The management of Fresh FM has explained its station manager in Ekiti State, David Ajiboye, died of COVID-19 complications. Late Ajiboye died on Sunday in a hospital in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. A statement signed by Samson Akindele, on behalf of the management, explained that the body samples of late Ajiboye obtained from a […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari is expected back home in Abuja, Nigeria on Friday after an 18-day sojourn in London, the United Kingdom (UK) capital. This indication came from a police wireless message dispatched Thursday by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command to all Sector Commanders and Divisional Police Officers alerting of the President’s expected return. […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu Why keep mute and fold hands, In the midst of the hopelessness as if nothing is wrong? Why are we so blessed beyond imagination, Yet so poor? Why are we passive, In the midst of active oppressiveness? Why seem depraved, In the midst of so much life around us? Why live to cherish, terror, horror, […]
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Life story of a reporter’s experiences when Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, ordered the closure of one of the nation’s foremost and authoritative newspapers, The Guardian, between Wednesday, May 29, and Saturday June 8, 1991. By Banji Ayoola Day 4: Saturday June 1, 1991 Uncle Ben Tomoloju came to […]
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Rihanna, Forbes’ wealthiest female singer, has disclosed that she is originally an Igbo woman. Igbo is one of the dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria, and the singer and brand influencer said her mother told her so. The billionaire singer disclosed this in a recent interview saying that her mother disclosed her real origin to her […]
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By Olukorede Yishau It was immediately after the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Bashorun MKO Abiola had won decisively all over the country, even defeating Bashir Tofa in places you would have expected ethnic affinity to guarantee him success. Then Messiah Ibrahim Maradona Evil Genius Badamasi Babangida had a vision: Declaring Abiola the winner would […]
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FG should contain herdsmen’s menace – YCE Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has said it is working behind the scene to ensure that the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, is released from the custody in Benin Republic. It also said the younger generation in Nigeria had become frustrated because the present […]
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By Tony Afejuku Many of Nigeria’s Vice Chancellors are unquestionably perfect islands of distinguished academic administrators. So long as their islands remain islands many of their colleagues who constitute the rank-and-file outside their respective islands will forever need bridges and bridges across the Channels to be constructed and reconstructed to get to the islands. The […]
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Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed By Phil F. Aragbada The startling revelation that the Federal Government spent N2.34trillion out of a total sum of N3.25 trillion accrued revenue in 2020 on debt servicing, to put it mildly, shows a potent recipe for economic bankruptcy.Expending over 72% of the annual National revenue on debt servicing in one […]
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By Afis Ayinde Oladosu “O! Ibrahim, you have indeed fulfilled the vision; this indeed is how We reward the good-doers (Quran 37: 105). “Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith… because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses; They did not prevent one another from committing sins nor would they […]
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