By Gbemiga Ogunleye Two events made the distinguished lawyer, Chief Richard Akinjide, who has just passed on, stuck in my memory. As the legal adviser to the defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN, in the Second Republic, Akinjide it was, who argued his party’s case up to the Supreme Court that 2/3 of 19 states was […]
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Less than 24 hours before its expiration, Ondo State Government has extended by one week, the deadline for the compulsory use of face masks by residents, to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, had in a press briefing on April 20, set a deadline of […]
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Member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as the coordinator of the sub-regions’ response to coronavirus. Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina tweeted on Thursday that “ECOWAS leaders at an extraordinary summit held by video conference have appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as Champion that will coordinate the COVID-19 […]
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Stakeholders query role of PEF Suggest ways to make policy work Unless the challenges bedeviling the downstream sector of the nation’s petroleum industry are surmounted, the removal of oil subsidy may create more problems for Nigerians, especially the poor masses. The Federal Government, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), recently announced an end to […]
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Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto has declared Friday, April 24, 2020, as the first day of the Ramadan fast in Nigeria. Abubakar announced the sighting of the new crescent in Sokoto on Thursday in a radio and television broadcast. He said the new moon was sighted in different parts of the country […]
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Pineapple, pawpaw have anticancer effects on bile duct, prostate cancer cells Exercise retards development of liver condition independent of weight control Regular intake of foods rich in fibre associated with lower breast tumour risk Natural product derived from sponge blocks growth of malignant cervical cells Pancreatic disease ‘cured’ by targeting pH balance as therapeutic approach […]
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Apparently, this is the first time Nigerians will experience a situation of total lockdown where all socio economic and political activities are locked down as a result of the Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has sent the entire world panicking. The Federal Government and states have no choice but to give a stay-at-home directive which […]
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Fayemi orders release of 30 prisoners Ekiti State Government has said that the 29-year-old woman, who was the third case of COVID-19 in the state, had died. The woman passed on at the Intensive Care Unit of Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, on Tuesday. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, who confirmed this in […]
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By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…Could we say that the Almighty Creator created us human beings without a purpose? Can purposelessness arise from Perfection which everyone who believes in God attributes to Him? Can we say the pursuit of material endowment and raising of families is the whole purport of our existence on earth? […]
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Osun State government on Wednesday received 49 Cote d’Ivoire returnees into the state, the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation Funke Egbemode said on Thursday. Egbemode in a statement issued in Osogbo, however charged residents not to panic over the arrival of the new returnees. Her words, “This is to officially allay the fears in […]
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