(Some of the Beneficiaries) (Chairman, EDE Muslim Council, Dr. Misbaudeen Olatunde) By Olabisi Kazeem (Imam Ailaka) Ede: Students numbering over one hundred males and females from public and private various secondary schools in Ede were given free text books to encourage and improve the lives ofContinue Reading
*By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharves of the Niger Delta of King Jaja of Opobo on the rather dubious charge of “obstruction of trade”. It accused King Jaja of violatingContinue Reading
…Felicitates with Ace Journalist, Sir Ademola Osinubi, on 70th Birthday A former Secretary to Ogun State Government and immediate-past Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, has extended condolence to Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, former Ogun State Commissioner for Information on the death of hisContinue Reading
TCN Maintenance: Mainpower Disco announces planned power outage in parts of Enugu The MainPower Electricity Distribution Limited (MEDL) has announced a planned power outage for maintenance repairs that might span days in some parts of Enugu metropolis. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head, Corporate Communications of MEDL,Continue Reading
By Lasisi Olagunju In mid-19th-century Ibadan, military expeditions under Balogun Ibikunle were so successful in slave-catching that by 1859, the city was gripped in the apprehension that it had harvested more slaves than it could control. Professor Bolanle Awe, citing missionary Hinderer’s Half-Yearly Report of Ibadan Station forContinue Reading
-By Maj.-Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju The pivot and the very womb of central Lagos is undoubtedly Lagos Island. It is the heartland of our ancestors . It is the centrality of our beginning, the core provenance that defines our cherished heritage. It is the home of our great menContinue Reading
*By Sonny Onyegbula The remains of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga were laid to rest on Sunday, 19th October in Bondo, his country home in western Kenya, with tens of thousands of his compatriots and foreign leaders paying tribute to his exemplary life. Mzee “Baba Odinga,” as he was affectionately calledContinue Reading
Hearing in the police suit against Omoyele Sowore and other conveners of #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest, on Monday, suffered set back as court activities at the Federal High Court in Abuja came to a halt. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as at 9:30am when the reporter got accessContinue Reading
By Abuja: (NAN) Mining host communities across West Africa have called for urgent reforms to ensure that the region’s vast mineral wealth benefits local people, protects the environment, and upholds human rights. The demand came at the 5th West African Mining Host Communities Indaba, held in Abuja fromContinue Reading
