Month: January 2022

Mother’s love for her child and family By Paul Ejime

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Mother’s love for her child is described as unconditional, limitless and unequalled. There is also hardly any major disagreement over the near indispensable role a mother plays in a family even in our materialistic modern world. In the spiritual realm too, most religious adherents agree that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Orthodox Churches and Roman Catholic faithful therefore bestow on Mary the title of Theotokos, Greek for God-bearer or Mother of God. For some, the debate is not whether the…

Excuse me: Let’s Make This Transition More Glorious By Omoniyi Ibietan

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The Ibadan paramount monarch, His Majesty, Saliu Adetunji, AJE OGUNGUNISO I, has just transited gloriously at age 93. A fulfilled life by all measures. Tributes, elegies and condolences, from President Buhari to Governor Makinde down to the citizens, have captured the beauty of determination and focus that the monarch’s life signposted. He administered a land that’s both historic and cultural. We do not need Shakespeare or Homer to re-story the significance of Ibadan. In the literary world, Soyinka, Achebe and others whose defining moments had Ibadan footprints represent even more…

FULL TEXT OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S STATEMENT TO THE NATION ON JANUARY 1, 2022

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We remain grateful to the Almighty God for yet another Year attained as a country, united by a common destiny and resolute in our determination to overcome the several challenges along the path to build the great and prosperous Nation of our dream. 2. I salute the courage and resilience of all Nigerians, which was evident in 2021 as this nation, like other countries of the world, faced significant challenges that occurred as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts to restore the global economy and social order.…

Osi Basorun of Ibadanland, Adeduntan mourns Late Olubadan

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The Osi Basorun of Ibadanland and 2023 Oyo State Governorship Hopeful, Chief Dr. Azeez Popoola Adeduntan has expressed sadness over the death of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji (Aje Oguguniso 1) on Sunday morning.   In a statement issued by his media office in Ibadan and made available to journalists, Osi Basorun Adeduntan described the passing away of the Ibadan Monarch as shocking and unexpected at this time.   Olubadan Adetunji died in the early hours of Sunday at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.at the age of…

Nigeria must unite against evil, We have nowhere else to go – APC Chairmanship Aspirant,Mohammed Saidu Etsu

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An aspirant for the position of National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Mohammed Saidu Etsu has said the country must unite against evil. In a New Year message on Friday, Estu said citizens must make the best out of Nigeria because “we have nowhere else to go”. The 36-year-old aspirant said good Nigerians “trump the evil doers in a million fold”. “It requires no proof to know that good Nigerians trump the evil doers in Million folds, so, if evil thrive, it is only because good people did…

Yahaya Bello charges Govt, Private organizations to patronise indigenous contractors … says such gesture will boost local economy

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Kogi State Governor ,Yahaya Bello has urged governments and private organisations to patronize indigenous contractors and engineers asserting that such gesture possesses great ripple benefits to local economy. Governor Bello made this known on Sunday when he paid an unscheduled visit to the project site of the ongoing construction of the Lokoja civic centre where he also expressed satisfaction with the pace and quality of work delivered so far Governor Bello remarked that the civic centre was one amongst the several infrastructural facelift ongoing in the capital city of Lokoja…

Gov Bello mourns late Olubadan, says Nigeria has lost a father

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Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has mourned the demise of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji whose demise was announced on sunday at the age of 93 The Governor in a Press Statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Muhammed Onogwu reacted to the death of the royal father, described his death as a national loss noted that Nigeria had lost another of its very important traditional father. Yahaya Bello noted that although his death came at a very ripe age, his role as an advocate of peace and unity…

Remain Steadfast and Resolute in Promotion of Academic Excellence of Your Alma Mater – IBB tasks WOSA Members

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The former Military Head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida(Rtd) has called on members of Wushishi Old Students Association (WOSA) to remain steadfast and resolute in their quest to promote academic excellence of their alma mater. The former President disclosed this when he received members of Board of Trustees and the newly elected Executive Committee of Wushishi Old Students Association led by the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Professor Muhammed Kuta Yahaya at the Uphill Residence of the former President in Minna. General Babangida commended members of WOSA for putting Wushishi…

The Ninth Assembly and a reporter’s obsession with bias By Dr Ezrel Tabiowo

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When the Ninth Assembly was inaugurated on June 11, 2019, it came prepared to deliver on its mandate, which in clear terms was to ensure “a National Assembly that works for Nigerians”, following Senator Ahmad Lawan’s emergence as President of the Senate and Chairman of the National Assembly. The upper chamber, in keeping with promises outlined in its robust legislative agenda, laid the needed foundation, which, on the long run, would impact positively on the economy and bring about institutional reforms in other critical sectors of the nation’s governance structure…

NEW YEAR : House Of Reps Hopeful, Akinwole Akinwale, tasks Nigerians on patriotism

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A Federal House of Representatives Aspirant, Hon Akinwale Akinwole Solomon has said the major solution to all the challenges bedeviling Nigeria is for all the citizens to be patriotic and be committed to the development.   The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain popularly known as Wolekanle, in a new year message to Nigerians said it is the Grace of God that has been sustaining us as a nation, and for us to move beyond where we are and achieve better growth we all have to be more patriotic, obey the…