Sunday Igboho also known as Sunday Adeyemo well known as the Yoruba rights activist has said the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi disappointed the Yoruba people when he visited the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), recently over the herdsmen crisis in the South-West region. The activist at a virtual ‘Townhall With Yoruba In Diaspora’ this…
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Nkem Onwudiwe The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs, has announced three senior executive appointments, effective February 1, 2021. This follows the launch of the 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, on www.TEFConnect.com, which this year prioritises the economic recovery of small and medium scale enterprises and young African entrepreneurs, following the disruptive effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Tony Elumelu Foundation, which marked ten years…
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Musa Nuhu More Covid-19 travel woes…. The Nigerian Government has said it may suspend flights from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and The Netherlands due to the new COVID-19 protocols introduced by both countries for incoming travellers. Musa Nuhu, the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), announced this while speaking at the Presidential Task Force…
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Good news for anyone that still hasn’t linked their Sim Cards to their NIN number (National Identification Number). Federal Government has announced this Tuesday morning that the ongoing and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks with the new deadline was now being April 6, 2021. According to a report by…
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The Ogun State Government on Monday declined comment on the visit of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, to the state. According to a Punch report, it, however, denied reports that it had enlisted him to combat crime in the state. Earlier on Monday, Igboho stopped briefly in Abeokuta, the state capital, on…
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Aliko Dangote In a new and trending exclusive story by online news site, Premium Times, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has told a U.S. court how his former American girlfriend, who exposed a part of his body via a social media post, is trying to extort $5 million from him. Autumn Spikes The news site exclusively…
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Benue State, Comrade Victoria Asher, has died after giving birth to twins, Punch reports. Late Asher worked with the state-owned radio station became the NUJ Chairman, Benue Council in December 2018 following the death of David Ukuma who held the post for two months before he…
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Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, had no right to issue a vacation notice to Fulani herders in the Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State. Igboho, who is the Akoni Oodua of Yoruba land, had asked herdsmen accused of…
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The Lagos State Government has announced that the Third Mainland Bridge will be closed to all traffic for three days starting from Saturday the 30th of January to Monday night the 1st of February to enable the final completion of repair works on the double-sized expansion joints. According to a report from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), this disclosure…
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The venue of the public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the House of Representatives was, on Thursday, thrown into confusion following a violent clash involving members of the host communities of crude oil reserves in the Niger Delta region. The people had gathered from different parts of the oil producing communities on the invitation of…
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