After failed pursuit of greener pastures, female returnees refocus for better living

Integration of irregular migrants is increasingly becoming a major concern in global affairs with Nigeria also accounting for a huge number of women and girls who are embarking on this dangerous journey. A lot of them end up experiencing physical abuse, torture, rape, and enslavement. Following is a report on a recent reintegration programme of […]

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Business owners to Tinubu: Despite reforms, we can’t breathe

Mushin Market in Lagos • Stakeholders’ Engagement Critical For Manufacturing Sector’s Survival — Yusuf • ‘Recapitalise BoI, BoA To Finance Real Sector’ • High Cost Of Raw Materials, Energy Wiping Our Profits, Says FOBTOB • MAN DG Seeks Policy To Revive Distressed Industries Manufacturers, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operators, business leaders, and economic […]

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Alex Ibru wanted me to become first MD of The Guardian, says Osoba

Former governor of Ogun State and founding member of The Guardian newspapers, Aremo Segun Osoba, spoke to Seye Olumide on what motivated the late Dr. Alex Ibru to establish the newspaper and how the former Minister of Interior, intimated him about transferring the power of publisher to his wife, Maiden. As one of the brains […]

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Aregbesola’s loyalists not in Osun commissioners-nominee list – APC chieftain

An All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain in Osun State, Mr Adelowo Adebiyi has said that no loyalist of former Internal Affairs minister and ex-governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, is among the new commissioners-nominee as being speculated by some quarters Adebiyi said: “Our attention has been drawn to jaundiced reports apparently sponsored by some […]

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My daughter, uncle not among commissioners-designate – Adeleke

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has refuted claims that he nominated his daughter and uncle as commissioners-designate. The governor had forwarded a list of 25 Commissioners and Special Advisers nominee to the state House of Assembly which was unveiled on Friday Speaker of the parliament, Adewale Egbedun reeled out the list on Friday including two […]

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Fake UTME result: Mmesoma’s father seeks pardon

Mr. Romanus Ejikeme, the father of Mmesoma who was said to have forged her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, result, has pleaded with JAMB and Nigerians at large to forgive her. He said that his daughter did not confess her “crime” to him on time. Romanus also Speaking in an interview with the Nigeria Television […]

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Tokunbo vehicle sales drop by 70%, buyers opt for Nigerian-used cars

The recent 40 percent hike in the exchange rate for cargo clearance at the seaports and the increase in tariff on imported cars by a terminal operator, Ports & Terminal Multipurpose Limited, has led to about 70 percent drop in the sale of second-hand imported cars. Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Customs Service […]

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Tinubu, Akpabio meet on Senate committees’ chairmen, others

Barring any last-minute change in plan, the names of members of some select committees of the Senate will be announced this week. This is the outcome of the meeting the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, had with President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to discuss the setting up of the […]

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UTME score: Innoson withdraws N3 million scholarship awarded to Mmesoma

The management of Innoson Automobile Company has revoked the N3 million scholarship given to Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme due to her involvement in faking her Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) results. This is contained in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday in Onitsha and signed by Mr. Cornel Osigwe, Head of Corporate Communications […]

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