Ibadan - Each member of the Oyo State House of Assembly is to receive N20m as constituency allowance, courtesy of the Governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala.

The Speaker of the House,  Mr. Moroof Atilola (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP), and Leader of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the House, Mr. Abiodun Awoleyeof both confirmed that the money would be paid in two tranches of N10m, with the first instalment said to be ready for collection.

The governor is also said to have arranged a 10-day foreign trip for the lawmakers, scheduled for May 19 to 29.

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Akure (Ondo) - A principal expert witness of Ondo State Governor, Chief Olusegun Agagu, who claims to be a professor of computer science at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), could not download information from a website during cross-examination at the election petitions tribunal in Akure by the counsel to the Labor Party governorship candidate, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.

The witness, Prof. Emmanuel Adegbeyeni, told the Justice Garba Nabaruma-led tribunal that he was the first doctorate degree holder in computer science in Black Africa.

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New York - The Canadian high Commission in Nigeria has refused visa to service Supreme Court Justices of Nigeria, in addition to also foot-dragging or outrightly refusing visas to several Senate Judiciary delegations from Nigeria to Canada.

The Deputy Senate President,  Ike Ekweremadu, made this known in New York, as the head of the Nigerian delegation to Canada for bilateral talks with the leadership of  the Canadian  parliament.

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Abuja - Things are indeed no longer rosy for former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo , as he was humiliated by security personnel attached to the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja, last Sunday.

Ironically,the effort by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to save Obasanjo from further embarrassment at the hands of the stern-looking security-men was professionally rebuffed.

The setting was the dinner hall in Aso Rock where President Yar’Adua hosted the outgone executive committee members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Dr. Ahmadu Ali and the new one headed by Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, to a post-convention dinner.

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his estranged former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at their first face to face meeting in more than one year, taunted one another, yesterday, at the 10th year remembrance of their mutual political associate, Maj.-Gen. Shehu Musa Yar‘Adua.

The remembrance ceremony which was graced by President Umaru Musa Yar‘Adua had kicked off with an opening prayer by Chief Tony Anenih who prayed God to give President Yar‘Adua the courage to clear the rot he inherited from Obasanjo.

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