To be buried on January 14 The Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, Mr Martins Oloja, who lost his father, Elder Michael Oloja Lemikan on September 14, 2021, has announced final burial arrangements, which will be rounded off on Friday, January 14, at his hometown, Ajagba in Irele Local Government, Ondo State. He joined his ancestors […]
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Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) on Tuesday said the government will soon designate bandits as terrorists. The Federal High Court in Abuja had declared bandit groups as terrorists. Speaking during a Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) programme on Tuesday, Malami said: “Government has a responsibility to act but within the context of acting, you’re […]
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Olubadan Oba Saliu Adetunji who has joined his ancestors Ladoja’s lawyer says Balogun not qualified Kingmakers to follow traditional guidelines The succession crisis over the Olubadan of Ibadan vacant tool gets messier by the day as Ibadan chiefs are divided while a high ranking chief and former Governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, is […]
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The remains of Bashir Tofa, the presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC) in the June 12, 1993 election, have been laid to rest in a public cemetery in Kano. Earlier, his uncle, Bello Dan-Sumaila, said that the politician passed away at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano at about 4:30 a.m on […]
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Few days after military operations in Zamfara State killed two leaders of terror groups and their followers, another kingpin, Bello Turji, has released dozens of victims his group kidnapped. He has released 52 kidnap victims as part of his efforts to appease the Zamfara State government towards granting him an amnesty. Informed sources in the […]
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As public and private primary and secondary schools in Lagos prepare to resume for the commencement of the second term on Tuesday, authorities in the state have said the embattled Dowen College, a secondary school located in Lekki, will not be reopening. The government said until investigations into the unfortunate incident of the death of […]
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Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams The O’odua Peoples Congress (OPC) has dissociated itself from a coalition of 57 Yoruba groups allegedly rooting for South-West pro-restructuring presidential candidate in 2023. The OPC Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, in a statement, denied the involvement of Gani Adams in the mega accord, saying such moves were […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo did the uncommon in September 2015 by making public sketchy details of their asset declarations, although, it was in response to growing pressure on them to fulfil a major campaign promise. The presidency released the details of the duo’s asset declarations in a statement a few days […]
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Despite the ongoing debate among Nigeria intelligentsia and pro-democracy activists for its passage and assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill, the Inter-Party Advisory Council, a pressure group of the 18 registered political parties on Monday advised otherwise. While warning that Nigeria does not yet have the political maturity for its take off in the 2023 […]
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A former Attorney-General of Oyo State, Michael Lana, has petitioned Governor Seyi Makinde claiming that Otun Olubadan, Chief Lekan Balogun who, traditionally is next in rank to the departed Olubadan Oba Saliu Adetunji, is not qualified to be crowned as the next Olubadan of Ibadan. In the petition to Oyo State Governor, which was dated […]
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