Category: News
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Flash: APC Speaks On Zoning Presidential Ticket
All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is yet to take a decisive stance on its presidential ticket for the 2023 elections. National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu stated this while speaking to State House Correspondents after presenting the party’s candidate for the Ekiti governorship election, Biodun Oyebanji, to President Muhammadu Buhari. Adamu…
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Polytechnic To Suspend Students With Colored Hair, Tattered Jeans, Tattoos, Others
Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State has read ‘riot act’ to students who appear indecent on its campus. In an internal memo signed by the institution’s Deputy Registrar, Students’ Affairs, Mrs O.F. Ajayi, the school management also released sanctions for a wide range of fashion choices common amongst its students. The school vowed to suspend students…
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22-year-old UI Student Disappears From Construction Site in Lagos
Punch Newspaper The family of a 22-year-old undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, Samson Ajayi, are in despair after he went missing while going to work on a construction site in the Ajah area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on March 9, 2022 and the case was reported at the…
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ASUU Strike: NLC Threatens To Shut Down Nigeria For 3 Days
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to shut down the country with three-day nationwide warning strike, in solidarity with its sister unions in the universities and helpless Nigerian students. The union expressed its concerns in communiqué jointly signed by its President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, and its General Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Ugboaja, respectively, and issued…
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APC Breaks Silence Over Stolen $75,000 at National Secretariat
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has broken its silence over the theft case of $75,000 on Wednesday at its national secretariat adding that, the money in question doesn’t belong to the party. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made the clarification in a statement he signed late Thursday, titled ‘Re: Lost money at APC…
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Eid-el-fitr: FG Declares Public Holidays
The Federal Government has declared May 2nd and 3rd as public holidays to mark the Workers Day and Eld-el-Fitr celebrations. The minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore on Thursday. He commended workers for their hard work, diligence, and sacrifice, noting that their efforts are…
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Sallah: Saudi Directs Muslims To Sight Shawwal Cresent Saturday
The Supreme Court has called all Muslims around the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to sight Shawwal crescent on Saturday night, 29 Ramadan 1443 AH – according to Umm Al-Qura calendar – corresponding to April 30, 2022 AD. “Anyone who can see the crescent of Shawwal with the naked eye or through binoculars must report to…
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What Yoruba Tradition Says About Alaafin’s Widows, Popular Ifa Priest, Elebuibon
Popular Ifa priest, Ifayemi Elebuibon, in an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Monday revealed the position of the Yoruba tradition regarding the fate of Alaafin’s Widows. Elebuibon, based in Oyo state, said the queens could either remarry after the late king’s burial rites or remain in the palace where the new king would inherit…
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2023: Tinubu, Others Filmed Performing Tawaf in Mecca (Photos+Video)
A couple of pictures and videos have captured moments Presidential hopeful, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT, and some of his supporters were rounding the Ka’bah (Tawaf) in the holy city of Makkah have surfaced online. Recall that Vreporters in one of its publications yesterday reported how some of his supporters planned special Tawaf for the…
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Fire Guts Tomb Shelter of Late Founder of Synagogue, T.B Joshua
Tomb shelter of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, located in the Agodo area of Ikotun, Lagos State has been gutted by fire. According to PUNCH Metro, the fire started around 6.30pm on Wednesday. A resident, who craved for anonymity, said no one could tell if anybody died…