Mike Adenuga @ 69: Salute to a man of the people

Photo: HKLM By Toni Kan The year was 1990 and Nigeria had a military president and a medical doctor turned oil man was in charge of the nation’s oil ministry. With zero oil industry experience, the brilliant doctor set himself three quick tasks; midwife indigenous participation in the oil and gas industry, increase reserves as well […]

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ASUU Strike: Students, parents knock FG, politicians

Say Politicking For 2023 Election While Students Idle Away At Home Dangerous Lampoon Ngige, Nwajiuba Over Presidential Bids ‘Enough Is Enough’ There is palpable anger in the country amid preparations for the 2023 general election following the failure of the Federal Government to reach a truce with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and […]

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7 dead, 5 injured in Lagos-Ibadan expressway crash

Seven persons have been confirmed dead in a road crashe at the Ogun State stretch of Lagos Ibadan expressway. Five others were badly injured in the accident recorded around 7:40pm on Friday opposite Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) office in Ogunmakin Km 27 on Lagos – Ibadan expressway. Two vehicles marked LSR696XS (Mazda bus) and […]

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Nigeria: The travails of an animal kingdom

By Itse Sagay 1. Introduction Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel highly honoured to be invited to give the 2018 Convocation Lecture of this great institution. I thank the Chancellor, the Chairman and Members of Council and Senate for this high privilege. The title of this lecture was deliberately chosen to express and articulate my […]

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2023 and echoes of 1993: Never again!

File photo: This photograph was taken at the occasion sometime in 2018, where President Muhammadu Buhari validated the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election; declared the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, who won that election, a former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; conferred on him posthumously the GCFR National Honor usually reserved […]

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Police, NYSC begin probe of missing Abuja corps member’s death

The Management of the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), has begun investigation into the death of an abducted female youth corp member, Stephanie Terungwa, who was later found dead somewhere in Abuja. Stephanie, who was serving in Abuja until her abduction, was declared missing on April 14, 2022. However, NYSC spokesman, Eddy Megwa, announced Terungwa’s […]

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Father impregnates 15-year old daughter, seeks abortion, lands in police net

Police Inspector General, Baba Usman A 38-year old man has allegedly impregnated his own daughter in Ile Oluji in Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State; and he was arrested while trying to procure an abortion for her, the police have said. According to a statement by police spokeswoman in the state, SP […]

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Whereabouts of Okonkwo arrested by Anambra police remain unknown

Okonkwo (left) and other suspects I want to see my hubby, woman pleads 48 days after husband’s arrest in Awka Seeks Buhari, IGP ’s intervention Twenty-eight-year-old Mrs. Ebere Okonkwo, has remained a shadow of her old self, since her husband, Dubuem Okonkwo, a member of Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN), Awka branch, was arrested […]

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Why ex-President Jonathan is not qualified to contest same office again – Falana

Group threatens suit as PDP reps, SANs warn Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan who is considering joining the All Progressives Congress to run for President is set to face a legal battle in the coming days, it has been learnt. This is just as the Vice Chairman/Director of Public Affairs, Igbo Leadership Development Foundation, Dr. […]

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Missing Abuja NYSC member, Stephanie Terungwa, found dead

A corpse found wearing the NYSC khaki trouser with the face defaced beyond recognition in the highbrow Maitama district of Abuja has been confirmed by the police as that of a missing corps member deployed to the nation’s capital, Stephanie Se-Ember Terungwa. The NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, made this known in […]

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