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Toni Braxton gets 60% royalty from my song ‘Last Last’ – Burna Boy
Nigeria’s Grammy-award winning Afrofusion singer, Burna Boy has revealed that American R&B singerToni Braxton, will get 60 per cent dividend from his latest single ‘Last Last.” The musician was speaking during his feature on The Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. Burna Boy said it has always been his idea to sample Braxton’s 2000 R&B hit, ‘He Wasn’t Man Enough’.…
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Osun needs serious person as Governor, not jester, By Ismail Omipidan
The above statement did not come from me. It emanated from an Economic Historian, Lawyer and a Public Affairs Analyst, Dr. Tunji Ogunyemi, who just got off from a current affairs discussion on radio, Frank Talk, on the popular Rave 91.7 FM, Tuesday, July 5. The programme ran from 9am to 10 am. He was asked to set an agenda…
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Multichoice stakes N100m in Big Brother Naija season 7
Multichoice Nigeria on Tuesday announced that season seven of the Big Brother Naija reality show will begin on July 23 and the winner will go home with the grand prize of N100 million. This makes it the highest grand prize a winner of the reality show will be receiving — since the BBNaija debuted in 2006. Busola Tejumola, Head of…
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Ondo, Osun only states with over 10% budgetary allocation for health in 2021
…as Ogun leads health preparedness index Out of all the 36 states in Nigeria, only Ondo and Osun states had over 10 per cent allocation for health in the country according to a report by SB Morgen. Tagged the “2022 SBM State Health Preparedness Index” it showed that only Osun and Imo had increased budgetary allocations for health from 2020.…
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Uba Sani retains El-Rufai’s deputy as Kaduna APC guber running mate
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani, has picked the present Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe as his running mate. Sani announced this in a statement he issued on Monday. The APC governorship flagbearer said his decision to retain Balarabe was as a result of her immense contribution “to the…
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Nigeria, Germany sign joint declaration on return of Benin Bronzes
Nigeria and Germany have signed a historic joint declaration that will pave the way for the return of 1,130 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, 125 years after they were looted from the ancient Benin Kingdom during the Benin Expedition of 1897. The signing was done in Berlin, Germany, with Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and the Minister of…
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Osun guber: Sanwo-Olu, Ganduje, Omisore confident APC will record landslide victory
The co-chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Campaign Council for the Osun governorship poll, Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano and the National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, have expressed confidence that the party would secure a landslide victory in the July 16 contest. The trio maintained that the APC governorship candidate…
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Atiku’s missteps, Wike’s righteous indignation, By Erasmus Ikhide
Hate or like Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike’s (NEW) style of politics; his objective stance on what he believes in, his refusal to call a spade by other names, or his failure for pretext to become another person in order to acquire power. Politics would have been described differently if it’s devoid of intrigues and intricacies. Those are the attributes that…
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We want to beat Ekiti record in Osun election – INEC chairman
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Prof Mahmood Yakubu has charged election officials in Osun State to ensure that the July 16 governorship election in the state is better than the just concluded one in Ekiti. Yakubu said while speaking to the officers of the commission in Osogbo INEC office. He said, “Identify the Registration Area Centers (RAC) so…
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Osun guber: Rural monarchs declare support for Oyetola
As the Osun governorship election draws nearer, the traditional rulers under the aegis of Network of Kings From Osun Country Sides, have unanimously endorsed the candidature of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola saying “he is the most qualified among the contestants”. The rural kings lauded the governor for extending and expanding the frontier of socioeconomic and infrastructure development to the grassroots, saying…
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