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LAYODE LEADS SANWO-OLU'S DELEGATION TO REDUCE CHECKPOINTS ON LAGOS-BADAGRY EXPRESSWAY Have you ever imagined a Lagos-Badagry with just three to four approved checkpoints? This is the desire of the government and resident of Lagos State, especially those who ply the newly reconstructed highway on daily basis because such illegal blockages have continued to endangered the lives and free-flow of people and goods on the Nigerian side of the ECOWAS corridor. In response to the fatal accident allegedly caused by abrupt stoppage of a a moving truck that occurred on the highway and claimed nine lives on Sunday morning, the Governor of Lagos State has sent a delegation to dismantle illegal checkpoints and reduce them to only the approved ones on the expressway to ease traffic and improve safety. On Monday, selected media executives including those from De VOICE Newspaper were invited to join the Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Hon. Olanrewaju Ibrahim Layode (OIL), and a joint security team for the operation. De Voice Newspaper reliably gathers that even the previous day, a meeting with top officials from the Nigerian Army, Police, Customs, Civil Defence, and a delegate from the Akran of Badagry. After holding a meeting for close to three hours, Hon. Layode led the delegation to dismantle a total of six unauthorised checkpoints. These include two Customs checkpoints - one located just before Mowo bus-stop and the other one just after Aradagun. Three police checkpoints were also removed while several others had vacated the blockages before the arrival of Governor's delegation. Other checkpoints adjusted by the delegation were those mounted by the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Gbaji. At Gbaji, Layode insisted that even the legal checkpoints should be properly spaced to ease movement of people along the corridor. As seen in this video, a motorist was arrested for driving against traffic and reckless speeding, which is one of the common factors linked to accidents in the new highway. While addressing the press, Layode cited concerns over illegal checkpoints contributing to fatal road accidents, referencing a recent fatal crash in Badagry possibly linked to such a checkpoint. He added that Governor Sanwo-Olu had ordered immediate action due to rising accidents in the axis. Stakeholders pledged support for removing illegal checkpoints and restructuring approved ones to ensure smoother traffic flow.

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Tope Alabi Ex-Husband's Younger brother, Open Can of worm: Another side to Tope Alabi's daughter's paternity.
(Written on December 2, 2020)

I am the brother to the Father and we can't just be responding to all this matter because it might blow out of proportion that will now be as if we want to run Tope Alabi musical career down.

But with this advise she gave to Ayo to blow it on the media more without asking about how the blogger got the story might open past healed wounds for both parents who have moved on in life!

The fact is that a serious allegations of Ayomikun being a bastard came up and my brother had to state the facts that he is the father and can't deny the fact that she gave birth to her.

If a blogger now wants to make story to trend with it, is it not in any way my brothers fault?

I lived in same room with Tope and my brother at Oguntolu in Onipanu those years, I can give you first hand information about how they met and how Tope took charge of him and they both begin to live as husband and wife.

My brother took good care of Tope throughout the pregnancy till she gave birth to the baby, He threw Owambe party with musicians on the bandstand majority of the 'who is who' of those days in the Yoruba Movie Producers and Marketers at Idumota were all in attendance.

Go and ask any of them who didn't know the story of Olaoye and Tope.

Do you know what Soji Alabi was to Tope when she was still married to my brother? Do you know how many times I came back from school to Lagos and met Soji in my brothers house with Tope alone? And all I could get when I told my brother was a beating of my life for saying rùbbish of her wife and he was defending her that Soji was just her sound engineer and producer.....

Hmmmmm!!!! until she moved out with the baby just bearly a year old and within the next year got married to Soji Alabi, that's when the reality dawn on my brother, do you know she left my brother to bankrupt when she left with a Movie and Music album my brother sponsored.

Let me tell you this and I challenge Tope Alabi to come out to dispute it and I will be willing to call both to face each other and open all past wounds. The child was born in 1998 and Tope left my brother in 1999, She took the baby to her parents place at Mafolukun in Oshodi, Lagos where they lived.

I can't remember how many times I had to go visit the baby when she was in nursery school even my kid brother, Femi that was staying with my brother too do go there to visit the child with Xmas dress, gifts and necessary items to the Tope's mother who was taking good care of the baby then.

I could remember on one occasion of my visit that Tope's mother had to show me Ayomikun's results saying how she was brilliant and performing well in class.

More so, Tope used to come to Idumota to get money for the child's upkeep from my brother until her second or is it the third album "Oree ti o Common" become a hit and she become made after fortune smiled on her.

Since her life changed, money and fame started coming, she took the child away from her mother to her husband house and that was when we stopped going to see the baby.

My brother do call once a while to ask to see the child, she would say she is busy and not always around in the country, she kept posting us she would bring the baby but never did.

