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The House of Representatives  has set up a committee to interface with families of healthcare workers who died in the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic for them to receive financial benefits. The lower legislature also said it would intervene in all pending issues concerning the payment and welfare of health workers in the country. The chairman, House of Committee on Health Services, Dr Tanko Sununu, stated these during a courtesy visit to the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria in Abuja. At the event, the National President of MHWUN, Josiah Biobelemoye, urged the legislative and executive arms of government to prioritise the needs of healthcare workers and warned that the delayed payment of deferred and adjusted salaries was “a ticking time bomb.” Sununu said the National Assembly was still reviewing the manner of compensation that would be made available to the affected families. He said, “We are not unmindful of our health workers in the frontline who paid the ultimate pri

By  admin  -  July 18, 2020 The Oyo State Police Command has lost three constables who drowned in a bridge washed away by flood on Balogun Street in Oyo town. The policemen, attached from Atiba Police Division, trailed some hoodlums to the area when the thugs started running towards the bridge. According to an eyewitness, one of the hoodlums reportedly jumped into the water and the policemen jumped after him during which the officers drowned. IBNET correspondent quoted the witness, who gave his name as Okunola Abbas as saying that, “On Sunday, July 12, some policemen from Oyo Atiba division were passing through Balogun Street in Oyo town and saw some hoodlums smoking weed in the area. “The area is notorious for hooliganism. The policemen parked their van and four of them started running after the hoodlums. So, being their base and knowing the area well, the hoodlums jumped into the flooded bridge. The policemen chased one of the hoodlums to the bridge and three of them jumped after him

By  admin  -  July 18, 2020 One of the three suspects linked with serial killings in the Akinyele area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has said that he got N500 and food for each of the six persons he murdered in the area. No fewer than five females were raped and murdered in Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan in the month of June. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the 19-year-old suspect whose name was not disclosed was among the 19 suspects paraded on Friday by Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Nwachuckwu Enwonwu, for various offences ranging from armed robbery, defilement, motorcycle theft, among others. The suspect said he was sent on the mission by a 50-year-old herbalist, who, he claimed, was his master. He said, “Anytime I’m to go for the killing, Baba will give me some charms and also teach me some incantation to recite so that nobody will see me at the scene of the crime. “I will hit the victims with a shovel and recite the incantation immediately I see blood co

Kajola LG Youths Write IBEDC, Decry Epileptic Power Supply  By  Ibrahim Agunbiade   -  July 17, 2020  Kajola Youth Forum, an association that champions the development of young people in Kajola Local Government, has written the management of  Ìbàdàn  Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, over the epileptic power supply in the area. The Forum, in a statement signed by Comrade Oseni Ibrahim, wrote that residents of the Local Government have also been receiving outrageous bills from the electricity company despite the pathetic duration they enjoy electricity supply in monthly. “The power supply we enjoy is far below the electricity bills we are compelled to pay on a monthly basis. “We have been bringing this complain to the head of IBEDC office but nothing has been done to attend to our complaints. “Mostly and always, the explanation that we have been hearing from IBEDC about the abysmal power supply to our area has revolved around bad transformers,” Oseni wrote. He also questioned who

WASSCE: FG, WAEC agree to shift examination date   The Federal Government and West African Examination Council (WAEC) have agreed to shift the date of West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) from the August 4 to September 5, 2020, earlier announced. Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who disclosed this on Friday in Abuja, said this was the outcome of a meeting between the Federal Government and officials of WAEC’s Nigeria office on Monday and that both parties have agreed to further consult with four other countries on new examination date. The minister also said government has given school owners in the country till July 29, 2020 to meet specific guidelines towards the reopening of schools at a date to be announced in due course. He said the Ministry of Education, having consulted widely, has in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Education in Emergencies Working Group, develope

Oyo Police Parade 3 Suspects Over Akinyele Killings By   Admin  -  July 17, 2020 Oyo State Police Command has arrested three persons in connection with the recent killing of five residents of Akinyele Local Government. It was reported how five residents were killed in the local government in June. According to the Commissioner of Police, CP Joe Nwachukwu, the three suspects are Sunday Sodipe, Adedokun Yinusa and Shehu Usman. “The assailants troubling the settled water at Akinyele local government area and some suspected criminal elements carrying out defilement of minors and teenagers in the state have been arrested and will be showcased here today. “On 4th June 2020 at about 2230hrs, unknown hoodlums who have been terrorizing members of the public in Akinyele, Ojoo and Moniya areas of Ibadan invaded the residence of one Azisat Shomuyiwa F, a 29-year-old pregnant woman at Ijefun, Adisa community, Ojoo Area Ibadan. “Meanwhile after a discreet investigation by a team of SARS operatives,

