By Bimbo Esho It is no mere rhetoric that Onyeka Onwenu’s name has remained golden in the history of Nigerian music. She competed fairly well during her playing days in a male-dominated atmosphere of Nigerian music of the 80’s. With her melodious songs, she took Nigerian traditional music to a different epoch with the use […]
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Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the burning of his 2,420 hectares of farmland at Howe in Aliade area of Gwer East Local Government of Benue State, at the weekend. The 84-year-old and also former military leader described the incident as a bad development, noting that the arsonists will be fished out by security agents. Arsonists […]
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Dr Wale Bolorunduro served as Commissioner for Finance during the first term of ex-Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola. He is also a member of The Osun Progressives, a faction in the state APC backed by Aregbesola. Bolorunduro, in this interview with Bola Bamigbola, calls for genuine reconciliation between Oyetola and Aregbesola factions before the […]
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Sunday Akere served during the first tenure of ex-governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, as Commissioner for Information and Strategy. Akere, who is the current Special Adviser on Political Affairs to Governor Gboyega Oyetola, in this interview with Bola Bamigbola, appeals to the aggrieved All Progressives Congress members to embrace peace. Are you comfortable with […]
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At least 126,720 retail investors submitted valid applications and received full allotment as MTN Nigeria Communications Plc announced that its first public offer for sale of 575 million shares recorded an oversubscription of 139.47 per cent. This is contained in a statement signed by the MTNN Company Secretary, Uto Ukpanah, posted on the Nigerian Exchange […]
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By Banji Ayoola A geophysicist and lecturer in the Department of Physics and Electronics at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State , AAUA, Mr. Samuel Sedara, has called on the Federal Government to harness the potential of geothermal energy resources at Ikogosi in Ekiti State and across Nigeria. In a statement titled “Ikogosi Geothermal […]
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Nigeria’s sharp descent into anarchy and nastiness is demonstrated in the recent cold-blooded killing and mutilation of a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, by a Kano State-based school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko. Parents of the adorable child enrolled her at Tanko’s school, which later turned out to be her slaughterhouse, rather than a learning centre. They desired […]
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An Oyo State High Court has dismissed the suit challenging the consent judgment that nullified the promotion of Ibadan High Chiefs as Obas under the late Senator Abiola Ajimobi led government in the state. The judgement cleared the coast for the appointment of Lekan Balogun as the new Olubadan of Ibadan. Controversies had surrounded the […]
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Late Olubadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji Oloko of Oko Ile dies at 85 There is a new development in the ascension of Senator Lekan Balogun as the next Olubadan of Ibadan, as the reform of the Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration of 1957, which caused delay in the enthronement of the new monarch, has become a future assignment. […]
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A 19-year-old student, Fadlullah Agboluaje, who recently died in Ukraine, was said to have experienced extreme cold before he passed on. Rofeeha, Agboluaje’s older sister, had raised the alarm on social media that her family was informed that he was found dead in his room hours after he arrived at the Lviv Polytechnic National University, […]
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