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THE AMAZING STORY OF LAGBAJA AND WHY HE COVER’S HIS FACE WITH A MASK

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Bisade Ologunde, known professionally as Lagbaja, is a Nigerian music legend. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was a household name, despite the fact that his music career began much earlier. His musical style is distinct, as his stage presence. He is recognized for performing in traditional attire comparable to that worn by masquerade, with the exception of a few holes around the nose and mouth. Lagbaja’s musical persona is based on mystery, as evidenced by his stage name, which basically translates to ” Nobody. ” Lagbaja can…

Machina Emirate: Where Snakes Pay Homage To King

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Snakes are generally seen as dangerous reptiles, but in Machina Emirate, Yobe State, they are revered. Here, it is believed that royal blood runs in their veins. In fact, they consistently pay homage to the Mai Machinama palace, where their ancestor was born, together with one of their ancestral kings, as twins. According to history, a queen gave birth to twins in the palace, a human being and a snake. Being a snake, it couldn’t stay long with its mother, thus, it found its way into the rocks behind the…

Celebrating Ingenuity: A Teary Story Of Benue Orphan Who Graduates With First Class In Economics , By Joseph Undu,ABUJA

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Since last weekend, the internet has been awashed with trending stories of a Benue born genius orphan with just a gown, a pair of shoes who usually picked pieces of soup in public bathroom to have a clean bathe but persevered to graduate with a first class degree in Economics. The young woman who conquered poverty and shame to achieve a feat that many of her contemporaries living in opulence could not achieve was also living in the most dehumanizing environment while trying to make her late parents proud. Jennifer…

How Atiku will win presidential election —Chief Jumoke Akinjide

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Former Minister of State for FCT and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Chief Jumoke Akinjide, spoke to a group of journalists on the presidential election, how Atiku Abubakar and others will perform in the zones, the focus of the next president, why President Muhammadu Buhari must ensure credible elections, among other issues. DARE ADEKANMBI brings excerpts.   Why do you think, Atiku, who is a Northerner, should succeed Buhari who is concluding eight years of two terms?   First of all, as you know, I…

FGM: Survivors narrate experiences dealing with absence of the clitoris

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With an estimated 20 million survivors, Nigeria has the third-highest number of women and girls who have undergone FGM worldwide     One could almost feel the intensity of her emotions as Osarieme Oziegbe, 28, told the story of her birth and recalled the ugly consequences of the removal of her clitoris (genitalia) by a nurse in Benin City, Nigeria, as narrated to her by her mother.   The nurse had convinced Ms Oziegbe’s mother to circumcise the new baby as part of the cultural rites of the Binis. She…

Ahmad Lawan: The Doyen of Nigerian Parliament @64 By Ola Awoniyi

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Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, the Distinguished Senator representing Yobe North Senatorial District of Yobe State, turns 64 on 12th January, 2023. Within those almost six and a half decades, he has seen it all, especially in public service. In just about five months from now, he will conclude his tenure as the 14th President of the Nigerian Senate and sixth consecutive session in the National Assembly.   Lawan has been around for so long in Abuja that it is easy to assume he was never elsewhere. Yet, his earliest work experience…

NYSC TODAY: MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

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One of the objectives of establishing the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is to “inculcate discipline in the Nigerian youth by instilling in them a tradition of industry at work, and of patriotic and loyal service to Nigeria in any situation they may find themselves”. This is also in tandem with the vision and mission of the Scheme which make the youth the centre of its focus in ensuring national development, riding on their ingenuity, amenability to be mobilized in the national interest as well as their virility; all of…

Ibadan and a significant, historic assemblage of Techies By Omoniyi Ibietan, PhD

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By 1960, the city of Ibadan had grown from a collection of settlements to become Nigeria’s most multicultural city but not before it became a garrison, being originally birthed by dissident soldiers escaping a rampaging 19th Century Yoruba Wars, and determined to build a fort that is impregnable. Nigerian Tribune, one of Nigeria’s resilient and evergreen newspapers, founded by the late nationalist, Obafemi Awolowo and sited at Ibadan, already documented many things Ibadan pioneered: “it is the site of the first television station in Africa, the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA);…

GOVERNOR ADEMOLA ADELEKE: ONE MONTH AFTER By Mallam Olawale Rasheed

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Assuming office under a very hostile environment can be quite challenging. For Governor Ademola Adeleke, the battle for the Governorship did not end with winning on July 16th; the war extended till the Inauguration day on November 27th. Overcoming the odds to rejig the system and set a new tone for governance were hurdles the Governor crossed with such ease. The state has been returned to the people under a very open government leader. From November 27th till date, many positive things happened and more are still coming. A critical…

Late Rev Father SAM IGBAFE, Tributes, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

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The revered catholic priest, late Reverend Father Sam Igbafe MSP who died on Christmas day, 25th December, 2022 was a known priest over a decade ago even as a Muslim follower, though, with a wife with a christian background and a strong catholic follower. The Missionary Society of St Paul MSP catholic priest was the co-overseeing priest at St Anselm Catholic church, Gwagwalada in Abuja, also a strong member of the MSP seminary in his life time, and for his exposures and interaction, Late Rev Father SAM IGBAFE had indulged…