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By Tunde Olamilekan The Osun State Ministry of Education has banned graduation ceremonies for kindergarten, nursery, and Junior secondary school (JSS 3) students in the state. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Murtala Jimoh, stated this in a circular on Friday. The circular also banned the writing of classwork…
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By Tunde Olamilekan Governor Ademola Adeleke on Friday commended President Bola Tinubu for restoring history as a compulsory subject of study in schools. This was as he charged Nigerian leaders to author a book about their lives to conserve and preserve history for future generations. The governor gave the charge…
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By Tunde Olamilekan The Osun State chapter of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management is set to honour the national secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, with the prestigious Distinguished Personality Award. The event, which will hold on Wednesday, September 24, is in commemoration of the association’s…
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Marcus Rashford scored his first goals for Barcelona as the England forward’s brilliant brace inspired a 2-1 win against Newcastle in the Champions League on Thursday. Rashford struck twice in the space of nine minutes in the second half at St James’ Park to make a memorable return to England…
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Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has declared that he will support the first presidential candidate who pays him ahead of the 2027 elections. Portable’s remarks come as President Bola Tinubu’s administration faces public criticism over economic hardship and calls for electoral reforms. The Independent National Electoral Commission…
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The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has criticized former Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara’s claim that President Bola Tinubu’s tax policy is revolutionary. Adebayo argued that President Tinubu is taxing Nigerians out of productivity instead of into productivity, a…
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The Nigeria Immigration Service has boosted its daily passport production capacity from about 300 to 5,000, following the launch of a new Centralised Passport Personalisation Centre in Abuja. The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who disclosed this on Thursday during an inspection of the facility at the NIS Headquarters,…
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President Bola Tinubu on Friday congratulated the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Olubunmi Kuku, on her election as Vice-President of Airports Council International Africa. Tinubu conveyed his congratulations through a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, titled ‘President Tinubu Congratulates…
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By Tunde Olamilekan Fresh facts have emerged over the claim by the immediate past Commissioner for Education in Osun State, Folorunso Bamisayemi that a former deputy governor in the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore saved the All Progressives Congress from eviction from its state secretariat in Osogbo. Bamisayemi had in a…
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By Tunde Olamilekan The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State has once again asked for the case it instituted over the withholding of local government allocations to be returned to a Federal High Court in Osogbo. The PDP had initiated the suit to halt the release of the withheld local…
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