King Oyo ascended to the throne at the age of three but was crowned on reaching adulthood at 18 in 2010 | BBC/AFP via GettyImages Agency report Several thousand people gathered on Saturday in Uganda to pay final respects to a king once recognised as the world’s youngest monarch, with the president urging unity amid […]
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Bamanga Tukur The family of the late National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has fixed Sunday, September 13, 2026, for his burial in Yola, Adamawa State. PUNCH Online had earlier reported the death of the former PDP national chairman on Saturday. Tukur’s son and Secretary to the Adamawa State Government, Awwal […]
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Bamanga Tukur The Peoples Democratic Party and the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, Senator David Mark, have mourned the death of former Governor of the old Gongola State, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, describing his death as a great loss to Nigeria. Tukur, who died on Saturday at the age of 90 after a prolonged […]
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Bamanga Tukur President Bola Tinubu has mourned the death of former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Mohammed Tukur, describing him as a prominent figure in Nigeria’s political and economic history. Tukur, a former governor of the old Gongola State and Minister of Industries, died on Saturday at the age of 90. In […]
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Immediate former JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede By Farooq A. Kperogi I didn’t get a chance to write a retrospective evaluation of Professor Ishaq Oloyede’s tenure as JAMB registrar when most people did after his departure in July because the time of his exit competed with more pressing national discourses that invited my intervention. But […]
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The new Registrar of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, FEDPOLEL, in Ondo State, Mr. Joseph Adebayo Fadeji, speaking at the reception held for him at the institution’s auditorium on Thursday September 10, 2026 The new Registrar of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, FEDPOLEL, in Ondo State, Mr. Joseph Adebayo Fadeji, has been charged to contribute […]
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By Martins Oloja ‘A Card Smaller Than Your ATM, Stronger Than Their War Chest’ In January 2023, I wrote a piece in this same “Inside Stuff” column titled “Your PVC is your power of mass destruction.” I was not calling for violence. I was calling for votes. I argued then that instead of agonising on […]
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Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Dr Banji Awolowo Ajaka Ondo State Government has confirmed 29 persons dead following their consumption of a suspected toxic mixture prepared with the locally brewed alcoholic drink popularly called ogogoro in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. Altogether, there are 60 cases from the incident, with the provisional […]
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Ex-PDP chairman, Bamanga Tukur Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, has died at the age of 90. He died on Saturday, September 12, 2026, according to a statement issued by his family and signed by his son, Awwal D. Tukur. The family described the former PDP chairman as its “beloved father […]
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Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Africa, Femi Fani-Kayode Nigerian High Commissioner-designate to South Africa, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has demanded urgent action by the South African Government to protect Nigerians and bring perpetrators of killings involving Nigerian nationals to justice. Reacting to the recent killings of Bishop Michael Taiwo Fakunle and James Uchechukwu Nwankwo in Johannesburg in […]
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