Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, formally rounded off the weeklong celebration marking his one year in office on Saturday with an interactive session with elderly citizens in the state. During the ceremony, held in Ado Ekiti, the governor assured that his government will continue to accord senior citizens the deserved respect and initiate programmes that […]
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The first year anniversary celebration of Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji ended on Sunday with an uncommon political development, as three former governors of the state supported the celebrant for his second term bid. The ex-governors including Adeniyi Adebayo, Ayodele Fayose, and Kayode Fayemi unanimously endorsed Oyebanji for a second term in office based on […]
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A former Presidential Aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has hailed the ongoing moves to persuade former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to lead the party as its next National Chairman. In a statement by his Director General, Eric Oluwole, Anakwenze described Saraki as eminently qualified to lead […]
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A Palestinian man carries a wounded child in his arms following an Israeli airstrike on the Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. – Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were on October 17, headed towards the […]
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Pope Francis pleaded Sunday for an end to the Hamas-Israeli conflict amid fears it could widen, and called for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into to the Gaza Strip. “War is always a defeat, it is a destruction of human fraternity. Brothers, stop! Stop!” Francis said after his traditional Angelus prayer in Rome’s Saint […]
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Ben Oramalugo (left), paid a courtesy visit to Commissioner of Police CP, Adebola Hamzat at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters Eleyele, Ibadan in Oyo State. Photo: Tribune Customs Area Comptroller of the Oyo/Osun Area Command, Ben Oramalugo, has pledged to sustain a collaboration between the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on […]
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Articulated vehicles parked on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway obstructing traffic flow. PHOTO: GBENGA SALAU It is four years and five months that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu got sworn in as the governor of Lagos State. But a day after he was sworn-in, May 30, 2019 precisely, he promised to end the menace of articulated vehicles parking on Lagos […]
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• FG borrows N4.1t in four months • Public debt may hit N100tr soon • Tinubu deepening mess created by past administrations — Labour At a time Nigeria’s lawmakers are planning to buy vehicles worth N160 million, the move by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration to borrow additional $400 million for palliative over subsidy […]
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Minister of FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has barred Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as its own Secretariats, departments, commercial banks, and others from offering services to people without demanding and verifying their tax clearance certificates. The directive was contained in a memo dated 4th October, 2023 and […]
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By Tunde Olusunle Tunde Olusunle At one of the earliest editions of the reinvented Mbari Series, perhaps the inaugural, I suggested that we should endeavour to help purposely grow the library of Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA), by donating books and similar resource materials. My idea is that writers who are already published for instance, […]
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