The Lagos State Government has vowed to prosecute the missing developer, identified as Fumble, who was said to be in charge of the three-storey building that collapsed and killed four labourers on Alayaki Lane, Freeman Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State. It was gathered that the developer went into hiding after the building caved in and […]
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Oyeniyi Iwakun, a former postgraduate student of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, who renounced his studentship to protest the killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto State, talks to Godfrey George about his recent action and how it has affected him. Who is Oyeniyi Iwakun? My name is Oyeniyi Oyewole Iwakun. I am 31 years […]
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There was confusion in the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday as the National Working Committee (NWC) unfolded plans to screen former President Goodluck Jonathan, Minister of Labour and Employment Dr. Chris Ngige, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele and African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwunmi Adesina. Although the nomination forms were obtained for […]
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The Federal Government has slammed a new tax on phone calls in the nation to fund free healthcare for the Vulnerable Group in Nigeria. This is despite recent moves by telecommunication companies to increase the price of their services as a result of an unfavourable operating climate. The telecom tax in the equivalent of a […]
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Ex-Ekiti State Governor, Dr Ayodele Fayose, has debunked the allegations of being deceitful and arrogant leveled against him by his former deputy, Prof Kolapo Olusola-Eleka. He challenged his former associate to search his soul for what went wrong in their political relationship rather than come to the public to disparage him. On Olusola-Eleka’s allegations describing […]
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The plan of the Independent National Electoral Commission to register at least 20 million Nigerian voters before the end of June seems unlikely to come to fruition as only 5.8 million people representing 29 percent of INEC’s target have actually registered. According to INEC, as of May 16, 9,238,991 fresh registrants had registered online but […]
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By Banji Ayoola A former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Prof Bola Akinterinwa, has stressed the need for the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, to be unique in its programmes. Besides, he called for a new perception by government of polytechnic education as the bedrock of a self-reliant industrial development in […]
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The screening exercise for the 25 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress earlier scheduled to hold on Monday has been postponed again. This is the second time that the National Working Committee of the party will be shifting the date of the presidential screening after it failed to hold last weekend. The development was […]
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In peaceful primaries on Sunday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, elected the 35 candidates that will fly its flag in the 2023 House of Representatives and State House of Assembly elections. Of the number, nine will contest the HOR election in the state’s nine federal constituencies in the scheduled elections; while the […]
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By Oludamola Adebowale Ifẹ̀ Oòdáyé, Ilẹ̀ òwúrọ̀. Ibi ojúmọ́ rere gbé ń mọ́ wáyé. (Translation) Ifẹ̀ Oòdáyé. The ancient land Where the breaking of the day began Between 1910 and 1912, Leo Viktor Frobenius (1873 –1938), a renowned ethnologist and archaeologist worked on archaeological sites in Nigeria. Ile-ife in Osun State was one of the […]
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