By Chukwuneta Oby Those of us who grew up in the village knew that there’s only one thing next to the feeling of seeing God in the eyes of every village child. And that is beholding an “obodo oyibo”(abroad) returnee! My mother had an only brother who sojourned in Europe. His wife frequented home more than […]
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Agency Report The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun Command, has arrested a Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited truck driver, Afeez Adegbola, for allegedly diverting 10,000 litres of petrol belonging to the company. The state Commandant, Mr Igbalawole Sotiyo, disclosed this while parading the suspect and his two motor boys on Saturday, in Osogbo. […]
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Agbako’s daughter, Motunrayo ‘Iwalewa’, Charles Motunrayo ‘Iwalewa’ Charles, a daughter of the recently deceased veteran actor, Abdulsalam Sanyaolu, popularly known as Charles Olumo and Agbako, has said that she had to abandon her acting career to take care of her father in his old age. Agbako died on Thursday, October 31, at the age of […]
Continue Reading0ndo State Commissioner for Regional and Diaspora Relations, Prince ‘Boye 0logbese has commended the minister of lnterior, Mr 0lubunmi Tunji 0jo for his credible performance ln office. He attributed his retention as a member of President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet to what he described as his efficiency. In a statement by the media unit of his […]
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Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said that the 2027 general election will be between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Nigerian people. He stated this on Saturday during the commissioning of the departed Olusoji Adagunodo zonal secretariat of the party in Ibadan, the state capital, adding that his next political agenda would be […]
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Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, has said that the arrest of the accountant general of the state, Julius Anelu, and two others is meant to cripple governance in the state. In a statement released on Saturday, the Commissioner said that from Monday, the state government would have been grounded and unable […]
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Isaac Fayose, brother of a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has pledged N50 million to anyone who can prove he was awarded contracts during his brother’s tenure, emphasising that his success comes from the Lord, not from any deals with his brother. He made this known in a video posted on his Instagram account […]
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Ship offloading petroleum products into a tank farm The Nigerian Ports Authority said that two vessels with 40,766,400 litres of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as PMS, arrived at Tincan Island Ports in Lagos State on Friday. NPA added that 10 vessels with different commodities including used vehicles, would arrive at the port between Friday, […]
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The Nigeria Soybean Stakeholders Coalition has announced the target to increase Nigeria’s protein sufficiency by raising soybean usage in both livestock and human diets up to 80 percent. At the coalition’s inauguration in Lagos, the NSSC Chairman, Dr. Joe Dada, outlined a vision to increase soybean’s presence across various sectors, utilising its potential to fill […]
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A former Deputy Governor of Delta State and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Amos Utuama, has died at the age of 77. It was learned that Utuama, a former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state, died in Warri in the early hours of Saturday after a protracted illness. The deceased was the […]
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