As the Saturday rain poured down on the crowd of excited guests packed in a barge heading towards Ode-Itsekiri, in Warri, an elderly man, drenched by the downpour, raised both hands skyward in quiet supplication to the elements to save the day from rain. A few hours later, his prayers were answered. The sky had […]
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•As new Olu charges youths to channel energy towards nation development President Muhammadu Buhari, the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 1, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Saturday said they were sure that the newly-crowned Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwtse III, will continue the time-honoured 500 years noble tradition of the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari By Mike Ozekhome The PIB Bill just assented to as an Act of Parliament by President Muhammadu Buhari, is a mere ruse, a monstrosity, an artifice and device, carefully crafted, incubated and delivered, to actually do irretrievable violence to Nigeria’s progress and juris corpus. The Act constitutes a direct assault on age-long […]
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The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy says it will soon deploy the Five Generation network (5G) in Nigeria for increased connectivity. Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, disclosed this in Abuja when he featured on FORUM, a special News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) interview programme. He said that the decision […]
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Flooded area in Lekki, Lagos There is cause to worry about the possibility of Lagos being submerged by water in the not-too-distant future. Such an apprehension is borne not just because of the series of projections and reports tending towards such doomsday scenario, but also because recent rainfall and its effect on the country’s commercial […]
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Photo/Facebook/PLSGov/ Delivers attacks survivors Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has begged the government and people of Ondo State for forgiveness, following recent attack on their people. Recall that about 23 people from Ondo passing through Jos were killed on August 14, while 23 others were reportedly injured. The commuters were attacked enroute Ondo along […]
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Photo/Twitter/GovernorMasari Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has dismissed a call by the state’s chapter of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) for his resignation over his stance on self defence against bandits. In a statement on Sunday in Katsina, his Director General on Media, Alhaji Abdul Labaran, quoted Masari as describing the call as absurd […]
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Contrary to an earlier report that resident doctors may call off their 19 days old strike tomorrow, new developments have shown that the strike continues as the doctors’ umbrella body, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has rejected a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) presented by the Federal Government. According to NAN, the body’s […]
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Bandits have freed 15 of the remaining kidnapped students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna. Altogether, the bandits have freed 43 of the 121 abducted students of the school. The release was confirmed by the chairman of Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. John Hayab, who said the 15 […]
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Former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof. Bola Akinterinwa, in this interview with Gbenga Salau, said Boko Haram’s affinity with Al-Qaida could portend danger to Nigeria’s war against insurgency. He, however, underscored the need to re-strategise for the set objectives to be accomplished. The return of the Taliban to Afghanistan seem to […]
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