Day: September 12, 2022

THEN & NOW: Meet Folasade, Then 4 Year-Old Bouquet Bearer To Queen In 1956

Damilola Olonade

When the Queen visited Nigeria in 1956, a 4 year old girl presented the Queen with a bouquet of flowers. This is the girl. She is now Mrs Folashade Randle, Otunba J K Randle’s wife. READ ALSO Queen Elizabeth: Saint or Satan?, By Tunde Odesola Premier League Restarts: Queen’s Funeral Postpones Chelsea vs Liverpool, Man United vs Leeds Examining Uju Anya’s vitriol on Queen Elizabeth II, By Festus Adedayo Charles III Officially Proclaimed Britain’s King BREAKING: I won’t attend Queen’s Elizabeth’s funeral – Putin Then she was introduced then the…

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Premier League Restarts: Queen’s Funeral Postpones Chelsea vs Liverpool, Man United vs Leeds

Ganiyu Amodu

Premier League football will return this weekend, however, three matches scheduled, including Chelsea vs Liverpool and Manchester United vs Leeds will not go ahead then. The top flight resumes following a pause in the season as a mark of respect after the Queen’s passing on September 8. The Premier League has made a return this weekend but only 14 of the teams are in action. READ ALSO: Ikeja Electric Seeks Support Over Rising Energy Theft, Vandalism Nigeria’s Debt Stocks Hit N45.25tr SAD: Two Pupils Killed As School Fence Collapses in…

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Ikeja Electric Seeks Support Over Rising Energy Theft, Vandalism

Abibat Babalola

In continued effort to curtail the rising cases of energy theft and vandalism amidst huge investment on power infrastructure, Ikeja Electric, is soliciting the support of stakeholders in tackling the menace within its network. Speaking to a gathering of community media publishers, Head, Corporate Communications, Ikeja Electric, Mr. Felix Ofulue, said the alarming cases of illegal connections, meter bypass, apathy to payment of electricity bills and vandalism have been on a steady rise recently. He narrated instances where customers using prepaid meters connive with electricians to bypass meters with the…

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Nigeria’s Debt Stocks Hit N45.25tr

Ganiyu Amodu

Nigeria’s debts rose by about N4 trillion in the past five months to take the portfolio to N45.25 trillion, it was learnt at the weekend. An official data reviewed by The Nation yesterday indicated that the government raised about N3.34 trillion through its regular issuance of domestic debt instruments between April and August. The depreciation of the naira also impacted the external debt stocks. READ ALSO: SAD: Two Pupils Killed As School Fence Collapses in Lagos Lagos Storey Building Sinks, 9 Escape Death As Rainfall Persists Examining Uju Anya’s vitriol…

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SAD: Two Pupils Killed As School Fence Collapses in Lagos

Abibat Babalola

The perimeter fence of a Lagos school, Covenant Point Academy at Ajose Street, in the Amukoko area of Lagos State, has colapsed, killing two pupils. The pupls, Platforms Africa reports, could not be ascertained to be of the school that just resumed after a long vacation. They are, according to an eyewitness, Samat Saheed and a yet-to-be-identified girl. How it happened The nine-year-old girl was walking past the front of the school to link her destination in the area while three-year-old Samat was playing around the fence of the school,…

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Lagos Storey Building Sinks, 9 Escape Death As Rainfall Persists

Tade Salako

Torrential rainfall to persist in Lagos, Ogun intermittently till Friday, September 16 – Metrological Agency Nine yet-to-be-identified ladies who were trapped when a storey building around Akinwunmi Street, Mende, in the Maryland area of Lagos State, sunk due to torrential rainfall, were rescued on Monday. This came as the forecast by Metrological Agency shows that rainfall would persist intermittently in Lagos, Ota and other parts of Ogun state state till Friday, September 16. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Seven-Storey Building Collapses in Lagos, 2 killed Queen Elizabeth: Saint or Satan?, By Tunde…

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Viral video: LAUTECH Alumni Gift Graduate N500,000

ADEOLA YUSUF

A social media skitmaker and graduate of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Osunleke Alaba, has been presented with a cheque of N500,000 by the school’s alumni association. Alaba trended a few days ago after he approached the university in tears for not being able to do anything with the certificate he got from the school years after graduating. According to him, his parents took loans to fund his schooling and could not continue to sustain him with such, adding that…

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Examining Uju Anya’s vitriol on Queen Elizabeth II, By Festus Adedayo

ADEOLA YUSUF

Like a prude confronted with sexually explicit images, the world didn’t hide its shock at Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya’s negative comments last week on the late British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The world had waited with bated breath at manifest indications that Elizabeth’s last hours had come. Amid this apprehension, the associate professor of Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics and Critical Discourse at Carnegie Mellon University launched her salvo. It came in the form of a tweet that brimmed with bile and hate. She had tweeted: “I heard the chief…

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How Brazilian Returnee Excreted 92 Wraps Of Cocaine At Abuja Airport –NDLEA

Ganiyu Amodu

A 53-year-old Brazilian returnee, Okolie Nwabueze, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly importing 92 wraps of cocaine. Mr Nwabueze, a father of two, ingested the drugs and eventually excreted them after days under observation in the agency’s facility. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja. READ ALSO: SANs, Profs To Defend ASUU Before Industrial Court Energy Transition: NLNG Delivers 5,400 Cargoes…

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SANs, Profs To Defend ASUU Before Industrial Court

ADEOLA YUSUF

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities who are Senior Advocates of Nigeria and Professors of Law among others will be defending the union as the case instituted by the Federal Government at the National Industrial Court comes up for hearing on Monday (today). The PUNCH reports that the Federal Government had dragged the union before the NIC over its ongoing strike which started on February 14, 2022. The union is demanding, among others, the release of the revitalisation fund for universities, release of earned allowances for university lecturers,…

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