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Barely a month after the Ooni of Ife Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, married his fourth wife, Olori Mariam Anako from Ebira land in Kogi State, the monarch is set to take two more wives in October. Ahead of his 48th birthday celebration, Oba Adeyeye will marry two more wives, Tobi Phillips, and Princess Ashley Adegoke. Tobi Phillips was a former Beauty Queen and a graduate of Marine Science from Lagos State University, while Princess Queen Ashley is a chartered accountant and founder of an NGO, Ashley Adegoke Foundation. Before his coronation in 2016, Oba Adeyeye was previously…

The Court of Appeal has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call of the strike immediately as it is the only condition that the union’s request to appeal the ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered the union to call off it’s strike will be given effect. The court, however, granted the application on the condition that the union obeys the ruling of the lower court and calls off the strike immediately pending the determination of the substantive suit. The court gave ASUU seven days within which to file the appeal following the obedience of the…

Security has been beefed up at the main gates to the National Assembly as President Muhammadu Buhari presents the 2023 budget estimate of N19.76 trillion to a joint session of the Assembly. A crop of security agents including the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, State Security Service, S SS, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and Sergeant at Arms were seen manning the entrances to the complex. The only accredited journalists with tags, covering the assembly and essential staff of the national assembly were granted access to the building. The joint session will begin by 10 a.m at the temporary…

Emeritus Professor J. K. Onoh yesterday described Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as a leader who is striving for the good of the people of the senatorial district. The Ututu-born don in a social media post monitored by our correspondent appreciated Kalu who is the Senator representing Abia North senatorial district for showing great interest in the maintenance and development of new rural roads in Abia North senatorial district. He said, "Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has shown great interest in the maintenance and development of new rural roads in the Ihechiowa and Ututu regions. The new NDDC roads, which he attracred…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has uncovered an illegal oil connection from Forcados Terminal that operated for nine years. NNPCL Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Senate’s joint committees on Gas and Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream), where he also apologised for skipping the last briefing on health grounds. “Oil theft in the country has been going on for over 22 years but the dimension and rate it assumed in recent times is unprecedented,” Kyari said. According to him, a four-kilometer illegal oil connection line from Forcados Terminal into the sea which had been…

President candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after observing a 10-day rest in the United Kingdom. He was received by a delegation led by his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima, former APC chair Adams Oshiomhole and others. He alighted from the plane that conveyed him to a shout of ‘’Jagaban’’ and ‘’Asiwaju’’ in a video shared by the spokesman of his Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo. Details Shortly…  

Pickpockets on Thursday stole the mobile phone of a former Nigerian vice president, Namadi Sambo, at the NAF Conference Center, Abuja. The former VP was invited as a guest of honour at the public presentation of biography and launching of Solomon Lar Leadership Institute. The news of of the theft was revealed by one of the invited guests, Shehu Sani, on his verified Twitter handle. “It’s incredible that someone can breach the tight security line and steal the phone of the former VP Sambo at the ongoing late Governor Solomon Lar Book launch in Abuja,” Mr Sani tweeted. In reaction…

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, celebrated author, Chimamanda Adichie and former chairman, Etisalat Nigeria, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, on Wednesday, had a public discussion on leadership at the Klarman Hall of the Harvard Business School. A Facebook user, who was present at the discussion, Oladimeji Mudele, shared photos from the event and his lessons. Mudele said, “It was great listening to these great Nigerians at close range today at the Klarman Hall of Harvard Business School. I learned interesting lessons about the character of leadership, especially for Africans like myself. There is indeed such a thing as African…

The moral right of citizens to demand accountability from government on what their taxes have been used for, is dependent on when citizens have themselves heeded to their civil obligations to pay taxes. This was the position of the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami during the unveiling of the FIRS Service Charter on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr. Nami, while delivering the opening remarks at the unveiling, which was one of the events hosted by the Service in commemoration of the 2022 Global Customer Service Week, called on citizens to be fair to the government…

Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will loot the country’s treasury if the party ever has access to power. The minister made the remark in reaction to the controversy over the return of N122.4 million by members of the PDP’s national working committee (NWC). Speaking on Thursday in an interview with NAN in Arusha, Tanzania, the minister said the PDP has not yet learned its lessons. “If a man can steal from himself, he will steal without any restrain from other people,” he said. “The problem is that PDP will never change…