The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the state government had in March placed a ban on religious gathering as part of measures to curb the spread of the novel Coronavirus Disease.
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The governor’s spokesman, who was reacting to an interview granted an Ibadan-based radio station by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 election, Chief Bayo Adelabu, declared that no amount of lies, misinformation and deliberate plots to malign the government by members of the opposition would make the people of the state regret electing Makinde as their governor.
The governor, while presenting symbolic cheques to some beneficiaries of the scheme at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, said the scheme will stimulate the economy of the state and create more jobs for its teeming youths.
Makinde gave this position in a statement commemorating the June 19 International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
The media had been awash with concerns on Thursday about the state of health of Ajimobi, with some reporting him dead.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had on Monday approved the resumption of religious activities, with mosques and churches to operate at 25 per cent capacity.
The Task Force made the decision public after a two-and-a-half-hour meeting presided by its Chairman, Governor Seyi Makinde.
Makinde further called on members of the committee to reconcile all aggrieved party members, promising to ensure that all legitimate concerns within the party are addressed.
The killing, which occurred on Saturday, was confirmed by the spokesman of the Oyo State Police Command, Gbenga Fadeyi.
And I don’t want to talk about the raping of minors and even relations that have been daily in the news. I believe that you have been reading the reports of the so-called humans who have been raping their own daughters, some as young as three years and others few months. In Owerri, one has been raping his daughters for years now.
Somuyiwa was killed by yet-to-be-identified people who smashed her head with a stone at her rented apartment at Aba Ijefun, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Oba Adeyemi stated this when he received Makinde who paid him courtesy visit in his palace on Wednesday in Oyo town.
The governor, who spoke at the Assembly chambers on the occasion of the first anniversary of the 9th Assembly, declared that his administration was determined to deliver on the electioneering promises made to the people during the campaigns.
Earlier, the judge warned the Commandant of the NDLEA, Josephine Obi, to produce Danjuma Maji, who is standing trial for being in possession of Cannabis Sativa.
The spokesman of the Oyo State Police Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, gave the hint in a statement on Saturday.
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Makinde gave this assurance while receiving support of medical equipment worth N220 million from the Coalition Against COVID-19, a private sector initiative supporting the Federal Government and State Governments in fight against COVID-19.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Shomuyiwa, said to be seven-months pregnant, was a postgraduate student of the Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Education.
Folarin, in a statement in Ibadan on Saturday by his media aide, Yekeen Olaniyi, expressed deep concern over the security situation in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the cash reward was given to the athletes and officials at the main bowl of the Lekan Salami Sports Complex on Thursday in Ibadan.
Bello, a student of Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Federal College of Animal Health and Production, Ibadan, was raped and stabbed to death by hoodlums in her father’s residence at Kara Akinyele area on Monday in Ibadan.