Month: August 2024

Ladoja Gets Staff Of Office As Beaded Crown King

ADEOLA YUSUF

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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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Daily Times Ex-Journalist, Simon Ugwu, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

He was at a training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) organised by NAEC few hours before his death.   Nigerian financial journalist and an ex-energy editor with Daily Times Newspapers, Simon Ugwu, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Ugwu’s death was announced on the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) WhatsApp group on Sunday, quoting his wife, Mrs. Ugwu, to have confirmed the news. ‘3rd Staff In 12 Months,’ The Nation Journalist, Tajudeen Adigun, Is Dead Onyeka Onwenu: I’ll Always Perform ‘Waiting For Me’ On Your Behalf – King Sunny Ade…

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Nigeria’s Electricity Generation Falls By 901 Gigawatts-Hour In Q1, 2024 – NERC

ADEOLA YUSUF

In the first quarter of the year, Nigeria’s total electricity generation dropped by 901.94 GWh compared to the previous quarter of Q4, 2023. This indicates a decline of 9.1% from 9,789.87GWh in 2023/Q4 to 8,887.93GWh in the period under review. This is according to the 2024 first quarter report by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) which states that the average hourly power generation across available generation units also declined by 8.22% in the quarter. The report noted that the average available generation capacity across all power plants in the…

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Adeboye Lampoons Women Who Wear Make-Up During Wedding

ADEOLA YUSUF

The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has disagreed with women who make-up before their weddings, saying such people are querying God. The 82-year-old clergyman made this known recently during the RCCG ministers’ conference at its National Convention on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. According to him, those involved in such practices are fools and don’t believe God did a perfect job. He went on to say some christians act like unbelievers as they go out of their ways to spend money they cannot afford and end up…

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Meet Mia Le Roux, First Deaf Miss South Africa

ADEOLA YUSUF

Mia Le Roux has emerged as the winner of Miss South Africa 2024 beauty pageant. She defeated nine other predominantly black models on Saturday to win the highly coveted crown. She is the first deaf person to be crowned Miss South Africa. Le Roux is a descendant of the Dutch settlers in South Africa, Boers, who formed the minority white population. READ ALSO: Dangote Refinery And Its Crude Supply Wars, By Akpandem James SERAP Asks Tinubu To Probe $1.5bn World Bank Loan To States, FCT Tonto Dikeh For Questioning Over…

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Dangote Refinery And Its Crude Supply Wars, By Akpandem James

ADEOLA YUSUF

Ever since the Dangote Refinery began production late last year, it has faced numerous challenges. It has been in conflict with many major players in the oil and gas industry, including the national oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), as well as the two industry regulators: the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the Nigerian Midstream/Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA). The management of the facility has accused these entities of either directly sabotaging the refinery or attempting to do so by limiting its access to the…

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