– promises more leadership roles, empowerment for women Ondo State Governor, Dr Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has unveiled the Odatiwa Women Initiative’s Grant, a financial empowerment scheme designed to support 1,000 low-income women across the state. He flagged off the distribution of the grant during the 2025 International Women’s Day celebration, held on Saturday at the […]
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Ondo State Governor and the Vistor to the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Dr. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has constituted a Visitation Panel for the institution. The panel will be chaired by Prof. Gbenga Olumekun. Other members of the panel are Elder Idowu Benjamin, Mr. Olumide Ogidan, Mr. Anthony Akala and Mr. Richard Adeyinka Arifalo (Secretary). […]
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By Banji Ayoola The day breaks punctually and regularly at the exact time, gradually dispersing or dissolving the darkness as the night gradually recedes with its ally darkness. Thus the night transits gradually into twilight, and it increasingly brightens until the darkness tapers or tails off, and the day breaks fully, in strict accordance with the […]
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Chart showing breakdown of sexual abuse cases by male respondents. Credit: Godfrey George For years, the narrative of sexual abuse in Nigeria has been largely one-sided, dominated by stories of female survivors. However, across social media, Nigerian men are breaking their silence, sharing harrowing accounts of childhood abuse at the hands of much older women—maids, […]
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Lagos State Police Command has arrested three suspects and is currently searching for five others linked to the murder of a 2024 graduate of Lagos State University, Adedamola Ogunbode. The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement on Friday following a Punch Metro report detailing the state chapter of the National Association of […]
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President Bola Tinubu has turned down a N942bn proposal by the National Population Commission for the conduct of the national housing and population census. Impeccable sources privy to the discussions between Tinubu and the commission’s top officials on Monday, February 24, 2025, at the State House, revealed that the President insisted on cost-cutting measures. According […]
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Some women groups on Friday rejected Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension from the Senate, representing Kogi Central Senatorial District. They described it as an assault on democracy and a deliberate attempt to silence women in leadership. The groups include a coalition under the Coalition for Women in Governance and the Women in Management, Business, and Public Service. […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passing of Dr Doyin Okupe, the former spokesman to Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan. He described the death of Okupe, a physician and co-founder of Royal Cross Medical Centre, who passed away at 72, as a great loss to Nigeria, particularly the people of Ogun State. […]
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The former Presidential spokesperson to former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe, is dead. Okupe, from Iperu-Remo, Ikenne Local Government area of Ogun State, who was said to have been sick for some time, died in the early hours of Friday in Lagos at the age of 72. The Chairman of Ikenne […]
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*The New Law is that a Legislative House Cannot Suspend a Member as the Member is Not an Employee of the House* By Douglas Ogbankwa Esq. The Law now is that a Legislative House cannot suspend a Member of the House as doing so will deny his constituents representation as enshrined in the Constitution of […]
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