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Ibadan Polytechnic

Ibadan Polytechnic destroys over 1,000 phones seized from students

The Management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan on Wednesday burnt over 1,000 mobile telephones worth millions of naira. Our correspondent gathered that the mobile telephones were seized from students during various examinations conducted in the institution in the last year. It was gathered on Thursday that the telephones were seized and subsequently burnt in order to

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Customs

Court awards N5.5bn damages against Nigerian Customs for unlawful rice seizure

A Federal High Court in Abuja, Wednesday, awarded damages amounting to over N5.5billion against the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and the Chairman, Nigerian Customs Service Board (NCSB) over their unlawful seizure of 90 containers of rice imported by a firm, Maggpiy Trading TFZE. Maggpiy stated in its suit, marked: FHC/CA/CS/40/2017 that, on March 18, 2017,

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Oyo APC

Oyo: Seyi Makinde bans illegal fees collection in primary, secondary schools

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has banned illegal fee collections in all state government-owned primary and secondary schools. Head of Service, Mrs. Amidat Ololade Agboola, in a circular, yesterday, directed to permanent secretaries and heads of education-related agencies, confirmed the order by the governor. Makinde’s Chief Press Secretary, Taiwo Adisa, in a statement gave details

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Tacha

#BBNaija: Tacha’s old picture hits internet, reactions trail her transformation

BBNaija Housemate, Tacha, is arguably one of the most talked about housemate in this season of Big Brother. This is in part due to her popularity on Instagram before she went into the house. Tacha first made headlines after she tattooed Davido’s OBO symbol between her breasts. Since then, she’s managed to remain in the

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Aisha Buhari

COZA rape saga: Aisha Buhari fumes, calls on Police IG

Wife of Nigeria President Aisha Buhari has dropped a comment on the rape allegations against Pastors and religious leaders in the country. Aisha Buhari on her verified Twitter page on Wednesday called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to take action in the alleged case of rape against founder and senior pastor of the

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Ajimobi

‘I let go in the interest of peace’― Ajimobi on losing senatorial bid

biola Ajimobi, outgoing Governor of Oyo State, has accepted the outcome of National Assembly election result, in which he lost his bid to represent Oyo South senatorial district. Ajimobi lost to Kola Balogun of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The two-term Governor lost to Kola Balogun of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ajimobi polled 92,579

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election results

PDP legal team summons emergency meeting over election results

The legal team of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has summoned an emergency meeting for Tuesday. Coming on the heels of the rejection of the presidential election result by the main opposition party, the meeting is expected to discuss the next line of action. The notice of meeting was sent by Kabir Turaki, former minister

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Osun

#NigeriaDecides2019: Buhari floors Atiku in Osun

President Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s presidential elections has won in Osun. Professor Toyin Ogundipe, the state collation Officer announced that Buhari scored 347,634 votes. Ogundipe, who is the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) said Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored

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Dino Melaye

‘Slept a senator, woke up a senator’ ― Dino Melaye jubilates as he retains Kogi West senatorial seat

Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been declared winner of the Kogi West Senatorial election held on Feb. 23. The Returning Officer, Prof. Emmanuel Bala announced in the early hours of Monday in Lokoja that Melaye polled 85, 395 votes to defeat Sen. Smart Adeyemi of the APC who scored 66, 901

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