Watermelon is an extremely popular fruit. While we all enjoy eating this sweet refreshing fruit, we usually discard the tiny seeds scattered in it without realising or rather knowing of their health benefits. These seeds are loaded with nutrients including fatty acids, essential proteins and lots of minerals. They are rich in vitamin B like […]
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There is no let-up in the crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly. The Senate has given Governor Godwin Obaseki a week to issue a fresh notice for the proclamation of the House, failing which he would be risking sanctions. There were indications that the National Assembly plans to take over the running of […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress on Thursday closed their defence in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging the 2019 presidential election result. Atiku Abubakar, a former Nigeria vice president is challenging the election result which Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)declared President […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Among reporters of his generation, he was the “primus inter pares,” the first among equals. Whether in diligence, application to duty, indeed unremitted commitment, he was in the forefront. He was daring and he was brave. I am referring to no other than Olusegun Osoba. It is not for nothing that he was […]
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Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande who clocked 90 recently deserves all the accolades he has received from just about every quarter, by just about every one – high and low – in just about every phrase worthy of the diligent man in every role he found himself – be it journalism, politics, or administration. He has […]
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A 35-year-old woman, Mrs. Tope Olorunfemi, who was kidnapped last week by suspected herdsmen on Afo/Idoani Road in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State has been freed. Olorunfemi, an employee of Xiamen Wine Stone at Afo, was abducted on her way back home from work on a commercial motorcycle (okada) at gunpoint near Irekari […]
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National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried the All Progressives Congress (APC) statement ‘warning’ Atiku Abubakar against making comments on the state of the nation. It, therefore, cautioned against any attempts to indict Atiku over trumped up charges of inciting and inflammatory remarks capable of threatening national peace and cohesion. […]
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The minimum wage battle is far from being over, despite the signing of the bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have not agreed on the implementation of the wage structure. Workers on levels 01-06 will automatically enjoy the N30, 000 minimum wage, but the Federal […]
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scraps new institutions The Imo State government has converted the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko, established and owned by former Governor Rochas Okorocha, to a campus of the state-owned university. The House of Assembly had passed a law allotting a 90 per cent equity shares to trustees of the Rochas Foundation and 10 per cent to […]
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The Alawe of Ilawe Ekiti, Oba Adebanji Ajibade Alabi, Afuntade 1, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers. He succeeds the Oloye of Oye Ekiti, Oba Michael Oluwole Ademolaju, who has completed his two-year tenure. The new Ekiti Council of Obas chairman is to spend two years in […]
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