Evidence of hunger across the land is mounting in daily lived experiences and is increasingly confirmed by expert reports. The latest indication of the worsening food insecurity and pervasive privation in the country comes from the United Nations World Food Programme which issued an alarming report that 24.8 million Nigerians currently face acute hunger. In […]
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Friday, May 12, was the anniversary of the barbaric killing of Deborah Samuel, 22, a second-year Home Economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, but there is no word on the whereabouts of her murderers. It is an eerily familiar pattern in Northern Nigeria: fiendish mobs, inebriated with religious or ethnic hatred, […]
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A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olabode George, has explained the reasons that would prompt him to congratulate the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. George, a longstanding critic of Tinubu, who had threatened to go into exile if Tinubu won the presidential election and is sworn in as president of the country, reportedly […]
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Cardiovascular disease has gone epidemic in Nigeria. Most disturbing is the surging demography of ailing young and old that cannot access expensive corrective surgeries. Without excusing the place of efficient and affordable care for the sick, most germane is the primacy of preventive care that should slow the rate of supposedly healthy Nigerians coming down […]
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The daunting task before the incoming administration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is how to unite the country as well as ensure the devolution of power. Former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, who stated this, said Tinubu must carry through, the ongoing economic reforms of the present administration such as the cashless […]
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Sudan returnees Say ‘We really need therapy to overcome trauma’ Two weeks since the airlifting of students and other Nigerian community members from crisis-ridden Sudan by the federal government began, the last batch of students to arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at the weekend said they passed through a very traumatic experience. President […]
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Popular Yoruba actor and filmmaker, Mr. Murphy Afolabi, has died. He was said to have fallen down in the bathroom at his Ikorodu, Lagos home on Sunday morning, May 14, 2023. Another filmmaker who is also the president of the Yoruba movies directors guild, Seun Olaiya, shared the sad news on a WhatsApp platform populated […]
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The Federal Government says it spends N1 million annually to cater to each of the inmates at the correctional facilities in the country. Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to the statement, the minister said this while inaugurating […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the official pre-inauguration photographs of the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima ahead of the May 29th inauguration. The photographs were shared via Twitter yesterday, by Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga. Onanuga confirmed that the Presidential Transition Council for Tinubu approved the photographs. “Pre-inauguration official photographs […]
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Nigeria president-elect Bola Tinubu waves supporters on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja after a month break abroad. The President-elect has, again, jetted out of the country to Europe • Shun speculations, Afenifere chieftain says • ‘Why administration can’t be different from Buhari’s’ Acting leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo […]
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