Co-Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Dr. Awele Elumelu (seventh right); Founder, TEF, Group Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA), and celebrant, Mr. Tony Elumelu(fifth left); daughter, Ms Ego Elumelu (fourth left); GMD-CEO, UBA, Oliver Alawuba, flanked by senior executives of companies associated to Tony Elumelu and 60 beneficiaries of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, during the […]
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National Universities Commission building Nigeria has doubled the number of its ranked universities – from six to 12 in the recently released Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. However, stakeholders are divided on whether the achievement is an accurate reflection of the nation’s higher education system, considering incessant strikes by various academic unions. The […]
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No progress yet on $100m backlog, Emirates say Foreign airlines have, for the umpteenth time, appealed to the Federal Government to release and assist in the repatriation of trapped funds in excess of $743 million. The airlines, under the aegis of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), regretted that earlier entreaties to the House of […]
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LP’s Otti, PDP’s Mbah win Abia, Enugu polls Adamawa: INEC to conduct re-run in 69 polling units Don’t swear in Tinubu/Shetima, Datti cautions The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his party have made good their threat to challenge the February 25 presidential election, which saw the Independent National Electoral […]
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Millions of people in Horn of Africaz facing food shortages due to worst drought in 40 years, rising global food costs Two-and-a-half billion dollars: that’s how much funding the United Nations (UN) World Health Organisation (WHO) will need across its operations this year, it said on Monday, to help a record number of people facing […]
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By Abdu Rafiu I am tearing away today from the iron grip of politics to re-direct my gaze to something more ennobling, something more uplifting which is the primary purpose of this column. Some questions have been received on some of the subjects treated in this column. I am addressing three of them today. One […]
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Supporters of Ogun Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate protesting at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission over the poll result. Photo: Daud Olatunji Supporters of Ogun PDP protest Candidates who lost Saturday’s governorship election and their supporters on Tuesday protested the outcome of the poll and vowed to challenge the results in court. […]
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Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has reacted to the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, calling for the annulment of the February 25 Presidential Election won by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. Obi had previously challenged the outcome of the […]
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Four presidential candidates on Tuesday approached the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja with separate petitions, seeking the nullification of the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll. The petitioners, seeking nullification of Tinubu’s emergence as President-elect as Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic […]
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Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, all other winners in the February 25 and March 18 elections as well as Nigerians in general on the successful polls. In a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, Soludo also hailed the Nigerians youths, describing them as the heroes of the […]
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