Femi Adebayo The 11th edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) was a night of triumph for Nollywood as Femi Adebayo’s film Seven Doors clinched two of the most coveted awards — Best Lead Actor (Femi Adebayo) and Best Lead Actress (Chioma Chukwuka), cementing its place as one of the standout productions of […]
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Some candidates who sat the recently released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) have rejected their results and called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to review them. The candidates, their families and concerned Nigerians have taken to social media to express concerns over the results. They insist that the released results do not […]
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Out of 115 victims of human trafficking registered for airlifting, the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yesterday announced the successful repatriation of 78 Nigerians into the country. The nationals arrived in Lagos State Saturday night from Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The statement, signed by the Ministry’s Spokesman, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, indicated that the […]
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Suspended Rivers Ste democratic Governor Siminalayi Fubara A coalition of civic groups under the banner of Citizens’ Action for Democratic Restoration (CADR) has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately end the emergency rule in Rivers State, warning that the federal intervention has derailed constitutional governance and deepened instability in the oil-rich region. Speaking in […]
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Anambra State tops the list of six states with the highest malpractice cases in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Other states, according to the ranking released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), are Lagos Delta, Kano, Kaduna, and Rivers, in that order. The Board’s Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who addressed a […]
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Nigeria’s corporate entity is under threat of disintegration due to the prevailing harsh economic policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration. Sounding this note of alarm, a former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, hinged the presumed threat on alleged increasing woeful performance, failure, and loss of focus and direction against the […]
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As defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, swell, the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje has suggested a one-party state for Nigeria. He declared his party’s readiness to welcome a one-party state if all parties in the country were to dissolve into his party. According to him, “no one would fight against a one […]
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By Banji Ayoola The further you move away from all that is dark, that had imprisoned you, that had held you firmly; And strive after only that which is good, the further you distance yourself from the Darkness in which you had been nestling. In which you had embedded yourself. The weaker and weaker its […]
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Prof Femi Mimiko President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has praised the outstanding contributions of a former Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Prof Femi Mimiko, to Nigeria’s socioeconomic development. Of particular interest to him is what he described at the don’s towering contributions as a scholar, an administrator, and a nation-builder. Mimiko, […]
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Papa Fasoranti and Governor Aiyedatiwa at the event Afenifere Leader, Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti’s life of selfless service exemplifies what all Nigerians across the country and in the diaspora should strive to emulate. Making this assertion while pouring encomiums on the elder statesman at a celebration of his 99th birthday on Saturday in Akure, the […]
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