As Labour reaches an agreement with the Federal Government on the implementation of the new minimum wage, Ondo State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Pastor Emmanuel Igbasan, declared in this interview that the revenue allocation should be reviewed to enable the state and local governments conveniently pay their workers the N30,000 minimum wage. Excerpts: What […]
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Elder statesman and a former Commissioner for Information in Ondo State, Chief Segun Adegoke, has advised the All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, to shelve his reported presidential ambition as he believes that the party and the North would never field him as presidential candidate. Here is a taste of the Afenifere […]
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Eighty-nine-year old Rt Rev Emmanuel Bolanle Gbonigi is a retired Bishop of the Anglican Communion, Akure Diocese and an elder statesman. In the spirit of Nigeria’s 59th independence anniversary celebration, he reels out some prophetic words about Nigeria, expressing the hope he has for the country. In his words: “I am getting on in years, […]
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says he was devastated when Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested by the Balewa government adding: ‘I thought the world would collapse’ Chief Olu Falae, a former presidential candidate on the joint ticket of Alliance For Democracy and All People’s Party, who contested against former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the 1999 general elections, and a chieftain […]
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“I think that is a little bit laughable. On one hand you say that the Supreme Court is having contradictory decisions on the same issues because they have different panels and on the other hand, you want to unbundle it to have it in different places. You are just going to create more conflicts.” These […]
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Last Thursday, Nigerian-born Dr Mathew Aneke won the 2019 Nigeria Prize for Science, alongside a Chinese researcher, Wang Meihong, for their works on carbon capture, utilization, and biomass gasification and energy storage for power generation. Aneke, an indigene of Enugu State and a Chartered Energy Engineer, who works at the University of Sheffield’s Department of […]
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Monarch pledges: ‘We would find means to employ Owo youths’ Oba Gbadegesin Ajibade Ogunoye is the new Olowo of Owo Kingdom, Ondo State. In this interview with Peter Dada, the monarch talks about his background, the town and some other issues. You were recently installed as the Olowo of Owo, and for those who don’t […]
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Gen Zamani Lekwot was military governor of Rivers State from July 1975 to 1978 during the military administration of Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo. He also served as Ambassador and High Commissioner to the Republics of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Gambia. Lekwot retired from the army in 1985. Following the violence that erupted between […]
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Osun State-based fufu (cassava flour) seller, Mrs Sariyu Akanmu, beaten by the police for participating in the #RevolutionNow protest on Monday, tells Bola Bamigbola her story Tell us more about yourself. I don’t know when I was born. My parents were not educated. But I knew when one of my friends who should be of […]
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Former Minister of Transport and Aviation, Chief Ebenezer Babatope believes that sincerity of purpose by President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would go a long way in addressing Nigeria’s present security and social challenges. Babatope, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), in this […]
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