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FACT-CHECK: Who Was the First Person to Translate the Qur’an Into Igbo language?
PR Nigeria On Friday, reports emerged that the first translation of the Qur’an into the Igbo language has been published in Nigeria. The translated Qur’an titled “Nso Koran” was launched at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, where Muhammad Murtala Chukwuemeka told the BBC it took him five years to translate the sacred…
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Corruption as great problem in the economy By Ishowo Malik Ayomide
By: * *Ishowo Malik ** First of all it is not longer a new thing that corruption exists across world, most especially in our African countries or society as the case may be. However, Corruption can be defined as the use of entrusted power to accumulate public wealthy for personal benefit. Corruption is not actually…
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Why I Can’t Be Running Mate To Any Presidential Candidate – Kwankwaso
The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Saturday, said accepting to be running mate to any presidential candidate would lead to the collapse of NNPP. Mr Kwankwaso, a former Governor of Kano State, who was in Gombe State to inaugurate the state office of NNPP and to meet with…
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Corps Member, INEC Staff Arrested in Osun Over Alleged Electoral Malpractice
Operatives of Osun State Police Command have arrested a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), supervising the collection of voters card, Makanjuola Bilahu over alleged electoral malpractice. Also, a youth corp member attached to the INEC office as an Ad-Hoc staff in charge of voter’s card distribution, Orji Nkenna, was arrested alongside one…
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Scores of Children Reportedly Found in Ondo Church Underground (Video)
Unspecified number of children were reportedly found in an underground apartment of a church in the Valentino Area of Ondo town, Ondo State, on Friday evening. It was gathered that the children were allegedly kidnapped and kept in the underground apartment of the church. A source said victims were over 50 while the police had…
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Continuing ASUU strike a shame on all of us by Farooq Kperogi
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike for nearly five months now. As a consequence, hundreds of thousands of students in public universities are idling away the days doing nothing. They are seething in anger and frustration as they helplessly watch their collective destinies being imperiled by an insensitive and conscienceless…
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PDP Presidential Candidate, Okowa, Masari of APC, Other Vice President Candidate Claim Missing Certificate
Tribune Newspaper MORE presidential and vice-presidential candidates have been found to have informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that they have lost their academic certificates. Documents displayed by INEC and sighted by Saturday Tribune showed that apart from the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu and his running mate,…
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Two Names Popped Up, as Tinubu Set To Announce Substantive Running Mate in Few Days
Punch Newspaper The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress for the 2023 election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may in the next few days name either Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State or his predecessor, Senator Kashim Shettima, as his running mate, investigations by Saturday PUNCH have revealed. With about 12 days to the July…
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Why We Support Tinubu’s Presidential Bid – Veteran Nollywood Actor, Jide Kosoko Speaks
Punch Newspaper During the week, when a video of some actors of Yoruba extraction such as Jike Kosoko, Adebayo Salami (Oga Bello), Yinka Quadri and Funke Daramola-Salako, it was criticised by many Nigerians who felt that celebs should not use their star power to campaign for politicians. However, in an exclusive interview with Saturday Beats,…
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Why 11 PDP Governors Were Not At Osun State Governorship Election Campaign
Punch Newspaper Following the insinuations that greeted the absence of about 11 Peoples Democratic Party governors at the inauguration of the Osun State governorship election campaign council on Wednesday, the party has explained why the governors were absent. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, told one of our correspondents in an interview on the…
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