Boy with missing intestine dies at LASUTH

Just a few hours after the Lagos Assembly called on State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct release of funds for his overseas treatment, the boy whose intestine went missing in the process of surgery, Adebola Akin-Bright, has died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH. Adebola Akin-Bright, according to The Nation, died on Tuesday […]

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Atiku approaches Supreme Court to void Tribunal’s judgment on presidential poll

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, has approached the Supreme Court, seeking to nullify the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), which, on September 6, upheld the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the 2023 presidential election. Atiku, in a Notice of Appeal predicated on 35 grounds, insisted […]

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UN General Assembly: Tinubu seeks better deal to end extremism, Africa’s exploitation

UN General Assembly • Tinubu: Africa not a problem to be avoided, but key to world’s future • World in grave fracture with conflict, poverty, inequality, Guterres laments • Biden: We won’t stop defending democracy in Africa, Ukraine President Bola Tinubu in the early hours of today made his inaugural address at the United Nations […]

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UNGA: Tinubu addresses world leaders today on illicit financial flows, assets return

• Nigeria to seek partnership for AI development, service provision, others • Tijani assures of positive returns for tech sector, economy President Bola Tinubu will today address world leaders in his debut at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), held under the Presidency of Dennis Francis of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, at […]

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Why Hard Work Doesn’t Always Lead to Success

Summary: If you feel that you’re putting in the hours and not achieving the desired results, increasing your efforts may not be the answer. When people fail, it’s not because of a lack of effort but because their effort was misdirected or misaligned with their interests. Hard work has been romanticized since corporations existed. In […]

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Fees hike: Students call on Tinubu to intervene

The National Association of University Students, NAUS, has called on President Bola Tinubu go take urgent measures that can address the astronomical increase of school fees in various tertiary institutions across the country. Its Osun State Campus Monitoring Committee lamented the recent increase of school fees of federal universities especially Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, by […]

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OAU students threaten protest over fees hike, issue ultimatum

Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife have given the authorities a five-day ultimatum to reverse the recent fees hike in the institution or face a massive protest by students. At a world press conference in the university’s campus on Monday, the President of the institution’s Students Union, Mr. Abbas Akinremi Ojo said that […]

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The death of Françafrique

By Adekeye Adebajo Former French president, François Mitterrand (1981-1995), had prophetically noted in 1957: “Without Africa, France will no longer have a history in the twenty-first century.” From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French slave traders operating out of the ports of Nantes, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, and Le Havre, ferried 1,381,000 African slaves across […]

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