Month: July 2023

Ronaldo Bags Another Guinness World Records As Highest Paid Athlete

ADEOLA YUSUF

Al-Nassr forward Cristiano Ronaldo has secured for himself another Guinness World Records title for the highest yearly earnings by an athlete in 2023. This was confirmed in a post on GWR’s website on Thursday. The former Man United star topped Forbes’ list of the best-paid athletes in the world for the first time since 2017 (and third time overall). READ ALSO: My Prayer Is To Die Same Day With My Wife- Pastor Adeboye Gunmen Disguised As Patients Abduct Doctor In Cross River Adekunle Salu, A Csar Of PR At 90,…

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My Prayer Is To Die Same Day With My Wife- Pastor Adeboye

ADEOLA YUSUF

+ Full Text of Adeboye’s emotional tweet for Wife at her 75th birthday         The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E. Adejare Adeboye, has spoken about when he wants to be called to glory. The pastor said he would like to be called to heaven the same day with his wife, Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye . Adeboye made this known in a post while celebrating his wife, who turned 75 on Thursday. READ ALSO: Gunmen Disguised As Patients Abduct Doctor In Cross…

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Gunmen Disguised As Patients Abduct Doctor In Cross River

ADEOLA YUSUF

Ekanem Ephraim, a medical doctor with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), has been abducted by gunmen at her residence. Speaking with NAN on Friday, Felix Archibong, chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Cross River, said the kidnappers disguised as patients to gain access to the doctor’s residence on Thursday. READ ALSO: 5 Animals That Die After Giving Birth They Won’t Get Shishi; Next of Kin Useless In Bank Account In Case of Death EFCC Arrests 13 Chinese Over ‘illegal’ Mining In Kwara He said Ephraim was attending to them when…

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5 Animals That Die After Giving Birth

ADEOLA YUSUF

Maternal mortality is the death of a mother after giving birth. This tragic and devastating event that can have a profound impact on the family, particularly the newborn and the father, is not peculiar to human. It is, in fact, the permanent condition in some animal. Call it the mystery of nature and you may not be wrong. Platforms Africa presents five animals that always die after giving birth.   1. Praying Mantises Praying Mantises are one of the animals that die after giving birth. After the female mantis lay…

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CISLAC Urges NGF To Create Anti-Corruption Agencies In States

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has called on the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, to push for the creation of anti-corruption agencies across the 36 states of the federation. Speaking during a two-day workshop for representatives of state-led anti-corruption agencies, the CISLAC Executive Director, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, said creating anti-corruption agencies in states would help fight corruption effectively. He said: “Corruption affects us all. It threatens sustainable economic development and ethical values and justice; it destabilises our society and endangers the rule of law. READ ALSO: Adekunle Salu, A…

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Adekunle Salu, A Csar Of PR At 90, By Tope Adaramola  

ADEOLA YUSUF

Sometime in 1991 as a Youth Corps member with the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation, news got to me that a body named the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations was going to hold her membership outreach for new intakes into the PR profession in Nigeria. Venue was the Institute of International Affairs kofo Abayomi Lagos. I was greatly elated about the news which I had been waiting for to start a fresh path on my long desired journey of PR professionalism or image making. I had studied political science at the university of…

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Lai Oso: A Wound Too Painful, A Scar Too Deep, By Kola Adesina

ADEOLA YUSUF

How does one compose a funeral dirge fit for the Choirmaster’s burial?       A WOUND TOO PAINFUL Our tribute here today is the result of days and nights of struggle to confront the stark reality and deep pain of the demise of one of the greatest communication scholars of all time. As members of Lai Oso’s extended global family, our hearts are still bleeding from the wound occasioned by the sudden loss.     A SCAR TOO DEEP No doubt, the gulf sized indelible scar left in the…

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JUST IN: Nigerian Air Force Aircraft Crashes

ADEOLA YUSUF

How the two pilots onboard survived   A Nigerian Air Force plane – FT-7NI trainer aircraft – has crashed in Makurdi, the capital of Benue state, Platforms Africa reports. The incident happened on Friday evening, while on a routine training exercise. READ ALSO: PHOTONEWS: Tears, Tributes As Renowned Professor, Lai Oso, Is Buried JUST IN: Court Invalidates Emefiele’s Arrest, Detention I’d Have Committed Suicide – Femi Otedola Newly Elected Rep Sent Out Of Chamber For Improper Dressing United Nations Institute Names Adeola Yusuf Panelist For African IDEP Event The NAF…

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PHOTONEWS: Tears, Tributes As Renowned Professor, Lai Oso, Is Buried

ADEOLA YUSUF

You missed the memorable moments, you don’t worry. Platforms Africa captures the burial of Professor Oso held in his hometown of Sagamu, Southwest Nigeria.   Tears and tributes flowed freely as late Professor Lai Oso was buried on Friday, July 14, in his hometown of Sagamu, Southwest Nigeria. Oso, a renowned professor of communication, died in a motor accident along the Ore-Sagamu expressway on Saturday, June 24, 2023. He was coming from Delta State University (DELSU) where he had gone as an external examiner for PhD students. READ ALSO: I…

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