Month: January 2021
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Ooni of Ife Sends Strong Message To Sunday Igboho
One of the Foremost traditional rulers in the country , Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife has implored popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, to watch out for politicians seeking to hijack his agitations against killer herdsmen in the South West. He advised him not to take laws into…
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NANS Applauds NDLEA Over Proposed Drug Test For Students
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has applauded the proposal by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for students to undergo drug integrity test before admission into the university. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Head of Public Affairs, NDLEA, Mr Jonah Achema, quoted the NANS President, Mr Sunday Asefon as stating…
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State Assembly Shut Complex After Lawmakers Test Positive for COVID-19
The Anambra House of Assembly on Wednesday shut the assembly complex for three weeks after some lawmakers and members of staff tested positive for COVID-19. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the assembly invited the state COVID-19 team on January 19 to conduct compulsory test on members and workers. The measure followed the…
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President Buhari Meets Newly Appointed Service Chiefs (Photos)
President Muhammadu Buhari today, Wednesday January 27, met with the newly appointed service chiefs at the presidential villa in Abuja. Recall that after the sack of the service chiefs was announced yesterday January 26, President Buhari named their replacement as follows; Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff;…
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Hushpuppi’s Lawyers Filed Application of Withdrawal
The ongoing trial of suspected internet fraudster in United States of America , Ramon Abbas popularly known as ‘Hushpuppi’ has suffered a “setback” following the withdrawal of his lawyers from the case. Gal Pissetzky and Vicki Podberesky who filed the application after months of negotiating with the US government, alleged that Hushpuppi stopped communicating with…
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Nigerian Secondary School Student Shines At International Essay Competition
The world has been shown the brilliance of Nigerian students yet again, as Oluwatoni Adesanya, a secondary school student of Greensprings School, Lagos has won the second prize in this year’s Kemper Human Rights Education Foundation (KHREF)’s essay competition. This international competition received about 100 essays from 17 countries. But Miss Oluwatoni’s essay titled Human…
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Alleged Fraud: Court Admits More Evidence In Naira Marley’s Trial
The trial of music artiste, Azeez Fashola who is popularly known as Naira Marley, on an 11-count charge of conspiracy, possession of counterfeit cards, and fraud, continued today with the court admitting more evidence. Trial judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Lagos admitted a C.D containing the phone analysis of the embattled…
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FG Reveals Processes For Conditional Cash Transfer
The Federal Government says there is no form of corruption and inefficiency in the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Programme under the National Social Investment Programme. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja said any contrary story against the programme was false. Farouq…
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How Tinubu Gave Me N2 Million To Fuel My Car, Sunday Igboho
Yoruba freedom fighter, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho on Tuesday Shared his encounter with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at Bourdillon and how he got N2 million for fuel. Igboho in a live chat with Dele Momodu on Instagram said he once with Tinubu during…
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Meet the newly appointed service Chiefs
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed new Service Chiefs following the resignation of the former officers. Major-General Leo Irabor replaced General Abayomi Olonisakin as Chief of Defence Staff; Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao replaced Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar as Chief of Air Staff; Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo replaced Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas…