Heavy Down Pour Storm Ilorin, Destroyed several Houses - community cries out, call for government assistance. Yesterday, it was a rainy experience for people within Ilorin metropolis as rain stormed the city and selectively destroyed several properties. The rainy experience was not favorable. The SATCOMMEDIA learnt that the rainstorm that occurred on Saturday night also displaced many people at Oke Ogun community, in Edun, Idiagbon community, in Emirs road, Isale-Gambari among other affected areas. Though no lives were lost in the incident. An eyewitness from the community affirmed the incident and call on government for assistance, as many people left were devastated with little or without hope of assistance from any quarters. He however, further stressed that, any assistance for non-governmental organizations would go along way in restoring the lost hope and further placed them back to normal life.
The Special Assistant (SA) on New Media to the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Mr. Olu Onemola, who was also the SA to former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has resigned his appointment. Olu Onemola Onemola made his resignation know in an internal memo to Lawan. Recall that shortly after the current Senate President reappointed Onemola to retain the SA position, controversy followed the decision. But Onemol, in his resignation letter to Lawan, said he was resigning because of the controversy his reappointment generated. According to him, “As an individual who prides myself in always setting a high standard and significant precedents I feel honoured to have been asked to fill this vital role in the service of our great country,” he said. “I thank you sir, for the offer to continue on to serve and promote the work of the 9th Senate of the Federal Republic which I am sure is home out of your patriotic desire to serve the Nigerian people. “However, at this time, given m