Ogun State is no pushover among states in Nigeria that have produced great minds in education. Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka remains one of her living legends. However, the standard of education in the state in recent years has nosedived owing to social decadence among youths, corruption, and compromise of …
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The Senate has confirmed the nomination of 15 of the 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The confirmation followed the adoption of the report by the Senate Committee on INEC at the plenary on Thursday. Chairman of the committee, Senator Suleiman Nazif, while presenting the report, …
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The House of Representative was, Thursday, thrown into a rowdy session after members, particularly those outside the South-East region, disagreed on a bill seeking to establish the South-East Development Commission over its timing, leading to it being stepped down. The lawmakers who disagreed argued that much consultations were not carried …
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The Anglican Church has pitched its tenth behind Sovereign national Conference, saying it is an answer to the nation’s myriad socio-political and economic upheavals. The church said if the federal Government is free to convoke another conference if it is not comfortable with the recommendation made by the National …
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An agent of NairaBet, a sports betting platform, has ended his life over his inability to pay a customer who allegedly won a N600,000 bet. PUNCH Metro learnt that residents of Obadeyi Ajala woke up on Wednesday to find the deceased dangling from a rope in an uncompleted shop at …
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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to the education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the President of the Nigeria Labour …
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Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye, a former United States-based Nigerian lawyer, who was disbarred in New York and Maryland for professional misconduct, was yesterday also disbarred in Nigeria, to which he had relocated, for the same offense. Nigeria’s Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers, which punishes misconduct among …
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Over 400 persons were on Wednesday arrested by the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service for alleged illegal entry into the country. The suspects were said to have been arrested during a mop-up exercise which started at about 4am on Wednesday across the 18 local government areas of …
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Graphic photos of a newborn lying dead in a toilet at a female hostel has joined the numerous such photos that urge people to wonder how callous mankind can be. According to Supreme Peter who published the photos, the lifeless newborn was found in the female toilet of the Murtala …
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A Texas principal stepped outside of a meeting Tuesday afternoon and shot himself to death, officials said. Kirbyville High School Principal Dennis Reeves, 45, met with administrators Tuesday afternoon to submit his resignation from the position, according to news station KTRE. After the meeting, Reeves reportedly walked to his pickup …
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