A vendor wears a face mask as she waits for customers at the Kea Farm in Cameron Highlands near Brinchang in Malaysia’s Pahang state on November 28, 2020. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, the UN food agency said […]
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The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), yesterday, said that it had sealed over 348 unauthorised outlets in the state to regulate and streamline the drug distribution value chain to promote the availability of safe, effective and quality medicines distribution in the country, Registrar of the Council, Elijah Mohammed, who disclosed this to journalists in Abakaliki […]
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Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to stop the judicial panels of inquiry probing alleged brutality and other abuses by policemen nationwide. The panels were set up by state governors to probe allegations of police brutality and human […]
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Ooni of Ife Royal Father of the Day Theme: “Harmony in Owu Polity: A Recipe for National Unity” By Banji Ayoola Former President Olusegun Obasanjo would lead about 10,000 delegates to the 29th Owu National Convention holding between December 4 and 5 at Kuta, Ayedire Local Government in Osun State. Obasanjo, GCFR, the Balogun Owu, a foremost traditional Owu General, Ogbogbondu, Ebora […]
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An Osogbo High Court in Osun State on Thursday discharged and acquitted a nurse, Alfred Aderibigbe, alleged of administering overdose drugs on the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke before his demise on April 23, 2017. The Presiding Judge, Justice Ayo Oyebiyi, who discharged and acquitted the defendant, said prosecution counsel failed to prove his case beyond […]
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Judicial Panel of Inquiry, set up by the Ondo State Government to probe alleged police brutality and abuse of human rights by security operatives, particularly by the men of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), on Thursday, said it has received 32 petitions from abuse victims of the disbanded SARS. Chairman of the nine-man panel, […]
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Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a leading advocate of European integration who led his country into a new modern era, has died of Covid-19, his family said. He was 94. Giscard, who had been in the hospital several times in recent months for heart problems, died late Wednesday “surrounded by his family” at the […]
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Our last editorial on this subject of federalism summed up the pros and cons of federalism. Categorically, it stressed the need to revert to a federal constitutional arrangement along with the finest principles of federalism, namely, respect for pluralism, subsidiarity and autonomous sphere. Since last week, there has been an avalanche of calls for a […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The sun set on the bright life of one of Nigeria’s foremost journalists. Death by its nature hardly gives anyone notice. In the age of technological wonders, in the era of permutation by doctors, predictions by stargazers after consultation with their crystal balls; in the age of artificial intelligence, death still manages […]
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Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola, flanked by the Iyaloja General of Osun State; Ayedire Local Government Chairman, Alhaji Adeboye Mukaila Oladejo; and Olowu of Kuta, Oba Adekunle Makama Oyelude at the commissioning of Obada Market Kuta on Wednesday December 2, 2020 at Kuta By Banji Ayoola Osun State Governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola assured on Wednesday […]
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