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US policy experts and obsession with Nigeria’s collapse, By Garba Shehu
In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At the time this was hardly an earth-shattering prediction: 2005 was only six years after the return of civilian democratic rule and just over a decade since the Abacha military coup of 1993 – the final of…
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PHOTO NEWS: Ooni receives Portable in Ile-Ife, prays for ‘Wahala musician’
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has prayed for Habeeb Okikiola, for greater exploit in his music career. Oba Ogunwusi received the rave of the moment musician at his palace in Ile-Ife on Saturday. Portable was in Ile-Ife to seek royal blessing from the Ooni
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The future of higher education, Seun Awogbenle
Nigeria is a country of many contradictions, almost everywhere you turn, there is something that just does not add up. For a long time, it is this illogic that has underpinned our policies and national life. What is however confounding is that, even when there is a consensus on what is expectedly the way forward, there is either a lack…
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For dancers messing with Oyetola’s elephant, By Funke Egbemode
The elephant is passing, their farmer snaps his fingers, has anybody’s father ever killed an elephant with hoes? Ask them as they dance and boast if they would fight the mountains of Adegboyega Oyetola with cutlasses and hoes on July 16. Do they even know this Oyetola? Have you met Mr Adegboyega Oyetola? Have you spent some length of time…
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Alaafin’s death: We have lost an encyclopedia of culture, says Rep member, Akande-Sadipe
A member of the House of the Representatives, representing Oluyole Federal Constituency, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has described the demise of the late Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III as the loss of an ‘an encyclopedia of culture.’ Akande-Sadipe said this in a statement signed by her media aide, Olamilekan Olusada on Saturday. She described the monarch as one of the…
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Alaafin fostered harmony, brought prosperity- Tinubu
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III fostered unity and harmony while he was alive. Tinubu said this in a statement he signed to mourn the Alaafin who died late Friday. The former Lagos state governor described Alaafin’s passing as “an auspicious era in the ancient Oyo Kingdom,…
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TRIBUTE: Life, times of late Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi
The world woke up to the sad news of the death of Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III on Saturday after living for 83 years. The late monarch was said to have died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, late on Friday after a brief illness. He was the longest serving Alaafin. Birth and early life…
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Alaafin Adeyemi was an iconic monarch, says Ooni
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo The Arole Oduduwa and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has described the passage of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III as a loss to the entire Oduduwa race worldwide. Oba Ogunwusi in a statement by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Otunba Moses Olafare on Saturday, stated that the…
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My father reconciled with all he fought before demise – Alaafin’s son
One of the sons of late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, Alaafin of Oyo III, Prince Akeem Adeyemi, said his father reconciled with almost everybody he had differences with before his death. He said despite having issues with people, all of the issues were based on principles. “It is a pity we lost a man who has given Oyo its true…
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