Day: July 25, 2022

Terrorists Release 3 More Kidnapped Train Passengers

Ganiyu Amodu

Barely 24 hours after a video was released showing how the remaining kidnapped train passengers were being flogged and dehumanised by the terrorists, report on Monday afternoon indicated that 3 more kidnapped train passengers were released. According to a BBC Hausa report, a relative of one of the kidnapped victims released on Monday, told the BBC that those released included 2 men and a lady. While disclosing the news to the BBC, the relative said the released victims were on the way to a health facility for medical examination .…

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JUST IN: Court Told to Stop INEC from Publishing Tinubu’s Name

Scott Matthew

An Abuja-based lawyer, Osigwe Momoh, has sued the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, at the Federal High Court Abuja for fielding the president and vice-president candidates of the party from the same religion. In the suit, the lawyer sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) from publishing the name of the APC presidential candidate in the forthcoming coming elections for violation of the Nigeria Constitution. The plaintiff claimed that the decision to pick the party’s presidential flagbearer and the…

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YABATECH Lecturer, Favour Nwantah, Bags Ph.D In Communication At LASU

Abibat Babalola

I went, I saw and I emerged victorious, Nkiruka Nwantah, who focused her research on organizational practices and job satisfaction among female broadcasters in Lagos State, opens up on life, task and thesis   A Lecturer with the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) Lagos, Favour Nkiruka Nwantah, has succesfully completed and defended her Ph.D thesis in Communication at the Lagos State University (LASU). Platforms Africa reports that Nwantah who announced this on her verified Facebook page, maintained that her Research interest is on organizational practices and job satisfaction among female…

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JUST IN: Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan Breaks Women 100m Hurdles’ Record

Abibat Babalola

World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, in the early hours of Monday (Sunday in Oregon), won the women’s 100m hurdles gold at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. And she did it by going faster than the 12.12s world record time she ran in the semi-finals, but her 12.06s in the final wasn’t recognised as a world record owing to the over 2m/s wind speed. Amusan had blitzed to a world record 12.12s in the semi-finals but obliterated that mark with a superb 12.06s to become the first…

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Ogun Declares Tuesday Work-Free For PVC Registration

Ganiyu Amodu

  Ogun State Governor, Mr. Dapo Abiodun, has declared Tuesday, 26th July,  2022 as a work-free day in the state as the deadline for registration of voters for 2023 General Elections comes to a close on Sunday, 31st of July. Platforms Africa reports that this was contained in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary,  Kunle Somorin. The governor was quoted by the statement to have said the “one-day public holiday is to provide a window for all workers in the state, who have either…

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