A portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II hangs beside floral tributes outside a shopping mall in Bangkok on September 14, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor / AFP) Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was not just Queen Elizabeth II. She was simply The Queen. For billions of people, she was the one constant in a world of […]
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Family members, friends and political associates yesterday flocked around the Ondo State commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperative Services, Deaconess LoLa Fagbemi, as she marked her birthday. A statement by Bisi Agboola said that it was a day she chose to solemnly set aside to appreciate her Creator in prayer “but her family, friends and […]
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Reigning Commonwealth and World 100m hurdles champion, Tobi Amusan, has arrived Lagos following her victories at the World Athletics Championship in Oregon, US, and more recently in Zurich, Switzerland. The 25-year-old set a meet record of 12.29secs to win the women’s 100m hurdles in Zurich and won $30,000 last Thursday.
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Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday vowed to improve Nigeria’s economy with a “warm handshake” for the private sector. He said that Nigeria is currently being dressed in borrowed robes by the ruling All Progressives Congress administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s current debt, local and foreign, stands at N41 trillion, […]
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The Sustainable Peace Team, set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has called for an executive action by the Federal Government to propose to the National Assembly its decision on improved funding to address ASUU/FG impasse. Former Secretary General, CVCNU, Prof. Michael Faborode, made the call in an advisory paper […]
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A ‘concerned’ fan of gospel singer Mercy Chinwo has urged her spiritual mother, Chioma to advise her against recent ‘show off’ online. Obieze CIDP, via his Facebook page explained since Mercy Chinwo got married, she’s been engaging in a lot of social media showoffs, flaunting gifts she received from her husband. He said if caution […]
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Ekiti State House of Assembly, yesterday, voted unanimously for the creation of State Police and Judicial Autonomy in the ongoing fifth alteration to the Amendment to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Assembly also aligned with the National Assembly on the alteration to stipulated rules on how the principal officers of […]
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Photo by Daniel Slim / AFP The recent meetings in faraway London by Nigerian former, sitting, and aspiring ‘leaders’ to, ostensibly, ‘‘discuss Nigeria’’ is disgraceful and so indefensibly self-demeaning it should never have happened. The decision to abandon the fatherland to discuss its affairs in a foreign land is unwise and calls to question in […]
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Surveyor-general of Federation (OSGoF), Abudulgani Adebomehin, has said it will cost the Federal Government N15 billion to replace the Nigeria’s Administrative Map produced by the colonial masters. He told journalists in Abuja that when they came on board to meet an obsolete map, with many errors, they demanded authentic ones to contribute to the fight […]
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The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline project. Photo: AutoReportNG The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd will, on Thursday, seal a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on gas pipeline project with the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines of Morocco and the ECOWAS Commission. The MoU is expected to drive the execution of the 7,000km Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline […]
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