Kwara: Ahmed and burden of continuing Saraki’s legacy
THE administration of the new governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has a number of tasks at hand. Chief among the tasks that the banking guru and financial expert is contending with is the continuation and consolidation of the achievements of the immediate past administration of Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, his boss and mentor.
ACN accuses Akala of plans to destabilise Oyo
THE Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Oyo state ,has accused the immediate past governor of the state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala of trying to make the state ungovernable since he failed to realize his second term ambition.
Tokyo: Oyo gov, Police CP in war of words
WANTED kingpins of Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Akinsola Lateef, a.k.a Tokyo, and Mukaila Lamidi, a.k.a Auxiliary, yesterday, continued to flex muscles even in hiding.
2 remanded in prison for stealing Aregbesola’s phone
An Osogbo Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr. Olusola Aluko, yesterday, ordered that Messrs Ogunjobi Babatunde and Yusuf Abdulgafar, be remanded in prison for allegedly stealing the mobile phone of the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
IG summons police chiefs
FOLLOWING last Thursdays’ bombing at the Police headquarters and access to new intelligence reports, the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, yesterday, summoned all the Assistant Inspectors General of the Police in the six zones and police commissioners of the 36 states and Abuja, to an emergency security meeting.
This Boko siege is haram
THERE is one thing the latest Boko Haram attack at the Louis Edet House last week has made clear: That the terrorist group means business and is prepared to take on the Nigerian state head-on. For those who don’t know, Louis Edet House is the national headquarters of the Nigeria Police, the principal police department in the country, named for the first indigenous Inspector General of Police, Sir Louis Edet.
