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Nigerian pop stars, Davido and MC Galaxy will have their respective songs, ‘Skelewu’ and ‘Sekem’ as part of the soundtrack of Queen of Katwe, an upcoming inspiring biography drama movie directed by Mira Nair and starring Madina Nalwanga, Lupita Nyong’o, and David Oyelowo. You’ll recall that in 2006, 2face Idibia‘s ‘African…
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi on Tuesday averred that the Almighty God is the Alpha and Omega, stressing that he is a living example of what God can do as his ascendance to the throne is nobody’s making. It would be recalled that Ooni had recently…
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The Osun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has raised a search party to find two final year students of Osun State University that were declared missing in Osogbo, capital of Osun state recently. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs Folasade Odoro in a press statement…
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Lecturers of the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, are calling for the dissolution of the Governing Council, which has led to a closure of the institution and threats by students to cause chaos if the school is not re-opened in a week. The crisis, which appears to be…
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A recent Appeal Court judgement granting the right to wear Hijab in public schools in Lagos State to the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), may just signpost a new era in public education. The School Uniform as we once knew it, may be dying. Long live the School Uniform. But…
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Widely touted as Africa’s biggest act in 2016, Wizkid has added to his long list of accolades by snagging a nomination in the ‘Best African Act’ category at the 2016 Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards. Other Nigerian stars like Olamide, Tiwa Savage, Yemi Alade and Tekno, who have all had…
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For alleged breach of peace, seven persons have been remanded in prison custody by an Osun State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ile-Ife. The seven accused person, Posi Olabiyi, 51; Ayo Komolafe, 25; Afolabi Olaobaju, 23; Adams Mustapha, 23; Sheriff Mustapha 27; Lateef Eludini, 32 and Peter James, 50 were alleged…
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The Permanent Secretary in the Osun State Ministry of Health, Mr Temitope Oladele, said on Monday there was a need to set up a medical referral mechanism in the country. Oladele told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo that the mechanism would help to assess the quality of…
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Twitter has rolled out an update that allows its users to post longer tweets since it has stopped counting media files such as photos and videos and others that previously ate up a significant amount of text space. All media attachments such as photos, videos, GIF images, polls, quoted and…
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Academic staff at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday declared a total and indefinite strike. The declaration which was made at a well-attended congress of the union held at the main campus of the institution was also attended…
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