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Champions League draw: Bayern Munich to face Barcelona, Inter Milan
Bayern Munich will face Barcelona and Inter Milan in this season’s Champions League group stage after the draw took place on Thursday in Istanbul. It will see Barcelona’s new summer signing, Robert Lewandowski, face his old team, for whom he scored 344 goals in 375 appearances, second most for the club behind Gerd Müller, including 50 goals in 46 games…
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BREAKING: Obasanjo meets Wike, Obi, others in London
Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, met Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, former Cross Rivers State Governor, Donald Duke and others in London. While details of the meeting remain unknown, it is believed it has connection with the 2023 general elections and politics of who becomes the next President of Nigeria. Governor Wike…
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ASUU: Time to end nightmare of students and parents, By Jide Oluwajuyitan
The ongoing war, now six months, between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the government remains intractable because of the incompetence of the warring parties. The duo of Ngige and Adamu are round pegs in square holes. ASUU, on the other hand, because its cause is right, thinks it can give what it does not have. The primary…
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Atiku’s illegal candidacy, By Jesutega Onokpasa
I do not believe that People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, is a Nigerian but this is not by any means because of the grounds upon which certain persons went to court, and lost, seeking to stop him from vying for the presidency of Nigeria. As such, I am not at all insinuating that our beloved people…
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NIKE extends NFF contract, opens Lagos mega-shop
Kit manufacturers, NIKE have extended their contract agreement with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) until December 2026. President of NFF, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick said on Thursday that negotiations had been on-going for the past one month before the American foot-and-bodywear behemoth agreed to extend their relationship with Nigeria Football. “We talked about several areas they needed to look into…
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NBA crisis: Adegboruwa flays conduct of exco over secretary’s suspension
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has condemned the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) over the crisis rocking the body after its General Secretary Mrs Joyce Oduah was suspended. In a statement on Thursday, Adegboruwa said the decision of the NBA-NEC to proceed with Oduah’s suspension after they were aware she had dragged the…
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2023: Peter Obi is unknown, Tinubu will sweep Katsina, Masari declares
Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will sweep the state’s votes in the 2023 presidential election. Masari was speaking when he appeared on TVC current affairs programme Journalists Hangout on Wednesday. He declared that his state is locked down for Tinubu. Masari dismissed the candidate of the…
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Could Wike be the end of Atiku’s sixth run for president? By Fredrick Nwabufo
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, could be the kryptonite of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike has remained implacable and untrammelled. And he seems determined to take his pound of flesh after his humiliation by Atiku. Wike will not relent until he draws blood. There is a method to Wike’s madness. Wike cannot be…
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Yoruba music genres: Who’s gonna fill their shoes, By Kunle Awosiyan
Most adults still have vivid memories of the varieties of music we enjoyed growing up. Today’s youths will either go for Fuji or Afro hip-hop. Some of them who speak about Fela Anikukapo Kuti only know about the legend through “Felabration” where their own music stars perform annually. The youths of today hardly listen to the songs of Fela nor…
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Leadership must be selfless, By Kayode Adebiyi
Leadership is not a pursuit of self glorification and pursue of selfish lucre. It is about building leaders in different areas of democratic governance and building political institution that would engender a firmly rooted democratic culture within a nation. Peter Obi said he left 75 billion naira for Obiano meanwhile the debt he left behind was over 100 billion. Obiana…
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