As IGP Orders Watertight Security Across Nigeria, Appeals for Calm The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, is deeply concerned about recent developments regarding planned nationwide protests by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC). While…
President Bola Tinubu, Today, August 1st, 2023, will honour an invitation to attend the 63rd independence anniversary of the Republic of Benin. The President, who is also the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, will be the Special Guest…
Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde on Monday has appointed a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG Sikiru Kayode Akande (rtd), as the new chairman of the Board of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun. This was as the governor reappointed all other members of the security…
The Oyo State Government has called the Nigeria Labour Congress to discuss the issue of salary deductions exhaustively, before embarking on any form of protest. In a statement issued by the Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, the Oyo State Government said only three months and…
President Bola Tinubu will make a broadcast to the nation on Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 7pm. This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President (Special duties, Communications & Strategy), Dele Alake. The statement urges Television & radio stations and other electronic media…
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has imposed a 24-hour curfew across the state as a result of attacks on business premises by hoodlums. According to reports, the curfew which became effective on Sunday, 30th July, was necessitated by unwarranted activities of hoodlums. It was gathered that the hoodlums broke…
There is uneasy calm in the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the nomination of former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Chief Adebayo Adelabu as the ministerial nominee for the State. Several members of the Oyo APC, in conversations with the Nigerian Tribune,…
Wife of the Oyo State Governor, Mrs. Tamunominini Makinde, has encouraged nursing mothers in the state to adopt exclusive breastfeeding for their babies in the first six months to ensure their optimal growth and good health. Mrs. Makinde, who said this in commemoration of the World Breastfeeding Week, which…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) may have laid to rest the uncertainty surrounding its participation in the forthcoming local government council election being planned by the People’s Democratic party (PDP) administration of Governor Seyi Makinde. The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC)…
Representatives of the organised labour on Friday evening stormed out of a meeting with the Presidential Steering Committee on Subsidy Palliatives scheduled to hold at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, led the delegation to the office of the Chief of Staff to the…