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‘No, No,’ Canada Denies 13,000 Nigerians Refugee Status

Abibat Babalola

Over 13,000 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection in Canada from January 2013 to December 2024 were rejected. Data from the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said this figure includes 811 Nigerians whose applications were turned down in 2024. The breakdown of the rejections showed that 127 Nigerian claims were rejected in 2013, 241 in 2014 and 248 in 2015. READ ALSO: Poorly Acted Drama,’ How Nigerian Churches Staged Miracles – Daddy Freeze ‘Sallah Gesture,’ Reps Member Confirms Lawmakers Got $5,000 Each During…

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‘No, Never,’ Rivals Drag New Owa Obokun To Court

Ganiyu Amodu

Controversy has been raging and it is still, as Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, happroved the appointment of 76-year-old Prince Clement Adesuyi Haastrup as the new Owa Obokun of Ijesaland. Prince Haastrup, a former deputy governor of Osun State, was selected following a contested process at the Ilesa West Local Government Secretariat on Friday. Haastrup, who served as deputy governor under the late Isiaka Adeleke, the elder brother of the current governor, from 1992 to 1993, emerged victorious in the selection process conducted by the kingmakers despite an existing court…

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‘No, Never, APC Elders Not Sponsoring Us,’ Group Punctures Lagos Lawmaker’s Claim

Ganiyu Amodu

. Mobilises voters for APC in Lagos   A new political pressure group, ‘Itesiwaju Mainland,’ has dispelled the rumour making the rounds that a certain federal lawmaker in the local government said the elders sponsored the formation of the group. The group, which sprung up in the Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State, said that it poised to mobilise voters for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). On Thursday, the group reportedly set the council area agog when its leadership organised an inaugural meeting at the Hubert Macaulay Primary…

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NO, NO! #EndSARS protesters bar Sowore from addressing them

Aliyu Aliyu

”Come dey go. Come dey go. We don’t want you here. Sowore we don’t want you here,” the protesters declared. The #EndSARS protesters on Thursday, prevented an activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from addressing them. Sowore, the 2019 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), a video shared bt by protesters on Twitter showed, had arrived when the protesters were echoing their demands at the entrance of Nigeria’s National Assembly but was barred from addresing them. Instead, he was asked by the protesters to leave the…

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