Alhaji Muhammad Abacha, son of former military leader, Sani Abacha has emerged governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 general election in Kano State. He polled 736 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jafar Sani-Bello, who scored 710 votes in the primary election on Wednesday in Kano state. Announcing the results, […]
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African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina speaks during an interview with Reuters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania August 17, 2019. Picture taken August 17, 2019. Reuters/Emmanuel Herman African Development Bank (AfDB) says Africa needs an annual investment of 32 to 40 billion dollars along the energy value chain to achieve universal access for electricity […]
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Ill-health by defence counsel, on Thursday, stalled trial of an undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, charged with murder of Mr Usifo Ataga, Chief Executive Officer of Super TV. Ojukwu is facing trial along with her sister, Chioma Egbuchu, and one Adedapo Quadri, before a Lagos high court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square. They are charged on nine […]
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Retailers and consumers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking gas, on Thursday decried the hike in the price of the product across the country. They made their views known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos following the increase in the price of cooking gas within the […]
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A Professor of History and the Executive Director, Office of Global Partnership-Africa, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Prof. Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, will deliver a special lecture at the Olusegun Agagu University, (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, Nigeria, tomorrow Friday, May 27. The lecture, which is titled:“The Wilson Vision and Internationalisation of Education. ” will hold […]
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Stella Maris Okafor, the wife of actor John Okafor aka Mr Ibu, has stated he has been readmitted in the hospital. The actor was released from the hospital few months ago after revealing he suffered food poisoning. His wife, who refused to be deterred by the situation, said he was admitted the exact day a […]
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One of the receptionists at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, where Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University was allegedly murdered, Miss Magdalene Chiefuna, yesterday, told the Osun State High Court, Osogbo , how the lifeless body of Adegoke was discovered inside his hotel room. Chiefuna, an undergraduate of OAU, who was […]
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National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, again has met with former President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the presidential primary of the APC billed for Sunday. It was learnt that the meeting preceded a discussion between Jonathan and Mamman Daura, the influential nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting between Jonathan and […]
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Magdalene Chiefuna, the receptionist on duty on the day the late Masters student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, was discovered dead inside Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, said on Wednesday that she and others took an oath of secrecy to protect the hotel from the adverse effect of the incident. The Punch reports […]
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Wheat farm Industry leaders have called on the Federal Government to take swift and deliberate action to cushion the effects of the disruption in the global wheat market on Nigeria’s wheat value chain. The analysts made the call in a published review on the global wheat market following the war between the two top wheat-exporting […]
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