By Tunde Odesola From the bottomless depth of Yoruba divinity, I fetch the myth of Ajala, whose popular name is Obatala. Ajala is the heavenly potter tasked with the duty of moulding human heads. Ori is the Yoruba word for head. Ori encases destiny. In Igbo cosmology, a person’s Chi, like Ori, is a personal […]
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Ondo State Commissioner for Regional lntegration and Diaspora Relations, Prince ‘Boye Ologbese Ondo State Commissioner for Regional lntegration and Diaspora Relations, Prince ‘Boye Ologbese has described the solidarity, support, and visit of the All Progressives Congress, APC bigwigs to the state as a great boost to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s expected victory in the coming November […]
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A former Chairman of the National Election Commission (now the Independent National Electoral Commission), Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, has passed on. He was 83. Nwosu, who conducted the June 12, 1993 election annulled by former President Ibrahim Babangida, served as Chairman of NEC from 1989 to 1993. He hailed from the Ajali community in Orumba North […]
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Twelve states of the federation are yet to implement the 2019 minimum wage of N30,000 for teachers. Data from the National Union of Teachers showed that though some states implemented the 2019 minimum wage, it was not fully implemented for teachers at primary school levels. The affected states where the wage was not yet implemented […]
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Subscribers, particularly football-loving Nigerians using GoTV, a prepaid satellite cable service, were frustrated on Tuesday night when multiple channels suddenly disappeared. The outage experienced by the subscribers on Tuesday led many customers to demand compensation from Multichoice, GoTV’s parent company, during separate interviews on Wednesday. Several football fans watching on cable TV were eager to […]
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OPS backs Tinubu as opposition, CSOs, Nigerians demand sacking of more underperforming ministers President fires five, appoints seven, reassigns 10 ministers as FG merges, scraps ministries In a significant cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu approved the re-assignment of 10 ministers to new portfolios, discharged five, and nominated seven new others for onward transmission […]
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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has started supplying Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, to some oil marketers directly without recourse to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. It was gathered that while more oil marketers were intensifying efforts to buy the product directly from the plant, others were importing the commodity, as hundreds of millions […]
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Developmental projects will reflect peculiar needs of the people – Governor The Olowa of Igbara-Oke, Oba Adefarakanmi Agbede, has said that traditional rulers in Ondo State endorsed the candidature of Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa for the November 16 governorship election because he is the best hand for the State. The governor’s spokesman, Ebenezer Adeniyan in […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Yes, whence cometh joy, and whence cometh sorrow? As I did state last week, we cannot always talk about sorrow. We must learn to plant joy and brighten up. We must understand the chemistry of sorrow and what drives the waves of joy and happiness. The question of whence cometh joy and […]
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Ondo State House of Assembly on Wednesday passed the 2024 supplementary budget of over N96 billion into law, bringing the total budget for the year to N492.045 billion. The initially approved budget by the House was over N395 billion. The state government had proposed a supplementary budget of over N92 billion, which was revised upwards […]
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