- Perspectives
Cutting your nose, By Odi Ikpeazu
There is a stretch of road in Onitsha that I could hardly avoid, even if I wanted to. It leads to my nine year old granddaughter’s school. Unless I absolutely cannot, I endeavour to drive her to and from school. Those short journeys enable me spend some of the most precious moments of my life, chatting with her, bantering, reasoning,…
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Court orders lawyer to pay N20m for filing ‘frivolous’ suit against Tinubu
…throws out suit FCT residents filed to stop the presidential inauguration The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, wielded the big stick against a legal practitioner, Mr Chuks Nwachukwu, who is ordered to pay a fine of N20 million for filing a frivolous suit to stop the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu on May 29. The lawyer, represented…
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Tinubu hails appointment of Nigerian-born British AI expert, Abel Aboh, into Scotland’s board of Data Lab Centre
For making Nigeria proud on a global stage in the field of Artificial Intelligence, President Bola Tinubu has poured encomiums on Mr. Abel Aboh. The Nigerian-born British Artificial Intelligence expert was recently appointed into the Board of the Data Lab Innovation Centre, Scotland, United Kingdom. President Tinubu noted with pride and satisfaction the impressive professional achievement of Aboh in United…
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Odegbami, other stakeholders hail Sunday Dare’s tenure as sports minister
Immediate past Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, has continued to enjoy the dividends of his successful stewardship as the Minister of Youth and Sports Development. In a private reception put together by ‘Stakeholders in the Sports Industry’, Dare was praised for all the transformations he brought to the sports sector for the time he spent in the sports ministry. The reception,…
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BREAKING: Obasa re-elected Lagos Assembly Speaker
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa has been re-elected to lead the 10th Assembly. Obasa, who represents Agege 1 state constituency was elected as the Speaker on Tuesday after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave a proclamation for the constitution of the Assembly. Monisola Lasbat from Apapa 1, who was chief whip in the 9th assembly was elected…
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BREAKING: Senate approves Tinubu’s request to appoint 20 special advisers
The Senate has approved a request by President Bola Tinubu for the appointment of 20 special advisers. The president’s letter, seeking for approval for the appointments was read at plenary on Tuesday. Senate Leader, Senator Ibrahim Gobir (APC – Sokoto East), moved a motion that “the Senate do consider the request of Mr. President C-in-C for the approval of the…
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When preparation meets leadership, Tinubu happens, By Fredrick Nwabufo
The past one week has been one of the most momentous in the life of the nation. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu dared the undared, and triumphed. He passed a knotty test of leadership. The first of its kind. Under a haze of threats of strike by labour unions over the abrogation of petrol subsidy, President Tinubu showed peerless leadership, preparation,…
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IATA chair laments high running cost of airlines in Africa
Yvonne Manzi Makolo, the Chair of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Board of Governors (BoG) and CEO of RwandAir, has raised concerns about the exorbitant cost of running airlines in Africa. She attributed the high expenses to various factors, including “high taxes, high price of aviation fuel, high insurance premium, high cost of spares as well as high cost…
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PHOTO NEWS: Gambari hands over to Gbajabiamila as President’s COS
Ibrahim Gambari, chief of staff to former President Muhammadu Buhari has handed over to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, who has been appointed by President Bola Tinubu as his Chief of Staff. Gambari handed over to Gbajabiamila in the presence of President Tinubu as the Presidential Villa on Monday. Tinubu announced Gbajabiamila’s appointment as chief of…
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N2bn fraud trial: EFCC to appeal Oronsaye’s acquittal
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says it will appeal against the Federal High Court judgment, which acquitted a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye, of N2 billion fraud. EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, made this known on Monday in Abuja while reacting to the judgment. The commission had charged Oronsaye and others with…
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