World Champions! Captain Lionel Messi (middle) holds the trophy aloft after Argentina’s defeat of France in the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup final at the Lusail Stadium…yesterday. Credit: www.dailymail.co.uk Mbappe’s hat-trick not enough for Les Blues Thirty-six years after Argentina’s ‘god,’ Diego Amando Maradona, led his country to win their second FIFA World Cup title, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, returned to the country with his delegation, which included governors and ministers, after a weeklong engagement at the United States-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC. Earlier on Saturday, he turned 80 and marked the milestone in the United States of America, where Nigerian envoys serving in the U.S. missions of Washington […]
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Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX). Photo/Facebook/ ngxgroup Three bank stocks – Sterling Bank Plc, Access Holdings Plc and Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) – drove activities in the financial services sector of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) last week. The financial sector maintained its dominance in volume terms with 663.8 million shares valued at N5.5 […]
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‘Interest hike targets only 10 per cent of inflation cause’ Analysts worry about energy crisis in January as EU sanctions commence World Bank: Inflation stems from lack of commitment to reforms Food shortage continues to ring alarm bells Rigidity undermines effort to rev economies Economists are worried that key drivers of inflation are being sacrificed […]
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Fresh facts emerged on Sunday on why operatives of the Department of State Security deployed to work with Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, were removed by the state command of the service. A group, Osun Shall Rise Again, had brought the issue of the withdrawal of DSS operatives to the fore on Saturday in […]
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By Tunde Odesola Cristiano Ronaldo wasn’t born in a manger to a carpenter father and a virgin mother. His father was a soldier who fought in Angola for imperialist Portugal in the 1970s while his mother was a cleaner and cook. Ronaldo’s father, José Dinis Aveiro, a drunkard, died in 2005 from liver failure. His […]
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A yet-to-be-ascertained number of people have been reportedly killed in the troubled Ebor, Eha-Amufu community in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State on Sunday by armed herdsmen and their collaborators. Security sources told our correspondent that the invaders who outnumbered the soldiers and local vigilantes, launched the attack on early Sunday morning, adding that […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, on Sunday, named the Ekiti State presidential campaign council ahead of the 2023 General Elections. The PDP governorship candidate in the just concluded election that was held in the state, Bisi Kolawole, was named the Chairman of the council and Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe was named as the Vice […]
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The Member representing Oluyole Federal Constituency, Rep. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has commissioned seven transformers, five boreholes and seven school projects for the people of her constituency. A statement by the Federal Lawmaker’s Media aide, Olamilekan Olusada on Saturday, indicated that the commissioning started on Thursday at different locations in Oluyole Federal constituency. According to the statement, […]
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Dr. Oluwafemi Ojo is a consultant physician/pulmonologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos. He spoke to Paul Adunwoke on World Pneumonia Day (WPD) theme, ‘Championing The Fight Against Pneumonia,’ which aims at creating awareness about the ailment and also to make policymakers do the needful. What message is this year’s WPD […]
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