Day: March 30, 2024

He Died After Tawaf, The Companion Reveals LASU Prof’s Last Hour In Mecca

Ganiyu Amodu

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…

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Asiwaju Is Here! Let’s Just Do It! By Debo Adesina

ADEOLA YUSUF

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…

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Ex-president Survives Road Crash

Abibat Babalola

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

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One Man Has Over 10,000 Lines Linked To His NIN – NCC

Abibat Babalola

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.…

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US Gov, Deputy Excited As Nigeria’s Muritala Ayinla Emerges Duane R. Sterling Rotary Int’l Scholar

Abibat Babalola

“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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