Month: November 2023

OAU Wash-a-thon Record Breaker, Enitan Subair Bubbles With Excitement

Ganiyu Amodu

Miss Enitan Subair, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), who completed a record-breaking wash-a-thon in early hours of Monday, is bubbling with excitements of the applause that have greeted her courageous task. Subair, a 200-level student of Linguistics and African Languages at the first generation university, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State set a new world record after she competed a 58-hour wash-a-thon by 12.05 AM on Monday, November 27, 2023; surpassing her initial target of 50 hours. In the new video obviously recorded a day after her historic feat, Subair,…

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NUGA President Ogbu Is Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

Mr Emeka Ogbu, the President of the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA), is dead. Prof. Mohammed Bawa, the acting president of the association, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Jos. Bawa said that Ogbu died on Monday after a brief illness. READ ALSO Tinubu Presents N27.5trn 2024 Budget BREAKING: Supreme Court Okays Indefinite Use Of Old, New Banknotes Ondo: Tinubu Asks Deputy Governor, Aiyedatiwa To Submit Undated Resignation Letter The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogbu was the Director of Sports at the Enugu State University of…

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Tinubu Presents N27.5trn 2024 Budget

Ganiyu Amodu

President Bola Tinubu has presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N27.5 trillion before a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The appropriation bill was christened the “Budget of Renewed Hope.” President Tinubu entered the Chamber of the House of Representatives at 11.13 a.m. The National Anthem was recited upon his arrival. The President of the Senate and Chairman of the National Assembly, Godswill Akpabio, called the House to order at 11.15 a.m. Akpabio began the reading of the welcome address at 11.20 a.m. READ ALSO BREAKING:…

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Okays Indefinite Use Of Old, New Banknotes

Ganiyu Amodu

ABUJA – The Supreme Court has ruled that both the old and the redesigned Naira banknotes remain valid legal tenders in the country beyond December 31. The apex court, in a ruling by a seven-man panel led by Justice Inyang Okoro, on Wednesday, said the banknotes should remain in circulation, pending when the Federal Government, after due consultation with relevant stakeholders, takes a decision on the matter. It made the order after hearing an application that was moved on behalf of the federal government by the Attorney-General of the Federation…

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Ondo: Tinubu Asks Deputy Governor, Aiyedatiwa To Submit Undated Resignation Letter

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu has reportedly asked the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to sign and submit an undated resignation letter. The Ondo Speaker, Rt. Hon Olamide Oladiji, made this known during Tuesday’s plenary while presenting the report of the resolutions reached at the Abuja meeting to the people of the state. Oladiji said Aiyedatiwa’s resignation was part of the resolution reached during the peace meeting brokered by President Tinubu on the political crisis in the Sunshine State. READ ALSO: Lagos Gov’t Seeks Public Help Over Boy Who Boasted Of Raping Girl…

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Lagos Gov’t Seeks Public Help Over Boy Who Boasted Of Raping Girl In Viral Video

Abibat Babalola

The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has reacted to a viral video of a boy boasting to his friends about raping a girl, urging the public to help locate the suspected rapist and the victim. In the  video, which went viral on Tuesday, the boy was heard narrating how the girl refused to have sex with him and told him she was afraid of getting pregnant. READ ALSO: 113 TASUED Graduates Bag First Class  Death Toll From Kenya’s El Nino Floods Hits 120 BREAKING: Court Adjourns Emefiele’s…

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113 TASUED Graduates Bag First Class 

Abibat Babalola

A total number of 12,700 students of Tai Solarin University of Education graduated at its combined 13th, 14th, and 15th convocations held on Tuesday at the OGD Hall of the University, out of which 113 bagged First Class. 329 of the graduates are from its Postgraduate College. The graduation covered three academic sessions, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, and 2022/2023. Sunday Oluyemi Gbodogbe of the Mathematics department with a 4.89 CGPA emerged overall best-graduating student for 2020/2021, Elibe Ogadima Patricia with a CGPA of 4.89 from the Biology department picked up the prize…

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Death Toll From Kenya’s El Nino Floods Hits 120

Ganiyu Amodu

Severe flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has killed 120 people in Kenya, while people in almost 90,000 households have been forced to leave their homes, the government said on Tuesday. The latest estimated death toll in Kenya has doubled as heavy seasonal rains following the worst drought in four decades have submerged towns and villages across East Africa, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Thousands of homes have been washed away or are marooned, while farmland has been submerged and tens of thousands of livestock drowned,…

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Yorubas Or Binis, Who Founded Lagos? Oba of Benin, Lagos Chief Bicker

Ganiyu Amodu

. It is in the history books that Binis founded Lagos – Oba of Benin . Point of correction Sir, Lagos was never founded by the Binis – Balogun Of Eko   The Balogun of Eko, Abisoye Oshodi, has faulted the claim by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, that the Binis founded Lagos. The monarch who was in Lagos State to visit Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday had said, ‘’It is in the history books that the Binis founded Lagos. When some people will hear it now, they…

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BREAKING: Court Adjourns Emefiele’s Case Till January 18

Ganiyu Amodu

The Federal Capital Territory High Court has adjourned till January 18, 2024, for the continuation of the trial in the alleged procurement fraud suit against a former Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele was accused of using his position to confer a corrupt advantage on Sa’adatu Yaro, a staff member of the CBN by awarding a contract for the procurement of 43 vehicles worth N1.2 billion between 2018 and 2020. He was subsequently remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre pending a ruling on his bail application on November…

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