Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks out to meet Oman’s Sultan in Downing Street in London on December 16, 2021. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday faced questions about his leadership after weeks of controversy culminated in a crushing by-election defeat in a constituency never previously lost by […]
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Thursday predicted that 2022 will be a better year for Nigerians. He made the prediction during the Delta State Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba. Accompanied by his wife Dame Edith, the governor took the first lesson entitled “The fall of man” […]
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Firefighters work outside an office building where a fire broke out in Osaka on December 17, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) Twenty-seven people are feared dead after a blaze swept through a commercial building housing a mental health clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka. Here is a look at some of the […]
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Photo/FACEBOOK/jidesanwooluofficial Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said 1,449 infrastructural projects have been inaugurated in 1,036 schools in the state. He made this known at the closing ceremony and dinner of the 61st Independence Anniversary of President’s National Inter-Basic School Debate Championship on Thursday night in Ikeja. Represented by the Commissioner for Education, Mrs […]
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu The Chairman, Association of Retirees and PFA Pensioners, Lagos State, Michael Omisande, has said Lagos State is indebted to people who retired between 2018 and 2021 by over N30 billion due to non-payment of their benefits. He revealed this, yesterday, at a press briefing on the pains of retirees in […]
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Northern elders, Middle Belt Forum slam Buhari A damning report on the carnage of bloodletting across the country this year was, yesterday, released by SB Morgen (SBM) Intelligence, which stated that 973 Boko Haram members, 1,989 bandits and 88 kidnappers have been gunned down between October 2020 and September 2021. It said that at least […]
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Buhari departing. Photo/ facebook/MuhammaduBuhari • Buhari departs Abuja for Turkey-Africa summit, returns on deadline day • Lawmakers proceed on Yuletide recess • Turkey trip stalls National Assembly leaders’ last effort to save amended bill • Fate of Ekiti, Osun governorship polls hangs over stalemate President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, departed Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey, to attend […]
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The body of a man identified as Olalekan Odunare, who jumped into a Lagoon located in the Epe area of Lagos has been found. His body was found on Thursday. A family member who craved anonymity confirmed this development. The family has also confirmed his death. A viral video shows Olalekan sitting on the handrail […]
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Ekiti State Chief Judge, Justice John Adeyeye, has released 69 awaiting trial inmates at the Nigerian Correctional Center in Ado Ekiti. He granted the inmates freedom on Thursday, during his first official visit to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Ado Ekiti since assumption of duty in June. The released inmates were those who committed lesser […]
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By Femi Adesina When he popped out of his mother’s womb 79 years ago in rustic Daura, now in Katsina State, nobody could have predicted that he would bestride the country, nay the world, like a colossus. Who could have predicted that a honest man, Mai Gaskiya, had come forth? Who could have foretold that […]
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