Basma bint Saud, 57, a royal family member . Photo: AFP Saudi authorities have released a princess and her daughter who had been held without charge for nearly three years in the capital, a human rights group said on Saturday. Basma bint Saud, 57, a royal family member long seen as a proponent of women’s […]
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Senior Advocates of Nigeria, civil society organisations and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have said President Muhammadu Buhari should be ready to account for his actions when he leaves office next year. Their views came as a response to the President’s statement during his interview on Channels Television on Wednesday that anybody who asks him […]
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Since Friday last week when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2022 Appropriation Bill into law at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, crisis may have started brewing between the Presidency and the National Assembly over what was described as ‘worrisome changes’ and inclusion of new provisions totaling N36.59 billion in the budget by the lawmakers. President Buhari, […]
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Lagos State Government says it will seal schools that failed to comply with the stipulated academic calendar in the state. It said names of schools that failed to comply with the directive of the state’s Ministry of Education that private and public schools should resume on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, was being compiled and “disciplinary […]
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By Victor Emmanuel Uwah If Christ were to be for money sold, His price would have been much more than gold, That if few men could afford to buy Most would in their sins and darkness die. But God in His Omniscience had known That if men must for their sins atone, He had to […]
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Osun State Traditional Council of Obas, chaired by the Arole Oduduwa and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, yesterday assured Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of its support for his re-election. The governor had declared his intention to run for a second term on July 16 last year. His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Ismail Omipidan, said […]
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Bill a hasty attempt to shield Akeredolu’s family from investigation – PDP PDP needs help to be off ignorance radar – Govt Ondo State Government and the state’s chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are trading tackles over the anti-corruption bill before the state’s House of Assembly for passage into law. While the PDP described […]
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Ikpeazu and Kalu Senate Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday met with Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. Ikpeazu received Kalu, also a former governor of the state, at his Umuobiakwa country home in Obinngwa Local Government Area of Abia, according to a statement by Kalu’s media office in Abuja. The statement […]
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By Sufuyan Ojeifo Captain ‘Hosa Okunbo is 64 years today (January 7, 2022). If he were to be here with us, would he have celebrated his Especial Day with pomp and ceremony? Perhaps, yes; perhaps, no. His decision as to the scale of celebration would have been shaped by exigent circumstance(s). But to be sure, […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, middle; Amotekun Corps Commandant, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye; and another top officer of the local security outfit Vows to complement Ondo govt security apparatus Yoruba regional freedom agitation group, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) led by the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Abiodun Gani Adams, has vowed to to complement Ondo State […]
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