Photo credit: Ngozi Aduloju Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) today Tuesday announced that election into the state’s 18 Local Government Councils and the newly created 33 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs will hold on February 24 next year. The commission’s chairman, Dr. Joseph Igbekele Aremo, announced the date at a stakeholders’ meeting at the […]
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The proposed nationwide strike scheduled by the organised labour to begin on Tuesday, October 3, has been suspended. This followed a series of agreements reached by government and labour at their long-drawn meeting on Monday, October 2, in the State House, Abuja. Consequently, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have […]
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BUA Cement Plc has announced a reduction in the ex-factory price of its cement to N3,500 per bag. The reduction takes effect from today. The company said its action was in line with the previous commitment it made to reduce cement prices upon the completion of its new production lines at the end of the […]
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Egbetokun By Adewole Kehinde On Monday, 19th June 2023, President Bola Tinubu appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police. Egbetokun replaces Usman Baba, who was appointed Inspector General of Police by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2021. It has been over a hundred days since he was appointed, and […]
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Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been granted bail by the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, the United Kingdom. 63-year-old Alison-Madueke, who was charged to court in the UK with bribery offences, was granted bail after appearing before the court on Monday, October 2, 2023. The British police had, on August 22, stated […]
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Abdullahi Sule The Governorship Election Petitions The walkingribunal sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sacked Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and declared David Ombugadu, the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as duly elected. In a ruling delivered on Monday, two of the justices agreed that the election was won by the […]
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A foreign tourist, His Majesty, Raba Gaye Konjwa of the Ndebele Nation, South Africa, while fielding questions from journalists on the sidelines of the famous Olojo festival celebration, in Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, has called on Africans to unite to solve the problems in the continent. He charged Africans across the world to come […]
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The Yoruba Youth Council, YYC, on Monday slammed the Kogi State governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Mr. Murtala Ajaka, for allegedly refusing to honour the invitation by the police in the ongoing investigation of a recent killing of a prominent politician and member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. […]
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By Jimoh Ibrahim (Being a Paper written in Honour of Professor Idowu Amos Adeoye of the blessed memory) Professor Idowu was indeed not comfortable with the scientific approach of methodology. And that African Babalawo predictions based on Ifa or Orunmila, Ayelala, and Obatala are pseudo. He thinks science’s complete elimination of metaphysics is a foundational […]
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Jubilant people of Arogbo Ijaw in Ese Odo Local Government of Ondo State on Thursday gave their prominent son the special adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and the chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr. Kingsley Kuku, a heroic welcome. Kuku, a political and environmental rights activist, paid a surprise […]
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