The pioneer and incumbent Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State, Prof. Emmanuel Adedayo Fasakin, will be honoured by his home Community of Omuo-Ekiti in Ekiti State today, Thursday, 30th December, 2021. He will be conferred with the enviable “Omuo Exceptional Award( Omoluka)” by Oba (Dr.) Noah Adejuwon Omonigbehin, Okinbaloye 11,Olomuo of Omuo Kingdom in […]
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The Police have confirmed that son-in-law of a former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha and former governorship candidate in the state, Chief Uche Nwosu, was arrested and not kidnapped by gunmen contrary to earlier reports. In a statement on Sunday signed by the spokesperson for the state police command, CSP Michael Abattam for the […]
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Zenith Bank plc, and International Breweries have emerged as ‘Most Responsible Organisation in Africa’ at The SERAS CSR Awards Africa 2021, with a commutative point of 76, 67 and 62 points respectively. Zenith Bank was adjudged the most responsible organisation in Africa, winning the overall best sustainability award, for its continued commitment to the tenets […]
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised Nigerians to “reach out to neighbours, especially those who haven’t had it as easy through the year”. In a post on his official Facebook page (Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi – Ojaja II), the monarch said: “I join all and sundry in the joyous occasion of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari commenced the week under review with the inauguration of a US$ 73 million intervention fund for irrigation, to boost the sugar backward integration programme aimed at making Nigeria a leading sugar-producing country in Africa. To actualise this dream, an agreement between the federal government and the operators of the sugar backward integration […]
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A Sunday auto crash at Itako, Ijebu-Ife in Ogun State, claimed the lives of a woman and her two daughters. A truck and a Ford SUV were involved in the accident. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesman of Ogun State’s Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. He said the accident occurred […]
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Bisi Akande’s autobiography By Sam Omatseye It is a series of words as pinprick. It began as a book presentation, and the bigwigs of the Nigerian political firmament gathered, especially of the APC hue. The president, Muhammadu Buhari, in his full light-blue babaringa and loosed-limbed with humour, was accompanied by a raft of governors. That […]
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A cleric, Tunde Olayiwola, who was arrested last week allegedly with a fresh human head by detectives of the Ondo state police command, has died in police custody. State Police command spokeswoman, Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the death of the suspect in police custody adding that he became indisposed while in detention. She did not give […]
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Anthony’s mother, Pauline Eromosele Like the ‘Aluu four,’ where four undergraduates were set ablaze by angry villagers, a 16-year-old was wrongly accused, brutalised and had iron inserted into his anal part before being burnt to death by irate youths in a village in Cross River State. With his assailants at large, and the police, as […]
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Babajide Akeredolu Amid growing criticism of the appointment by Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of his son, Babajide, as the Director General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit ( PPIMU), the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked him to declare his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau. The governor […]
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