The Osun State Police Command has arrested eight suspects in connection with the murder of Dr. Adedeji Adejobi, who was a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Deji Adejobi.

The Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mr. Kola Sodipo, said this in Osogbo on Tuesday at a press conference to review activities of the command in the last quarter of 2015.

Sodipo added that the command arrested 52 robbery suspects and 11 murder suspects from September to December of the same year and recovered 18 vehicles; 22 arms and 37 ammunition among others.
He said, ” The command has been able to lay hands on eight suspects in the case of armed robbery and murder of Dr. Adedeji Adejobi, a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University and Abdulahhi, the street security guard.

The incident occurred on July 14th 2015 at about 11pm in Ile Ife. ” The suspects are: Abiodun Damilola Jawefa; Adegoke Adeolu ; Sunday Okoro; Abiodun Ayeni; Faisal Musa ; Biliaminu Alasan; Sule Victor and Boby Eric.

“The suspects confessed that the beretta pistol which was used to kill Dr. by Adegoke Adeolu belongs to Abiodun Damilola Jawefa and Anthony Okoro who is at large.

“ Police report on the killing contradicted the assassination claims in some quarters as the Commissioner stated that the gang had earlier snatched a Toyota Corolla at Ilesa which they used to trail the deceased who was driving home in his Toyota Venza , a sport utility van. He said the laptop computer of the deceased, phones and cash were recovered at Sabo Ibadan from one of the suspects, Faisal Musa, who he said was one of the major receivers of stolen goods.

He added that a plasma television set, laptop computer; two locally made single barrel guns; one live and three expended cartridges and one empty shelll of 9mm pistol ammunition we’re recovered from the suspects.

The CP stated that the suspects had been arraigned while efforts to arrest Okoro, who shot dead the lecturer and the security guard were still on.

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Youths in Ogun State have been called upon to embrace the various opportunities in online digital employment as alternatives to seeking white collar jobs to enable them become self-reliant.
This call was made by the Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Barr. Taiwo Adeoluwa while declaring open a one-day free digital job training programme for unemployed youths organized by the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology and Rockefeller Foundation in collaboration with the Ogun State Government held at the Valley View Auditorium, Abeokuta.
Barr. Adeoluwa who was represented by the Special Adviser to the Governor on General Duties, Mr. Omolayo Olorunwo reassured the youths that the State Government would not relent on its oars at ensuring that unemployment in the State is reduced drastically, adding that Government would continue to assist the teeming youths in the State to make them productive.
“This training programme organized for our unemployed youths is one of the various initiatives of the present administration to make our youths self-sustaining and reliant and enable them add values to the society and become better citizens” Adeoluwa remarked.
In his keynote address, the Ogun State Head of Service, Elder Sola Adeyemi pointed out that the youths daring involvement in criminal and social vices without gender disparity was as a result of high level of unemployment in the society, emphasizing that this necessitated the State Government to collaborate with appropriate bodies to put the programme together.
Elder Adeyemi who was represented by the Director, Service Matters, Mr. Oyejola Oyeneye noted that the Senator Ibikunle Amosun led Government would continue to give hope and reduce the rates of unemployment through various human capacity building and wealth creation programmes.
Speaking in the same vein, the immediate past Senior Special Assistant to the Ogun State Governor on Information Technology, Mr. Bunmi Adebayo charged the youths to see the programme as an opportunity to acquire necessary skills and tap into the job opportunities offered through the internet that would generate more income for them. Adebayo further encouraged the youths to be steadfast in the use of ICT tools such as smart phones, computers and internet connection as this would give them daily income if they are persistent at least for six months.
In their goodwill messages, the representative of the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Mr Madunezi Emmanuel commended the Ogun State Government for providing an enabling environment for the programme, adding that fourteen thousand youths have been trained in 18 States and Ogun had provided a better platform in terms of preparation, security, conducive environment with necessary facilities in place, noting that these are pointers to the fact that Government was responsive and committed to the welfare of its youths.
The spokesperson from Rockefeller foundation who is also an icon in digital job, Mr. Femi Bayode assured participants that about one thousand jobs are available on various platforms online which they could benefit from. He added that a platform would also be created for the youths to interact and work as a group for better productivity.
Earlier in her welcome address, the Director of Information Technology at the Bureau of Information Technology, Mrs. Olatundun Adekunte said the objective of the programme was to empower the youths to have access to online jobs and operate independently without relying on Government.
Participants, Mrs. Aishat Odufuye lauded the State Government for the initiative, saying it has further exposed beneficiaries to various avenues of online wealth creation.
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, and the Peoples Democratic Party, have expressed condolences to the family of the late Minority Leader of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Dejo Makinde.

