The city of Warri, the commercial city of Delta State, is agog ahead of the Saturday coronation of the Olu of Warri Designate, Omoba Tsola Emiko. At the Olu of Warri’s Palace ground, preparations are in top gear as various activities are being finalised for the coronation ceremony. It was jubilation galore on Friday in […]
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The police said their operatives have arrested a suspect who allegedly shot a final-year student of the Rivers State University dead on Thursday morning. The student was said to be having a meal on the third floor of a restaurant near the Faculty of Management Sciences about 9:10 am when the assailants trailed and shot […]
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Wike’s group kicks as Secondus plans Oct national convention shift There were strong indications on Thursday that power blocs in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party had sidestepped some of the agreements reached at the party’s expanded National Executive Committee meeting held on Tuesday, August 10. It was gathered that though it was agreed at the […]
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Ahead the installation on Saturday of Prince Tsola Emiko as the new Olu of Warri, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, congratulated all the Itsekiri people over the event. His congratulatory message was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, titled, ‘President Buhari rejoices with Itsekiris on coronation of […]
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The Education Rights Campaign has lamented the death of a student activist, Nurudeen Alawonle, popularly known as Omomeewa, some hours after he was invited to face a disciplinary panel set up by the Lagos State University. Alowonle was shot dead on Wednesday, according to a statement by the LASU Students’ Union on Thursday. It was […]
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Obasanjo (second right) with others at a peace meeting in Afghanistan on July 5, 2021. Photo: @ambmansoorkhan/Twitter Islamic militant group known as the Taliban retook Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city, on Sunday, but the fall of the landlocked Asian country had been seen by many observers when US President Joe Biden started the withdrawal of American […]
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Taliban fighters on a pick-up truck move around a market area, flocked with local Afghan people at the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17, 2021, after Taliban seized control of the capital following the collapse of the Afghan government. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi / AFP) By Etim Etim The invasion of Kabul, capital […]
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By Tony Afejuku The way things are going on in Nigeria now cannot but marvel us. Every day by day we witness things that we should not witness. Those who are truly and patiently observant cannot but wonder at the creation of your country my country our country being ruled and governed by humans who […]
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By Dan Agbese Former President Ibrahim Babangida, the beloved Maradona in our national politics, turned 80 on August 17. The current of history has moved him down stream as an authentic elder statesman. This piece serves two objectives: firstly as a brief tribute to a man who, unwillingly, has become a major issue in our […]
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The Federal Government says from the 10 demands put forward to lift the Twitter suspension, the microblogging and social networking platform has acceded to seven. Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed disclosed this in Washington DC during his on-going engagement with various global media outlets, global think tanks and influencers. The engagement is to enable […]
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