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My commitment to Tinubu is total, By Bayo Onanuga
My attention has been drawn to some lies being circulated about me as having jumped the Bola Ahmed Tinubu train and being against his presidential ambition. The faceless writer, I guess a hatchet hand wrote: Almost all members of the Tinubu original power/intellectual base and allies when he was Governor are not in support of his Presidential ambition. Aregbesola, Afikuyomi,…
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How Boye Oshinaga’s Gradely App is transforming education in Nigeria, By Charissa Cassels
Boye Oshinaga, Founder and CEO of Gradely, believes that now is a perfect time to start your own business in Africa. “There’s so much in just starting. You don’t know your journey, it may be two months like mine to build the minimum viable product – or it could be two years – but it doesn’t matter.” “We are playing…
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Twitter board of directors adopt ‘poison pill’ defense against Musk takeover bid
Twitter said Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a “poison pill” defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company for more than $43 billion and take it private. The move would allow existing Twitter shareholders — except for Musk — to buy additional shares at a discount, thereby diluting Musk’s stake in…
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PYO’s declaration, By Segun Ayobolu
At last, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), this week, formally announced, via a recorded video shared on social media, his aspiration to contest the 2023 presidential election in a bid to succeed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari. This move has been much speculated and anticipated despite the good professor’s hitherto public reticence on the matter. Numerous individuals and…
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BREAKING: LCC postpones collection of tolls at Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge
The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has said that it is postponing collection of tolls at the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge. Managing Director of LCC, Yomi Omomuwasan, said in a statement on Friday that a new date for the toll collection would be announced soon. LCC had earlier announced that they would start collection of tolls on April 17 after opening the…
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One year after Yinka Odumakin’s death, SW leaders renew call for restructuring
South West leaders have again renewed calls for the restructuring of the country, urging the Federal Government to do so before the 2023 general elections. The South West leaders made the call on Friday at the first Comrade Yinka Odumakin lecture and book presentation in honour of the late human rights activist and National Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba socio-cultural…
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Kiefer Sutherland is open to more ‘24,’ says Jack Bauer’s story is ‘unresolved’
Will Kiefer Sutherland return to his iconic “24” role of Jack Bauer? He did once before in 2014 for the 12-episode limited series “24: Live Another Day,” but Sutherland recently told GQ magazine that he’s keeping the door open for more “24” because he feels Bauer’s story remains “unresolved.” “I miss it. It was an incredible experience,” Bauer said of…
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PHOTO NEWS: Osinbajo attends Yemi Ogunbiyi’s book launch
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo attended the 75th birthday anniversary and book presentation in honour of Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi.
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Kola Abiola got it all wrong on Tinubu, By Tony Nyiam
Let me begin by saying this: guided by good conscience, and intuition-led reasoning which proceeds therefrom, I will begin with this warning: no matter the temptation we are being tempted with, let no one be as ungrateful to another who sacrificed almost his existential life to work for the persons directly or his immediate family as Chief Kola Abiola has…
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Leading Nigeria and why experience matters, By Folabi Ogunleye
ONE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION influencing my preference for a better established and cerebral personality [as opposed to a relatively inexperienced or less-established candidate] to govern the affairs of our widely diverse and hyperactive political terrain of 200 million-plus Nigerians has to do with our widely acknowledged impatience and general lack of regard for anyone who we do not know or see…
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