directs all flags statewide to flow half mast for seven days says ‘Adegbenro, our general, died healing others’ By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Goverment has formally confirmed the death of the Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahab Adegbenro in a moving statement entitled “Adegbenro, our general, died healing others. The departed commissioner, aged 65, who had […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday started the screening of nine aspirants seeking to contest the party’s governorship primary in Ondo State on July 22 and 23. The exercise which started earlier in the day was still on as at 6:47 pm. The aspirants include the state’s Deputy Governor, Hon Agboola […]
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appoints Oshiomhole, Oyegun members of 49-man National Campaign Council PDP Dissolves South-west Zonal Caretaker Committee The Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Thursday reached out to two leaders of the party in the South-west, Senator Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande, as part of efforts to resolve the crises in the party. The […]
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By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahab Oluropo Adegbenro, has passed on. The death was confirmed to The Radiance by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Donald Ojogo. He, however did not elaborate. It was learnt from other sources that Adegbenro passed on on Thursday morning at the state’s infectious diseases hospital […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Multiple District 404 Nigeria of the International Association of Lions Clubs, has announced the election of a Past District Governor, Olumuyiwa Tokunbo Jegede as the Multiple District Council Chairman for the 2020/2021 Lions Fiscal year. This was contained in a statement by the SA to the MCC, Lion Olu Akinsiku, NLCF, […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The gruesome death of George Floyd in the hands of the police has predictably reawakened a deep feeling of unending persecution and has served as a reminder of centuries-old atrocities the blackman has had to experience in the hands of the whiteman. First, there was a slave trade when blacks were herded […]
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The Deputy Editor of The Guardian, Mr Julius Omokioja Eto has been appointed the Editor of Daily Times, Nigeria’s oldest newspaper. His appointment, which was announced by the Managing Director of Folio Communications Limited, publishers of the newspaper, Mr Aliu Akoshile, is part of efforts to reposition the Daily Times. The company also named Dr. […]
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A ‘thank you’ and birthday tale By Yinka Fabowale The irony here is that these so-called trendy music and popular songs literarily sprung from the roots and trunk of this particular authentic but ‘despised’ music, but have become corrupted and diseased, having branched off and denied themselves the sap and nutrients from the mother plant […]
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as Appeal Court strikes out Oshiomhole’s suit The Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CEONCPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the appointment of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, and the governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello to chair the party’s reconciliation committees for Ondo and Edo states. In a statement, APC’s Deputy […]
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allege secretary openly supports one of them Party spokesman, Fadaka says nothing to fear By Banji Ayoola Governorship aspirants on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo state have kicked against the composition of the five man screening committee raised to grill them in Abuja on Thursday July 2. The party had in […]
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