NigerianMuse Articles (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Afenifere leaders are liars –Bishop Gbonigi By FEMI ADEOTI femotadeoti@yahoo.com Tuesday, December 30, 2008 The no-nonsense retired Anglican Bishop of Akure Diocese, Bishop Emmanuel Bolanle Gbonigi, has taken leaders of the Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, to the cleaners. The retired Bishop did not mince words when he described some of them as liars. Speaking on the various...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
... 2008 Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Award conferred on him by the All Africa Student Union (AASU), in Akure, Kekemeke regretted the backwardness in the communities despite their contributions to the nation's resources.He said: "The reduction in funds allocated to the development of the oil-rich region which accounted for about 90 per cent of the fund generated by the country had shown that the...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... this government continues to excel in the discharge of its responsibilities to our people."And in Akure, while signing the N95.6 billion budget, Governor Agagu assured that in spite of the challenges posed by the economic downturn, government would ensure its implementation to the benefit of the people of the state.The state lawmakers had passed the budget on Monday after jerking it up by...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
... Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Illorin, Federal University of Technology, (FUTEC), Akure, Federal University of Technology, Minna, University of Calabar, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, amongst others. © 2008 This Day. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (). To contact the copyright holder...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
Six itinerant foreign Muslim preachers have been arrested by the police in Abuja on suspicion of their possible links with Al-Qaida, the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro said in Akure on Monday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
POLICE authorities is investigating various extra judicial killings by erring policemen in the country with a view to taking steps to flush out overzealous officials from the force. The Inspector General of Police IGP Mr. Mike Okiro made the disclosure in Akure, the Ondo State capital yesterday while answering reporters question at his Monthly Conference of Commissioners of Police across the...
Olusegun Mimiko (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
The Labour Party in Ondo State has criticised Governor Olusegun Agagu-led administration over what it called frivolous award of contracts. The party, in a statement made available to our correspondent in Akure on Sunday by its Director of Press, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, said that the governor had awarded N65bn contracts since July 25 when Justice [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
... complete the assignment given to them in the nation's constitution.Akinfeleye made the appeals in Akure while delivering a lecture at the 32nd Anniversary of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ondo State Council, entitled, "Media as the Watchdog of Democracy and the Rule of Law". It was attended by media practitioners in the state and veteran journalists from all over the country.The university...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
HOODLUMS, numbering six, have stabbed a soldier, Lance Corporal Suleiman Yakubu, attached to the 323 Artillery Regiment, Owena Barracks, Akure, over a scuffle on the payment of N30 ticket union due.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
Nigeria: LP Flays N65bn Contract Awards By AgaguJames Sowole16 December 2008|| Share this on: Akure — The Ondo State Chapter of the Labour Party (LP) yesterday raised alarm over the rate at which contracts were being awarded by the Governor of the State, Dr Olusegun Agagu, since the July 25 judgment of the Election Petitions Tribunal which sacked him as governor.Specifically, LP, which put the...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... election, Labour Party hired several buses that brought people to the front of INEC office in Akure, chanting that they had won whereas 50 per cent of the result of the election had not been returned. What they did was illegal. You are not supposed to go to INEC office only your agent should be there and the police. This was the situation and they went to the newspapers that they had won...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... to the state, the house had remained in the same condition as it was when I assumed office in Akure. I was compelled by protocol to give it a facelift for the reception. Even then, I insisted on carrying out the renovation work at my own personal expense, but while the work was in progress, Chief Adefarati, my commissioner for works and transport, took some men from his Ministry to assist...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Nigeria: All the Lies I Told Mum to Play Music6 December 2008interviewOsaniyi Olusegun Gbadura Folayemi may definitely not ring a bell but 'Lord Of Ajasa' should. He pioneered commercial Yoruba rap and today he's being celebrated for sticking on.Born in Ibadan and raised by his mum among four other siblings in Akure, he certainly had a lot to prove.Osaniyi Olusegun Gbadura Folayem AKA, Lord...
Africa Hit (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... on Friday, December 12th in Lagos and Saturday December 13th in Abuja with remote broadcast in Akure and Lokoja.They would be joined by the best of Nigerian music superstars. The parade includes P-Square, D Banj, 9ice, Timaya, Face and Olu Maintain,Obesere,Weird MC amongst others.According to Ageni Yusuf, Corporate Affairs Adviser, Nigerian Breweries Plc, having consistently entertained...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... on Friday, December 12th in Lagos and Saturday December 13th in Abuja with remote broadcast in Akure and Lokoja.They would be joined by the best of Nigerian music superstars. The parade includes P-Square, D Banj, 9ice, Timaya, Face and Olu Maintain,Obesere,Weird MC amongst others.According to Ageni Yusuf, Corporate Affairs Adviser, Nigerian Breweries Plc, having consistently entertained...
