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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Oyo Bans Sunday Trading At Bola Ige Int’l Market

News

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Oyo State government has announced its readiness to enforce ban of Sunday trading at the Bola Ige International Business Complex, popularly known as Gbagi Market, Ibadan. The State Commissioner for Investment, Trade, Cooperatives and Industry, Hon. Adeniyi Adebisi, stated this on Thursday in his office at Secretariat Ibadan. According to a statement by the State Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade, Adebisi explained that the ban would curb rising insecurity and restore order at the market, adding that the enforcement would take effect from Sunday, 27th July 2025. He hinted that the enforcement was a culmination…

Jul

24

2025

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WAFCON Loss To Nigeria: Banyana Banyana Make Excuses

Sports

Former Banyana Banyana captain Portia Modise believes the team paid the price for not having Thembi Kgatlana in the squad for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. Banyana failed to defend the title they won in Morocco in 2022 after they lost 1-2 to Nigeria in the semifinal on Tuesday, becoming the first team to fail to defend the title. Kgatlana was not selected for the WAFCON squad due to “personal reasons” and Modise is of the view that Banyana would have done far better if she were part of the team. “First, leaving home without Thembi…

Jul

24

2025

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Plateau Residents Row On Social Media Over Kinsman Yilwatda’s Appointment As APC National Chair

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By Felix Durumbah, Abuja From Plateau State, the home state of new National Chairman of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, came mixed reactions to his emergence today to the party's top seat. Yilwatda was unanimously endorsed by the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) today as APC's substantive National Chairman during the body's meeting in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Until the endorsement, he was Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction. It is worthy of note that Yilwatda, flying the APC flag, unsuccessfully ran against incumbent governor of the state, Caleb Mutfwang of the Peoples Democratic Party…

Jul

24

2025

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$2,198,900 Fraud: Court Convicts Ex-NHIS Boss, Femi Thomas, BDC Operator

BREAKING

Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, July, 24, 2025, convicted the duo of Dr. Olufemi Martins Thomas, a former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, and one Kabiru Sidi, a Bureau De Change Operator, for $2,198,900.00 ( Two million, One Hundred and Ninety Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred United States Dollars) fraud. Thomas was arraigned alongside Sidi on an amended seven-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of $2,198,900.00 brought against them by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Six of the counts…

Jul

24

2025

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APC Has A New National Chairman

BREAKING

Th All Progressives Congress, APC, has a new National Chairman. He is Prof. Nentawe Yiltwada. An indigene of Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau State, he was the APC governorship Candidate for Plateau state in 2023. The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling party (APC) appointed Prof. Nentawe Yiltwada who is the Humanitarian Affairs Minister, as the party’s National Chairman. Yiltwada replaces Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, who resigned on June 27. Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state, made the nomination, and he was seconded by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr…

Jul

24

2025

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Peter Obi’s Dangerous Game

Opinion

By AZU ISHIEKWENE Peter Obi has the best chance against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 of all opposition candidates. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may have received a slightly higher percentage of the votes (6.9 million or 29.1 percent) in the last presidential election; still, that was poor for Atiku, a sixth-timer in the presidential race. Obi had less than one year to prepare after his former party, the PDP, shafted him, followed by the bitter struggle for control between Atiku and the former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, which left the party in…

Jul

24

2025

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AOIYEO President Condemns Elites’ Political Arrogance, Urges Respect for Grassroots

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President of Abuja Original Inhabitants Youth Empowerment Organisation (AOIYEO), Commandant Isaac David, has strongly condemned some of the nation's educated elite who, he said, despite relying on the support of poor and illiterate masses to attain political office, thereafter refuse to be accountable to them. In a strongly-worded statement signed by him, Commandant David expressed dismay at what he described as the "elitist hypocrisy and class arrogance" of such politicians. To him, they use the votes of the common people to climb to power, only to later distance themselves from the constituents. His stance aligned with growing concerns over the…

Jul

24

2025

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FUGUS Governing Council Okays Promotion Of 4 Professors, 7 Readers

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*2 Deputy VCs Affected Greater motivation has come for some senior academic staff of Federal University Gusau (FUGUS) as the University's Governing Council approved the promotion of 11 of them to the exalted ranks of Professor and Reader. Of the 11, four were promoted to Professor while seven others were elevated from Senior Lecturer to Reader, according to a statement today by the University management. FUGUS is a federal University located in Zamfara State, North-West Nigeria. The promotions were approved at the Council’s 30th (Regular) meeting held on July 23, 2025, in Abuja,the nation's capital. Those promoted to the rank…

Jul

24

2025

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64 And Still Soaring: Okey Oramah’s Remarkable Journey To Global Greatness

Opinion

By Kehinde Olaosebikan At the annual Pan-African Business and Development Awards held in June, the Nigerian Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Olawale Edun described the outgoing President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Professor Benedict Okechukwu (Okey) Oramah, as “a true son of the soil” whose leadership had fundamentally reshaped trade and development across Africa. Those words capture accurately and succinctly the lifework of Okey Oramah, who turns 64 on Thursday, 24 July. Only recently, the President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR conferred on Oramah the National honour…

Jul

23

2025

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We’ll Continue Uplifting Quality Of Lives In Warri South -Council Chair

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By Emma Ogoigbe, Warri To the Chairman, Warri South Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State, Hon. Isaac Agbateyinro, electioneering campaign promises are sacred and form a social contract that he said he will continue to keep. He emphasized that he will continue to improve the people's welfare by providing essential amenities needed to uplift their standard of living. More dividends of democracy will be made available to further reduce any challenges being faced by the populace, he said. Hon. Agbateyinro stated these today, July 24, when a select group of journalists led by the State Council Chairman of Nigeria…