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Nigeria records best Commonwealth Games feat with 12 gold medals
Ese Brume’s gold medal in the women’s long jump on Sunday, ensured Nigeria recorded its best performance at the Commonwealth Games with 12 gold medals won. Brume leaped to a Commonwealth Games record of 7.00m to claim gold in the final after already going to the lead with an earlier jump of 6.99m. The gold was Brume’s second at the…
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I’ll continue to speak to rebuild Nigeria -Deposed Emir Sanusi
Deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has vowed to continue to speak and air his views to defend and rebuild Nigeria. Sanusi, who is also the current Khalifah, Tijaniyat Movement of Nigeria, made the vow in Abuja on Saturday at a stage play titled “Emir Sanusi: Truth in Time.’’ The play was written by Prof. Ahmed Yerima, a professor of…
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Buhari pledges support as Nigeria hosts major cultural, tourism, literary events
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged full support for three major international events scheduled to hold in Nigeria in October and November this year, saying they are opportunities to showcase the nation’s rich heritage in culture, arts, tourism and entertainment as well as advancements on media freedom. Nigeria will be hosting the 2022 UNESCO Global Media, Information Literacy (MIL) Week in…
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Tobi Amusan wins 100m hurdles gold, breaks Commonwealth Games record
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan reigned supreme on Sunday as she successfully defended her women’s 100m hurdles title at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK. Amusan ran a Commonwealth Games record time of 12.30secs to claim the gold medal ahead of Devynne Charlton from Bahams who won the silver medal with a time of 12.58secs. England’s Cindy Sember was third with…
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Questions presidential candidates must answer, By Simon Kolawole
Next month, campaigns for the 2023 elections will kick off officially. I used the word “officially” advisedly: campaign has practically taken off on TV and Twitter. Many presidential candidates are already marketing themselves. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his All Progressives Congress (APC) opponent, even took time off the other…
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Akin Mabogunje: A rare breed departs, By Waziri Adio
On Thursday, one of Nigeria’s most accomplished intellectuals, Professor Akinlawon ’Ladipo Mabogunje, breathed his last. He passed on ten weeks shy of his 91st birthday. He was a man of great thought and consequential action, one of those that balanced theory with practice. His impact extended far beyond the boundaries of his primary field, and he was rightly described as…
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How to make our university system work, By Eyitope Ogunbodede
President Muhammadu Buhari recently gave a 2-weeks ultimatum, which has since expired, for the negotiating parties to resolve the Federal Government-ASUU imbroglio. Some of us who had been in the educational sector long enough and had witnessed the aberrations knew it was a tall order and more fittingly, an impossible condition. This is not because the matter cannot be resolved…
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Lack of investment in youths, responsible for societal failure – Abe
Gubernatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general elections in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has identified lack of investment in youths as the bane of failure in the society. Speaking in Port Harcourt at the formal declaration by a pro-youth group in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), the PDP Mobilizers, to join ‘SMA Project…
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Love yourself, your neighbour is fine, By Odi Ikpeazu
The hatred of one’s self is a strange mental disease since the human emotion is from all indications, wired towards self love and self preservation. As a result, the apparent masochism which afflicts the Nigerian mind should be the subject of international psychiatric study or at least demand investigation by neutral expert mass psychologists. The eagerness and glee with which…
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Enough of ASUU’s garbage, By Yemi Adebowale
Last Tuesday, the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities. It declared: “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the…
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