Ondo State Acting Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has taken a decisive step by freezing the accounts of the 18 Local Government Areas and 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state. In a formal communication addressed to the local councils, the Acting Governor issued a directive stating, “Distinguished HOLGAs, Your Excellency, the Acting Governor of Ondo State, has directed that all spending/expenditure from local government accounts should be suspended. No signing of cheques, no change of signatories, no withdrawal of any sort until further directive.” The letter further emphasized, “Please adhere strictly to instructions and be guided.” This development is…
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It was broad daylight, and there were other people in the tube carriage. She should have been safe. She’d fallen asleep, missed her stop, and ended up at the end of the Piccadilly line. But still, on a weekend morning in a bustling city, she should have been safe. And yet, hauntingly, she wasn’t. Last week, Ryan Johnston was sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a 20-year-old woman on the tube in front of a horrified French tourist and his young son, in a case the detective leading the investigation described as one of the most disturbing of his career. Something about…
A coalition of APC support groups that worked for the election of President Bola Ahmad Tinubu in Plateau State have joined well meaning Plateau citizens and other Nigerians in calling on President Bola Ahmad Tinubu to appoint Honourable David Bitrus Kasuwa as a replacement to Former Governor of Plateau State and current Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Bako Lalong. In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Coalition, Abdulahi Saleh and the Secretary, Hon. Sunday Jagaba and made available to this medium, the group called on the APC State Executive Committee, National Assembly members, Youth groups and all…
Bus 1- Nairobi to Dar-es-Salaam. You can travel with Tahmeed Coach, Kidia One or Sr Classic coaches. Bus 2 Dar-es-Salaam to Lusaka,Zambia. The reliable bus company operating on the route is Sr Classic coaches. They have daily schedule from Dar-es-Salaam to Lusaka. Bus 3 Lusaka to Johannesburg. We have several Bus companies operating on the route Royal Africa Logistics, K and M Luxury, Unlimited Gift Limited and Juldan Motors. They don’t operate daily. Buses depart to South Africa from Zambia on Sundays and Tuesdays. It will cost one approximately Ksh 23,000 for one way without factoring in food, accommodation and…
There is an ongoing sex scandal at the Osun State Sports Council, investigations by OSUN DEFENDER have revealed. The two-week old scandal has generated controversies between the management of the Sports Council, the alleged perpetrator and the parents of the victim. Investigations revealed that the Lawn Tennis Coach, Mr. Yinka Akinrinade, was allegedly caught in immoral sexual affairs with his trainees. Akinriande allegedly defiled and impregnated a 14-year-old girl (name withheld) who is a trainee under his supervision. OSUN DEFENDER also learnt that Akinrinade, on the same day he allegedly raped the trainee, also defiled his own 13-year-old daughter (name…
As the year comes to a close, the news is getting grimmer, folks — at least according to long-dead, divining daddy Nostradamus.Shutterstock As we deck the halls, overindulge and welcome the new year, the time is nigh for predictive calamity — courtesy of two dead prophets of doom, Nostradamus and Baba Vanga. Nostradamus, or Nos if you’re nasty, was a 16th-century astrologer, plague doctor, accused heretic and bearded seer. He has been credited with foretelling the Great Fire of London, Hitler’s rise to power, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic. With the publication of his famed book “Les…
I am pleased to announce that on Saturday, the 16th of December 2023, His Royal Majesty Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona the Paramount Ruler and Awujale of Ijebuland will honour my brother and confidante Otunba Jimi Lawal with two (yes, not one but two) chieftaincy titles for his contributions to the Ijebu Kingdom and Nigeria, along with his wife Maryam Lawal. VIDEO-2023-12-16-06-42-16Download I am also privileged to be the first Nigerian outside of South-West of Nigeria to be conferred with a chieftaincy title by the Awujale in his nearly 64-year reign. I am to be recognized as the Gbobaniyi of Ijebuland.…
The World Bank announced on Friday that it has approved the Nigeria Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) project, which is targeted at providing over 17.5 million Nigerians with new or improved access to electricity through distributed renewable energy solutions. Funded by an International Development Association (IDA) credit totaling $750 million, the project is set to leverage over $1 billion from private capital and additional financing from various global partners, the World Bank said. The project will also involve $100 million and $200 million in funding from the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and the Japan International…
If you want to see what brainwashing really looks like, it’s worth checking out the videos currently circulating on social media of Gazan parents dressing up their babies in Hamas “merch”. In one, a father is holding a toddler in his arms dressed in a green Hamas overall and matching headband. The young dad is asked: “If you will lose your beloved, cute daughter, if she decides she wants to be a suicide bomber, will you be happy about that?” He replies: “Yes, I will help her and encourage her,” adding: “We are all Hamas.” Then there’s the mother who…
Maryknoll Father John Siyumbu distributes Communion during his ordination to the priesthood at the Maryknoll Society Center in Maryknoll, N.Y., June 3, 2022. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, celebrated the ordination Mass. Father Siyumbu, who is from Bungoma, Kenya, is the first seminarian from East Africa to be ordained a Maryknoll priest. He will serve in Latin America. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Women who have conceived a child out of wedlock and have the courage to choose life for their baby “should be encouraged to have access…