The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it has secured the release of one of the eight Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) abducted in Zamfara State, through the help of security agencies. The Director, Press and Public Relations, Mr Eddy Megwa, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Eight PCMs and the bus driver […]
Continue ReadingDeputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, has reportedly appointed a ‘Kayanmata’ vendor, Aminat Ayeni Onisiwo, as his senior legislative aide. “Kayanmata” refers to herbs or potions women use in different forms as sexual pleasure, enhancers, or aphrodisiacs in the northern part of Nigeria. Many married women use ‘Kayanmata’ to spice up sexual relations, but over time, […]
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Afe Babalola Elder statesman and legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), has advised universities against awarding honorary degrees to those who do not merit it, in both character as well as individual contributions to the nation’s growth and development. The legal luminary said this on Saturday at the 14th Founder’s Day celebration, and 11th convocation […]
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The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has described as selective President Bola Tinubu’s directives that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) be paid four months out of their eight months withheld salaries during the last industrial action by public university workers nationwide. Reacting to the presidential order, SSANU insisted that […]
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Tears and emotions flowed freely as the remains of Mrs Celestina Aboda and Mrs Bridget Umoru, mother and wife of an Associate Political Editor with Vanguard Newspaper, Mr.Henry Umoru, were buried at Ikpeshi in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. Friends, colleagues, and family members of Umoru trooped out in their numbers to […]
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With about 48 hours to the judgment on the appeals challenging the eligibility of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President of Nigeria, a political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, on Saturday called on the Justices of the Supreme Court to consider national interest first above personal […]
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Wole Soyinka on Naija Times Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said Thursday that journalism must tread new grounds to probe not just the state but the society itself. The professor of Comparative Literature said that society needed to be nudged into consciousness of where it was and where it was headed. “The state stands to save […]
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Bayo Onanuga Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has accused the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) of working in cahoots with investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, to mount pressure on the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to release […]
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A photo combination of Cardinal Onaiyekan and INEC’s Yakubu Mahmood. Bishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood Yakubu of misleading Nigerians and not being honest in the conduct of the 2023 elections. The Cardinal, who was speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during […]
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The Supreme Court has fixed October 31 to hear an application filed by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) seeking to remove Hope Uzodinma from office as Imo state governor. The hearing is coming three years after the party filed the application in July 2020. APGA is contending that there ought to have been a […]
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