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BREAKING! Actress Jumoke George’s daughter trafficked to Mali returns
Adeola, the daughter of notable veteran actress Jumoke George, has returned to Nigeria from Mali. L-R: Biola Adebayo, Adeola, Dabiri and Niyi Johnson Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri, disclosed this on Monday afternoon in a post on her X handle. She wrote, “Breaking! Adeola, daughter of popular actress Jumoke George, who cried out that she…
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OGFZA gets “excellent” rating in Quality Service Delivery
The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has awarded an “Excellent” rating to the Oil & Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA). The excellent performance rating forms part of the outcome of a PEBEC Mystery Service Quality Assessment of 71 MDAs, an exercise structured into four distinct segments designed to evaluate different aspects of service quality. The four segments include: telephone…
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Photos from the grand reception for Aláàfin Oyo in Abuja
Oyo Forum, comprising indigenes of Oyo town in Abuja, hosted His Imperial Majesty, the Aláàfin Oyo, Oba Akeem Abimbola Owoade 1 to a grand reception and dinner at the Continental Hotel, Abuja. Dr Yunus Akintunde (left) and Prince Akeem Adeyemi (middle). The reception and dinner were hosted by the lawmaker representing Afijio, Oyo West, Oyo East, and Atiba West Federal…
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PHOTOS: Vatican Secretary hosts President Tinubu
The Secretary of State to The Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, hosted President Bola Tinubu to dinner a few hours after the Nigerian leader arrived in Rome on Saturday. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a post on x.com. The President is in Rome, Italy for the official inauguration of Pope Leo XIV,…
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JAMB’s fiasco is horrible, but it’s not unexampled–By Farooq A. Kperogi
The server glitch that led to unnaturally high failure rates in Lagos and southeast states in Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has alarmed the nation and provoked intense, impassioned debates about the integrity of computer-based standardized tests. There are also the predictably shallow, bigoted attacks on the ethnicity, religious affiliation, and field of scholarly specialization…
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Simon Ekpa charged with terrorism
Finland-based separatist campaigner and self-acclaimed prime minister of the Biafra Government in Exile, Simon Ekpa, has been charged with public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent and participation in a terrorist group. Ekpa, who has been in detention since November last year, has been the subject of Finnish and Nigerian police investigations for allegedly “disseminating separatist propaganda that…
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INTERVIEW: PDP not losing sleep over defections – Osun State Media Director
Mr Oladele Bamiji, popularly known as HOB, is the Senior Special Assistant to Osun Governor on Media and the Media Director of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun. In this exclusive interview with WESTERN POST‘s Deborah Oladejo, Bamiji addresses the wave of defections from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He evaluates the influence of political mobilisers,…
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Laide Bakare named Face of Osun Osogbo Festival 2025
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo Renowned Nollywood actress and cultural icon Laide Bakare has been named the official face of the 2025 edition of the Osun Osogbo Festival. In a statement posted on the Osun State Government’s official X handle, @OsunGov, the festival’s marketing team unveiled a bold new campaign titled “I’m Laide. I’m Culture.” “The countdown has officially begun. The…
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Meet the Chairman, MD of the newly established South West Development Commission
President Bola Tinubu on May 8 named two-time senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi as chairman of the newly established South West Development Commission (SWDC) and Dr Charles Akinola as the managing director. Here are a few things to know about the two eminent persons. Senator Olubunmi Adetumbi – international development expert Born in Ido Ekiti on August 22, 1955, Adetumbi attended the…
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Who was Yemi Ogunyemi of NTA Ibadan ‘Ẹ Ń BÁ LÁYÀ’ fame who died?
People who do not know the antecedents of the late Baale Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, Chief Yemi Ogunyemi, who passed away recently, would see him as just a community leader. To many others, however, he would be remembered as one of the finest television presenters in the Yoruba language in the 70s and 80s, who pioneered the type of programme Frank…
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