Tag: southwest Nigeria

Why I marked Father’s Day With Borehole Donation To Eripa – Lasisi Olagunju

ADEOLA YUSUF

“We’ll do more for that town” Nigeria’s newspapers top columnist Lasisi Olagunju in an emotional Father’s Day tributes for his dad, the man he described as his closest confidant who died 20 years ago   A top Nigerian newspaper’s columnist, Dr. Lasisi Olagunju, has marked the 20th year of his father’s death with the donation of a borehole to his home town, Eripa in Boluwaduro Local Government Area, Osun State, Southwest Nigeria. Olagunju, an Editor with Tribune newspaper, who, on his verified Facebook page, said that he and his siblings…

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Govt Talks Tough As Gunmen Massacre Worshippers In Nigeria Catholic Church

Gbenga Adeoti

Eternal sorrow await perpetrators, Buhari says, as Ondo Gov Akeredolu who declared the day a black Sunday, vows to hunt down assailants, Make Them Pay   Some gunmen on Sunday attacked worshippers at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owa-Luwa Street, Owo, in Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, killing tens of worshippers in an attack that has been widely condemned by officials including President Muhammadu Buhari and governor Rotimi Akeredolu. No official figure has been given for fatality recorded from the attack but the Lagos-based Vanguard newspaper reported that over 25 worshippers…

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Female Lecturer Who Waited for 18 Years Dies After Giving Birth To Triplets

ADEOLA YUSUF

A female lecturer at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Southwest Nigeria, Dr. Abimbola Alu-Fayenuwo, who waited in marriage for 18 Years, has died after giving Birth To a set of Triplet. Platforms Africa reports Dr. Abimbola Alu-Dayenuwo died on December 30, 2021, two days to the New year and few weeks to her 47th birthday, after giving birth to two boys and a girl. Ademola Adeoye, a brother-in-law to the deceased who confirmed the sad news to Platforms Africa, gave details of how she died on the same day of…

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Gunmen Kidnap Third Ekiti Traditional Ruler in 3 Months

Gbenga Adeoti

In what appeared an affront on Yoruba mythology, armed men have kidnapped another traditional ruler, Oba Benjamin Oso, the Eleda of Eda Ile, in Ekiti East Local Government Area, southwest Nigeria. Ttaditional rulers, believed, according  to African mythology, to be second to God in command and invincibility, are revered and feared as untouchable. Oba Oso is, however, the third traditional ruler to be attacked in similar circumstances in less than three months.   READ ALSO: Outcry as Nigeria’s Ekitii Popular Monarch is shot, hospitalised Bandits Assasinate Nigeria’s Popular monarch Emir of…

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