Iba Gani Adams who is the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, has advised the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and some of the other traditional monarchs in Ondo State not to neglect the Yoruba cultural heritage.
Adams had also tasked both the government and traditional rulers try their best to make use the state’s cultural heritage to generate more revenue instead of relegating it to the background.
Adams had also made these disclosures during the 2022 edition of Okota festival which was held at the Palace Square, Arigidi-Akoko.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Joint Action Committee, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, have said their planned protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will hold as planned.
The labour unions said they were not aware of any security report by the Department of State Services that advised against the rally, insisting that their protest in solidarity with ASUU over its six months old strike would hold on July 26 and 27.
ASUU had on February 14, 2022 embarked on a …
Nigeria’s major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to withdraw from the 2023 presidential election.
The party believes the APC presidential candidate has lost his fighting chance in the coming poll amid the controversy trailing the unveiling of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.
‘The APC presidential candidate and his party should know that it is in his own interest to withdraw from the race as it will be futile to go into an election in which the will and aspiration of the people are manifestly against …
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has disbursed ₦15.9 million to the families of some officers and men of the force who died in the line of duty.
The disbursement, which took place at the FCT command is in line with the fulfillment of the inspector general of police, IGP Alkali Baba’s family welfare insurance scheme policy.
The cheques were presented to the next of kin of 29 deceased police officers of the rank of assistant superintendent of police, inspector, sergeant, and a civilian staff attached to the command between 2020 and 2021.
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What if I said you had a second brain? Would you believe that? You do, but it is nothing like the expandable memory option you get when you insert a Secure Digital (SD) card into your smartphone, but all humans do have a second brain. This ‘secondary’ brain is not a different compartment in your head, it is the highly sensitive lining of your gut. The brain and the gut work synergistically to keep the body and mind healthy. Biologists call this phenomenon, the gut-brain axis and it describes a non-stop, two-way communication between the gut and the brain, which …
The Ukrainian government has sent out strong warnings to Russia against provocations even as the ongoing war rages on.
This is as the two countries signed a deal with the United Nations and Turkey on Friday to facilitate the export of grain.
The deal signed in Istanbul and mediated by Turkey and the UN would allow 5 million tonnes of grain exports per month from three Ukrainian ports, a senior UN official told CNN.
Ships carrying grains will now be able to navigate through a safe corridor in the Black Sea and then pass through the Bosphorus to reach global …
Kyiv and Moscow yesterday signed a historic agreement with Turkey and the UN to open Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports after a Russian embargo stoked concerns of a food crisis on a global scale.
Following numerous rounds of painstaking discussions, Russian and Ukrainian teams signed individual agreements with Ankara and the UN as their first significant accord following nearly five months of combat.
Ukraine declined to sign the same documents as Moscow because it had warned before the signing that any Russian “provocations” around its ringed Black Sea ports would be greeted with a fast military reaction.
‘Today, there is …
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi has blamed the spate of killings in the country on poor leadership calling on the government to step up efforts to protect Nigerians.
He stated this while lamenting the brutal murder of Rev Father John Mark Chietnum of Kafanchan Diocese who was killed by yet to be identified bandits in Kaduna State.
Obi asserted that Fr Chietnum’s death is among the many needless bloodletting in the country arising from poor leadership that needs to be changed.
The LP candidate, in a statement by his media aide, Valentine Obienyem, noted …
Fresh reports hitting the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that the Peoples Gazette newspaper’s head office which is situated in Abuja was on Friday invaded by men of the Nigeria Police who whisked away the editor of the media house and four other workers.
Details of the raid has revealed that one of the newspaper’s editors who was identified as John Adenekan and four other staff members were arrested.
Adenekan who is an assistant managing editor, was taken away at about 12:35 p.m. by five armed police officers who broke into the paper’s office opposite
It has been revealed by a report which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York that between the months of February and December, 2021 the already suspended accountant general of the Federation, Ahmed Idris who is currently being embroiled in a corruption probe had accepted a bribe of ₦15.136 billion, which would help to accelerate the payment of 13% derivation to the nine oil producing States in the Federation.
The scandalous bribe, we learnt, had been paid through one Olusegun Akindele, which was one of the counts levelled against Idris, as his case came for trial on Friday at …
Woes are not yet over for the DANA airlines company as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced the immediate suspension of Dana Airlines’ air transport licence (ATL) and their air operator certificate (AOC) indefinitely over unsafe flying practices.
The NCAA had made this announcement in a statement which had been signed by Musa Nuhu, its Director-General.
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Dana’s operating licences were suspended after the authority “discovered that the airline is no longer in a position to meet its financial obligations and to conduct safe flight operations”.
According to the …
An aggrived Kwara State Senator, Makanjuola Ajadi has come out to openly accus Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State of betraying him severally.
Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the Kwara State Government which is run by the All Progressives Congress (APC) party has slammed a suit which was stopping Ajadi’s senatorial ambition for the Kwara South Senatorial District.
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The suit,which had been personally signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Legal Matters, Malam Sambo Muritala, will be coming up on July 26, 2022. The suit is …
