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 Oyo state commissioner for information and civic orientation, Prince Dọtun Oyelade, has described as a phobia the suggestion that Governor Seyi Makinde’s second term performance will not match his first term achievements. According to him, every activity of the state government is a pointer to how seriously Governor Seyi Makinde takes his second term mandate.                       Advertisement Oyelade said this when the management of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, paid him a courtesy call in his office. In the first five months of Seyi Makinde’s second term, he said, 1174 teachers have been promoted to level 17 because of the governor’s policy not to tie teachers’ promotions to the availability of vacancies.                       Advertisement Since the commencement of Omituntun 2.0, Governor Makinde’s administration has opened up roads including the commissioning of the 34km Oyo-Iseyin express road and the successful relocation of 1533 200level undergraduates from Ladoke Akintola

  …Inducts Lolade Into Hall of Fame …Hails Reappointment of Victor Olojede Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has been decorated as Grand Patron of National Association of Nigerian Students (Southwest zone) by the members at the Governor’s Office on Monday. The national body of the students association said the induction was in recognition of the extraordinary work the governor has done to advance the cause of the students, development of Oyo State and more importantly, improvement of the lot of the youths and students. Speaking on behalf of his colleagues, the Coordinator of NANS, (Southwest zone), Comrade Alao John expressed his profound gratitude to Governor Seyi Makinde for not just being a father to them, but for his patriotic and nationalistic dispositions which he said stood him out from the rest of his colleagues and other leaders. He also thanked the governor for running both youth and students-friendly administration and also, for being conscious of the fact that leadership is

  The naira crashed against the dollar on Monday, falling to 1, 030/$ on the average in the parallel market, losing the momentum it gathered last week. This represents a N80 loss or a 8.42 per cent decline of the local currency compared to the N950 it closed the week at last Friday. This is also the first time the naira is falling since the Central Bank of Nigeria began to clear some of its FX backlog last week.Currency traders, also known as Bureaux De Change operators said that the naira was trading at between N990 to N1,030/$.                         Advertisement A trader who gave his name as Awolu said, “The dollar is N995 if you want to sell. If you want to buy from me, it is N1,020.” Another trader, Kadri, added, “The dollar is N960 if you want to sell. If you want to buy, it is N990.” According to the President of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria, Aminu Gwadabe, the dollar has gained against the naira because people who had bought it at a higher price a

  The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has called on heads of tertiary institutions across the country, to join hands with the commission in tackling the rising tide of internet fraud among students of tertiary institutions.                                 Advertisement He made this call while having an interactive session with Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts of tertiary tnstitutions in Kogi State, at the Ilorin Zonal Command Office in Kwara State.  This was disclosed in a post on the commission's Facebook page on Monday, November 6.                               Advertisement Olukoyede called on authorities of tertiary institutions to put in place measures that would discourage students from indulging in crimes.  He also admonished parents to be more committed to the moral upbringing of their children in schools in order to bolster the prevention agenda of his administration.                        Advertisement