Ecuador’s new President Daniel Noboa delivers his first speech during his inauguration at the National Assembly in Quito on November 23, 2023. – Ecuador’s new president, the 35-year-old millionaire heir to a banana empire, Daniel Noboa, took office Thursday as the leader of a country gripped by a bloody drug war. (Photo by Rodrigo Buendia […]
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Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has urged Nigerians travelling abroad to go legitimately and with proper documentation to avoid unpleasant consequences. She stated this when she visited some Nigerians in one of the shelters in Brampton, Canada. She urged others […]
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About 270 new private varsities lament poor funding. . With new requests, total varsities to hit 528, private-owned 418 • Only 30% of student population have access to lecture theatres, laboratories, libraries – NUC • Varsities not meeting mandate, experts say Despite public concerns over proliferation of mushroom universities and inadequate budgetary allocations to the […]
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Japa A total of 141,000 Nigerians migrated to the United Kingdom (UK) between June 2022 and the year ending June 2023, latest figures published by the UK authorities showed. Nigeria’s erratic academic calendar, characterised by frequent and protracted university strikes, economic woes and rising insecurity forced thousands of people to “japa,” a word in the […]
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– Adeleke orders probe Small scale traders selling wares along the walkway in Olaiya, Fakunle, Aregbe and Ayegbaju markets, Osogbo, have lamented the destruction of their kiosks by faceless agents. It was gathered that the faceless individuals suspected to be thugs dismantled the kiosks and containers mounted on the walkway. A trader, Ibrahim Abiola while […]
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Democracy would continue to be in jeopardy in Nigeria if citizens allow the minority through the court to decide who emerge as winners of elections irrespective of the popular choices of the electorate. Speaking in an interview, Dr Ayodeji Ologun, the Executive Director, Centre for Responsive Governance in Osogbo said the beauty of democracy is […]
Continue ReadingThe national secretariat of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), has dissociated itself from the ongoing strike by its Osun State chapter against the Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo, who was suspended by Governor Ademola Adeleke. It decried the action of those it described as unscrupulous elements causing confusion in the name of the […]
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By Banji Ayoola “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is hereby passionately called upon to intervene and end the present constitutional crisis in the state, to avoid the looming breakdown of law and order in Ondo State.” With these words, the revered elder statesman, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, […]
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(By Frau Hagit …Looking at the conflict from a higher perspective) The world may heave a sigh of relief any time from now over the Hamas-Israeli war with talk of a ceasefire in the air since Tuesday following a deal to release hostages the Hamas forces seized when they invaded Israel last month. Said Mr. […]
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President Bola Tinubu met with German Federal Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, yesterday in Berlin, where he stated that Nigeria’s pursuit of German investment in targeted sectors of the economy was focused on critical growth-enabling industries in energy, transportation, and electric power production, transmission, and distribution. Tinubu spoke on the sidelines of the G20 Compact with Africa […]
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