Author: ADEOLA YUSUF

A multiple award-winning journalist with over two decades of impactful investigative reporting, fact-checking, and solution journalism experience, Adeola Yusuf is currently the Team Lead of Platforms Africa.

‘Be Good Ambassadors of Lagos,’ Sanwo-Olu Bids 1,432 Hajj Pilgrims Goodbye

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  . Lagos Gov deepens welfare, takes over payment of sacrificial goats, spiritual clothing, and visits to holy sites for state pilgrims in Saudi Arabia   The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has charged 1,432 Hajj pilgrims from the state to be good ambassadors of Lagos and Nigeria at the holy land. Platforms Africa reports that the governor said this at a one-day seminar for 2025 hajj intending pilgrims in Lagos held at LTV Blue roof, Agidingbi, Ikeja. The first batch of pilgrims from the state are to leave Nigeria…

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Seven Doors, Lisabi; List of Winners At AMVCA 2024

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‘Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha, Lateef Adedimeji, Bimbe Adedimeji, Mercy Aigbe, Gabriel Afolayan, Hakeem Onilogbo,’ are you surprised with the list? check full names of who won what at the 11th award   “Seven Doors”, an historical drama series by Femi Adebayo, has triumphed at the 11th Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA), winning three major awards, solidifying its standout status in Nollywood. Femi Adebayo won Best Lead Actor for his portrayal of Adedunjoye, the king in the series. Chioma Chukwuka also claimed the Best Lead Actress award for her role as…

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

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  ‘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

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    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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JAMB Releases 2025 UTME Results, Withholds 39,834

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially released the results of the 1.951, 811 candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) while withholding 39,834 results. This is even as it revealed that 80 suspects are currently under interrogation for examination fraud as Anambra State tops with 14 suspects, Lagos, 9, Delta, 8, Kano, 7, Kaduna and Rivers 6 each. Ebonyi and Enugu followed with 5 each, Imo and Ondo, 3 each, Nasarawa, Abia, Plateau , 2 each while the other 8 states had 1…

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Lekan Otufodunrin; An Inspirational Journalist @61, By Qasim Akinreti

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It is another memorable day for a colleague, media trainer,entrepreneur, and activist, Elder Lekan Otufodunrin, celebrating 61 years’ birthday 🎂 Fair in complexion and kind hearted ,Lekan as fondly called has gone through the mill of Journalism profession, Reporter, Features writer, News Editor, Online Editor, devouted media union member, media mentor and media trainer per excellon. I knew Lekan as a Reporter with the Punch newspapers and he played his active role in the NUJ Lagos state Council creditably and retired voluntarily from the Nation Newspapers as Online Editor, to…

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Economic Reforms Not To Punish Nigerians, But To Avert Collapse, Says Tinubu

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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday stated that his administration inherited a “near-insolvent” treasury and a chaotic economic structure upon assuming office in 2023, but has since implemented bold and painful reforms that are beginning to yield results. Speaking during a state visit and grand reception in Awka, the Anambra State capital, Tinubu said the financial state of the nation was dire when he took over, citing massive public debts, “unsustainable multiple subsidies”, and an unstable foreign exchange regime. “We met near-insolvent public finance, a decades-old monster of unsustainable multiple subsidies,…

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Tinubu Nominates Usoro Akpabio As SSDC MD, Nwuche As Chairman

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President Bola Tinubu has nominated Madam Usoro Offiong Akpabio, a prominent politician and strategist from Akwa Ibom State, as the Managing Director of the newly established South South Development Commission (SSDC). Also nominated is former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche from Rivers State, who will serve as Chairman of the Commission. READ ALSO: Akpabio To Peter Obi: Resolve Issues In Your Small Party Before Aspiring To Be President Robert Francis Announced As New Catholic Leader NCDMB Promotes Obinna Ezeobi PhD Ag. GM Corporate Communication ’52 Years…

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Akpabio To Peter Obi: Resolve Issues In Your Small Party Before Aspiring To Be President

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The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has responded to Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), over his recent comments that the “labour of our heroes past is all in vain’. Akpabio advised Obi to first resolve the internal issues in his “small party” before aiming for the presidency of Nigeria. Akpabio’s remarks came on Thursday during the valedictory session in honor of the late former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark. READ ALSO: NCDMB Promotes Obinna Ezeobi PhD Ag. GM Corporate…

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Robert Francis Announced As New Catholic Leader

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. ’From Peru missionary to first American pontiff,’ what you need to know about the 267th pope   Robert Francis Prevost became the first pope from the United States on Thursday, picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from around the world elected him leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Tens of thousands of people packed in St Peter’s Square cheered as Prevost appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, waving with both hands, smiling and bowing. “Peace by with you,” he told the crowds. White smoke…

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