The lawmaker, who was one of the two members of the PDP at the assembly, died on Sunday on the day he clocked 48 years, leaving behind an aged mother, wife and children. The Ooni, in a condolence message issued on his behalf on Monday by the Director of Media and Public Affairs, Ooni’s Palace, Ile Ife, Mr. Moses Olafare, described the news of the lawmaker’s death as shocking.

Ooni’s condolence message read, “Ile Oodua received the news of the sudden death of Honorable Dejo Makinde with rude shock. Hon Makinde representing Ife Central Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly was a gentleman endowed with attributes of ‘Omoluabi’ and his positive impacts will remain indelible on the minds of not only inhabitants of Ile-Ife but the entire Osun State, having patriotically served as Ife Central Local Government boss and a legislator representing Ife Central Constituency in the state House of Assembly.
“His Imperial Majesty, The Arole Oodua, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi(Ojaja II), hereby expresses the condolences of Ile Oodua to the members of his immediate and extended family, relatives, friends, political associates, fellow state legislators and all his Ife Central constituents’ for whom he had been a very good ambassador in the last 18 months. “

Aregbesola also expressed condolence to the family of the deceased and the PDP in the state. He urged the family and the supporters of the late lawmakers to take his death with equanimity, noting that Makinde left an indelible mark in the minds of the people and in the state within his short sojourn on earth. Aregbesola said, “Though it is very painful to lose somebody like Hon. Oladejo at that youthful age, one clear lesson is the transient nature of life itself; it is not about Makinde Oladejo, but about the fact that death is a certainty that must come to every living being. “It is my fervent prayer that God will grant him eternal home at the bosom of Jesus Christ and give the people of Ife Central the fortitude to bear the loss. We also pray God to comfort his family and give them courage and hope.”

The PDP in a statement issued by the Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, commiserated with the family of the deceased, the Speaker of the House of Assembly and other lawmakers. The party said, “A scholar of note, Makinde, was strict but humane; brave but with manners; a democrat of purest quality and one of the few reminders of politicians with true love of people.

“His records as local government chairman and state lawmaker have remained permanently etched on the minds of people.” Also, the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad, has described Makinde’s death as shocking and a colossal loss to the people of Osun State and the political class in general. Ahmad, in a statement on Monday by his Special Assistant on Media, Shuaib Abdulkadir, said the legislator who represented Ife Central Constituency was a parliamentarian per excellence whose robust contributions at the floor of the House would be missed his by colleagues.

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The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Tuesday said the eventual removal of fuel subsidy is inevitable.

According to him, the gradual removal of subsidy is necessary in view of emerging and current realities. Odigie-Oyegun said this when he received a delegation of the APC National Coalition for Peace and Mobilization which paid him a courtesy at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.

He explained that the current administration inherited an “infected system of subsidy” run by corrupt cartels. In one way or the other, subsidy must go.”

He noted that a situation where government spends almost a trillion Naira yearly on the corruption-tainted subsidy regime is unacceptable and can no longer be sustained.

The APC Chairman said oil cartels and their cronies resisting change have continued to blackmail and sabotage government on the issue of subsidy, a development that has resulted in the lingering nationwide fuel scarcities despite serious government efforts.

He described the perennial fuel scarcity the nation grapples with as a “national disgrace”. Odigie-Oyegun expressed the need to restructure the country’s oil and gas sector which he said has been marred by corruption and inefficiencies. He said President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency to adjust its pricing template to reflect competitive and market driven components may not necessarily result in increase in the pump price of petrol.

