Colleagues of Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi, have turned to the public to seek financial support to treat her illness. Actresses Toyin Abraham and Mercy Aigbe took to Instagram to solicit support for Afolabi, announcing that a Gofundme account had been opened to support her treatment. Afolabi had revealed in an interview with Chude Jideonwo that […]
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Moscow’s tightly-controlled state TV has issued a chilling nuclear threat to the West should NATO wade into the bout by sending peacekeepers into Ukraine, saying World War III may just be lurking around the corner. Barring any resolution of the alliance leaders at the G-7 summit afoot in Brussels, the Kremlin issues stern warning against […]
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By Olatunji Ololade In “The Two April Mornings” by Williams Wordsworth, and its companion poem, “The Fountain,” a 72-year-old schoolmaster bemoans his youth as an energetic man. Virility is canonised only when lost. Youth is documented as distant narrative removes, nostalgia within memory: the first poem ends with Wordsworth recalling the schoolmaster’s memories. Masculinity is […]
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The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees has decried the negative position of governors Kayode Fayemi and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ekiti and the Ondo states, respectively, over the struggle for local government autonomy, saying the two South-West governors were the major problem behind the realisation of both political and financial autonomy for the third tier […]
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A Lagos State High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has discharged and acquitted a housewife, Mary Alilu, who was accused of murdering her husband, Kingsley Perewe, by cutting his neck and head. Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay cleared the housewife of the one-count charge of murder in suit LD/5944C/17. Mrs Alilu spent over four years […]
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Senior Special Assistant to Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi on Electoral Matters , Mr. Olaiya Kupolati, has resigned and defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In a letter dated 23rd March, 2022 and addressed to the office of the Secretary to the State Government, Kupolati, said his resignation takes effect from March 30, 2022. […]
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Police Inspector General Usman Baba A man, Kama has allegedly attacked his girlfriend, Ladi Ishaku, with liquid substance suspected to be acid in Adamawa State. Ishaku, who is currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital in Yola, the state capital, was on Sunday allegedly bathed with acid by the suspect, an auto mechanic based in […]
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the protests embarked upon by some Ile Ife indigenes over the announcement of a non-native as the next Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University as “crazy”. Soyinka, a former lecturer at OAU, spoke at a lecture titled, ‘The Politics of Black Intellection and Creativity, at the University of […]
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• Court ruled that the provision be deleted, not part of our law – Malami The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Wednesday in Abuja said his office would soon comply with the court order that he should expunge Section 84 (12) from the Electoral Act, 2022. This is just […]
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By Banji Ayoola An ex-envoy and eminent aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the seat of Ondo South Senatorial District in the Senate in the forthcoming election, Ambassador Sola Iji, will soon visit the six Local Government Areas and 66 wards in the District in continuation of his ongoing […]
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