Ibadan flying object a toy, say police

The Police yesterday described the flying object which flew into a home in Ibadan, Oyo State, as a toy.
Spokesperson Olabisi Ilobanafor said last night that investigation had shown that the electronic object was a Christmas gift for a child in the area.
She said the item was set flying to the glee of the child-owner but unfortunately crashed into a house within the neighbourhood.
Chairman, Ido local government, Professor Joseph Adeniyi Olowofela, accompanied by police, SSS and members of the Defence Corps yesterday recovered the flying object which fell on the roof of a house in Awotan in Ido local government yesterday.
The chairman yesterday described a story published in a newspaper that an object crashed into the home of a resident as “ unfortunate and misleading.”
Prof Olowofela said there was nothing like a crash as reported and that it was untrue that the United States used the object as a spy.
“What happened was that a man was playing with a toy with his son and the toy got lost only to be discovered by a neighbour and instead of searching for the owner of the toy, the neighbour kept it in his home for one week. And the next thing was the report in a newspaper that a spy object lost control and crashed into a residential apartment, “he said.
The owner of the kite- like object, Sunday Folayan, an Electronic engineer and the vice president of Nigeria Internet Registration Association, also expressed shock at the reported crash.
Folayan is the owner of Skynet, an Ibadan-based service provider.
Folayan accompanied the chairman, top local government officials, the Police, the SSS and other security men to recover the toy yesterday.
Folayan, who claimed to have produced many similar toys for his son in the past, explained that he was playing with his son with the battery- propelled toy when it got missing and efforts to retrieve it failed last Sunday.
Giving a description of what the toy looked like, he said: “The weight of the toy is 0.8 kilogrammes with the shape of an I-Pad. It cannot run more than 15 minutes. It is not solar-panelled, but uses battery and it is remote controlled.”
Source:The NATION

Olubadan, Lam Adesina’s sons make Oyo cabinet list

Son of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Samuel Odulana, Gbade; and former Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Oyo State, who is the son of the late former Governor Lam Adesina, Dapo, top the list of commissioners and special adviser nominees sent to the Oyo State House of Assembly by the state Governor Abiola Ajimobi.
The names were read during a plenary by the Speaker, Monsurat Sumonu, on Tuesday ahead of screening by the House on Wednesday (today).
The governor had on September 23 dissolved the state cabinet, saying he the state exco needed new life. On Tuesday, it was reported that the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress had sent a list to the governor with nominees drawn from the 33 Local Government Areas of the state, APC and two other parties.
Apart from the two sons of the prominent people in Ibadan, 10 other names were also read by the speaker. Four of them are staging a return to the cabinet just like Lam-Adesina’s son. They are Adebayo Ojo, Adetutu Adeyemi-Akhigbe, Muyiwa Gbadegesin and Zacheus Adelabu.
Others are Prof. Olarewaju Olaniyan, Olufunke Oworu, Faruk Alao, Adewale Olujide, Abiodun Atanda and Deji Akande.
First son of the Olubadan, Prof. Femi Lana, confirmed that Gbade is his brother during a telephone interview soon after the names were read in the house.
“It’s good to hear the news. Gbade is my brother and I pray that he passes the screening and makes the final list,” he said.
Monsurat said the nominees would be screened today and urged them to come to the floor of the House with 40 copies of their credentials.
The assembly also approved the six month tenure elongation of all the Transition Committee Chairmen in the 33 Local Government Areas of the state. The tenure of the caretaker chairmen would have ended on Wednesday but Ajimobi wrote to the House to extend their tenure.