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Bishop James Owholo of of Faith and Light Crusaders Ministry Inc. Intl, has disclosed that the Olomu kingdom in Ughelli South Council Area of Delta State has set up a 20-man committee to resolve the looming crisis in kingdom. Owholo gave the hints in Ughelli said that the 2020 annual prayer day of the people of Olomu Kingdom has being postponed to avert the impending crisis arising from changing of name Olomu secondary school to Agbon college Oterere-Olomu. The cleric, who is the Chairman Olomu Kingdom Christian Fellowship International (OKCFI), told Newsmen of the indefinite postponement of the 2020 Olomu…

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As part of his efforts to enhance human skills in Agriculture, cash crop production and efficient livestock farming as well as ensuring job creation, gainful employment and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector, the most performing Rep Member in Ogun state, Hon.Kolawole Lawal MobOlorunduro KLM who is representing Yewa South/Ipokia at the Federal House of Representatives sponsored a ‘Fisheries and Aquacultural Empowerment Program’ in declaring war against poverty and hunger through agricultural revolution in Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency. As known nationwide that the Federal Government of Nigeria is taking great step to diversify the nation’s economy and generate considerable revenue through…

A Bill for an Act to assist banks recover bad debts, scaled second reading at the Senate on Tuesday.This followed the adoption of a motion by the sponsor of the bill, Sen. Sani Musa (APC-Niger) during plenary. Leading the debate on the general principles of the bill, Musa said that the proposed law would help to recover past and due obligations without recourse to the borrower as well as provide penalties for breaches. He said that the essence was to enhance loan recovery in the Nigerian banking sector.He said that the legislation had become necessary because credit was seen as…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulates Nigerians across the country, as their tormentor for five years, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has finally dissolves out of our political firmament. The party said the APC, being overburdened by the weight of failure, humongous corruption as well as the plagues of economic recession, violence, killings and hardship it has brought to our people, forcefully exited itself from the nation’s political firmament by dissolving all its national, zonal and state structures. With this exit, December 8, 2020 has gone into the history of our nation as liberation day, especially given the spontaneous jubilation…

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin, who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defense secretary, two people familiar with the decision said on Monday. Austin, who would be the first Black U.S. secretary of defense, was a surprise pick over Michele Flournoy, a former top Defense Department official who was considered the leading contender for the job. Flournoy would have been the first woman defense secretary. The news was first reported by Politico. Austin, who retired in 2016, will need a waiver from Congress since it has been less…

Abeokuta: Members of Ogun State Chapter of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), have rejected the appointment of Com. Abayomi Arabambi as the Chairman of the State Management Committee (SMC) of the council. This was made known during an emergency meeting of the council in Abeokuta on Monday. Adressing members of the council at the meeting, the chairman of the council, Asiwaju Abdulateef Adedamola asked members to either vote in support or against the SMC. In his reaction, the chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Aare Sola Coker who was listed as the Deputy State Chairman 2 rejected the…

Ogun State Government says special attention will be given to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, even as it charges the new board to think outside the box for solution to the myriad of problems facing the tertiary health institution. “I expect you to be innovative and adaptive. In fact, you may have to make bricks without straws. You may have to think not just outside the box, but in fact without the box”, Governor Dapo Abiodun said while inauguration the new Board of the Teaching Hospital at his office in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta. He noted that the…

Croatian midfielder Luka Modric is set to begin discussions with Real Madrid over signing a new contract at the club. Modric joined the Spanish giants in 2012 from Tottenham Hotspur. After a tough opening year, the Croatian has become a superstar at the Bernabeu, peaking in 2018 when he won the Ballon d’Or. At 35 years of age, it was thought that the World Cup finalist was nearing the end of his time at Los Blancos, especially with the much younger options of Martin Odegaard and Federico Valverde breaking through. However, the midfielder is still very much in favour at Real Madrid, starting…

Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said during a UN meeting last week, as Britain approved emergency use of Pfizer’s vaccine candidate and providers scrambled to set up distribution. Even without final approval, more than 1 million health care workers and others in China who are deemed at high risk of infection have received experimental vaccines under emergency use permission. There has…