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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi (Ojaja 11) and Eselu of Iseluland, Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, were engaged in hot exchanges over herdsmen’s reported attacks in several villages in Ogun State. In an exclusive story on January 23, The Nation had reported how herdsmen who were allegedly expelled…

Internet Television Service provider, Showmax, says it will be streaming “I Am LAYCON”, a television show in the U.K., France, Italy, and 24 other countries outside Africa. Showmax’s Public Relations Officer in Nigeria, Onna Okafor, who made the disclosure on Friday in Lagos, said the company’s first Nigerian original series, I Am LAYCON, would be…

The Commissioner for Education in Rivers State, Professor Kaniye Ebeku, has given reason why law graduates of the National Open University (NOUN) are unfit to be admitted into the Nigerian Law School. Ebeku, a professor of law said it was impending doom for the legal profession, if the move to admit NOUN graduates into law…

Nursing students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, were filmed standing outside to write a test. In the footage shared online, some of the students are seen kneeling on the floor since there were no chairs or desks available. Others are seen using the trimmed plants as a table. “How this people go take pass?…

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba activist better known as Sunday Igboho to support his campaign against killer herdsmen. The Nation learnt the campaign was launched by one Maureen Badejo, based in the United Kingdom for “purchase of buses for Sunday Igboho”. The GoFundMe page is meant to help raise…

A reporter with a leading newspaper in the country, The PUNCH, Okechukwu Nnodim, was on Wednesday abducted by suspected kidnappers at his house in the Arab road area of Kubwa, Abuja. The kidnappers also attacked his neighbours and went away with the two sons of a widow, Mrs Faith Gbeyide. Nnodim’s wife, Oluchi, said her…

Renowned Islamic Scholar Sheikh Dr Ahmed Mahmoud Gummi has narrated his encounter during a trip to the camps of bandits in Zamfara State. Worried by the high rate of insecurity in the NorthWest region, the well-respected cleric visited the stronghold of the attackers, appealing to them to accept peace. Briefwing Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara…