Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, is reeling under the strangulating grip of street thugs, violent transport union enforcers also known as agbero, cultists, and sundry criminals. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu must reengineer the security and transportation systems to surmount these threats that have made living in Lagos barely tolerable for its 22 million residents. In his […]
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Comedian and actor, Adebowale Adedayo, aka Mr. Macaroni, has said he attended four universities and got expelled while studying at one of the universities. The skit-maker made the revelation while chronicling his journey toward becoming a graduate in a tweet on Saturday. Following the expulsion, Mr. Macaroni, however, noted that he was recalled and later […]
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Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of plotting to intimidate and arrest lawmakers-elect seen as championing the independence of the legislature to influence the choice of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. The party stated […]
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola Tinubu, over “the failure to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” It filed the lawsuit at the Federal High Court in Lagos, […]
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A former presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Oliver Diana, has explained why the leadership of the party has not imposed any sanction on the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, for alleged anti-party activities. Diana, the only female aspirant during the contest for the sole ticket of […]
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Security officials attached to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja have arrested some legislative aides and National Assembly workers for engaging in last-minute looting of the offices of lawmakers and carting away valuables belonging to the second tier of government. Some of the items are television sets, cabinet shelves, electronics, computers, printers, furniture, air conditioners, […]
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The Federal Capital Territory has called on the media and members of the public, not to address the Permanent Secretary of the FCT Administration, Olusade Adesola, as the Acting Minister. The FCTA made the clarification, following reports in some media assigning the designation of Acting Minister, to the Permanent Secretary. In a statement signed by […]
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The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has reacted to the Friday invasion of his two private houses by security agents to remove vehicles. Matawalle who spoke to BBC Hausa service in an interview on Saturday morning accused the security agents of looting the personal belongings of his wives and children, including clothing […]
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By Godfrey George It is not unusual to see plus-sized children waddle alongside their parents in a mart or at a cinema. Medical experts say childhood obesity is now one of the most serious challenges of public health in the 21st century, particularly in urban areas. The World Health Organisation defines the condition as abnormal […]
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More facts have emerged on how President Bola Tinubu endorsed a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for the senate presidency. Sources close to the President told one of our correspondents on Saturday that the deal to make Akpabio president of the senate was sealed a day before the presidential primary of […]
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