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Month: March 2024
Nigeria Releases N90 Billion As Hajj Fares Subsidy
The federal government has released a sum of N90 billion to subsidise the 2024 pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Daily Trust has learnt. An impeccable source within the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) revealed this to Daily Trust on Thursday. The source, who asked not to be named, noted that without this intervention, each of the intending pilgrims would have been requested to add at least N3.5 million to the initial fare which was pegged at N4.9 million. A top official at the Presidency also confirmed that…
Read MorePlatforms Schools Ota Fetes 512, Gives Free Medical Test, Drugs To 110
▪️ Chinese Study; You Do Not Know This Before: CMD Solomon Jayden speaks on hitherto unknown health benefits of fasting recently unveiled by Chinese researchers ▪️ Do not give up, Sheikh Abdul Majeed Eleha gives step-by-step of what to do when hope seems lost ▪️ Seven years of giving back without looking back, Platforms School’s Director talks on why giving back to the needy, indigent in the host community despite economic hardship is inevitable The Platforms Schools Ota held its 7th annual Ramadan event on Saturday, March 30, where 512…
Read MoreJapa, Marriage, Sex and Money, By Funke Egbemode
“A wife left in Nigeria or posted abroad is expected to be faithful… Nonsense. Do women not also have libido?” Letty was a good girl who became a good wife but the seasons changed and this once-upon-a-time choir leader, like Lot’s wife, looked back and right before the eyes of her Pastor and in the presence of her bewildered husband, is turning into a pillar of salt. The kind of salt no one wants to touch or taste. It was all the fault of this Japa…
Read MoreAlleged N5m Bribe To NUJ To Stop Aregbesola’s Award: My story, By Ismail Omipidan
“Yes, of truth, I placed a call to the NUJ National President…” I deliberately did not want to lump this with my response yesterday to the lies against my person by Osun Defender and some of its staff so the essence is not lost. Like I said yesterday, most of the guys around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola lie with impunity. They make bogus claims and pass them as truth. Wale Alabi, one of the megaphones of Aregbesola was the first to make this allegation about three years…
Read MoreHe Died After Tawaf, The Companion Reveals LASU Prof’s Last Hour In Mecca
Lagos District of The Companion, an association of Muslim men in business and the professions has mourned the passing of one of its leaders, Prof. Muhammad Olatunde Ya’qub. A Professor of Arabic linguistics, late Ya’qub until his death, was a Senior Lecturer in the department of Foreign Languages, Lagos State University, Ojo. He died after Tawaf last Sunday, March 24, 2024, in the holy city of Mecca, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In a press statement signed on Friday by the District’s Head, Directorate of Public Affairs, Tajudeen Balogun, The…
Read MoreAsiwaju Is Here! Let’s Just Do It! By Debo Adesina
The times are tough. It is therefore just appropriate that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shunned all forms of celebration of his 72nd birthday. He has great dreams. And a proverb says a man who wants his dream to come true does not sleep. That is a proverb Asiwaju has lived all his life and is living even more, now! That is one man who, literally, never sleeps! The least we can do as Nigerians is to join hands with him by staying awake to our duties and responsibilities…
Read MoreEx-president Survives Road Crash
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma survived a road crash on Thursday night, local media reported on Friday. READ ALSO: One Man Has Over 10,000 Lines Linked To His NIN – NCC Fourth Time In Three Months; National Grid Collapses Again Fourth Time In Three Months; National Grid Collapses Again Zuma and his bodyguards were traveling from Nkandla to Eshowe, in KwaZulu-Natal Province, to campaign for the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party when the crash happened
Read MoreOne Man Has Over 10,000 Lines Linked To His NIN – NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has confirmed that it would not be reviewing its deadline to bar owners of more than four SIM cards whose SIM registration data failed to match their National Identity Number (NIN) data. A source within the Commission explained that the Commission’s position was hinged on its objective to clean the country’s SIM ownership database, and ensure that criminals could not take advantage of having multiple unlinked SIMs to carry out their nefarious activities. “We are not standing back on our decision. March 29 is sacrosanct.…
Read MoreUS Gov, Deputy Excited As Nigeria’s Muritala Ayinla Emerges Duane R. Sterling Rotary Int’l Scholar
“You will be great in the United States,” Full statement of what Governor of the State of Missouri, Mike Parson, said in a meeting with Ayinla, currently a Rotary and University of Central Missouri scholar The Governor of the State of Missouri, United States of America, Mike Parson, has commended a Nigerian, Mr. Muritala Ayinla of the University of Central Missouri for emerging as the prestigious Duane R. Sterling Rotary International Scholar, saying that the United States creates an enabling environment for growth and actualization of…
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