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Nigeria’s Bank Of Agric In N3.2b Loan Racket

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Parliament Fumes As Bank Purchases Tractors For 10 Unnamed Vendors       The Senate has indicted the Bank of Agriculture in Kaduna over N3.2 billion loan disbursed to ten vendors to purchase tractors and other equipment for allocation to end users. The indictment was sequel to the 2016 report of the Auditor General of the Federation considered by Senate Public Accounts Committee chaired by Senator Mathew Uhroghide. READ ALSO: Sudan Crisis: Egypt Refuses To Open Border, Nigerians Heading To Port Sudan Real Estate Stakeholders To Brainstorm At Metro…

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BREAKING: Prince Lukman Adelodu Gbadegesin Is New Alaafin of Oyo +PHOTOS

ADEOLA YUSUF

  How the ex-aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo was announced Alaafin-elect less than 24 hours after his birthday   One year after the demise of Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Oba in Council has announced Prince Lukman Adelodu Gbadegesin Agunloye as the new Kabiyesi elect and Alaafin for Oyo town It was ten princes who came out from his Ladigbolu  family to fight for the position. His name was in number eight. He had worked with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as Personal Assistant when he was the President of the Federal…

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To Save Sudan, These Four ‘Unseen Hands’ Must be Appeased

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Like the African adage says: where greed meets greed, mutual suspicion thrives,” Platforms Africa’s Editor, foreign affairs, Nurudeen Oyewole, writes on why so little should be expected from latest ceasefire in Sudan   After repeatedly failing ceasefires, the two warring factions in the crisis that has engulfed Sudan, the army and its rival – the paramilitary forces otherwise known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a 72-hours tentative ceasefire on Monday, April 24, ten days after the fighting broke out. The ceasefire which was announced by the United…

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Singer R. Kelly To Serve 30-Year Jail Term In North Carolina Prison

ADEOLA YUSUF

RnB singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, has been moved to a correctional centre located in North Carolina, the United States of America, where he is expected to serve his 30-year prison sentence in connection with multiple sexual offences. He was moved to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Caroline Wednesday last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons announced. R. Kelly, in February 2023, was sentenced to one additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction of federal…

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Sudan conflict: Nigerian Govt Seeks Egypt’s Support To Rescue 5,500 Nigerians By Road

ADEOLA YUSUF

.Federal Government warns as Nigerian students pay $100 for ‘dangerous’ road •We are waiting for Sudanese govt to provide safe corridor for evacuation – Minister           The Federal Government is making preparations to evacuate about 5,500 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan through the Egyptian town of Luxor, The PUNCH gathered on Sunday It was gathered that the Federal Government was seeking Egypt’s support so that the stranded Nigerians could be moved to Luxor. The Director of Special Duties of the National Emergency Management Agency, who doubles…

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Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy, By Chimamanda Adichie

ADEOLA YUSUF

In slamming “Nigeria’s hollow democracy,” the famed author wrote: “The smoldering disillusionment felt by many Nigerians is not so much because their candidate did not win as because the election they had dared to trust was, in the end, so unacceptably and unforgivably flawed.“   Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in…

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Trump Indicted, Becomes First U.S. President To Face Criminal Charges

ADEOLA YUSUF

A grand jury in Manhattan has voted to indict Donald Trump, according to three sources familiar with the matter – the first time in American history that a current or former president will face criminal charges. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has been investigating the former president in connection with his alleged role in a hush money payment scheme and cover-up involving adult film star Stormy Daniels that dates to the 2016 presidential election. The decision is sure to send shockwaves across the country, pushing the American political system –…

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Polls: DSS Confirms Plot To Install Interim Govt

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Abuja—After many months of rumours that a section of the political class was planning for an interim government in order to truncate the result of the recently-concluded general elections, the Department of State Services, DSS, formally confirmed yesterday that the plot was real. Spokesman for the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, who disclosed this in a statement, said  the agency had identified some key players in the plot but did not give the names of the masterminds. The agency said the planners of the interim government had already held several meetings during…

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Lagos Govt To Sue Chrisland School, Others For Manslaughter, Negligence

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Lagos State Government said it would sue Chrisland High School, Ikeja, some members of staff, and one of the vendors for “Involuntary Manslaughter and Reckless and Negligent Acts,” following the death of a 12-year-old student, Whitney Adeniran, during a sporting event organised by the school. This is according to a Friday statement released by the Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State Ministry of Justice and published to the ministry’s website. “On the 9th of February 2023, Whitney Omodesola Adeniran, a student of Chrisland High School, Ikeja, aged 12 years, slumped…

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JUST IN: I’m Ready To Serve Possibly For 8 Years, Abia Gov-Elect Alex Otti

ADEOLA YUSUF

Full LGAs-by-LGAs results of how the Labour Party candidate won the Abia guber polls   The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has declared readiness to serve the people of Abia state, Southeast Nigeria “possibly for eight years.” Otti was declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election following the eventual declaration, on Wednesday, of the results of the controversial Obingwa Local Government Area results. READ ALSO: BREAKING: NLC Declares Nationwide Strike Over Naira Scarcity Buhari Removes 5% Excise Duty For Telecoms Services US Hails INEC, Threatens Visa Ban Over…

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