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Farmers in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State have cried out over their loss in the year 2020 planting season as a result of failed flood forecast and lack of government input, which they claimed might cause maize scarcity in 2021. The Association of Farm Settlers, Ipapo-Iseyin branch made this disclosure over the weekend after an emergency meeting they held to address the plight of their members who they said have lost millions of naira to the drought that affected maize farming in the outgoing year. The farmers claimed many of them had decided against planting maize this year due to…

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The chairman of the Kwara state football association Honourable Idris Musa Abdullahi has described the Ekiti state football association chairman Mr Bayo Olanlege as a tool needed to move Nigerian football to greater height. Kwara FA boss, Hon. Idris Abdullahi and his Ekiti State FA counterpart, Bayo Olanlege This was made known on Thursday when the Ekiti state football association paid a courtesy visit to the Kwara state football association at the Alhaji Usman Mustapha football house Ilorin. Honourable Abdullahi popularly called Thuraya described Olanlege as young administrator willing to work, always ready to give all and very dedicated to…

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The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Safety Commission have been carrying out routine enforcement and monitoring activities throughout the holiday season to monitor compliance with the Governments directive on the COVID-19 pandemic especially as it concerns social and recreational centers. The operations led by the Director General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Mr. Lanre Mojola and his team have sealed over 12 facilities including; DNA Night Club, Buzz Bar, Silverfox, Cocoon, Westend Nightclub, Rumours, Lekki Waterside, Landmark Event Centre, The Wave Beach club amongst others. He however mentioned that recalcitrant establishments who broke the goverment seal and continued partying…

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Popular Nigerian business leader and public speaker, Ubong King has breathed his last in Lagos in the early hours of 26th December 2020. The security expert and founder of Protection Plus Security Limited who was also known as the ‘Troublemaker’ was said to have tested positive for COVID-19. King was a former chairman of The American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) International Chapter 206, Lagos. He facilitated and spoke at leadership and management retreats within and outside Nigeria. Ubong King began his career as a volunteer guard in the protocol department of the church he was attending at the time.…

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A saying that ”If family members leave a room after a supposed fact finding discussion are smiling, then one party or all parties involved were economic with the truth” played out today on a southwest Nigeria journalist online platform called ”Nigeria Platform”. The platform comprising contributors from various media houses including AP, NAN, ThisDay, and a host of online publishers had for critique who best to become Nigeria’s next President. This discuss is undoubtedly the topic of the day in various online platforms. This platform saturated with veteran and seasoned journalists didn’t spare on the much predicted paradigm shift expected…

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A 26-year-old lady, Mnena Akpera, has recounted how her boss’s wife, Mrs. Faith Udende, bathed her with hot water on the suspicion that she was having an affair with her husband. As a result of the incident, the lady, the daughter of a former Commissioner in Benue State and a consultant with the newly established Benue Television is currently battling for her life at the Amenity Ward of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Makurdi. Narrating her ordeal to our correspondent, the young lady who is still nursing the wounds from the hot water poured on her face, arms and breasts…

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My younger friend and former colleague, Kabiru Danladi Lawanti, who is now a lecturer at Department of Mass Communication, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, posted a very interesting message on his Facebook timeline on December 24, 2020. Part of the message read: “People have been asking me a lot of questions on the meaning of the ‘Conditional suspension of strike’ by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Actually, it is a choice between the devil and deep blue sea. Left to us, the strike should have continued until at least they release our withheld salaries. The level of thievery and…

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A retired Major General, Alhaji AbdulAzeez Abidoye, has emerged as the new President of Omu-Aran Development Association. Omu-Aran is the headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Abidoye was elected at the 2020 Annual General Meeting of the association on Saturday in Omu-Aran. Others elected are Olarewaju Abolaji as the Vice President 1, while Samuel Adeyeye emerged as the Vice President 2, with Jide Oyinloye as Secretary. A former Chairman of Irepodun Local Government Area, Hon. Muyiwa Oladipo, was elected as the Treasurer of the association, while Stephen Idowu emerged as Financial Secretary. A Principal Correspondent with the…

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The attention of the All Progressives Youth Forum (APYF) has been drawn to a news item published yesterday, December 25, in the online edition of the PUNCH which reported a certain Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese as saying that there would have been a coup or even war if a non-Northern Muslim is on the seat of power and does what President Buhari is doing. Bishop Kukah, who made the assertions in his 2020 Christmas message titled, ‘A nation in search of vindication’ was quoted as saying: “Every honest Nigerian knows that there is no way…

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Gunmen kidnapped a traveller on the Isan-Iludun-Ekiti highway in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Friday. Amotekun Corps Commander in the state, retired Brig.-Gen. Joe Komolafe, confirmed the mishap on Saturday and said another would-have-been victim was rescued by the corps. He said the Ekiti State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps and the police command in the state jointly engaged the gunmen before one of the travellers was rescued. Komolafe said in Ado-Ekiti that the kidnappers were suspected herdsmen. He said the assailants shot at the vehicle in which the victims were travelling on Friday, but were confronted…

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