People’s Democratic Party, PDP, chairman in Ondo State, Engineer Clement Faboyede, has said that his party would sack the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2020 governorship election. Faboyede, who gave the assurance that the party is putting its house in order ahead of the upcoming election next year, said that the party’s primaries, which […]
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The last of the haywire politics heralding the emergence of Senator Douye Diri as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the November 16,2019 gubernatorial poll in Bayelsa may not have been heard, as the state House of Assembly yesterday ‘impeached’ and ‘elected’ a new speaker under a tense milieu in alleged defiance of the […]
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At least, 1,000 pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, have been taken home by their parents after the outbreak of what is suspected to be an infection. “It is over 1,000 (pupils) now as we speak. See, I cannot talk about what I don’t know. What you have in your palm, you don’t need a […]
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Twenty-one years of unbroken democracy is the small prize the country with the largest back population has managed to clinch out of its 59 chequered years since independence in 1960. A small prize indeed, but one worth celebrating all the same. But the larger 59 years of her existence are ones of mixed feelings and […]
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Nigerian children attend independence day celebrations in Lagos on October 1. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Unlike the usual National Day celebration, when Nigerians from every tribe and tongue mark the anniversary of Nigeria’s independence with pomp, restful holidaying and extravagant celebrations, the queries that have been raised about the state of our national well-being go […]
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says Nigeria would emerge from her present challenges stronger, more resilient than ever President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has made remarkable progress in the agriculture value chain, from fertilizers to rice, to animal feed production towards the Nation’s food security. The president, who revealed this in his Independence Day broadcast on Tuesday, warned that […]
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By Kolawole Adams The recent ranking of Adekunle Ajasin University as the best state university in webometrics attracted my attention to this subject. And I believe same news must have done the same for many elsewhere, causing people to wonder why a university in the obscure part of far Ondo State! But I believe excellence, […]
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Suspected notorious kidnapper, Ekweme Brown, popularly known as ‘Lucifer,’ has been shot dead in Rivers State, the police have confirmed. Rivers Police Command Spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the killing in a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Omoni said that Brown was killed during a sting operation launched by the police to apprehend the […]
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By Williams Akolade Before the fifth Vice Chancellor of Ondo State owned Adekunle Ajasin University was announced in January 2015, not many had anticipated that the ball would be passed to Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, the former Rector of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, not even Ajibefun himself. At best, about the time, the professor had considered […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday that his government will continue to take “decisive action” against persons who spread hate speech on social media. Although he said the government respects the rights of individuals, he said abuse of technology that undermines national security will not be allowed to fester. “Our attention is increasingly being focused […]
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