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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 08:45:20 +0000
BREAKING: Yoruba Nation agitators to protest Igboho’s detention in Cotonou
By Alao Abiodun Yoruba Nation agitators will on Wednesday afternoon stage a protest in Ibadan, Oyo State to demand release of their embattled leader Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho in Benin Republic. The Nation reports Igboho, who was arrested at an...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:46:54 +0000
Scout council suspends acting commissioner for alleged insubordination
The Scout Association of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, has suspended the former acting State Scout Commissioner (SSC), Adetunji Adepeju, for alleged insubordination. He has been directed to hand over the belongings of the Scout Association of Nigeria, ...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:36:44 +0000
100 rescued from kidnappers in Zamfara
By Sani Muhammad Sani, Gusau     The Zamfara State Police command in collaboration with the State Ministry for Security and Home Affairs have freed over 100 persons abducted from Manawa village of Mutunji District in Dansadau Emirate of Mar...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:35:02 +0000
‘Ekiti deserves govt of continuity’
By Emmanuel Oladesu Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders’ Forum has said the state deserves a government of continuity in 2023. Rising from a meeting presided over by its Chairman, Asiwaju George Akosile, in Igbara-Odo-Ekiti, the grou...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:32:32 +0000
Sanwo-Olu urges better regional economic integration
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called for a better integration among Southwest states and the nation in general, to further enhance good governance and economic development. He spoke during the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Nigeri...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:31:19 +0000
UNICEF tackles violence against girls, women
By Adeola Ogunlade     United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN), has flagged off an enlightenment campaign week in Lagos focused on ending violence against women and girls. ...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:30:37 +0000
Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho: Difference is clear
By Chief Deji Fasuan   SIR:Nigerians are a peculiar people; they are hardly united in seeking the good of the society, rather they sing the same chorus in negative things. What on earth should have made people believe the Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday ...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:29:31 +0000
‘There is productivity in disability’
The General Manager of the Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs (LASODA), Mr. Dare Dairo, has said there is productivity in disability. He spoke at a one-day exhibition and talent hunt organised by the agency as part of efforts to improve the we...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:28:52 +0000
Cholera kills 44 in Jigawa, Enugu
No fewer than 44 persons have succumbed to the cholera outbreak in Jigawa and Enugu states. Thirty persons died in Jigawa and over 2,000 hospitalised in the past two months. In Enugu, 14 persons died of the disease. Dr Salisu Mu’azu, Permanent ...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:27:07 +0000
Fayemi, Okowa congratulate Akeredolu at 65
By Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has congratulated his Ondo State counterpart, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), on his 65th birthday. Fayemi, in a congratulator...



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