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Mr Makinde said his administration is capable enough to deal with security challenges facing the state.

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 17 February 2021 If we did not know our President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), better, we would think he actually enjoys seeing Nigerians suffer. But the truth is, he just doesn’t care! There is a difference, and perhaps it bears being pointed out. President Buhari would not go out of his way to make life hard for his people. But if what he is doing or not doing happens to make life hard for you, so be it. He does not care. To the adherents of t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 February 2021 Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer herdsmen and destruction of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor ‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020, that some criminal elements were crossing the internat...

Share Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer-herdsmen and destructions of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020 that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun a...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, on Friday said that the decision to site some Command Secondary schools outside military barracks was to make it more accessible to children of its host communities.

Kaduna : Atyap community commends Gov. El-Rufai, security agencies for foiling attack Published The Atyap Community Development Association, ACDA, in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State has hailed the efforts of the state government and security agencies for heeding to an intelligence report and chasing away bandits who planned to attack Gora Gan in Atyap Chiefdom. Comrade Dr. Silas Adamu, the President of ACDA, in a statement on Thursday in Kaduna, noted, “The proactiveness of...

Akinwale Aboluwade  Barely four days after the Commandant of the Oyo State Security Network Agency otherwise called Amotekun, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd.), declared that the Oke Ogun and Ibarapa zone of the state was safe for residents, a 65-year-old farmer has been reportedly killed in Igangan. Residents of Igangan community in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State were thrown into mourning on Wednesday as Bashiru Akinlotan, a native of the town, was found dead on the farm. Akinl...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Thursday, disclosed that the state will commence the push to make the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

By Idris Olukoya Epe (Lagos State), Feb. 9, 2021 Some motorists and residents of Epe/Ibeju-lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State have commended Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu for his conscious efforts to provide good and quality road networks. The residents expressed appreciation in separate interviews with newsmen, in Epe, on Tuesday. Residents and motorists in the area showed excitement at the construction works going on, on the Epe/Ibeju-lekki expressway. NAN reports that construction works ar...

Akinwale Aboluwade The Oyo State House of Assembly has urged Governor Seyi Makinde to inaugurate the Open Grazing Prohibition Task Force in the state for full enforcement of the anti-open rearing and grazing law. The state lawmakers noted that this would help in curtailing clashes and the increasing spate of killings, kidnappings, banditry, armed robbery, cult clash and other forms of crimes across the state. The House raised this as part of their resolutions on Tuesday while deliberating on po...