Osun State Governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, has vowed to approach the appellate court to challenge the verdict of the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which sacked him and declared Senator Ademola Adeleke, winner of the September 22 governorship election. The tribunal had on Friday sacked him and declared Adeleke, Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate winner. Oyetola, […]
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Over 1, 000 people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores have been killed and more than 150 are missing in neighbouring Zimbabwe. The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai’s full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighbouring Zimbabwe, unleashing […]
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Wild jubilation erupted spontaneously across major parts of Osun State on Friday following the declaration by the state’s Election Petition Tribunal of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the winner of the September 22, 2018 governorship election in the state. Earlier, the Tribunal which sat in Abuja had dismissed a preliminary objection against the petition of the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed the allegation that he is forcing voters to elect candidates other than those they preferred. He did this in a statement on Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu. “I believe in the will of the people,” he said emphatically, adding “I cannot, therefore, […]
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By Pius Adesanmi I was wet behind the ears. I was a Jambite. It was matriculation day at the University of Ilorin. After matriculation on the main campus of the University, I returned to the mini-campus in the company of new friends – fellow Jambites. At the entrance gate to campus, we ran to a […]
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he was cancelling sanctions imposed by his own Treasury Department to tighten international pressure on North Korea. “It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea. I have today ordered the withdrawal of those […]
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– Anger, grief sweep Mosul Relatives mourn over the body of a passenger who died in a ferry accident while crossing the Tigris river outside a morgue in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul AFP / Waleed AL-KHALED The capsizing of a Tigris River ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year in Mosul left […]
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By Banji Ayoola “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy has come for the people of Osun.” This is the philosophic reaction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate in the February 23, 2019 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to the judgement of the state’s governorship election petition tribunal which, on Friday restored the victory […]
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By Banji Ayoola “We are going to appeal the judgment.” With this reaction, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, voiced its resolve to appeal the tribunal judgment which on Friday declared the People’s Democratic Party, PDP candidate Senator Ademola Adeleke winner of the September 22 governorship election in the state. APC […]
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By Afolabi Akinkuehin The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations journal defines conflict as an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties, who perceive incompatible goals, scare rewards or resources and interference from the other party in achieving their goals. Today, we shall talk about what exactly leads to conflicts. Tilley (1994) researched nine characteristics […]
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