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Day: November 10, 2021

Oyo revenue collectors killed motorcyclist over N100 in Ibadan

Revenue collectors suspected to be from the Oyo State Park Management System have beaten a motorcyclist to death over non-purchase of N100 daily ticket. The incident, which took place at Queen Cinema area, Dugbe, Ibadan at around 11 am on Wednesday, saw other motorcyclists descend on the revenue collectors and gave one of them injuries…

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Senator Balogun felicitates with Arapaja at 63

Senator Kola Balogun has congratulated the Deputy National Chairman-elect (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Taofeek Oladejo Arapaja, on his 63rd birthday. Senator Balogun, who represents Oyo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, described Ambassador Arapaja, who is also a former deputy governor of Oyo State, as a charismatic politician who has…

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When God visits a beleaguered world|By William F. Kumuyi

I did say in my last State of the Nation intervention essay published in October in most of Nigeria’s leading newspapers and worldwide in the social media that while God expects the state and its institutions of administration to attend to secular matters, He is nonetheless interested in fairness, equity and justice as man discharges…

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BREAKING: INEC declares Soludo winner of Anambra governorship election (See details of the result)

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the winner of the Anambra 2021 governorship election. The returning officer, Florence Obi made the announcement of the result early Wednesday morning. Soludo, the APGA candidate secured 112,229 votes to defeat his two…

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EndSARS protester, Banjo Olalekan, alleges persecution by Nigerian Govt, seeks asylum in Ireland

As several reports suggest that the Nigerian government is still cracking down on the recent EndSARS protest organizers two years after, there has been a spike in the number of Nigerians seeking asylum abroad. Investigations revealed that, with the refugee protection claims typically based on allegations of persecution in a person’s home country, a range…

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