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WHO announces cholera outbreak in 23 countries
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a cholera outbreak in 23 countries, warning that 20 more countries sharing land borders with the affected countries are at risk. WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus stated this during the bloc’s online media conference on Friday. Mr Ghebreyesus said more than one billion people globally were at risk of cholera. “Cholera spreads through contaminated…
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Two men and two visions for the future! By Temitope Ajayi
Recently, Governor Soludo told Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that erosion has taken over 40% of Anambra State while requesting for Federal Government help. Anambra is the same state a man governed for 8years where he was saving money in bank while erosion destroyed lives and ravaged the people. A man who was governor of that state for 8 years and…
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PDP has truly brought shame to Nigeria, says APC
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has again urged Nigerians to reject the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election. In a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, the APC PCC said the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu was only saying the reality when he said in Kano that…
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Politics by other means, By Bolaji Adebiyi
It is rather paradoxical that THISDAY Newspapers, which have been very supportive of the new monetary policy on the redesign of three of the nation’s eight Naira notes might have inadvertently laid the foundation for the political colouration of the implementation of the policy. Engaging in its habitual interpretative approach to news, it had run a banner headline, “In Ambush…
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Living on shoestring budget
We left Abuja on January 23, on a journey that would take us to Bauchi, Lagos, Senegal, Katsina, Kano, and Jigawa States. Return date was January 31, in the evening hours. Since January 31 was then the terminal date for key denominations of the naira to be legal tender, I didn’t want to be like the unwise cripple, who had…
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Between Peter Okoye and Seun Kuti, By Ayo Adene
Only one of these is an actual musician.In the way music and musicians are rated, you have to have proficiency in at least one instrument. Otherwise, you may be more appropriately called a performer, or an entertainer. In that sense, only one of the two men has been known to perform live on an instrument, even since childhood.In particular, the…
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PHOTO NEWS: Fashola inaugurates 10,000 ‘Eko o ni baje’ foot soldiers for Tinubu-Shettima
Minister of Works and Housing and former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN on Thursday inaugurated ‘Eko o ni baje’ initiative for a door-to-door campaign for the Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima presidential campaign. The initiative will put 10,000 people on the streets as foot soldiers to canvas for votes for the APC candidates in federal and state…
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Sanwo-Olu: Lagos must show its strength in general elections
If All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must record overwhelming victory in the February 25 presidential elections, Lagos State must play leading role in the candidate’s electoral success at the polls, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Thursday. Sanwo-Olu said the five million votes pledged by the APC supporters in Lagos to deliver the state to Tinubu…
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President Buhari again drums support for Tinubu in Sokoto
…APC candidate promises to confront kidnapping, improve agriculture President Muhammadu Buhari has yet again drummed support for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying the candidate is his long term ally. Speaking separately at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, and at the APC campaign rally…
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Buhari sets up transition council ahead May 29 handover date
President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted a transition council ahead of the expiration of his tenure on May 29. This was contained in a statement by the Director, Information Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey on Thursday. According to the statement, the council which will be inaugurated on February 14, has Secretary to the Government…
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