My journey in Jakande’s ‘School of Journalism’

By Folu Olamiti A lot has been said and written about the late elder statesman Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, popularly known as LKJ, who passed on to the world beyond and was laid to rest recently. He was a man of many parts that no single individual comment or testimony can exhaustively cover. Though it is […]

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Alaafin of Oyo’s queen Ajoke’s marriage intact

Ever since  Olori Badirat Olaitan Ajoke tied nuptial knot with revered octogenarian and monarch, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo, she has not failed to show the world that she was properly trained and nurtured for royalty all her life. The Marketing graduate of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, oozes royalty with blue blood flowing […]

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Why we extend lockdown in Lagos, Ogun, Abuja – Buhari

Being full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast on COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja on April 13, 2020. : “Fellow Nigerians, In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory to stay at home for an initial […]

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Nigeria’s former military governments and anti-press laws

By Richard Akinnola Nigeria’s press laws in the past 59 years have undergone series of metamorphosis. Apart from the ones promulgated by the colonial governments and under the short-lived civilian government between 1960 and 1966, quite a number of such laws were ingrained in our statute books under successive military governments. The colonialists started off […]

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