BY JOEL MAKINDE The outcome of Ogun State governorship election symbolises different things in the polity. Naturally, the camp of the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate in the poll, Prince Dapo Abiodun, considers it an electoral triumph, but it means the opposite to many. The popular opinion about it is …
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading African philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, Friday March 22, 2019 announced 3,050 African entrepreneurs, drawn from all 54 African countries, selected to join the 5th cycle of its $100million TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The announcement was made at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, following …
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BY RASAQ BAMIDELE AND ADESINA IDRIS Despite the fact that President Buhari has just won a re-election for a second four year term in Nigeria, the clamour for who rules Africa’s most populous nation, has begun in Ernest It may look inconceivable or a mindless agitation, but the truth is …
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A science teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a $1m prize (£760,000) for the world’s best teacher. Brother Peter has been praised for his achievements in a deprived school with crowded classes and few text books and as an …
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A banker has told a Federal Capital Territory High Court 7, Apo, Abuja, how a former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Sunday Ehindero, allegedly received interest fraudulently on Nigeria Police funds lodged in a fixed deposit account with the bank. According to a release signed and made available to …
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An Islamic cleric, Dr AbdulHameed Shuaib Agaka has said that the current minimum value of the dowry to be paid for an Islamic marriage that is in consonance with Nigeria’s current economy is N13, 438. Speaking in his weekly Islamic radio programme monitored in Ilorin, Dr. Agaka said that the …
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The Archbishop of Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos, the Most Reverend Olusina Fape has said that the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at the last presidential election was because of God’s mercy. Most Reverend Fape stated this during his sermon at the service on Sunday March 24, 2019, at …
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BY OGUNJI AZEEZ A suspected cultist, Omiyor Endurance has explained that, wife of Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, Betsy Obaseki was the person who bought his prosthetic leg after amputated in Libya. The Edo State Police Command had recently arrested the 27-year old amputee, a Libya returnee for alleged cult-related …
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A former President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Daniel Onjeh, on Sunday burst into tears after the INEC declared Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue winner of the 2019 governorship election. Mr. Onjeh, who started crying in reaction to Mr Ortom’s victory at his home town in Ogbadibo, stated …
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday March 24, 2019 in Abuja congratulated First Bank Nigeria on its 125th anniversary, which he said “historically and remarkably marked the commencement of banking in the country in 1894’’. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the president …
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