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Bleak Sallah awaits many Muslims across the country as the festival is holding a few days to a new academic session. Findings show that many Muslim parents have opted for low key Sallah celebrations and will prioritise their children’s education and payment of their tuition over merriment and the buying…

The Emancipation Day Celebration was recently held in  Ghana. Participants for the annual event converged on different parts of the world, especially from America and the Caribbeans . The activities were held in the cities of Accra and Cape Coast. This year’s programme highlights included wreath-laying ceremonies at  the Du…

A member of Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the President is a man of integrity and will fulfill his campaign promises. Oyintiloye, who represents Obokun Constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC,…

By Mustapha Aleem Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has given the figure of the number of guests he receives on a daily basis as between 2,000 and 3,000 amidst curiousity. He said, with the figure, hotels and guests houses in Ife and its environs had been busy accommodating them, noting that the…

The Ooni of Ile-Ife has called on the Federal Government to intensify investments in culture and tourism, saying the sector is capable of bailing the country out of economic recession. The Ooni, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, also advised the government to promote Nigeria’s culture, as a unifying force for the people…

The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) chapter of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) insists its female students are not prostitutes and its mosques shouldn’t be called brothels. OAU MSSN reacted to the recent allegations made by G.A Akinola, acting dean of students’ affairs, in a statement made available to TheCable Lifestyle. “The hall mosques, Awolowo…

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Lasun Yusuf, has began moves to make fresh input into the elections into the offices of the president and governor of a state, with a ceiling that whoever act as a president or governor for a period of two years would only…

Shola Abdulazeez Agboola, a Canada-based Nigerian man, has been invited to help restructure and revitalise the country’s Conservative party ahead of the 2019 federal elections. Like Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Conservative party was Canada’s largest political party until October 2015, when it lost majority of its House of…

The Divisional Student Affairs Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State has issued a statement, shutting down all mosques located in the school hostels over some allegations raised against a group called MSSN. According to the statement, the group allegedly harbors female students for prostitution and teaching of an…

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Lasun Yussuff, has suggested that whoever acts as a president or governor for a period of two years would only be eligible to contest another four-year term instead of two terms of four years. Honourable Yusuf is the chairman of the special…