Month: April 2021

* Spokesman accuses FG, Gov Seyi Makinde * Insists Igboho is capable to secure himself, says we chased them away A house belonging to Sunday Igboho, a prominent Yoruba activist and headliner of the Oodua Republic, at Soka in Ibadan, Oyo State, was allegedly attacked by armed men in Nigeria’s Army Uniform. Starnews Nigeria reports…

* Says farm will produce 10,000 litres of milk daily Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has said the Ikun Dairy Farm in Ikun-Ekiti would serve as a prototype for National Livestock Transformation Plan in addressing farmers-herders crisis in the State. Mr Fayemi said this during an inspection of the newly-arrived 227 cows at the Ikun…

Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, weekend, reiterated that the All Progressives Congress, APC would sack the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from some States in the South-South region in 2023. Omo-Agege who stated this at Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, shortly after inspecting the rehabilitation work on…

Some Nigerians under a group, Concerned Nigerians, have written to the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, asking that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, be placed on the terrorists’ watchlist due to his extremist religious views. The group stated on Friday that the US Secretary of State should order…

Ondo State government, yesterday, raised the alarm of a grand plot to blackmail and discredit Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, his immediate family members and some senior government officials in the state. In a statement by the Information and Orientation Commissioner, Mr. Donald Ojogo, said: “The motive of those behind this heinous plot is to distract the…

The Presidency drew more flak from the public on Saturday over its defence of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami. There had been calls from the members of the public Pantami’s resignation over an old video in which he endorsed the activities of some terrorist organizations, including the Al-Qaeda movement, which…

Dr Olumuyiwa Daramola has donated food items to the Muslim communities in Okitipupa/Irele Federal Constituency of Ondo State as Ramadan is being observed by the Muslim faithful across the world. Starnews Nigeria reports that the United States-based Medical Doctor and the son of the former Minister of State, Niger Delta, Prof. Claudius Omoleye Daramola, donated…

      Subscribers under the aegis of the Association of Telephone, Cable Tv and Internet Subscribers of Nigeria has commended the Federal Government for lifting the ban on new Subscribers Identification Module card registration. The ATCIS National President, Sina Bilesanmi, in a statement on Monday, appreciated the government for listening to the voices of…

      A Fulani herder, Muhammed Maikudi, has been shot dead at a forest reserve in Ifira Akoko in Akoko South East local government of Ondo State. Daily Trust gathered that a local hunter, identified as Seyi Sansere, killed Maikudi when he was grazing his cows in the forest reserve in the area. It…

      The Senate on Tuesday approved N257billion 2021 budget for the Nigeria Customs Service.   However out of this, N2billion was earmarked for welfare incentive for retiring staff and another N180million for fumigation. The Senate also approved N1.678trillion as target revenue of the agency for 2021.   Of the N257,183,671,694.71 approved for Customs…

      A former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly who was also the Director General of Akeredolu Campaign Orgaization for the first and second elections of Governor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu SAN in Ondo State, Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan has ascribed the judgment of Tuesday April 20, 2021 that struck out the…

      Nigeria’s Ambassador to Benin Republic, Kayode Oguntuase has commended the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi for formulating people-centred policies aimed at harnessing the State’s potentials for development.   The Envoy who spoke passionately about Fayemi’s industrialization agenda in Ado Ekiti during his visit to the Governor’s Office on Friday said…