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TRIBUTE: Mama Hilda Joanne Adefarasin, By Simbo Olorunfemi
In celebrating Pastor Paul Adefarasin on the occasion of his 60th Birthday on January 25th, I felt inclined to weave into his story the story of his Mum. In fact, the tribute opened with the story of Mama Hilda. In doing that, I did not and could not have known that Mama was going to pass on within 2 weeks…
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Mainstream media and coverage of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, By Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim
A casual observation of media coverage of the 2023 general election since it became clear APC was set to win the presidential election, inexorably leads one to the conclusion that the mainstream media, particularly Channels and Arise TV, is committed to doing everything possible to delegitimize the election because it could not accept the victory of APC’s Muslim/Muslim ticket. The…
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Central banks try to calm markets after UBS deal to buy Credit Suisse
Some of the world’s largest central banks came together on Sunday to stop a banking crisis from spreading as Swiss authorities persuaded UBS Group AG (UBSG.S) to buy rival Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.S) in a historic deal. UBS will pay 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.23 billion) for 167-year-old Credit Suisse and assume up to $5.4 billion in losses in…
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BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu wins Lagos guber election, defeats Rhodes-Vivour with 442,690 votes
Lagos State Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won the governorship election after defeating his main opponents, Labour Party’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Peoples Democratic Party’s Abdul-Azeez Adediran. Although, the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to declare the official results, collated results from the 20 local governments in the state, show Sanwo-Olu is in…
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IGP embarks on election monitoring/patrol, visits Kaduna, Plateau by road
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR, in the quest to bolster election security management of the Nigeria Police Force and further assess the policing strategies along Abuja, Kaduna and Plateau State routes for general safety of road users in the axis, embarked on an election monitoring patrol by road across the states to assure residents and electorates…
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Notes on Nigeria’s 2023 presidential poll, By Waziri Adio
The conduct and the outcome of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential poll have thrown up many issues, positive and negative, that should be interrogated. Some of these issues will be matters for determination by the judiciary in the cases already promised by some of the candidates. The fine matters of the law cannot, and should not, be adjudicated on the pages of…
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Former Governor Fayemi mourns death of Deputy Bisi Egbeyemi
Former Governor of Ekiti State and immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed his grief at the passing of Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, who served as his deputy from 2018 to 2022. The former deputy governor died last night after a brief illness. He was 78. Fayemi described Egbeyemi’s death as a rude shock…
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LIVE: Governorship election holds in 28 states across Nigeria
Nigerians across 28 states in the federation have the opportunity to elect individuals who will spend the next four year as governors today. Governorship elections will not hold in Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Ondo and Osun states while state assembly elections will hold in all the 36 states of the federation. Of the 28 states where elections are…
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BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu wins polling unit
Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won his polling unit at Polling Unit 6, Eiyekole, Lagos Island, in the ongoing governorship and State House of Assembly elections. In the results announced after counting Sanwo-Olu polled 121 votes while Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Abdul-Azeez Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party scored two and one votes respectively.
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BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu wins LP candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour’s polling unit
Governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has lost his polling unit to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress. Sanwo-Olu polled 29 votes to win the polling unit ahead of Rhodes-Vivour who had 18 votes. Peoples Democratic Party’s Olajide Adeniran, popularly known as Jandor, polled two votes.
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