Day: September 3, 2022

POIGNANT: What Emeritus Prof Jide Osuntokun Wrote About ASUU Strike

ADEOLA YUSUF

Is there anybody who does not know that there is trouble in Nigeria? As an elder, I cannot pretend I do not know what is happening to higher education in our country. As a retired professor, I am a stakeholder in higher education in Nigeria. Having studied at the University of Ibadan, and for higher degrees studied in Canada, Britain, Germany and France, and taught in a Canadian and a West Indian university as well as the universities of Ibadan, Jos, Lagos and Maiduguri and in the Redeemers University, and…

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Nigeria CMG-Women’s Relay Team Member Fails Doping Test, Country Loses Gold

Gbenga Adeoti

The gold winning team comprises Tobi Amusan, Rosemary Chukwuma, Favour Ofili and Grace Nwokocha   A member of the Nigeria’s women’s 4x100m relay team that won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has failed a doping test. Platfirms Africa gathered that this has technically made Nigeria to lose the gold won by the quartet. The country will officially be stripped of the honour after the procedural confirmation of the result by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The gold winning team comprises Tobi Amusan, Rosemary Chukwuma, Favour Ofili and Grace…

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