With the wave of killings, kidnapping, arson and other criminalities spreading across many northern states, it is slightly consoling that at last, the perpetrators, hitherto labelled ‘bandits’ in the North West and North Central have been properly recognised as terrorists that they really are. Thanks to an order from the Bench, the Buhari administration has […]
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Ooni and his Olori Silekunola The Chairman, Ondo State Council of Obas and Deji of Akure Kingdom, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, has intervened in the misunderstanding between the Arole Oodua and foremost Yoruba monarch, the Ooni of lfe, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi and his estranged Olorii Silekunola. It was gathered that Oba Aladelusi held separate meetings […]
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The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) reopened on a downturn yesterday, occasioned by losses in many highly capitalised stocks, especially BUA cement and MTNN, causing market capitalisation to decline by N238 billion. The market resumed trading activities yesterday, after the Yuletide holidays declared by the Federal government on Monday and Tuesday, December 27th and 28th, 2021 […]
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Cars stand at a drive-in vaccination station, on a country road near Loechgau, southern Germany, on December 30, 2021, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle / AFP) Germany announced Thursday it would lift in early January strict travel rules for people arriving from countries hardest hit by the Omicron coronavirus variant. All […]
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Urges Wabara, Abaribe, others to withdraw support The South East Democratic Civil Society Coalition (SEDSOC), yesterday, rejected the purported endorsement of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, for the presidency in 2023. Former President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara and Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, both of the Peoples […]
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Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave By Wole Oyebade and Femi Adekoya It was a sombre afternoon, early 2020, when the bad news wafted across the globe. The world battling its worst pandemic in 100 years was too weary to notice it. But in Nigeria, the shitstorm of “corruption and abuse of office” at the top of the […]
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Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmad (left); President Muhammadu Buhari; Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogah; Executive Secretary, Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative (PAGMI), Fatima Umaru Shinkafi and Executive Director, Andrew Osogbo, during a briefing at the State House, Abuja…yesterday President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development […]
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By Martins Oloja In our great country where the law hardly rules, there are numerous strong men that rule the vast weak institutions of governance. The office of the citizen always laments that if their country continues with only strong but lawless party men without strong institutions, then economic growth will continue to be a […]
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Former staff members of Owena Press Limited, publishers of The Hope newspaper, wholly owned by the Ondo State Government, have appealed to the state government to pay the arrears of gratuity due to them. Particularly, they appealed to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, to, as a caring father and in the spirit of the season, consider […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Midnight tomorrow, we will be saying ‘Bye bye’ to 2021 and will be welcoming the Year 2022. Given the blows the outgoing year has dealt with our world and our environment, I dare say we are bidding 2021 goodbye with relief and throatful rendition of songs, clapping and dancing in heartfelt gratitude. […]
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