Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that Buhari’s entire APC government is under threat ofcorruption.VP Yemi Osinbajo and founder of ABUAD, Aare Afe BabalolaHe said the Federal Government would employ a new strategy to fight the dangerous dimension that corruption appears to be assuming in the country.Osinbajo made the declaration, in an address delivered at the 7th Founders Day and 4th convocation Ceremony of Afe Babalola University of Ado Ekiti(ABUAD) on Friday.According to him, higher institutions, such as ABUAD are great places to be used, ina national re-orientation programme being contemplated to fight the menace.He said none of the arms of government is immune from the scourge of corruption.He however said the Buhari government is ready to combat it, right from the school level.“All institutions of government are under the threat of corruption“You will please recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, had himself warned on several occassions that if we don’t fight corruption, corruption will fight us‘“We are thinking of using national re-orientation to fightcorruption and other societal menace, and to my mind, Afe Babalola University appears as one of the great places to start with,”he said.The Vice President thanked Aare Babalola and others whohelped in intervening in the funding and management of education in the country.He said the nation would forever remain grateful to them.Host governor, Mr Ayo Fayosedescribed the Afe Babalola University as a miracle.He said Babalola, apart from using the institution to impart knowledge and offer employment to the jobless, has stood out as the largest employer of labour as well as highest tax payer in Ekiti state.Founder of the university, Aare Babalola said he established the institution to set new standards in education and help return its lost glory.The founder announced a donation of N90m to outstanding students that excelled in their various courses of studies, with each student receiving between N1m and N200,000.
Ibadan— TWELVE persons, including a mother and her twin children, were feared killed in an accident that occurred, yesterday, at Oja-Oba Market area of the Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State. Some of the vehicles and tricycles crushed by the truck (inset) in Ibadan, yesterday. PHOTOS: Dare Fasube. Police put the casualty figure at four, but some eyewitnesses claimed the number of lives lost could not be less than 12. While the accident left several people injured, several commercial cars and property were crushed by an articulated vehicle. According to a source, the driver of the truck, which had just off loaded cement, lost control of his vehicle and crushed about 12 persons on the spot. While the remains of those killed were taken to the morgue at Adeoyo State Hospital, the injured were rushed to the University College Hospital, Ibadan. It was gathered that the truck, with number plates AGL883XQ, skidded off its lane to the other side of the road, crushed man...
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