By Kahlil Gibran Today, and on this same day of each year, man is startled from his deep slumber and stands before the phantoms of the Ages, looking with tearful eyes toward Mount Calvary to witness Jesus the Nazarene nailed on the Cross…. But when the day is over and eventide comes, humankind returns and […]
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By Wole Soyinka Oh yes, could these rabid parochial minds of easy excitation also kindly stop flattering themselves that one’s energies are consecrated solely to the nation space known as Nigeria? The whines of “silence” are relative to the reading scope and world knowledge of idle complainants, as well as their grasp of the chain […]
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Timi Frank slams DSS as Buhari Seeks Senate Approval of Data Protection Bill The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has denied claims of telephone tracking and leakage against it in the media. Its Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, stated, yesterday, that the commission had been inundated with enquiries by the media on allegations of telephone […]
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Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned those pushing for fuel subsidy removal to forgo the idea and save the country from another round of social unrest. It gave the warning following the announcement by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that it had left the matter for the incoming regime. NLC General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, during […]
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Operational challenges in the air transport sector in Nigeria and other African countries have been blamed for the loss of $3.5 billion of potential revenue in three years. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), at a special session on the African continent, said the losses were incurred between 2020 and 2022, especially due to infrastructure […]
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Grammy award winner, Tems (Temilade Openiyi); singer, Ayra Starr (Oyinkansola Aderibigbe); Hansel and Germain Ndu-Okeke, Blessing Abeng, and two other Nigerians are among the young Nigerian leaders named in Forbes Africa’s ’30 Under 30′ of the year 2023. Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 recognizes the brightest visionaries, risk-takers, change-makers, and pioneers to take their place […]
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The Coroner inquest set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student of Chrisland School, Lagos, has granted the school’s request to access samples obtained from the deceased for an independent autopsy. The Magistrate, Olabisi Fajana, gave the permission on Tuesday when she ruled on the application when sitting […]
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Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the British court that convicted former Nigerian Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, for organ harvesting to temper justice with mercy. Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested last year in the United Kingdom for allegedly trafficking a young Nigerian man into the country with the purpose of […]
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This paper had warned that the bold plan by the CBN to redesign and issue new naira notes from mid-December was wrongheaded and ill-timed. The CBN, in presenting the new currency plan, had leveraged the unease with substantial currency holdings outside of the banking sector and the purportedly detrimental effect on the effectiveness of monetary […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N320,345,040, 835, as the 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention fund for public tertiary education institutions in the country, notably, Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education. The money was expectedly realized from the statutory 2.5 percent education tax and, perhaps, other windows of financial interventions. A breakdown of the […]
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