My brother is married too and has kids and had moved on too, I don't think any right thinking person would advise anyone to be going to their married ex's house all in the name of wanting to come look after a child.

Fast forward to 2018 when the child clocks age 20th and Tope granted an interview with Punch newspaper where Tope Alabi said she was a virgin till he married Soji Alabi, that was when issues started and the paternity matter arose as we were told that Ayomikun was said to be Soji Alabi biological daughter and those that knows the story began to say she is a bastard but my brother had to do a post to clear the air then on his Instagram page on the 20th Birthday of Ayomikun, he tagged her and tagged Tope Alabi too in order to make it clearer.

He is not asking to father the child now neither is he clamouring to come seat down at her wedding as it is being said in some blogs and comments.

After the 20th birthday, part of the moves my brother took to clarify the issue was inviting Tope Alabi to ask why she had to change the Childs name, is it to cover up her past or what? The meeting was organised by some major Yoruba Films Producers and Marketers in person of Alh. Wasiu of Wastayo Films and Alhaji Ishola Saheed of Isolak Films at the Arena, Oshodi, I was also in attendance and I recorded all the discussions we had that day even Tope Alabi herself said that we can record her words, She said one thing she knew clearly was that Olaoye didn't treat her badly nor wish her bad hence she didn't tell Ayomikun any bad of him that if any thing, she (Tope Alabi) was the one who offended Olaoye and she would gladly apologise to him.

She said the reason she had to change the name of the child was because most times then, she do travel abroad for her music ministrations and she always had the issue of going to get the fathers consent for her baby and to make things easier for her she had to change the name to Alabi for visas and traveling with her, not that she deny her to know the story of her real father.

Right there that day, she gave him the number of the child and I and my brother spoke with her for some times after then but they both didn't get along.

We cautioned our brother to thread gently from getting close with her now as people might say he was trying to dig the past of his ex, it baffles us seeing comments from those who do not even know the real issues.

We never intend to run anyone down, we all have our past and we believed the past should be a past no one is trying to claim any child or whatever. What my brother did to inform the blogger was to clarify issues as regards her paternity that she is called a bastard bearing another persons name and denying her of her real father

We have cleared the main issue of the paternity and whoever she likes she should call her father, no one will be hurt by that, we know whose gene is in her.

The lineage she belongs to is from Owo, Ondo State as Soji Alabi is a Kogi man and knows for sure the child he nurtured is 'funtø' which nothing bad must happened to.

That is a fact that can never be altered. Time will tell for us all.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Alaafin’s Official Name and Title

This is to inform the general public that the proper manner of addressing the Alaafin for all activities and in the media is EXACTLY as follows:

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY
IKU BABA YEYE
OBA ABIMBOLA AKEEM OWOADE I
THE ALAAFIN OF OYO .

The number after OWOADE is the Roman Numeral One; I, not the English Number
One; 1.

The public is enjoined to adhere strictly to use the wordings as exactly as stated above and without adding prefix or suffix to any of the names as stated above.

Signed.
March 16, 2025
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Once upon a time in Abeokuta, there was a woman named Madam Janet Ewusi Odesola who sold cooked beans. Her bean joint was at a prime location connecting Ijaiye, Ago-Oba, Itoku, Lafenwa, Isale Igbein, and Ake roads. This spot was called "Sapon," derived from "Saponloore," meaning "help the bachelors."

Back then, people, especially bachelors, loved eating at her restaurant. It became a popular spot for everyone, including kings, government officials, civil servants, and students, who enjoyed her beans and stew (ewa pakure).

Born in 1925, Madam Janet attended Methodist elementary school in Ijoko, Abeokuta. She started her food business by selling dry fish before opening her bean restaurant in 1951. Due to the high-profile customers, her beans always sold out quickly, despite cooking a large bag daily.

However, problems arose when people started owing her. Some paid, some bought on credit, and others promised to pay later but never did. The accumulating debt became overwhelming, so she devised a solution.

Her plan was simple: if a customer's money was insufficient, she would sell only what they could afford, advising them with the phrase “sebiotimo” (cut your coat according to your cloth). For example, if someone had 10 kobo, she would sell 10 kobo worth of beans. If they asked for more on credit, she would respond with “sebiotimo.”

Eventually, customers got used to this response. Whenever they asked for more beans, they would quickly remember and say, “sebiotimo, elewa sapon.”

This policy change led to her nickname “sebiotimo elewa sapon.” She also stopped cooking more than a pot of beans daily. When asked for more, she would reply, “mo ti se bi mo se mo” (I have cut my coat according to my cloth).

Thus, her nickname “sebiotimo” became a proverb in Yoruba culture, teaching the moral of not buying things you can't afford.
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