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Infrastructure to Process Innovation: How EKEDC is Building a World-Class Utility Company

ADEOLA YUSUF

Building a world-class utility company could be a herculean task, demanding a consistent commitment to sustained optimal performance. This is more so when dealing with an operating environment and industry fraught with multiple challenges. The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) is defying the odds, systematically creating a multi-pronged model of growth that is both sustainable and replicable. Through its strategic growth model of simultaneous development of hard and soft infrastructure, EKEDC has continued to plot an upward mobility trajectory in Nigeria’s energy sector. Its multi-faceted growth model includes timely acquisition…

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Nigeria’s Chukwueze Wins Best African Player In La Liga

ADEOLA YUSUF

Samuel Chukwueze has won the La Liga Best African Player for the 2022/2023 season following a great campaign with Villarreal. Chukwueze played 37 matches this season, starting 27 of them, and scored six league goals with a brace against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on April 8, 2023. “Samu is now enjoying his well-deserved award, after being voted by more than 30,000 fans and 26 journalists from the continent, ahead of other top African players such as Yassine Bono, Iñaki Williams, and Youssef En-Nesyri, among others,” Villarreal wrote…

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UNILAG Undergraduate Shot Dead By Robbers Over Stolen Phone

ADEOLA YUSUF

A 23-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, identified as Adekunle, has shot dead while trying to recover a stolen phone from a armed robber. According to reports, the UNILAG undergraduate was shot dead by some unknown gunmen at Harvey Road, Moore Road Junction, in the Yaba area of the state on Saturday. It was gathered that Adekunle and his school mate identified as Opeyemi boarded a shuttle bus from Yaba to UNILAG and while in the vehicle, a man, who was hanging at the back of the bus,…

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The Problem With long Courtships, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

Let me start with a confession. I am a closet romantic. I love red roses and blue violets. I love petal-strewn, candle-lit scenes. I love to be wined and dined in exotic places. Everyone close to me knows that my vacations are incomplete without a beach and or a beachfront hotel room. The full works. Life is to be lived and what’s a well lived life as a woman if she has not been wowed by scented candles and exotic dinner on a beach? Every man, every woman must look…

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It’s payback Time For Me To Be Senate President – Izunaso

ADEOLA YUSUF

In an interview with a team of newspapers, a high ranking Senator of the South East extractions, Senator Osita Izunaso, speaks on issues of who becomes the President of the10th Senate. Excerpts: Distinguished, first of all, we want to specially congratulate you for your return to the Senate. Thank you very much How has the journey been? My brother, your guess is as good as mine. It has not been easy, but in all things we give God all the praise, we are alive and we are here now. How…

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Sudan Crisis: Intending Pilgrims To Pay Additional $100, Now To Receive $700 BTA – NAHCON

ADEOLA YUSUF

The the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has ordered intending pilgrims for the 2023 Hajj in the country, to pay additional $100 on flight ticket to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They will also receive $700 BTA, instead of $800 originally calculated. ASHENEWS recalls that the commission initially announced a total final hajj fare ranging between N2.7 million and N2.9 million, a cost variant that is based on the proximity of each state to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Executive secretary of the Kano state Pilgrims Welfare Board,…

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How I ‘Accidentally’ Impregnated My Deputy – Education Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tony Mwaba Kazadi has confessed that he “accidentally” impregnated his Deputy Minister, Aminata Namasia. Gatekeepers News reports that Kazadi and Namasia, despite being married, developed feelings for each other as they worked together in the DRC education ministry. According to The Heritage Times, a DRC journalist, Lungila John took to Twitter to reveal the affair between both officials that led to the deputy education minister’s pregnancy. The duo have come under heavy criticism from citizens of…

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Sunday Mbang, Methodist ex-Prelate, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

Sunday Mbang was born in Idua Eket, Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on August 26, 1936. A former Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Sunday Coffie Mbang, is dead. Mbang died at 86. Details of his death are still sketchy. Sunday Mbang was born in Idua Eket, Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on August 26, 1936 into a humble and Christian family. He studied at the Effoi Group School, Salvation Army School, Akai-Ubium, Government School, Eket, Methodist Boys’ High School, Oron, Teacher’s College,…

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London Court Jails Nigerian Three Years For Flogging Son

ADEOLA YUSUF

An argument by the father, 66, that his action was to discipline his son couldn’t fly. He was, asides three years in jail, also ordered to pay £500 in compensation to his son   An appeal court in London, the United Kingdom, has sentenced a Nigerian man to three years in jail for physically abusing his nine-year-old son. The offender, 66, initially got away with 22 months imprisonment at the end of his trial at the Crown Court in Woolwich, South-east London, which the government disagreed with. Following the government’s appeal…

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Details You Did Not Know About Ekweremadu Case, By Emeka Ugwuonye

ADEOLA YUSUF

David Ukpo Nwamini is the 21-year old Lagos street hawker who was to give his kidney to Ekweremadu’s daughter IN London. When he was interviewed at the hospital in London, they asked him if he knew he was to donate his kidney to Sonia Ekweremadu. He first told them that he had no money to donate. They explained to him that it was his kidney that he was to donate. He asked them what was kidney. Initially, the doctors thought it was a question of language, since David’s English was…

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