Month: April 2023

JUST IN: Worshippers trapped as truck rams into mosque in Suleja

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No fewer than three persons have been trapped after a trailer loaded with powdered milk rammed into a mosque at Suleja, Niger State.   According to Daily Trust, the accident occurred around 6 am on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, when many people had left the mosque after morning prayers.   An eyewitness said the trailer fell on the back section of the mosque where women and children pray.   However, three people, including a child, were trapped in the ruins and subsequently sustained injuries.   When the scene was visited…

NCC not responsible for monitoring social media contents – Muoka

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has maintained that it does not possessed act to regulate the contents of the social media networks that many stakeholders have complained about.   The submission came during a recent visit of the National Civil Society Council of Nigeria (NCSCN), led by its Executive Secretary, Blessing Akinsolotu, who sought the intervention of the Commission on the worrisome and misleading content of social media platforms.   “We know that NCC, as the regulator of the telecoms industry, has greater role to play in helping to curb…

PADIN raises concern over rising poverty among PLWD ….. donates crutches to 360 beneficiaries

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A nongovernmental organization, Poverty and Disability Initiative in Nigeria, (PADIN) has lamented the increased rate of poverty among People Living With Disability(PLWD) in Nigeria while promising to contribute their quota in filling the gap’ This much was said by the President and founder of the NGO, Olatunji Oladayo Lincoln while speaking with our correspondent on Saturday during the occasion of the distribution of crutches to people living with disability at the Disable colony, Karumajigi, a suburb in the Federal Capital Territory. He maintained that there has been a lot of…

Senate President mourns Ex Justice Minister,Prince Bola Ajibola

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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condoled with the family of Prince Bola Ajibola over the loss of the octogenarian who passed on at midnight on Saturday.   Lawan described the late elder statesman as an erudite lawyer and international jurist who left bold imprints on the study and practice of Law both in and outside the shores of Nigeria.   The Senate President noted that as a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association(NBA), former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and one time Judge of the International…

The Royal Tapestry of Ankpa: HRH Sadiq Ahmed By Haruspice

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He was barely a lad when he started to throttle on the saddle of royalty, while others jive afar from the dance hall of the palace, he buried himself in the art.. This he did with dispassionate interest, to him, it was a responsibility for a child to hold the bowl while the king feast. Nature with her way of giving what you give her decided to throw this lad to the throne. Today, he sits in magnificent majesty on the throne he was once a manservant. Indeed for every…

A Tapestry of Words: Haruspice Weaves His Influential Voice into the Osinbajo Book By Nathan Oguche Emmanuel

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Haruspice, a popular social media influencer, is one of the 25 prominent writers and journalists who have collaborated to write a book on the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. The book, titled “OSINBAJO STRIDES: Defining Moments of An Innovative Leader,” is scheduled to be virtually launched on April 28, 2023, at 4 p.m. Announcing the development on his Facebook account, Haruspice said, “When you dream and wake up to it, you can live the reality of it. It’s a huge privilege to be listed among the array…

Tinubu mourns exit of eminent jurist, Prince Bola Ajibola

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President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed his profound sadness over the demise of eminent elder statesman and international jurist, Prince Bola Ajibola, SAN Prince Ajibola was Nigeria’s former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in the military administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Before his Ministerial duty, Prince Ajibola was President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). While expressing his sympathy and condolences to the family of the legal luminary and founder of Crescent University Abeokuta, Asíwájú Tinubu acknowledged Prince Ajibola’s important contributions to Nigeria’s political evolution and nation-building, legal…

NASSLAF/NASS; While Silence is Not Golden. By Bala Mahdi.

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Two months to the end of the 9th Assembly spanned for 48 months, the lingering salary areas and allowances of legislative aides who are members of National Assembly Legislative Staff Forum NASSLAF seems a mirage , even with committed promises from the new Clerk to the National Assembly CNA, Sani Magaji Tambuwal with no obvious reactions.   Two months to the end of the 9th Assembly, with the last quarterly allocation in March after the arears was inculcated into the 2023 budget, payment seems not to be in sight towards…

The husband snatcher By Funke Egbemode ([email protected])

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‘Whose idea was this whole ‘husband snatcher’ theory? Who started it? I asked my friend. He’s a man, street-wise one too.   ‘Women.’ He said simply, and continued scrolling through the Whatsapp messages on his phone.   ‘Women what?’ I asked, covering the screen of his phone with my palm.   ‘Women started it, like many other theories. You people are very creative especially when it comes to intimate affairs.’ He winked and chuckled.   ‘Come on, be serious.’   ‘I am as serious as let-us-pray. Have you ever heard…

Is Soyinka, the god, unraveling? By Festus Adedayo

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Kongi, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians tether goats, sprinkle oil, pour libations and offer ekuru of appeasement, is going through ferment. It is a period comparable to that low moment which, the Yoruba say, when big misfortunes wrestle one down, smaller travails defecate into one’s mouth – Ti iya nla ba gbe’ni san’le, kekeke a ma g’ori eni. In an elegy to Adegoke Adelabu who died in a 1958 road crash, his NCNC political party bard, Ilorin, Kwara State-born Odolaye Aremu, narrated his sudden death and…