Day: November 16, 2020
COURT ORDERS ODUA TO REPEAT PUBLIC APOLOGY
The National Industrial Court, Ibadan Judicial Division has ordered Odua Investment Company Limited to publish another public apology for insulting judiciary in the Nations Newspaper and weekly Magazine. This order was handed over to the company at the resumed hearing of case instituted by a top management of the Company , Mr. Abiodun Adedeji against […]
Continue ReadingLawyers petition ECOWAS President over Yoruba self-determination, seeks intervention.
The Oodua Action Movement (OAM), a body in association with other Yoruba self-determination groups,representing the Yoruba People of the South West of Nigeria, has petitioned the President of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to take action on the demand for self a determination […]
Continue ReadingAfenifere carpets northern elders over opposition to restructuring
Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has said building “a Nigeria of our dreams will be a difficult task for as long as northerners remain fixated about its region and people.”The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, said this in an interview with THE PUNCH, on Sunday.He was reacting to a pronouncement by the Northern Elders […]
Continue ReadingFamily panics as 300-level student goes missing in Osun
Published November 16, 2020 A couple, Okunade and Mariam Ashifat, have been dragged before an Osun State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly severing the head and hand of a corpse. The police prosecutor, John Idoko, said the defendants had been previously arraigned in March 2020. In the new charges filed on Friday, the […]
Continue ReadingFayose denies nursing senatorial ambition
Former Governor of Ekiti State , Mr . Ayodele Fayose , has debunked insinuations that he was nursing a Senatorial ambition .Fayose , a two -term governor , who hails from Ekiti Central Senatorial District , said, “ I don ’ t like to be a senator who will be making laws that the executive […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s constitution needs replacement, not amendment – Olanipekun
Published November 16, 2020 Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti LEGAL icon, Chief Wole Olanipekun, has disagreed with calls in some quarters for the amendment to the country’s constitution with a view to have a new Nigeria. Olanipekun said rather, what the constitution needed was “a total overhaul, a redrafting, a re-crafting and a total replacement, starting […]
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