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North won’t support Tinubu’s second term, there’ll be gang-ups – Primate Ayodele

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NEWS‘North won’t support Tinubu’s second term, there’ll be gang-ups – Primate AyodelePublished on May 5, 2024By Seun Opejobi

The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele on Sunday warned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be strategic about his approach to the Northern part of the country as they won’t support his second term ambition.

Primate Ayodele claimed there would be a series of gang-ups against President Tinubu in the North and that some people close to him would betray him.

In a statement by his media aide, Oluwatosin Osho, Ayodele said leaders in the zone would conspire and all Tinubu’s efforts would not be seen as anything.

SERAP sues Sani, Wike, others ‘over failure to account for N5.9trn, $4.6bn loans, publish agreements’

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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,

Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the FCT, and to publish copies of the loan agreements, including details and locations of projects executed with the loans.”

The suit followed the disclosure last month by Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State that the immediate past administration of Nasir El-Rufai left $587m, N85bn debt and 115 contractual liabilities, making it impossible for the state to pay salaries.

Osun postpones monarch’s staff presentation after court order

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The Osun State Government, on Saturday, said it had obeyed the order of an Osun State High Court, which restrained Governor, Ademola Adeleke from presenting staff of office to the new Aree of Iree, Oba Muritala Oyelakin.

The state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, in a statement obtained in Osogbo, however, clarified that Oba Oyelakin had been appointed and installed.

An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, had on Friday restrained Adeleke from presenting Staff of the Office to Oba Oyelakin.

The restraining order dated May 3, followed a motion ex parte filed by Oba Raphael Oluponle in a suit numbered HOS/20/2024 through his counsel, Abdulrahman Okunade, where he sought an order of interlocutory restraining Adeleke from proceeding further to install Oba Oyelakin as Aree pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital threatens mass burial for unclaimed bodies

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The management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State, has declared the mortuary of the hospital congested with unclaimed bodies.

It subsequently gave 14 days for relatives who had corpses in the mortuary unit of the hospital between January 2019 and June 2023 to come and retrieve them.

The hospital noted that it would resort to mass burial of all unclaimed bodies after 14 days of the announcement as an alternative to decongest the mortuary.

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