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Published 14 March 2021
The senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ogun East in the 2019 general elections, Adeola Sosanwo, has defected to the All Progressives Congress.
Sosanwo said he joined the APC to collaborate with the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun.
He said, “I have always been an APC person but was hijacked by the PDP due to the fact that I wasn’t getting due recognition under the previous government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
“I have, however, decided to be back to the APC to support our good brother, the governor of the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun, in his determination to leave the state far better than he met it.”
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OLUFEMI OLANIYI that despite the detention of his men who were part of the team that arrested the Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili, by the police, the group will not stop fighting against criminal herdsmen
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long did it take your men to arrest Iskilu Wakili?
If you can remember, about two months ago, one of our brothers, Chief Sunday Igboho, went to Igangan to warn the Seriki Fulani there that the insecurity in the area had become unbearable. He went there and gave him seven days to leave the area. But immediately Igboho did that, it was like stirring a hornets’ nest and the herdsmen also started boasting that they would revenge. After Seriki had left the town, Wakili started boasting that they could pursue Seriki but nobody could chase him away. This baffled us that such a man could be so daring and be telling us that in our land. For an alleged kidnapper to be making such a boast in our fatherland is something we could not understand. Have you he
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Published 14 March 2021
Some few weeks ago, the management of the University of Ibadan announced the sad news of the death of Mr. Nigel Henry, the longest serving member of the Classics Department, and indeed of the entire Faculty of the Humanities. Henry spent over four decades, tutoring students in the fine art of classical studies. Classics is concerned with the critical investigation of the cultural and civilisational antiquity of the Greek culture and its massive influence on the development of the West. Students are not only taken through the linguistic complexities and sublime beauty of Greek and Latin, they are also taught to come to terms with the literary, historical and the philosophical essence of what Greece bestowed on the world.
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Published 14 March 2021
Elder Canaan Lucky, 66, is one of the shop owners at Bishop Okoye Street market, in the Mile 3 area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which went up in flames on Friday, February 19. In this interview with
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Tell
us your name and what you are into?
I am Elder Canaan Lucky and I deal majorly in rice; I sell bags of rice. I also sell beans, salt, oil and other items.
You are one of the victims of the recent fire outbreak at Bishop Okoye Street Market. How did it happen?
We were already in our houses when they called around past eight in the evening that the market was on fire. So, we had to rush down to find out what was happening. By the time we got here, the fire was raging, so we were not able to recover anything.