The Athletics Integrity Unit, AIU, has cleared tracks queen, Tobi Amusan of the doping charges against her. This was contained in a statement by the AIU on Friday. The panel which sat on Thursday, found Amusan not guilty of “Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period.” The statement read, “A […]
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By Dare Babarinsa Ray Ekpu writes well. Since he left the University of Lagos 50 years ago, Ekpu has continued to regale and amaze us with his use of English language, his poetic twist of phrases, the cadence of his prose, the lilting alliterations and his uncanny coinages has put him in a special class. […]
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The former Labour Party (LP) presidential aspirant, Professor Pat Utomi, has revealed his battle with the much-dreaded cancer disease. Taking to Twitter on Friday, he said that a biopsy he conducted in the year 2022 showed that he was positive. He said that he thereafter started treatment with a cancer centre in Ikeja and on […]
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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on Thursday in Osogbo, received a member of the victorious D’Tigress Squad to the recently concluded 2023 FIBA Afrobasketball Championship in Kigali, Adenike Olawuyi. Adenike, who is an Osogbo born Basketball player, plays for the Hungarian Basketball team, Ratgeber. She played a pivotal role in the Nigeria Women’s Basketball team’s […]
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Tobi Amusan, the reigning World 100m hurdles champion will get the chance to defend her title in Budapest, Hungary if she is cleared of her whereabouts failures, World Athletics has declared. The world governing body for the sport has included the 26-year-old in the list of athletes that will compete for Nigeria but her participation […]
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Kamsiyochukwu Nkechinyere Umeh, a student of Deeper Life High School, who had the highest score of 360 in the 2023 UTME, has cleared all her papers in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination with 8 A1 and a B2. The 16-year-old student scored A1 in English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Further Mathematics, Economics, Civic […]
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By Festus Adedayo In 2018 when news sieved in that that constellation of emeriti, Prof Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, had crept into Akure, Ondo State, our association, Ooye Development Initiative, (ODI) bated him like mousetrap does mice. Was Akure big enough to contain that hippopotamus-statured literary giant? I wondered. I, perhaps, was the most excited of […]
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Why I wrote Just Before Dawn, why South Africans call me Yebo Gogo Man and why Nelson Mandela said I was more popular than him – Kole Omotoso In this interview with Festus Adedayo, held in his Oda Road forest-like home in Akure, with no electricity and no neighbour, Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, writer and professor, […]
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“We are mourning the loss of our father, husband, and grandfather, Prof. Bankole ‘Kole’ Omotoso, who passed away after a long period of illness in Johannesburg on July 19, 2023.” That was how the family of Kole, the late Professor of English and renowned writer, announced his death in a terse statement. “A born scholar, […]
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Music megastar David Adeleke, also known as Davido, has through his foundation David Adeleke Foundation (DAF) donated N237m to orphans across Nigeria. Davido revealed this in a statement accompanied by an image of the donation as well as appreciating those who have contributed immensely to the act, Davido wrote; “I’ve always wanted to use my […]
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