By Tunde Odesola As the new year unfurls its carpet of promise and hope, it won’t be nice to stain the carpet, so early, with footprints from the dunghill of sufferings created last year by the President Buhari-led administration. Therefore, I won’t dwell on Buhari and his government in my inaugural article of 2022. There […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu; and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, were among dignitaries who on Sunday commiserated with the family of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, indigenes […]
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One of the leading candidates in the 1993 Presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, has passed on.. He was 74 years old. He was the Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention and a major challenger of the late multimillionaire publisher, Moshood Kasimawo (MKO) Abiola in the controversial June 12, 1993, presidential election, annulled by […]
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The University College Hospital, Ibadan has narrated that the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, died at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital at 01.15 am. The hospital in a statement by its Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations Officer, Toye Akinrinola, said the monarch was referred to UCH from a private hospital […]
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• Two APC governors championing single term for South Former President Goodluck Jonathan has met with South-south leaders coordinating his alleged return to the Presidency in 2023. It was gathered that the meeting held on December 27, 2021, at Aridolf Hotels and Spars in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. A source, whose political associate attended the gathering, […]
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Vows to ensure that food products available to Nigerians are safe and wholesome The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has declared that Nigeria will not be a dumping ground for chemicals banned in other countries. Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the agency’s Director-General made this declaration in a statement issued by the […]
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Ibadan, the historical political capital of the Yoruba people and the entire South West Region of Nigeria, may get a new royal father, the Olubadan of Ibadan this week, following the death of Oba Saliu Adetunji. The revered first class monarch, who, at 93, joined his ancestors yesterday after a brief illness, was buried around […]
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• Many countries yet to develop implementation strategy • Sensitive products may come under liberalised list as timeline passes One year after the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), which came into force on January 1, 2021, Nigeria continues to lag behind in making the trade agreement operational owing to structural […]
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Opponent of the presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election, Nigeria’s freest and fairest ever, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola and candidate of the opposition National Republican Convention (NRC) in that election, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, has died. He reportedly died after a brief illness in the early hours of Monday at the […]
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Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the arrest of private security guards at Brooks Estate, Magodo, Isheri for allegedly delaying and denying him entrance into the estate. It was gathered that the police boss had gone to the estate in his convoy to meet a “strategic partner at a function” on Saturday […]
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