…The move could trigger another programme” Adebanjo warns
Ola Ajayi, Ibadan
AFENIFERE, an apex Yoruba association has described the shoot-on-sight order given to soldiers in the South East by President Muhammadu Buhari as a move that would further threaten the unity and ruptured peace in the country.
The order which was given to the soldiers who are predominantly Northerners without first exploring the option of dialogue, the association maintained, had further fuelled the suspicion that President Buhari did not consider the life of another ethnic group sacred but that of Fulani, his kinsmen.
South-East: Afenifere faults Buhari’s shoot-at-sight order
Makinde pays N30,500 as minimum wage in Oyo Ex NLC Chair
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Ola Ajayi, Ibadan
GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said he pays N30,500 as minimum wage for over 101,000 workers on its payroll.
This was disclosed on Wednesday by a former State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress in the state, Comrade Bayo Titilola-Sodo while speaking with newsmen at the State Secretariat of the Correspondents’chapel, Mokola, Ibadan.
If compared with the other five other states in the South West, the administration of Governor Makinde is the second to Lagos State in the payment of the minimum wage.
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Ibadan raids: When traders revolted against Customs
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By Ola Ajayi
WHEN men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, raided the popular Bodija International Market some weeks ago at an ungodly hour, market men and women staged a protest that nearly recorded some casualties.
About 250 bags of foreign rice were confiscated when Customs officials broke into the warehouse.
Also, some traders claimed that about N250, 000, hidden in one of the bags, was taken away by the uninvited guests.
The Oyo/Osun Command through its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Kayode Wey said the raid was not carried out by officers of the command and this, somehow, quenched the simmering crisis that would have snowballed into an unmanageable proportion.
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Stray bullets kill four; injure one as Customs men engage suspected smugglers in Iseyin
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Ola Ajayi – Ibadan
The joy of indigenes of Iseyin in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State who was celebrating the end of Ramadan was short-lived on Thursday as stray bullets allegedly killed four and injured one.
According to an impeccable source in Iseyin, the persons were hit by bullets when men of the Nigeria Customs Service exchanged gunfire with some bandits believed to be smugglers.
The eyewitness told Vanguard said the Customs men started shooting indiscriminately after intercepting smuggled goods coming through the borders into the town.