Day: May 10, 2025

Reps To Probe N200bn CBN Loan Disbursed To DisCos For Metering

Ganiyu Amodu

The house of representatives has launched a probe into the disbursement and utilisation of the N200 billion loan provided by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the national mass metering programme (NMMP) to electricity distribution companies (DisCos). Uchenna Okonkwo, chairman of the house committee on power, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, announcing the inauguration of a 19-member subcommittee to carry out the investigation. He said the committee’s main goal is to investigate the programme launched in 2020 to enable licensed electricity distribution companies to provide…

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Women Are Free To Be Gold Diggers, By Funke Egbemode

Ganiyu Amodu

Do you still remember the story of my friend who said he loves women with big breasts? Each time a woman with full frontal endowment passed, he smacked his lips. He will not date a woman with less than 34DD specification. He can ‘manage’ if her southern region is not rich or even outright flat. As long as there is something full to cushion his stress after a long hard day. But his wife, yes, the Madam of the house, is almost flat-chested. Yet my friend is married, happily married.…

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‘Exposed,’ President Liberian Doctor’s Association Doesn’t Have University Degree

ADEOLA YUSUF

  ‘After practising for many years,’ Peter Matthew George’s lies uncovered, barred from Practising      The head of Liberia’s doctors’ association has been banned from practising medicine after a regulatory body said it did not have evidence of his initial medical degree. As part of a qualifications audit, the Liberia Medical and Dental Council (LMDC) asked Peter Matthew George to provide his professional certificates. In April, the LMDC told Dr George that it had revoked his licence as he had not given satisfactory proof he had graduated in medicine…

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Wasiu Tejuoso: Tribute To The New Asiwaju Kemta Egbaland, By Ganiyu Olowu

ADEOLA YUSUF

    There are many woods in the forest—some hardy, some ordinary, some merely ornamental. But when the time comes to create the gbedu, that great drum whose timbre commands kings and warriors to hearken, only a rare, resilient, and resonant wood is considered. Gbedu is not just any drum—it is the drum against which all others are measured, the drum by which drums themselves are defined. Such is the story of Dr Wasiu Tejuoso: a man chosen not just for a title but for the substance of his existence.…

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MAPOLY Alumni HQ Rallies Olota, Surry Bee CEO, Others For Nat’l Convention

Ganiyu Amodu

. How the convention and general meeting will usher in a new national executive council (NEC) – National President, Ezekiel Obasanya, gives details   Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Alumni Association (MAPALUM) is set to hold her biennial alumni convention on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at Academic Planning Building Board Hall, Ojere campus, Abeokuta. According to the National President, Mr Ezekiel Obasanya who disclosed that “ the convention and general meeting will usher in a change of guard as new national executive council (NEC) are to be elected by delegates from various…

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