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CAC honours her out-going General Secretary

From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The Christ Apostolic Church, (CAC) Worldwide at the weekend held a send-off service for her out-going General Secretary, Pastor Gideon Okegwemeh at All Saints’ Chapel Auditorium, Basorun, Ibadan. Speaking during the send-off service, the President of CAC, Pastor Abraham Akinosun said Pastor Okegwemeh has rendered a selfless service compared to the…

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Oyo N’digbo warns faction against violence as it celebrate cultural day

From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The Igbo General Assembly in Oyo state has decried a possible violence that may be unleashed by a warring faction of the association as it celebrates this year cultural day. The Acting President General of the association, Nze Emeka Enweronye made this known penultimate week at a press conference in Ibadan…

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Group offers measures for businesses to thrive in Oyo state

As part of effort to improve the lives of Nigeria’s citizens, The Federal Government of Nigeria and Department of International Development (DFID) with World Bank has come up with a program called Growth and Employment in State (GEMS), an initiative to reduce poverty in the country. This was made known at a public forum in…

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German institute trains female researchers in Nigeria

The German Academic Exchanged Service called DAAD has since 1957 trained more than 2000 Alumni in Nigeria who have received scholarship from variety of programs in Germany and out of which about 300 awardees are females. The DAAD representative in University of Ibadan, Hanna Schlingman made this known at a forum organised by Women Advanced…

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How Fela ceded me and 27 others out in marriage- Laide Anikulapo Kuti

In a video interview with Trumpet Media Group recently, one of the wives of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Laide Anikulapo-Kuti, Nee Babayale, has revealed some shocking revelation about the late Afro beat legend. Though the interview was months back, but you can read the transcribed version. Excerpts: How did you meet Fela I…

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How Fela ceded me and 27 others out in marriage- Laide Anikulapo Kuti

In a video interview with Trumpet Media Group recently, one of the wives of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Laide Anikulapo-Kuti, Nee Babayale, has revealed some shocking revelation about the late Afro beat legend. Though the interview was months back, but you can read the transcribed version. Excerpts: How did you meet Fela I…

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Breaking News: Bomb blast killed scores of Yobe Students during Assembly this morning

Many students are feared dead after a bomb blast rent the air during an assembly this morning at Government Science & Technical Secondary School, Potiskum Yobe State. It was gathered that one of the student of the school whose name is yet to be known put on the bomb. It was also gathered that the…

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Boko Haram: No President resigns during war, Journathan tells APC

The Presidency has said there is no part of the world where the President resigns during an ongoing war. It therefore challenged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to tell Nigerians where such presidents had resigned during war time. The Presidency was reacting to the demand by the leadership of the APC, including its…

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Ondo PDP crisis gets messier as more lawmakers likely to join APC

Some aggrieved leaders of the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stormed Abuja yesterday, following a disagreement with Governor Olusegun Mimiko. The chapter was thrown into crisis after Mimiko’s defection from the Labour Party to the PDP and the subsequent dissolution of the Ebenezer Alabi-led state executive by the party’s national leadership….

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Osun electionTribunal: Oyinlola appears in court as counsel for Aregbesola

The hearing on the August 9, governorship election in Osun state continued yesterday as the former governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola  appeared as one of the counsels to his successor in office, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The announcement of the former governor of the state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as one of the counsels for Aregbesola…

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