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  Azuka Jebose started his journalism career as one of the league of young journalists that pioneered a special brand of entertainment reporting in the country.   Then, Azuka Jebose was regarded as a bundle of talents with a creative writing style, which he used to dazzle his numerous followers.   Some years after, Azuka Jebose found himself in the United States of America, when he traveled with the band of the late superstar, Evangelist Sony Okosuns and decided to stay back in the country. He currently lives in North Carolina.   In his days with Punch Newspaper, Azuka was amongst the young journalists who scouted around Lagos entertainment circuits for news, and he worked under Ladi Ayodeji, who was his editor at that time.   To state that Azuka Jebose was popular and preferred is to state the obvious, he hung around music celebrities in the 80s and those, who knew him then had no doubt that he was actually cut out for the...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ex-chairman of Ado/Odo Ota Local Government in Ogun State during the tenure of former governor Gbenga Daniel, Chief Abayomi Tella has begun the distribution of relief packages to the residents of the local government. Tella, who is currently a member of the National Executive body of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) revealed that the relief packages were meant to cushion the effect of the ongoing lockdown of the state over the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic and sustain the recipients for the period. The distribution of the items to the less privileged, the vulnerable, the old, the indigents and the poor of the poor in the area began on Saturday 11th April, 2020 and it will continue for many days. The relief packages comprise various food items that were distributed to the vulnerable and the aged in the local government area. Wife of Chief Tella, Chief (Mrs) Ebebe Tella (Yeye Oluomo of Agbara kingd...

Historically, Idumuje people trace their roots to ancient Bini kingdom, just like most of the Enuani people that left Benin in the 18th century. Idumuje Unor and Idumuje Ugboko are one people and members of Idumuje clan .They have no common land boundary and bear same cultural and traditional heritage. Both communities went their separate ways though united by tradition and culture following an Odogwu title dispute . Those who felt aggrieved left and wandered farther into a nearby forest to their present location where they share boundaries with towns like Igbodo in Ika North East, Onicha Ugbo, Ugbodu, in Aniocha North and Ewohinmi in Edo State according the 1937 Intelligence Report by R.B. Karr. Idumuje-Ugboko is the epicenter of this analysis and it must be said that to understand a people you must look at their history, their mores, social and interpersonal relationship, religion, culture and related values that shape their world view. Hence the sage says that those wh...

Until Monday, April 6, when two new cases of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) were announced in Ogun State, the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration had plumbed into the depth of its resourcefulness and sense of duty to curtail and contain its spread. The state’s index case, an Italian who has since been discharged from the Infectious Disease Hospital, Lagos, was announced March 9. Between then and now, the United States of America has experienced a frightening spike in COVID-19 cases with deaths, at the time of writing, pegged at about 11, 000. The cases in Lagos currently stand at 238 with five deaths and 35 patients fully recovered and discharged. Ogun is the closest state to Lagos; proximity that comes with its merits and demerits. Perhaps if the Italian harbinger of COVID-19 had not visited Ogun, the state would have been without a case or its first case would have been delayed judging by the measures quickly put in place by Governor Abiodun. The moment there ...

  I have been reading with heavy heart and unbelief the endless lies peddled by one Azuka Jebose reportedly based in Maryland, United States. The crude manner Azuka Jebose has dabbled into the affairs of Idumuje-Ugboko kingdom by telling all sorts of lies against renowned philantropist, Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko and other notable members of the Nwoko Royal family is an indication that he is either hired by mischief makers or seeking for recognition to feed from the wicked deception he is creating on social media Amongst the numerous lies told by Azuka Jebose in his serial propaganda is that Prince Martin Nwoko is among the defendants in Abuja. It is on record that Prince Martin Nwoko was never a defendant in the matter in Abuja neither was he part of the crisis in Idumuje-Ugboko. His only role was when He exercised his powers as the oldest in the Nwoko Royal family and summoned a meeting of the Umu-Omorhusi Nwoko family upon the directive of his Royal Highness Ogbogidi Obi ...

  The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Muhammad Nami, has been accused of discriminating against some staffers of the organization. According to a source, personnel recruited when Fowler was in charge are being segregated by the new management.  The new chairman succeeded Babatunde Fowler last December. It is being alleged that he (Nami) nurses distrust for and treats the new staffers as outcasts. He believes some of us were planted in the organization since we were recruited during the former chairmans tenure. But that is not true, and I also believe that a government establishment should not be run based on the emotions of its chairman, said the source, who is a female manager. She described the situation as demoralizing to the new staffers and affecting their productivity too. Moreover, the new management has reportedly created a gulf between the new and old staffers. The FIRS chairman, as said, does not deal with the new staff...

    On Saturday, 4th of March 2020, the deputy governor of Ogun State, Alhaja Noimot Salako-Oyedele made a stop over at Ado-Odo/Ota Local government for the on the spot assessment of the residents’ compliance with both the Federal Government and State government’s stay at home / lock down order. Her mission also included the flag off of distribution of foods and essential items to the ageds and most vulnerable residents in the local government. Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele was however shocked to the bone marrows with what she saw and met- an array of hoodlums and unidentified youths had invaded the local government secretariat, demanding to have their shares of the government largess. “It was a horrible sight. These area boys were just smoking, drinking alcohol in the premises where the food items for the vulnerable were kept. There was no social distance, without face masks and were shaking hands as if they were at a political rally.”. A source at the local...