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ON THE GO Father of Afaka student dies two weeks after daughter’s kidnap Ibrahim Shamaki, the father of one of the students abducted by bandits in Afaka, Kaduna state, is dead.Advertisement TheCable gathered that Shamaki, whose daughter was among those kidnapped from Federal... Seven vehicles affected in yet another fire incident at Otedola Bridge There was an accident resulting in a fire outbreak at Otedola Bridge inwards Berger area on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the ea...

Politics: How vulnerable is Kwara Gov? Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara state By Sat Feb 13 2021 I have taken time to follow the politics of Kwara especially regarding the crisis within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and concerns that the sterling pro-people performance of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq may not fetch him a second term. As a political observer, I do not think those making such claims have sat down to look at the map as things stand today. I admit that who wi...

Spring, and the insects that come with it, might still be weeks away, but this week Columnist David Mark is taking a look at the bald-faced hornet.

BYE! BYE! PRINCE TONY MOMOH OUR CHAIRMAN BYE! BYE! PRINCE TONY MOMOH OUR CHAIRMAN As our chairman, Prince of Auchi Royal Kingdom, Tony Momoh goes home morrow,11, February 2021, after a sojourn of 81 years, and 9 months on Mother Earth. We his children of the extended clan, and adherents can only quip that to whom we cherished, we can never lose. And as Irving Berlin’s lyric posited, the song has ended, but the melody lingers. The letter to my countrymen like many of his lucid prose have no ne...

FORMER President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has described the death of the former Information and Culture Minister, Prince Tony Momoh as a huge loss to the country.

Senator Mark who noted the exploits of Momoh in the evolution of Nigerian Press saying, “he stood tall in terms of moral and professional uprightness among his peers, said, “It is on record that Momoh as the then Editor of the Old Daily Times of Nigeria championed the course of nationalism, freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Nigeria and Africa.

3 February 2021 UCL has received a donation of more than £11m for research and teaching on the history, heritage and languages of Mesopotamia, the ancient ‘land between two rivers’ that is now home to modern day Iraq, Northern Syria and Eastern Turkey. The gift will fund both Iraqi led research to create economic and social benefits for local communities and a dedicated new UK hub at UCL for Ancient Middle Eastern Languages. It will build o...

Adamu Adamu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was founded in 1978 as an educational trade union to act as a collective pressure group on behalf of all public universities. This was in the heady days of the 1970’s when trade unions had enormous powers and held governments to ransom. We recall that it was the unions in the United Kingdom that brought down Edward Heath’s government in 1974. Strikes have been a constant feature of ASUU, accounting for about 30 percent of their tot...

LoyaltyLobby Enabled by local bar owners who shouldn’t be opening their establishment serving alcohol as per the emergency degree in place the group of 109 individuals as well as the owner and organizer of the party were arrested. Thailand is currently seeing a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus and while the outbreak appears to be largely contained there are emergency decrees in place within each province that were signed by the respective governor. The Bangkok Post reported the r...

In sweeping executive orders, Biden brings climate to the forefront of U.S. policy by Ashoka Mukpo on 28 January 2021 On Wednesday, the Biden administration issued a series of executive orders on climate change, proposing an expansive plan that it says is the most ambitious in U.S. history. The orders formalized promises made by Biden during his presidential campaign. Included in the orders are a moratorium on oil and gas drilling on federal lands as well as a proposal to conserve 30 percent o...