Nigeria qualifies for 2020 world ultra runners championship

Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun (right) and the athletes South Africa, Nigeria and Zimbabwe have qualified for the 2020 World Ultra Runners Championship at the Valuejet Remo 50 kilometres Ultra Race held in Sagamu and Ikenne. Dapo Sotiminu, Media Coordinator, 2019 Remo Valuejet Ulra Race, made this known on Sunday. According to Sotiminu, Zimbabwe, who competed […]

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Sowore: DSS invaded court, begged judge, Falana insists

DSS operatives wrestling Sowore to the ground as they rearrested him inside the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday refuted the Department of State Service’s claim that its operatives did not disrupt proceedings at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in their bid to rearrest his client, […]

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Ondo road crash kills two, injures eight

Two persons were killed and eight others injured today in a fatal road crash at Elegbeka village, along Owo/Benin expressway, ten kilometres from Ifon, headquarters of Ose local government area of Ondo state. It was gathered that the crash which occurred around noon involved an Iveco mini tanker marked ekp392xa and a Toyota Previa vehicle […]

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Akeredolu employs AAUA’s best graduate

Mr. Daniel Oluwatobi Ajakaye, the overall best graduating student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA, has been offered an immediate employment by Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN,. He graduated with a CGPA of 4.76 from the Accounting department, Faculty of Social And Management Sciences of the University. This was contained in a statement […]

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Ekiti 2019 Festival begins Wednesday December 11

This Year’s Edition of Ekiti State Festival of Arts and Culture, Ekifest 2019, will begin on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. It would hold under the Theme: “Arts and Culture: Tool for Restoration of Values and Socio-Economic Empowerment.” The event would hold at Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, Ado-Ekiti; Ikogosi Warm Spring Resort, Ikogosi- Ekiti; and Adetiloye Hall, […]

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Sowore: Respect rule of law, US tells Nigeria; Falana, Afenifere, others raise alarm

The United States has expressed concerns over the rearrest of the convener of the ‘Revolution Now’ movement and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Mr. Omoyele Sowore by the Department of State Security Services (DSS) on Friday. Sowore was rearrested and eventually detained barely 24 hours after the security agency had released […]

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Buhari mourns Reinhard Bonnke, says death a great loss to Nigeria, world

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined Christians in mourning the death of renowned evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke. The Pentecostal evangelist died at the age of 79 on Saturday while surrounded by his family. Hours later, President Buhari paid tributes to Bonnke in a statement by in Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina. He described […]

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Tears as slain Kogi PDP woman leader, Salome Abuh was buried

Kogi PDP woman leader killed after election, Acheju Abuh. Credit: Sahara Reporters Tears flowed freely today as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, women leader who was burnt alive in the November 16 Kogi governorship election bloody fallout, Acheju Salome Abuh, was buried. She was buried in her village, Aji-Obala, in Ofu Local Government Area of […]

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DSS says it arrested Sowore outside court, denies reported invasion

Almost 24 hours after it reportedly invaded the hallowed chambers of the Federal High Court in Abuja and rearrested human rights crusader, Sahara Reporter‘s publisher and a former presidential candidate, Mr Omoyele Sowore, the Directorate of State Security Services, DSS, has denied the allegations. It accused the media pf spreading serial misinformation about its alleged […]

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DSS denies rearresting Sowore

Nigeria’s Department of State Service (DSS) on Saturday denied rearresting Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore. “A critical look at the videos in circulation would convince any objective viewer that there was no DSS personnel during the entire period the Sowore crowd acted out its orchestrated drama,” DSS spokesman Peter Afunanya said in a statement. “Its […]

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