of perpetual dishonor. Tony Nwoye is one of such political debris the 2023 wind blew back to assumed relevance. A better advise would be that he should not test the memory of ndi Anambra nor take their good will for granted. In the last 7months of the 10th Senate, the garrulous Tony has had nothing but excuses and complaints, fighting lost battles and denying the people of Anambra North their right to sound and qualitative representation at the…
“For seventy-three days, the fascist Israeli occupation has been conducting its genocidal war against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, using all kinds of weapons, ammunition, and internationally prohibited bombs and indiscriminately bombing schools and tents that house hundreds of thousands of displaced people and hospitals protected by international humanitarian law. All this and more are taking place before the eyes of the whole world, with the blatant support of the U.S., U.K., and some European countries, in light of the inability of the dysfunctional international community and all UN institutions to stop this aggression due to the intransigence…
PARIS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA)reaffirmed its commitment to business interests in Nigeria, the French company said, adding that its head Patrick Pouyanne had met Nigeria President Bola Tinubu in Abuja on Monday. TotalEnergies said it had signed a co-operation agreement with Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC Ltd to carry out methane detection and measurement campaigns using its advanced drone-based AUSEA technology on oil and gas facilities in Nigeria. TotalEnergies pledged to “invest $6 billion in the coming years,” with focus on offshore oil projects and gas production across all terrain, Tinubu’s office said in a statement, citing Pouyanne. Tinubu’s…
I would focus on solutions. We know the price of rice is N60, 000 and petrol is up, we all know that, what we need to look at is how to move forward and I think it is important. I’m 70 years old; I started civil rights when I was 29, but I still have hope. I am happy the NSA is here, because I also studied counter intelligence in 1980. We need peace and security to develop; we can’t win the war with armed forces. I would suggest to the National Assembly to invite ethnic nationalities, the owners of…
Wife of the Ekiti State governor, Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji, has canvassed partnership with female medical practitioners for routine medical assistance to aged women and children in the state. Dr. Oyebanji made the call on Monday when she was decorated as the Matron of the Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Ekiti State chapter in her office in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. The First Lady who appreciated the association for the honour bestowed on her appreciated the female doctors for the support her office had enjoyed since she assumed the position. Dr. Oyebanji urged members of the association to always be…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed deep concern over the growing number of university lecturers who, having been sponsored to study abroad by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), have absconded from their academic responsibilities. Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, highlighted this disconcerting trend during a press interaction at the TETFund management retreat in Makurdi, Benue State. Echono revealed that the government is contemplating compelling these errant lecturers to either reimburse the funds invested in their education or face repatriation. “I don’t want to give figures because it is alarming. It is very sad that this opportunity…
SHOPPERS were ‘told not to leave a shop’ yesterday by armed police in a dramatic end to a hunt. Residents at a Tesco Express in Wimborne Road, Northbourne were told not to leave the shop, the Echo understands. Police detained two people in the Bournemouthshop following a disturbance at an address in Poole earlier that evening on Sunday, December 17. Police were called to a disturbance in Nelson Road involving “a number of people” who are believed to be known to each other. The county force has said a man suffered an injury to his arm and two people had fled…