Group commends Senator Tofowomo for rebuilding Okitipupa police station

  A group of youths in Ondo South under the aegis of Ondo South Advancement and Welfare Consultative Association (OSAWA), has commended Sen Nicholas Tofowomo, the lawmaker representing the Senatorial District at the Senate over the newly-reconstructed Okitipupa Divisional Police Headquarters in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. Starnews Nigeria reports that the project was constructed and inaugurated on Thursday at the cost of N12 million by the Senator. Starnews Nigeria recalls that the police station, Okitipupa local government secretariat and other government property were set ablaze on October 22, 2020, by irate youths during a protest against police

Okitipupa Police Station’s new look by a compassionate Senator

  Distinguished Senator Nicholas Tofowomo has once again demonstrated his love for the safety of the people in the senatorial district he superintends in Ondo State. Accepting the incontrovertible fact that the first dividend of democracy that could be accorded to human lives irrespective of ethnic inclinations, religious denomination or whatever life offers to mankind is SECURITY. Recalling that the new generational revolutionary protest codenamed #EndSARS took another regrettable and condemnable dimension in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo South Senatorial District, one out of the numerous ancient legacies transferred to us by our pre/post-colonial legends is the Okitipupa Divisional

Okada ban: No protest allowed, Lagos Hausa leaders warn

Two leaders of the Hausa community in Lagos State have warned their subjects to desist from any form of demonstration to protest the ban of commercial motorcycles popular known as Okada in six local government areas in the state. The leaders spoke in separate interviews with our correspondent on Thursday evening. One of the leaders, Iliyasu Kira, in a telephone interview with The PUNCH, said no protest will be allowed from any member. According to Kira, who is the Seriki of Shasha in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos, the decision of the government will sanitise the system. He said,

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2023: I’m qualified, I eat ‘garri’ daily, Amaechi tells Niger delegates

Former Minister of Transportation and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that he is more experienced than any presidential aspirant in Nigeria, especially because he came from a very low background. Amaechi made the statement when he met with delegates of the APC in Niger State on Thursday ahead of the party’s primary elections, saying that he could easily connect with the poor as he used to, and still, eat ‘garri’ three times a day. The former minister stated that, apart from his vast experience, having served and delivered as Speaker, Governor,

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Naira notes will be out of circulation soon, says CBN official

The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that paper currency will soon be out of circulation, urging market men and women to sign into the e-Naira.   The Delta State Branch Controller of CBN, Mr Godwin Okafor, stated this on Friday at the popular Ogbogonogo market during the market sensitisation on e-Naira. He urged traders to key into the central bank’s e-Naira policy. He said, “We are here at the market today to sensitise the market people on the use of e-Naira. It is fully backed by CBN, unlike Bitcoin which has no legal backing.”The consultant of CBN on e-Naira,

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