The National Chairman said the presidential directive to the PPPRA will result in a more efficient and realistic pricing system for petroleum products and also result in constant availability of fuel. Earlier, the National President of NACOPEAM, Mr. Ahmed Saleh said the fuel scarcity is impacting negatively on the party’s image.

He said, “The unbearable fuel queues along filling stations is indeed avoidable. The situation is impacting negatively on the integrity of the party and this noble administration of positive change.”

He equally called for the “total overhauling” of heads of federal government Commissions, Parastatals and Agencies. Saleh also said, “During electioneering campaign, the APC went around the lenght and breath of Nigeria informing the citizen on the ills and mal-administration of the past regime.

“However, there is need for total overhauling and new trusted heads of commissions, paratatals and agencies to be appointed for effective, efficient and result oriented service to the Nigerian citizens. With this our noble observation, we believe the nation will move forward and the government will be free from administrative sabotage.”

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The newly appointed Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, says President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to proper repositioning of the Niger Delta region.

Semenitari spoke with newsmen on arrival at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Tuesday.
She said that President Buhari had charged the new appointees to clean-up the commission so as to be able to serve the people of the region effectively.

Semenitari, however, said that her appointment was a confirmation of President Buhari’s commitment to active women participation in his government.

“My appointment is in keeping with President Buhari’s commitment to ensure that the Niger Delta is properly positioned and adequately taken care off.

“It is also in keeping with the President’s commitment to guarantee women’s participation in his government, but beyond that, it is a call to service. “I have insisted all through my life that the Niger Delta deserves better and this is a chance to prove that the region will be all that God plans it to be.

”She pledged to keep to the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to develop the region. Semenitari described the high number of women who thronged the airport to receive her as ”overwhelming and women support for women”.

“I have always said that women lift women; my bosses all through my career, who have made me progress the most, have been women,” she said.

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Telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria Limited, has gone before a Federal High Court in Lagos to challenge the $3.9bn imposed on it by the Nigeria Communications Commission for failure to disconnect its unregistered subscribers.

The company, which filed the suit through its legal team comprising Chief Wole Olanipekun, Tanimola Molajo, A.B. Mahmoud, Dr. Gbolahan Elias, Oladipo Okpeseyi, Prof. Fabian Ajogwu and Dr. Oladapo Olanipekun, all Senior Advocates of Nigeria, is urging the court to quash the $3.9bn imposed on it.

Joined as a co-defendant with NCC is the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN).

Among other things, the plaintiff is urging the court to determine whether NCC can act pursuant to Section 70 of the NCC Act to impose a fine on it in view of the provisions of sections 1 (3), 4 and 6 of the 1999 Constitution.

It argued that by imposing a fine on it, the commission was already usurping “the exclusive legislative powers of the National Assembly, as well as the judicial powers of the courts established under the constitution.

” The plaintiff claimed that it was not afforded its constitutional right of fair hearing before a court of competent jurisdiction and insisted that it had not been found guilty of any offence to warrant the fine of $3.9bn imposed on it.

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Telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria Limited, has gone before a Federal High Court in Lagos to challenge the $3.9bn imposed on it by the Nigeria Communications Commission for failure to disconnect its unregistered subscribers.

The company, which filed the suit through its legal team comprising Chief Wole Olanipekun, Tanimola Molajo, A.B. Mahmoud, Dr. Gbolahan Elias, Oladipo Okpeseyi, Prof. Fabian Ajogwu and Dr. Oladapo Olanipekun, all Senior Advocates of Nigeria, is urging the court to quash the $3.9bn imposed on it.

Joined as a co-defendant with NCC is the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN).

Among other things, the plaintiff is urging the court to determine whether NCC can act pursuant to Section 70 of the NCC Act to impose a fine on it in view of the provisions of sections 1 (3), 4 and 6 of the 1999 Constitution.

It argued that by imposing a fine on it, the commission was already usurping “the exclusive legislative powers of the National Assembly, as well as the judicial powers of the courts established under the constitution.

” The plaintiff claimed that it was not afforded its constitutional right of fair hearing before a court of competent jurisdiction and insisted that it had not been found guilty of any offence to warrant the fine of $3.9bn imposed on it.

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