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The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, said on Monday the Assembly reserves the right to make public the reports of the screening committee on the 17 rejected commissioner nominees in the state. Obasa, who disclosed this at the plenary in Ikeja, the Assembly would not release the committee’s reports despite threats by some people in …

More than 85 per cent of Nigeria’s graduates have no digital skills, a survey by GetBundi, an online education technology outfit, has shown. The outcome of the survey, according to the Chief Executive Officer of the outfit, Osita Oparaugo, showed that more than 100 million young people are not prepared to take up good job opportunities that required such modern …

A 44-year-old man, Olanrewaju Kolawole, has been heartbroken after DNA test results revealed that none of his four children was his biological child. Kolawole, who hail from Ikire in Osun State, and his wife, Tella Toyin, shared four kids together, namely Ayomide, 16; Sarah, 12; and two other children aged 8 and 5 years, respectively. It was gathered that the …

The French President, Emmanuel Macron, on Monday praised the country’s ambassador to Niger for staying in the West African country despite pressure from the military junta to leave. The junta which seized power from President Mohammed Basoum last month had on August 25 ordered French ambassador Sylvain Itte to leave the country within 48 hours after he snubbed an invitation …

Barcelona edged Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 in their UEFA Champions League first leg quarter-final tie on Wednesday in France. The result means PSG’s 27-game unbeaten run has come to an end , as they suffer their first defeat since losing to AC Milan in November. It is a first Champions League quarter-final win for Barcelona since April 2019 against Manchester United. …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 20 persons for allegedly scavenging at night in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The NSCDC Commandant in the FCT, Olusola Odumosu, who paraded the suspects on Monday, said the scavengers popularly called, “Baba Bola” were arrested by the operatives during a midnight patrol at different locations. He said: “Scavenging at …

BINTA SHAMA and some select journalists hanged out with Bennibor Onisolaime, otherwise known in the entertainment world as Laime. The artiste shares some thoughts on his musical career and what he hopes to make out of music in the years ahead.   Laime, a curious stage name. Tell us about that and by extension a bit of your ground  My name is …

The alert to the authorities at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on a possible flooding along the River Benue basin in a few days due to the imminent release of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon should be taken with all the seriousness it deserves in order to avert its cataclysmic effect. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued …

Lightning killed three Senior Secondary School (SS3) students in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra on Saturday. Eye witness account disclosed that the lightning struck nine male students who were playing football with their peers on the school’s pitch barefooted. “The students were practicing on the football pitch with their coach preparatory to a football tournament. “The coach had …

Kano state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has announced the appointment of 94 social media influencers as media aides. Their appointment came after the governor’s appointment of 44 social media influencers in September as “special reporters”. With the latest appointment, the governor now has 138 special reporters working for him. The governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature, in a statement on Tuesday, said the …