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Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State has expressed condolences on the death of the bus driver of the abducted pupils of Apostolic Faith Nursery and Primary School, Emure Ekiti, Mr Olugbaye Taiwo. It was reported that Olugbaye was killed by the kidnappers while in their custody. The school pupils and their teachers were released on Sunday morning and are receiving medical treatment at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti. Governor Oyebanji, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Olayinka Oyebode, expressed his condolences to the family of the late driver, assuring that the perpetrators of the heinous…

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Academic studies agree that an ameliorative business environment enables entrepreneurial activity and boosts enterprise performance. So when businesses talk about the Outdoor advertising industry they talk about aesthetics and this means re-positioning, which brings about a relaxed business environment. That was why at the first stakeholders meeting organized by the Ekiti State Signage and Advertising Agency (EKSAA) through its Director General, Mr. Bisi Adesua, where he said, “You will agree that before now, the state of outdoor in Ekiti State was good enough because of the indiscriminate way of erecting billboards which had little or no consideration for order, public…

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Publisher of THE CONCLAVE (online newspaper), Sufuyan Ojeifo, has pointed the finger at a Federal Commissioner with the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma, for the threat to his life over a report on change of leadership guard at the Bureau. Ojeifo, in a petition he lodged at the Area Court 1, Kubwa, Abuja through the Registrar, dated December 29, 2023, sought the directive of the court to have the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) FCT Police Command, Garki, Abuja, investigate the direct criminal complaint of threat to life against Agbonayinma. In a referral for investigation endorsed by…

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The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, against the judgments of the lower court which imprisoned him. A Federal Capital Territory High Court had sentenced  Lawan to seven years imprisonment for receiving a $500,000 bribe while serving as the chairman of the House’s ad-hoc committee investigating the fuel subsidy fraud in 2012. The trial judge, Angela Otaluka, held that Lawan demanded $3m and received $500,000 from Femi Otedola in 2012 to remove Otedola’s oil company, Zenon Oil and Gas, from the list of firms indicted for fraud in…

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Oluwafeyiropo Daniel, aka Bishop Feyi, the founder of I Reign Christian Ministry was on Friday jailed for life for raping his assistant pastor. Bishop Feyi was found guilty by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court presided over by Justice Rahman Oshodi. The Court had reserved judgment on January 11 after the conclusion of the hearing of the allegations against the Bishop. Bishop Feyi was charged with raping his assistant pastor and one other (names withheld) and attempted rape of one other alleged survivor (name withheld).He allegedly committed the offence sometime in June 2020, at Ikota Villa Estate, Lekki,…

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December 27, 2023, would not be quickly erased from the memory of the residents and indigenes of Ondo State as a day of passing into glory of one of the prominent sons of the state and former state governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu. Akeredolu, popularly called ‘Aketi’ by his political associates, passed away in Germany during a long battle with cancer. The illness had taken the late former governor to the European country for treatment for some months but unfortunately, he could not survive the battle. After the bad news of the demise of the late state chief executive was broken…

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Very bad decisions by our policymakers in Nigeria. In secondary school, they push you to specialize after the 3rd year. So, from SSI (4th year), you move into Arts, Science, Technology, etc lines. Possibly, if you decide to do Further Mathematics, you may not be lucky to do Economics because WAEC has restricted you to 9 subjects. (Even as a kid in the village, I found that very sub-optimal, and took 15 subjects in secondary school, and decided to write external WAEC (i.e. GCE) while in secondary school. That decision enabled me to study Economics and the typical Art courses…

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