Researchers in the Food Science and Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology in the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Osun State have admonished farmers in the South Western part of Nigeria to consider planting of Fonio, known in some quarters as hungry rice or acha in Hausa, as a way of increasing their economic gains.
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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Thursday fixed October 9 to commence hearing in a suit seeking to void the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress held in Osun State on July 20
The police said on Thursday that they would ensure synergy with other security agencies in providing adequate security during the September 22 governorship poll in Osun.
Olalere, who was in Makurdi on Thursday, on a consultation visit to the Benue chapter of the union, said he would also ensure regular payments of salaries to media workers and prosecute defaulting employers.
Over 160 patients have had lumps removed from various parts of their bodies and cataract from their eyes in the two cities since Monday.
Aregbesola spoke in Ilesa at a campaign rally to seek support for Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the Osun State candidate of the All Progressives Congress, for the September 22 governorship election.
Adeleke, at a news conference on Wednesday in Osogbo, accused the government of diverting the fund, which he said was meant for the payment of workers’ salary arrears and pensions.
The candidate said this in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, while presenting his seven-point agenda for the people, if elected as next governor of the state.
Aregbesola said his party, the All Progressives Congress, is “ordained to deliver the state from under development.”
Ahead of the September 22 governorship election in Osun, Governor Rauf Aregbesola has urged residents of the state to vote for Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the All Progressives candidate in the interest of continuity.
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, has advised corps members in Osun to remain neutral and apolitical while serving as ad hoc staff for the September 22 governorship election.
Abayomi Shogunle, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, gave the warning in Osogbo on Tuesday.
Oba Akanbi said on Monday that such people are uncivilised.
His plans include urgently setting in motion the necessary machinery to address the imminent security threats to the nation, including the menace of Fulani herdsmen, and championing the demand for the restructuring of Nigeria, which, according to him, was long overdue.
Ahead of the September 22 governorship election in Osun, the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday held an assessment workshop for its electoral officers, head of operations, and assistant electoral officers.
Bello, in a letter addressed to the PDP state’s Chairman, Soji Adagunodo, on Monday in Osogbo, said he was resigning his membership of the party because “the party had been hijacked by some certain elements”.
This was contained in a statement signed by Adebisi Obawale, the Commissioner for Home Affairs, on Monday in Osogbo.
Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise for Change Initiative, an NGO, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Adewole made the commendation during the commencement of the free medical care in Ejigbo Local Government area of the state.
Hundreds of residents trooped out in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Sunday for treatment in the free medical mission organised by the All Progressives Congress candidate in the September 22, 2018 governorship election in the state, Gboyega Oyetola.