Month: August 2022

BREAKING: Tobi Amusan Breaks Commonwealth Games Record, Wins Gold

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan on Sunday broke Commonwealth Games record to grab gold in the Women’s 100m hurdles final at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Nigerian speed star breasted the tape in 12.30 seconds to successfully defend the title she won in Tokyo, Japan. Amusan beat the Bahamas’s Devynne Charlton 12.58 seconds and England’s Cindy Sember to the top prize. It can be recall that Amusan was the first Nigerian ever to win gold at the World Athletics Championships after racing to a stunning world record time of 12.06s. Amusan’s victory,…

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Thomas Tuchel Confirms Marcos Alonso Wishes To Leave Chelsea

ADEOLA YUSUF

Defender Marcos Alonso was not included in Chelsea’s line-up for their opening match of the Premier League season against Everton as he wants to leave the club, manager Thomas Tuchel said on Saturday. “He asked to leave and we agreed to his wish,” Tuchel told reporters after his team beat Everton 1-0 for their first victory at Goodison Park since 2017. “That is why it would not have made sense to put him on the pitch.” READ ALSO: Chelsea Stakes £20m To Sign Chukwuemeka from Aston Villa Raheem Sterling Transfer…

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Betrayal Of Kwame Nkrumah: Drama, Pains of Coup, Death of Ghana’s Leader

ADEOLA YUSUF

ALLOW ME TO BURY MY SON: How the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana was overthrown while plane was still in the sky over China, betrayed by friends and allies, became co-President of Guinea, and mother begged for his corpse to be released for burial in Ghana after death in Romania   Kwame Nkrumah reacts upon recieving information that he had been overthrown. His plane was still in the sky over China When he was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. He, therefore, knew nothing about it. At the…

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No BSc, No MSc, Nigerian HND Holder Gets 7 US Varsities’ Ph.D Scholarships

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Ilaro Poly graduate of SLT, Islamiyat Ojelade, rubbishes Nigeria’s BSc-HND dichotomy, settles for Florida State University, Ph.D Scholarship in a rare feat for HND holders who haven’t gone through a master’s course + Names of 7 top US Varsities that offered her fully funded Ph.D Scholarships    Nigerian lady named Islamiyat Ojelade has broken all the barriers on her way to bag 7 fully funded scholarships in USA. Islamiyat is a HND holder who studied Science Laboratory Technology at the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro. READ ALSO Nigerian Beats 51,840 Applicants,…

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Shell To Resume 300m scuf/d Assa North/Ohaji South Gas Project Construction

ADEOLA YUSUF

The project, one of the largest domestic gas assets in Nigeria, located in Imo state, southeast Nigeria, has capacity for 300 million standard cubic feet of gas per day when completed Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), is set to resume operations in Imo State, after years of exiting the state as a result of insecurity. Shell had temporarily halted the construction of a multi- billion naira Assa North/ Ohaji South Gas Development Project sited in Imo State, which was started in 2019, due to the growing incidents of…

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What Customers Must Know About Polaris Bank Purported Sale – Mgt

ADEOLA YUSUF

The management of Polaris Bank has reacted to report on its purported sale, describing it as “speculative, deliberately intended to create panic and should be disregarded by the banking public.” The bank said this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa. Here below is the statement; RE: ONLINE PUBLICATION ON PURPORTED SALE OF POLARIS BANK Our attention has been drawn to an online report on the purported sale of Polaris Bank Limited. READ ALSO: RT $200bn: Polaris Bank sensitises non-oil exporters, urge them to key into programme Polaris Bank, CIG…

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Arsenal Defeat Crystal Palace 2-0 In EPL Opener

ADEOLA YUSUF

Arsenal opened the Premier League season with a 2-0 win at Crystal Palace on Friday, thanks to Gabriel Martinelli’s first-half header and Marc Guehi own goal at Selhurst Park. The Gunners avoided a repeat of their 2-0 defeat at Brentford on the opening night of last year’s season for a perfect start. New signings Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko both played their part with the Brazil striker a constant threat through the middle and Zinchenko providing the assist for Martinelli’s headed first-half goal. READ ALSO: Commonwealth Games: Amusan Qualifies For…

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Commonwealth Games: Amusan Qualifies For 100m Hurdles Final

ADEOLA YUSUF

New world record holder of the women’s 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, on Friday qualified for the final of the women’s 100m hurdles at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Amusan raced to a massive 12.40s to dominate Round 1 Heat 3 to qualify for Sunday’s final. The world champion has the chance to defend her Commonwealth Games title, which she won in 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia. READ ALSO: AMAZON AMUSAN: TALE OF TOBI, A RECORD-TRASHER IN TEARS, BY ADEOLA YUSUF JUST IN: Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan Breaks Women 100m Hurdles’…

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Symbolic Violence Against Muslim Pupils by Lagos State Gov’t, By Farooq Kperogi

ADEOLA YUSUF

At least 3 questions in a GENERAL KNOWLEDGE exam that public primary school students in Lagos State took for the common entrance this year asked questions that only Christians—or people who’re familiar with Christianity—can correctly answer, putting Muslim and other non-Christian students at a disadvantage. That’s objectionable symbolic violence, and it must redressed forthwith in the interest of fairness and justice. READ ALSO: Abia Poly Loses Accreditation Over Unpaid Salaries Kadaria Ahmed’s Anti-BBC Article a Disservice to Journalism -Farooq Kperogi Ogun Fixes Sept 19 For Schools’ Resumption, Releases 2022/23 Calendar…

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Why We proscribed ASUU, SSANU, NASU – Ekiti varsity

ADEOLA YUSUF

The management of Ekiti State Government-owned Bamidele Olumilua University of Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti has proscribed all the staff unions in the institution. The acting Registrar, B.S. Momoh, said the step was necessary as the unions, through their actions, were distracting the university from its development vision and mission. Momoh, in a memo to the university community, titled, ‘Proscription of staff unions in BOUESTI,’ listed the affected bodies as Academic Staff Union of Universities, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities. READ ALSO: Nigerian…

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