Economy

Business Activities Pick up as Sasa Market Reopens

By Web News 977

Following the re-opening of Sasa market, business activities have resumed though at a lower ebb.

Radio Nigeria correspondent, who visited the market, sighted few traders and customers who came to purchase food items.  

Security agents were equally seen patrolling the market to ensure peace and order.

Two traders who sell pepper, Alhaji Ibraheem Hammed and Mr Muh’d Saheed Abdsalam, commended efforts of Governor Makinde and other stakeholders for the reopening of the market.

Also, a customer, Mrs Titilayo Badmus expressed happiness on the development, noting that Sasa remained a major market to buy pepper and other ingredients.

 Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, after a stakeholders’ meeting yesterday, had announced the re-opening of Sasa market and closure of the place where some traders initially relocated at Iroko in the wake of the crisis.

Saka Lawal

Religion

Drastic measures are needed to tackle ethnic clashes – Cleric

By Web News 523

Drastic measures are needed to quell ethnic wrangling in the country in order to ensure sustainable peace and harmony.

A cleric, Evangelist John Goody stated this in an interview with radio Nigeria correspondent in Ibadan.

The cleric, who commended the president for his first speech when he assumed office during his first tenure, said he needed to redouble current efforts at stemming the spate of insecurity in the country.

 Evangelist Goody explained that as the country’s first citizen, President Buhari was a father figure to whom everyone look up to irrespective of ethnic or religious background.

On the recent clash at Sasa market, Ibadan, the cleric appealed to youths to give peace a chance, and not to allow themselves to be used as agents of destruction.

Lilian Ibomor