The death toll at the collapsed three-storey building at Ebute-Meta in Lagos has risen to eight, an official has said. Ibrahim Farinloye, South-west Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. The eight dead persons include five males and three females. An old three-storey […]
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By Femi Fani-Kayode As each day passes the illusion of a Southern Presidency in 2023 melts away like an iceberg approaching the tropics. At the end of the day both parties will present a Northern candidate, NOTHING will happen and the heavens will not fall. This is because Southerners do not know the meaning of […]
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A mother and her child have been recovered dead from the rubble of the collapsed three-storey building in Lagos, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. Acting Southwest Coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye said they were recovered at the wee hours of Monday, adding that a total of 23 persons have so far been rescued. The building […]
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Prof Wale Adeniran; Prof Wole Soyinka; Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho; and Prof Banji Akintoye after a closed door meeting in Cotonou yesterday Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has visited Yoruba nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The literary giant was seen at the Seme border around […]
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A leading Ondo South Senatorial District aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2023 General Elections, Mr Mathew Oye Oyerinmade, has sent message of hope, trust and total commitment to the teachings and lessons of the Quran after the Ramadan fasting. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr […]
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The Vice-Chancellor of Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Prof. Temi Emmanuel Ologunorisa, has greeted all the Muslim faithful as they celebrate Eid-el-Fitr. In a message titled “Eid-el-Fitr felicitations,” which he signed, he said: “I, Vice-Chancellor, Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Prof. Temi Emmanuel Ologunorisa, on behalf of […]
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The rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, Ondo State, Prof Adedayo Fasakin, has felicitated with the Muslim Community in the institution, Ondo State and Nigeria in general as they celebrate Eid-el-Fitr. In a message titled “Rector’s Eid-el-Fitri Greetings- Let’s Make Sacrifice To Live In Harmony,” which he signed, he said: “Let me use this […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has advised Ondo State Government to look inward and block all leakages to enable it sustain the last five months’s payment of workers’ full salaries and increase the state’s internally generated revenue. While it appealed to the state government to continue its prioritisation of workers’ welfare, the […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has unveiled alleged plan by the Ondo State Government to deduct workers salary to fund the state security outfit, Amotekun. In a statement on Sunday by the party’s spokesman in the state, Mr Kennedy Peretei, the party referred to a circular stating how much is to be deducted from all […]
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By Tunde Odesola Kings don’t die. They depart to ancestral underworld in vaults known to the Yoruba as aja ile. The mountainous confetti of praise heaped in the trail of the departed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, is bigger than the entire Oyo kingdom because Iku Baba Yeye was larger than life itself. […]
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