Published   July 17, 2020  |  By  Admin 17 th  July, 2020   PRESS RELEASE: REPLICATE OGUN BILL ON TRADITIONAL RITES: MURIC TELLS OTHER YORUBA STATES     The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on lawmakers in Yoruba States of Lagos, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti to replicate the bill that will allow traditional rulers to be installed or buried after death according to their faiths instead of imposing traditional burial rites on Christian and Muslim rulers.     It will be recalled that a similar bill was sponsored in the Ogun State House of Assembly by Hon Akeem Balogun from Ogun Waterside State Constituency.  The bill which is known as HB No 36/OG/2020- A Bill for a law to provide for the Preservation, Protection and Exercise by the traditional rulers of their fundamental Rights to be installed and buried according to their Religions or Beliefs and for other related matters has gone through the second reading.     The call was made by MURIC, in a press statement circulated to the medi

THE CHAIRMAN, The Presidential Investigation Committee On The Alleged Mismanagement Of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Federal Government Recovered Assets and Finances (From May 2015 to May 2020). Attention: Hon Justice Isa Ayo Salami (Rtd) Gentlemen: PUBLICATIONS PREJUDICIAL TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THIS HONOURABLE PANEL We act as Counsel of Choice to Mr Ibrahim Mustafa Magu, the suspended Acting Chairman of the EFCC hereinafter referred to as “Our Client” and on whose behalf and specific instructions we write as follows: This is a follow-up to our letter dated 10th July, 2020 on behalf of our client. Please be advised that the attention of our client has been drawn to serial falsehood publications in the media in respect of matters which never featured in the proceedings of this Honourable Panel. These falsehood publications being orchestrated in the media include the following: NFIU SUBMITS REPORT ON MAGU’S FOREX TRANSACTIONS TO PANEL (SEE THE PUNCH OF TUESDAY, JULY 14,

By  Ibrahim Agunbiade   -  July 16, 2020  The Chairman of the selection Committee for Extended Special Public Works Programme (ESPWP) in Oyo State, Hon. Ope Salami will inaugurate members of the committee in the state tomorrow. Members of the committee include three top class Monarch, a former Head of Service, a former NURTW Chairman, representatives of the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs among others. The committee is expected to generate 33,000 jobs in Oyo State. The Programme is also expected to provide modest stipends for itinerant workers to undertake roads rehabilitation and social housing construction, urban and rural sanitation, health extension and other critical services. According to the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, the total sum of N52 billion was appropriated for this programme, out of which, the sum of N46.44 billion will be used for the actual payment of the stipends of those to be engag

Arotile’s Short Stay Impacted The Nation, Buhari Mourns Flying Officer The late Tolulope Arotile. Photo: Twitter@Nigerian Air Force.   President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned with the family of the flying officer Tolulope Arotile, describing her as a promising officer, whose short stay on earth impacted greatly on the nation, especially in peace and security. The President in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, saluted Arotile’s bravery in the field to protect the country from the onslaught of bandits and terrorists, assuring that her memory will be indelible, and her efforts remembered. He commiserated with the Nigerian Air Force, airmen, airwomen, and all friends of the deceased, recalling her deft skills in maneuvering combat helicopters, which he had physically witnessed with pride. “The President sympathises with government and people of Kogi State on the loss. “President Buhari prays that the Almighty God will receive the soul of the departed,

On Friday, July 3, Nigeria's Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, said he earned more as a university professor than as a minister. According to Pantami, his “salaries and allowances” as a minister are lesser compared to what he earned as a professor at the International University Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The minister was reacting to a report by Sahara Reporters which claimed he had purchased three houses for his three wives since he assumed office barely a year ago. In a statement released by his spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, Pantami denied the allegations by the online news media. According to the statement, the minister said he has not purchased a single property anywhere in the world since he assumed office. “It is worthy of note that as a serving Minister, Dr Pantami’s salaries and allowances fall below his earnings as a Professor at the International University Madinah Saudi Arabia, where he still holds the record of being the first Nigerian to lecture at

Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot dies in road accident July 15, 2020   Nigeria’s first-ever female combat helicopter pilot Tolulope Arotile died on Tuesday as  a result of head injuries sustained in a road traffic accident in the northwestern state of Kaduna, according to the Nigeria Air Force (NAF). She contributed to the efforts to rid the Nigerian north-central region of armed groups by flying several combat missions. The NAF described her demise as “unfortunate,” saying her service to Nigeria was “short but impactful.” The young pilot was commissioned as an officer of the NAF in 2017. As the first woman to fly a fighter helicopter in Nigeria, Arotile became a popular figure in the country after she was recognized by the NAF for her passion in doing what has been stereotyped to be a man’s job.