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Ibadan is known and tagged to be ‘Agbotikuyo’. Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, Balogun of Ibadanland, who is the head of the military line of the Olubadan system, is set to become the next Olubadan of Ibadan, OYOINSIGHT.COM can write. From today, palace drummers would move from Alli-Iwo to the Ita Baale palace of Ọba Olakulehin, heralding his symbolic ascension of the throne. Next in line to Olakulehin is Rashidi Ladoja, former governor and senator, who heads the civil line as Otun Olubadan of Ibadan. The death of Oba Balogun and assumption of office of another Olubadan will cause promotion in…

Some herdsmen believed to be Fulanis on Mother’s Day night, raided the ranch owned by Michael Ayokunle Otedola, brother of billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, located in Epe, Lagos State. According to reports,the assailants managed to break into the ranch undetected through the backlot brick fence, leading to the theft of 18 cows belonging to Michael Otedola. The raid, which occurred late Sunday night, left the Otedola family and ranch workers in disbelief and outrage. The herdsmen, it was gathered stormed the ranch under the cover of darkness, swiftly rounding up the cows before making a swift getaway. The video…

Four exceptional Teens, Duro-Aina Adebola Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, from Lagos, Nigeria invents urine powered generator that can produce electricity. Duro-Aina Adebola, a 14-year-old teen said the idea of using urine to produce electricity started when she read an article about a family of five who lost their lives as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning as they inhaled fumes emanating from their generator while asleep. She said she was disturbed by the incident thinking about how she could help to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future concluding that the way out was to…

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has called on President Bola Tinubu, the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, to prevail on the former President of the union, Najeem Usman Yasin, to vacate the union’s National Secretariat in line with the order of the court to avoid a breakdown of law and order.  The President of the union, Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, stated this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference addressed by his lawyer, Tolu Babaleye on the judgment of the National Industrial Court delivered…

    The Olubadan of Ibadan land Oba Mohood ‘lekam Balogun, who died on Thursday is likely to be buried today (Friday,15th March 2024). A source close to the family of the Monarch hinted TheCandourNews that the king is likely to be buried according to Islamic injunction by 4:pm today, Friday, March 15, 2024 at Aliwo Palace, where all his ancestors were buried. Oba Senator Lekan Balogun, who represented Oyo central senatorial district between 1999 and 2003, was born in 1942 and was the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. He had ascended the throne on March 11, 2022, after the demise…

Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, announced the passage unto glory of the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Dr. Mohood Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II. The governor made this announcement in a statement on Thursday night, stating that Olubadan Balogun, joined his ancestors late Thursday evening at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. Governor Makinde described Oba Dr. Balogun as an epitome of royal excellence and a great achiever, who made great marks on Ibadanland in just a little over two years of his reign. He expressed his condolences to the Olubadan-in-Council, the Oyo State Traditional…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dragged former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, to court over the diversion of about N100 billion. The Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Alli Bello, and one Daudu Suleiman have were also re-arraigned by the EFCC over the same matter. However, Alli and Suleman pleaded not guilty to the seventeen-count amended charge before Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Earlier, Alli’s counsel, Abubakar Aliyu, had objected to the reading of the amended charge on the ground that the anti-graft agency had failed to comply with Section 218…

A renowned Nollywood star, Jonathan Ihonde has died. According to Reports, Ihonde died at about 10 am on Tuesday, at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). He was the creator of popular TV series, Hotel de Jordan. The ace TV producer was a renowned and award-winning dramatist, writer, veteran Labour Union leader and social mobiliser, humanist and consistent patriot. ¶ He created one of the precursors of Nigerian Home Video, the Hotel de Jordan in 1973, on the Midwest Television (MTV), which later became NTA Benin, following the take over of all television stations by the Federal Government. He…

    After her gang members in alledged kidnapping of three pupils of pre-nursery school in the Ijegun area of the state, a suspected member of a kidnapping gang identified as Akintola Alima, 40, has been arrested by operatives of Lagos State Police Command.   According to reports, the kidnappers invaded the school on Monday where some of them were said to have positioned their operational motorcycles close to the school premises, waiting for their colleagues who went inside the school to get their targets.   However, upon receiving information from the headmaster of the school, the state Police Public…

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Coalition of Northern Groups seeking the removal of Igbos from the Southeast region of Nigeria. The lawsuit, brought by a group of elders and politicians from the North, led by Nastura Shariff, Balarabe Rufa’i, Abdul-Aziz Sulaiman, and Aminu Adam, was rejected by the Judge due to the plaintiffs’ consistent absence from court to present their case. Naija News learnt that none of the plaintiffs appeared in court during the proceedings and were not represented by legal counsel. Upon reviewing the case file, Justice Ekwo…