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Year: 2021

Lagos task force set to collaborate with NURTW on traffic enforcement (PHOTOS)

The operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) is set to collaborate with the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Branch, in enforcing the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018 as amended. Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, disclosed this while welcoming the executive members…

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You’ve done well but don’t take laws into your hands, Ooni urges Sunday Igboho

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands. Although the monarch praised Igboho for speaking for the downtrodden,but said it was time he allowed the constituted authorities including the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to take charge…

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What Ooni discussed with Buhari on Fulani herdsmen’s unrest in Yorubaland (PHOTOS)

One of the aides of Ooni of Ife has revealed some details of the meeting between President Mohammadu Buhari and Ooni Of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The aide of the monarch who spoke with PUNCH disclosed that the first-class king met with the President to discuss the rising ethnic tension in the South-West. The aide…

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Updated: Buhari in closed door meeting with Makinde, Akeredolu over herdsmen’s crisis (Video, PHOTOS)

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) was in closed door meeting with two South-West state governors, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. During the meeting, Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde demanded for more police squadrons for the state. Addressing State House correspondents after his meeting with the president, Makinde…

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Sunday Igboho is illiterate but has native intelligence, says Aare Gani Adams (Video)

Reacting to the gallant fight against the spate of killings and criminal activities by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams has hailed the Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Ighoho for his laudable intervention. Aare Adams in a video interview with Legit.NG on Wednesday described the…

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Weird! : Man removes nose, lips to turn himself into ‘black alien’

Anthony Loffredo, a 32-year-old Frenchman who wants to be a “black alien,” has gotten his nose removed in Spain, where it is legal to do so, the Mirror reports. He also had his upper lip cut off and covered his entire body — including his eyeballs — in tattoos as part of his @the_black_alien_project on…

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BREAKING: Nollywood actor, Ernest Asuzu, dies at 37

The Nigerian Film industry has lost another of its own, Ernest Asuzu. Asuzu died on Tuesday evening at the age of 37. The news of his death was confirmed by the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, on Wednesday morning. Asuzu began his acting career in the ’90s and rose to prominence…

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Stop blackmail! FCC boss, Dankaka warns critics says, ‘no more business as usual’

The Executive Chairman, Federal Character Commission (FCC), Dr Muheeba Dankaka, has said nobody can blackmail her over sponsored false and fabricated stories to smear the Commission and her name, in her quest to return sanity to the system. Dankaka also warned the purveyors of the fake news to get used to ‘no more business as…

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The Igboho we know (a response to Senator Ojudu) | By Tunde Sala

A man can be described in different ways. My senator sir, you have described Oloye Igboho the best way you can or rather the way it suits you and your camp. In Igboho, you see a thug, but in him, we are seen a different person. To us in Yoruba, Igboho is representing two things,…

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Oyo OPC calls on Yoruba leaders to settle rift between Makinde, Sunday Igboho

•Condemns attack on Igboho’s house The Odua People’s Congress, OPC, Oyo State Chapter, has called on traditional rulers in Yoruba Land to settle the rift between Governor Seyi Makinde and Sunday Igboho. It also said Igboho is an invaluable future material not only to the state, but Nigeria as a whole. The State Chairman of…

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