Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has test driven a locally assembled electric car, Hyundai Kona, on Tuesday in Abuja. Osinbajo drove the car while on exhibition tour of made-in-Nigeria products at the opening ceremony of a five-day Nigeria @ 60 Expo being held at the Eagle Square, Abuja. The event is organised by the Inter-ministerial Committee on Nigeria @ 60 in ...
June, 2021
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16 June
Sanwo-Olu commissions Yaba Bus Terminal
Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu today commissioned The Yaba Bus Terminal. The terminal is one of the most modern of all bus termini in terms of design and physical attractiveness. The white teflon covering being a waterproof fabric gives the terminal a unique look and would complement our Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line rail infrastructure which ...
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16 June
Buhari is not Jibril; he’s not senile! -Reuben Abati
I have been privileged to interview quite a number of world leaders in the course of my journalism career. These include President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Commonwealth Secretary General Shridath Ramphal, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan etc..not to talk of holding the microphone across the world in the presence of countless Presidents in ...
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16 June
Tinubu returns to Nigeria amidst death rumours
The reports of my death has been greatly exagerated’,these words of American writer,was the countenance of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and those close to him,as returned to Nigeria on Tuesday evening amidst rumours of his death after, he was hospitalized in France. However,his return to Nigeria ...
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16 June
Ability In Inability: Makoko Boy Ready To Storm The World of Chess
About a month ago,we discovered a boy with Spastic cerebral palsy being mocked by his peers in the slums of Makoko where we had a chess training program for children without access to education, we brought him into our training center and introduced him to the gift of Chess.Few minutes into learning board arrangement and pawn movements, he outperformed everyone ...
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16 June
Opinion : WHO IS NIGERIAN PLAYER OF THE 2020/21 SEASON (ABROAD)?
The 2020/2021football league season has ended in Europe. A friend threw the above question at me. He emphasized on the word ABROAD which excludes home based players who should have a similar separate award. He looked at the players overall performance, contributions to their clubs and laurels won in the separate leagues across the world especially Europe. I told him, ...
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15 June
Behold the copyright owner’ of Oniduro
Gospel Artiste Evang Mrs. Toluwalase Adelegan has reacted to the trending controversy surrounding the popular Christian song Oniduro Mi. Adelegan, in a video obtained by explained she is the original composer of the song, which was part of an album she released about seven years ago. The song, which is currently trending, has been sung by Tolu Adelegan, Shola Allyson ...
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15 June
(Opinion) : Tope Alabi, this is most unfortunate
A video is fast trending on social media. It is a video of a live concert performance of multiple award winning gospel artiste, Evangelist Tope Alabi…and the issue is the buzz topic in several places. Perhaps the video is an old one and her critics may be using it for whatever reasons best known to them….But it appears to be ...
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15 June
More Knocks as Tope Alabi criticises gospel song ‘Oniduro’
A video made rounds on the Nigerian digital space days ago, which showed ace gospel singer, Tope Alabi, criticising a popular Christian song, Oniduro Mi, which was sung by iconic singers, Tolu Adelegan and Yinka Alaseyori, at different times. In the Yoruba language, Oniduro Mi simply means guarantor. The song exalts God as a guarantor and one who never forsakes ...
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15 June
Tax defaulters to pay 50% of disputed amount into court account before hearing
Tax defaulters who plan to institute legal cases against the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) now have to pay 50% of the assessed amount in dispute into an interest-yielding account of the Federal High Court before the court can hear such matters.Executive Chairman, FIRS, Mr Muhammad Nami, disclosed this on Friday during a public hearing organised by the House of ...