Funke Mabawonku's Blog

Search This Blog

Unidentified man armed with a cutlass, storms Jafi primary school, Kwaya, Borno State, butchers 2 pupils, injures a teacher and another student. 📸: Adamu Lawan

Posted by Unknown Thursday, November 30, 2017

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Court overrules Gov. Aregbesola, declares renaming his state, ‘State of Osun,’ illegal .

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has declared that the change of name of the state to “State of Osun” by Gov. Rauf Aregbesola is illegal, null and void. According to PremiumTimes, delivering the judgment on Thursday, Justice Yinka Afolabi ruled that the law and its makers were unknown to the 1999 Constitution. The judge chided Mr. Aregbesola for deliberately and singlehandedly renaming the state, contrary to the known norms and the nation’s constitution. He also declared that the makers of the law, who are currently serving as members of the State House of Assembly, were not sworn in as members of the “State of Osun House of Assembly” but as members of Osun State House of Assembly going by the seventh schedule of the constitution. “The executive governor of the state changed the name in 2011. The renaming of a state goes further and deeper for anyone to singlehandedly do. To re-order the name of Osun State as “State of Osun” is her...

Throwback picture of Desmond elliot and John Njamah

Nollywood Actor turn Politician, Desmond Elliot shared the above throwback picture of himself and John Njamah on his Instagram

Young DELSU Graduate Becomes The Youngest King In Ijaw Nation. .

A young graduate of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, has become the youngest king in the entire Ijaw nation – filling the vacuum created by the death of the former monarch, HRM Capt. Lucky Erebulu, two years ago. The barrister, His Royal Majesty, Peremobowei Shedrack Erebulu, Aduo III, was presented with a staff of office on Monday, Oct 23rd (yesterday), during his official installation as Pere of Kabowei Kingdom at the Pere’s palace in the vicinity of Patani, Delta state.