Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, has been honored as the Outstanding Oyo Agency of the Year 2021 by Silverstones Communication, organizers of the Miss Oyo Beauty pageant. According to the organizers, the award was in recognition of the agency’s “immense contribution to the Education sector infrastructure in Oyo State” for the year 2021. The […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari has done his best and Nigerians should not expect anything more from him. Speaking at an event organised by the Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa in Abuja on Monday, Obasanjo said if Nigerians are expecting anything more from Buhari, they are “whipping a dead horse”. The […]
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Prof. Peter Okebukola, former Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), said University of Ibadan was deserving of the best university in 2021 award. Okebukola, who heads the ranking committee set up by NUC, stated this at a two-day capacity building workshop organised by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund) on Monday in Abuja. The […]
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By Dakuku Peterside CONTAINING the spread and impact of COVID-19 is a herculean task for Africa and African governments. It is even more challenging when Western countries and their allies deliberately conspire to allow politics and economic nationalism instead of science to define global response to a virus that we know little about. Its origin, […]
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In what appears as a move to avert a diplomatic row, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday conceded seven slots to Air Peace. It has also granted the Nigerian carrier the permit to fly directly to Dubai instead of Sharjah Airport, a source said. But, the government said it was unaware of alleged stoppage of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to disregard conspiracy theories claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic was created by foreign countries to depopulate Africa or to make money for Western pharmaceutical companies. He gave the warning in his ‘get well soon’ message to the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who was recently diagnosed with the COVID-19 […]
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No fewer than 20 persons have died while seven sustained injuries in road crashes in Bauchi State. Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Yusuf Abdullahi, confirmed the crashes, which happened on Sunday night. He blamed speeding for the accidents, adding that the first crash involved two vehicles, an 18-seater Toyota Hummer bus, […]
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has asked the police to investigate the claims by social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo, that the late Dowen College schoolboy Sylvester Oromoni Jnr was in the process of joining a cult when he died. Olunloyo’s story contradicts claims by the Oromonis that Sylvester was […]
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has sued the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) over alleged rights violation. Kanu, in the suit filed by his lawyer, Maxwell Opara, before the Federal High Court in […]
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan yesterday spoke on the controversy over salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly. He said contrary to allegations of “jumbo pay,” the National Assembly is grossly underfunded in Nigeria compared to other presidential democracies. The Senate President, who was guest lecturer at the maiden edition of the “Distinguished Parliamentarians […]
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