An Ikeja High Court on Friday declared Oba Rilwan Akiolu as the bona-fide Oba of Lagos. Justice A. Candide-Johnson made the declaration after dismissing a 16-year suit filed by several Lagos princes seeking to remove the royal father as the Oba. In a two-hour judgment, the judge held that the claimants, including Prince Adedoyin Adebiyi […]
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decry abandoned gas project, 30-year blackout Angry youths under the auspices of Egbema Elites have threatened to shut down oil facilities if the Federal Government fails to complete an abandoned Gas plant in Ohaji-Egbema Council Area. They lamented the project, which was awarded in 2001, has been abandoned for 13 years without any feasible reason. […]
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Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, described the victory of the party’s candidate in Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, as a confirmation that the party is truly of and for the people. According to him, the decision of the majority of his kinsmen to vote for the PDP is an endorsement […]
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All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, says party discipline would be upheld in addressing the leadership tussle of the 9th National Assembly. Addressing journalists in Lagos on Friday, Tinubu said the party’s choice must be respected and whoever is against such should leave. According to NAN, the APC leader warned against what the […]
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“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities” is how Abraham Lincoln wrote in one of his collected works, Fragment on Government. Lincoln does not […]
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Adamawa State governor elect, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri has promised to run an all inclusive government as part of his commitment to transformed the state. He gave the promise in a short broadcast on Friday in the state. “Election is over and the most needed thing now is for the diverse people of the state to […]
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Peoples Democrat Party, PDP candidate, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri has emerged winner of Adamawa governorship election. The Returning Officer of the election, Andrew Haruna, who declared the result Thursday in Yola after the supplementary election in 44 units across 14 local government areas of the state, said he polled 376,552 votes to beat his closest rival, […]
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APC leader cautions FG against VAT increase Drama as Akpabio vacates seat for Oshiomhole In what could be described as a repeat of history, President Muhammadu Buhari could not attend the 11th colloquium commemorating the 67th birthday anniversary of National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Although the colloquium held at […]
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By Yinka Fabowale The mood at the traditional wedding/introduction ceremony just got upbeat as the bride after the usual motions of customary courtesies and bestowal of blessings by her family and the groom’s, smilingly took her seat beside me on the special nuptial chairs placed at a corner of the middle space partitioning the seated […]
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By Samueli Why do bad things happen to good people? In answering this question we come face to face with the adamantine Law: “What a man sows he will reap many times over!” Man bears spiritually the responsibility for everything he says and does and this includes his thoughts which ordinarily no other human being […]
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