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Revered playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is in a trance. Soyinka, while reacting to a question on the three things he would tell the President if he meets him, stated, "I will say Mr. President you are in a trance.” He added that the sooner the President got out of the trance, the better for the nation. (adsbygoogle...

File Photo  Details have emerged of why over 30 herdsmen invaded the Akure South Local government Secretariat on Tuesday brandishing different dangerous weapons. The invasion of the herders disrupted the official activities at the council secretariat including marriage ceremonies going on at the council’s registry. Staffers of the council were driven out of their offices one by one by the herders who...

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and a chieftain of the party, Chief Bisi Akande. Tinubu and Akande arrived the president's office at 3:10 pm for the close-door meeting.   (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); President Buhari had last week appointed Tinubu to lead the APC committee that would reconcile...

Emmanuel Macron made global headlines when he was elected the President of France as his emergence further legitimized the call for a generational shift in leadership and increased youth involvement in most parts of the world, Nigeria inclusive. The election process which gave him victory and his immediate actions upon assuming office helped to clarify, particularly in the case of Nigeria’s Not Too Young To...

 By Abiodun Tadese, Akure A cross-section of participants at the programme The workshop titled "Enhancing inclusive Agricultural Governance through smallholder Women Farmers participation in Agricultural sector in Ondo State" is aimed at increasing stakeholder knowledge of the project interventions and solicit their inputs to strengthen its achievements, as well as inaugurating Agriculture Gender Friendly Policy Development Technical Working Group (TWG) The workshop...

Security chiefs, at the end of the meeting held with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday, have kept mum. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was also at the meeting. The Chief of Staff Mallam Abba Kyari, National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), Minister of Defence Briga Gen Mansur Dan Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs,...

The Federal Government has spent N1.4 billion on the purchase of training kits and work tools for its technical arm of the job creation programme, the N-Build skills acquisition scheme. Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Yemi Olowalabi   The Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Yemi Olowolabi has described the advent of Electronic and New Media as an important means of disseminating Information in this new age, saying the world is a global village where events could be reported fast and reached larger audience.    Mr. Olowolabi stated this in his office...

By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi & Ismail Omipidan  •A cross section of APC Governors with President Buhari Barring any change, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may be hit by mass defection, in the next four months. It was gathered that some APC governors, senators and members of the House of Representatives, dissatisfied with events in the ruling political party, have cut a deal...

Sokoto state government has signed an agreement with the World Bank for the construction of 500km rural roads across the state.   This was disclosed by the state commissioner of finance, Malam Saidu Umar, in a statement issued to reporters in Sokoto Monday. “The agreement covers different locations spread across the three senatorial zones of Sokoto State. “We have kept to our part of the bargain...