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Florence Ajimobi @ 60: 15 Things You Should Know About Her by Sayo Aluko

Florence Ajimobi was born in Benin City on the 5th of April, 1959, to the Hajaig family of Lebanon, but she grew up in the ancient city of Ibadan. 2. She is a graduate of Secretarial Studies and Management from The Polytechnic Ibadan. 3. She got married to Abiola Ajimobi in 1980, and the marriage…

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HOW ALAAFIN’S POLICE ORDERLY CAUSED ABACHA’S SCARE AT MY WEDDING, BY YINKA FABOWALE

Dateline: Saturday, March 29, 1997. Ebun Olojede Street, off Festac 1st Gate, Amuwo, Lagos. The mood at the traditional wedding/introduction ceremony just got upbeat as the bride after the usual motions of customary courtesies and bestowal of blessings by her family and the groom’s, smilingly took her seat beside me on the special nuptial chairs…

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Fayemi: the emerging vanguard of democracy

•By Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan Many people were stunned by his defeat in the 2014 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State. Some could not even figure out why a man who was and still is, an epitome of leadership finesse could be denied a second term by the same people he laboured to serve. While in…

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Alao Akala: The Only Standing “APC Figure ” in Oyo state

I quoted “APC FIGURE” because Otunba Alao-Akala is an ADP candidate who signed an agreement to support APC in the just concluded 2019 gubernatorial election._ Few days to the Oyo Guber elections, the National Leadership of the APC, having realised the great damage done to the popularity of APC by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi during the…

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Seyi Adisa: Redefining the Politics of Development

Till date, new-generation politicians still make wishful references to the very robust people programmes that defined the political voyage of the great Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo. The reasons for this isn’t unconnected to the almost inimitable nature of those programmes, such that, Awolowo’s free education and welfarist policies for example, remain a standard-bearer for supposedly good…

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