By Banji Ayoola Why do children grow to become source of sorrow rather than joy and blessing? Why do they grow to become a nuisance, a curse to the society like developing into armed robbers, bandits or insurgents, enemies of the state, of the society spilling blood of fellow human beings in their hundreds and […]
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The Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.Gen. Lucky Irabor, yesterday led other service chiefs to pay their first operational visit to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the epicentre of insurgency in the country. He was accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Amao; and […]
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Afro Juju music superstar, Sir Shina Peters, has been ordained a bishop of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church. He was ordained at a ceremony in a Cherubim and Seraphim Church in the Iju area of Lagos on Saturday. He shared a video and photo of his ordination on his Instagram handle on Sunday with the […]
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‘How Yar’Adua emerged my successor’ Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to wake up and fight the banditry in his backyard. He also explained the emergence of the late President Musa Yar’Adua as his successor, saying he knew that Yar-Adua was ill before he supported him to emerge as the presidential candidate […]
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Who leads the police as Inspector General from Tuesday? There is uncertainty at the Louis Edet House police headquarters in Abuja as a result of the silence from President Muhammadu Buhari and the seat of power – Aso Villa. The tenure of IG Mohammed Adamu expires today; he has completed his 35 years maximum to […]
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Victims of Boko Haram activities in the North East have adopted street begging, early marriage and drugs as means of survival, a new report has revealed. The report released at the weekend by Nextier Security, Peace and Development (SPD), an international development consulting firm based in Nigeria, was entitled ‘Entrenching Peace: Assessing Community Resilience and […]
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says President being ‘haunted by failures’ The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged violation of his own COVID-19 law that imposes a six-month jail term on defaulters. Describing the reported breach as a “national embarrassment and gross failure of leadership”, the party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola […]
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Some housing constructions on the 5000 housing units in Taraba: Photo: Charles Akpeji Despite the place of shelter in the Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, housing delivery in Nigeria has remained abysmally poor. This is despite of governments’ access to factors of housing production. With about 20 million deficit and substantial contributions expected from public […]
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The Senator Biodun Olujimi’s faction of the People’s Democratic Party in Ekiti State has declared it would be heading to the Supreme Court to challenge the ruling of the Appeal Court which affirmed pro-Ayodele Fayose’s ward congresses. The Appeal Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by the Olujimi – led faction […]
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By Lekan Otufodunrin Last December I was invited for a programme in Delta State and my condition for attending was that the organisers would provide flight ticket. They accepted to, but I was still worried that distance we would still drive from the airport to the venue of the event outside the state capital. A […]
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