Day: August 12, 2024

Ohanaeze Demands Hon. Ugochinyere-Led Committee’s Probe

Aliyu Aliyu

  , As Controversies Over Committee’s Alleged Interest In Dangote Refinery, NNPCL Rift Worsens   A Pressure Group in the South East, Ohanaeze Think Tank, has called on the House of Representatives to investigate the activities of the disbanded Ugochinyere led committee investigating the NNPCL under Engr Mele Kyari. The Think Tank Group described the 15-man committee as scandalous, which must be investigated forthwith, adding that Ugochinyere and his cohorts were poised to impose their sinister agenda on the House and the Nigerian public. According to a statement signed by…

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Prof. Dele Odunlami Delivers Olabisi Onabanjo Varsity’s 119th Inaugural Lecture

ADEOLA YUSUF

“First Professor of Mass Communication in OOU’s history,” What to know about Odunlami and his lecture titled; “(Re)Moving The Ancient Landmarks? How Technology Deconstructs The Mass Media.”   Prof. Ayodele Thomas Odunlami, a professor of Broadcast Journalism, is set to deliver the 119th Inaugural Lecture at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) on Thursday, August 13, 2024. Platforms Africa reports that the event will take place at the OGD Lecture Theatre on the main campus in Ago-Iwoye, with Prof. Ayodeji Agboola, the Vice-Chancellor, serving as the chairman. Prof. Odunlami, who currently serves…

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Ladoja Gets Staff Of Office As Beaded Crown King

Abibat Babalola

Rashidi Ladoja, former governor of Oyo state, has officially received the Ibadan beaded crown after seven years of resistance. Ladoja was presented the crown on Monday by Bayo Lawal, acting governor of the state, during a ceremony held at the palace of Owolabi Olakulehin, the Olubadan of Ibadanland. Ladoja, the Otun Olubadan, is one of the 11 high chiefs in the succession line to Olakunlehin. Ladoja’s coronation comes about seven years after he refused the beaded crown which confers the “his royal majesty” title on him. The former governor announced…

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WAEC Releases 2024 WASSCE Results

ADEOLA YUSUF

The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, results. The exam body disclosed this in a Monday post on X. The post read, “The West African Examinations Council is pleased to inform candidates who sat WASSCE for school candidates, 2024 that the result has officially been released today, Monday, August 12, 2024.”

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Lagos Blue Line Begins 72 Trips Per Day

Abibat Babalola

The Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line will from today (Monday) upscale the number of trips from 54 to 72 per day. The Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, Abimbola Akinajo, made this known in a Sunday statement published on the agency’s X handle. Akinajo said the current schedule for Sunday operations remained unchanged. “The Blue Line train riders will now travel between Marina and Mile 2 in just about 18 minutes from the previous travel time of 25 minutes. The implication is that there will be a…

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NLC Demands Apology From Nigeria Govt, Police For Raid On Secretariat

Abibat Babalola

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded a public apology from the federal government and the police authorities for the recent invasion of its headquarters in Abuja by police operatives. The union rejected police’s explanation for the raid on its secretariat on Wednesday, describing it as an afterthought. NLC condemned the police’s conduct in a communique issued on Sunday following an emergency meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) held on Saturday to deliberate on the incident. The labour union said the invasion of its headquarters was deliberate and provocative…

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Minding the Mutating Protest, By Tunde Akanni and Amira Obi-Okoye

ADEOLA YUSUF

Most credible English Language Dictionaries provide at least 10 synonyms for the word protest – object, disagree, oppose, complain, disapprove, declare, insist, affirm, avow, declare, grouse, holler, belly-ache. One Thesaurus, in fact, offers 106 synonyms and antonyms of the word “protest”. Yet writers don’t often consider any of them good substitute for “protest”, because over the decades, the word has assumed a much deeper, complex and lethal meaning. Palpably so, perhaps. The past decade or thereabouts, protests have become a dominant instrument of people and issue management across the local…

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