The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Adebo Ogundoyin, as the winner of the bye-election to fill the vacant seat of Ibarapa East State constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly.
Doctors to whom former House of Representatives member Opeyemi Bamidele was rushed after he was shot in Ado Ekiti on Friday have extracted two bullets from his body. He is now said to be in a stable condition after the five hour surgery.
On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.