The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate in the 2023 General Election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed his confidence in winning the 2023 presidential election. The former Lagos State governor, while speaking at the Kaduna Investment programme held at the Arewa Hall, Kaduna, the state capital, showered encomiums on Governor Nasir …
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A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and vice chairman, Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency, Lamido Sanusi, has said the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company that Nigeria consumes 66 million litres of fuel daily is simply “unbelievable.” The deposed Emir of Kano said this while delivering his …
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A UK-based Nigerian scholar, Mr Innocent Udoidiong, has said that disturbing pictures posted on social media, where students sat on bare floors to receive lessons, informed his decision to donate 40 dual-seater desks each to one secondary school and three public primary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Udoidong, an indigene …
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has raised concerns that school closures could lead to an additional 10 million early marriages of girls over the next 10 years due to COVID-19. It, therefore, said the world must give girls the tools they need to succeed and create an …
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OCTOBER 15 is the International Day of Rural Women, a day when women and girls living in rural areas are honoured for their essential role in global development. The theme for this year’s is ‘Rural Women, key for a world free from hunger and poverty.’ Rural girls and women are …
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The Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, United States, on Friday, named Prof. Adetunji Toriola, the university’s physician-scientist scholar. Toriola, an Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife alumnus, was reportedly the second physician-researcher named as part of the School of Medicine’s new Physicians-scientist Investigators Initiative, which supports pioneering physician-scientists whose …
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Veteran visual artist, drummer and thespian, Chief Muraina Oyelami, speaks to BOLA BAMIGBOLA about his background and works You’re a widely-travelled, renowned artist, why have you chosen to settle back in Iragbiji, rather than one of the big cities, for instance, Lagos or Ibadan? Remember very well that Iragbiji is my hometown. Even …
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Harrison Okiri, a Nigerian singer popularly known as Harrysong, has made a U-turn on his allegations against music executive, Soso Soberekon. Mr Songz, as he is also known, accused Soberekan of hiring assassins against him during an interview on the Frankly Speaking podcast partly hosted by comedian, Nedu. “If you see …
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Major General John Enenche (retd.), who described the #LekkiShooting incident as “photoshopped” and “cropped” has said the reasons behind his claim in 2020. The ex-General who made the list of the 1,234 members of the presidential campaign council of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, had come under fire …
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A Federal High Court Kano presided over by Justice A.M Liman, has adjourned sitting to 20th October 2022 for hearing in a pre-election suit instituted by Muhammad Sani Abacha challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sadik Aminu Wali and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In an originating summons, Abacha …
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