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LAGOS, Nigeria – February 22, 2024 – After days of intense collaboration, innovation, and problem-solving, three teams – Team Within, Team X, and Team Storepoint emerged winners in the inaugural Take-on-Squad Hackathon 1.0 coding event held  at the state-of-the-art GTCO Training Complex, Tayo’s Plaza, Abeokuta, Ogun State, from January 18th …

BY OLOYE ‘LEKAN ALABI Monday, February 19,2024, it will be exactly 35 years that my article of the above title was published in the Sunday Tribune newspaper.    The appreciation piece, as it were, was spurred by the unprecedented, at state or Federal levels, send-forth party held by the Military …

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LAGOS – FirstBank has launched the second season of its Cash Out promo designed to reward users of FirstMobile, its industry-leading mobile banking solution. The FirstBank Cash Out Promo 2.0 which began on Monday, January 15, 2024 and ends on Friday, March 15, 2024, and is open to new and …

LAGOS – Despite the outcry of the people and government intervention, the residents of Ajasa-Command area in Ipaja, Lagos State endured a weekend of terror as land grabbers, led by Chief Mutairu Owoeye, a notorious land speculator from Sango-Ota, Ogun State, invaded the community. The invasion, which occurred on Friday, …

…The Poor, Elderly, Vulnerable To Get Free Allocation ABEOKUTA – Ogun State has purchased 100 trucks load of rice to be sold at cheaper rates to residents of the state to cushion the effect of the rise in the prices of goods in the country. The state governor, Prince Dapo …

ABEOKUTA – Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts and Anti-Corruption, led by Hon. Damilare Bello on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 continues with its sittings with a clarification that the invitation extended to the former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Abdul-Waheed Odusile and the SSA to the Governor …

LAGOS – Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, has described the Governor of the Year award received by the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, as well deserved recognition for a leader who has done so well for his state. The SGF also called on …

BY ABU-SATAR HAMED ABUJA – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Nigeria’s Governors to responsibly allocate the increased funds allocated to their states, emphasizing the importance of investing in infrastructure and development rather than exploiting their citizens. Accompanied by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu convened a meeting with all 36 …

BY ABU-SATAR HAMED Renowned seer and leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, hosted the second edition of his palliative market in Lagos on February 14, 2024, as part of his Annual 21-day Thanksgiving programme, which commenced on January 29, 2024. The palliative market aimed to alleviate economic …