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2023 Polls: Scrutinizing the Campaigns

Web News 27 January 2023 492 0

Analysis with Dr Sunday Olawale As the 2023 campaigns hot up, parties have hit the campaign trail. Public affairs analyst, Dr Sunday Olawale in this interview takes a look at what the gladiators have been presenting before Nigerians. Politicians are out with their train to canvass votes, how Continue Reading

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2023 Elections: Litany of Vicious Jabs, Salvos

Web News 21 January 2023 596 0

Nigeria’s democratic journey has been frequently marred by a slew of troubling events, including during the military era, dating back to the country’s independence in 1960. Losing candidates and their supporters frequently dispute election results, and this is true at all three levels of government in our country: local council, State and parliamentary, as well […]Continue Reading

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Ensuring Safety of Children in Society

Web News 29 November 2022 635 0

Child safety in the society remains a complex issue involving the interaction of multiple systems across the life course. It encompasses the prevention of all types of injury: physical, emotional and psychological as well as interventions to promote resilience to harm. It is a general belief that child safety is a call to action to […]Continue Reading

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Aide’s Death : Tinubu Commiserates with Atiku

Web News 23 September 2022 591 0

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed his condolence to his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, over the death of his close aide, Abdullahi Nyako. Nyako, who was the Waziri of Kojoli, Yelli District of Jada Local Government Area of Adamawa State, died […]Continue Reading

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Bestiality, Nigerian Youths, and the Society

Web News 6 September 2022 952 0

Every society is governed by rules regulations, codes, and ethics regarding what to do and what not to do. For instance, most African cultures frown at relationships between animals and men known as bestiality as it is regarded as taboo. Apart from that, it is against the holy writs because both the Bible and Quran clearly condemn the act. […]Continue Reading

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Examining Gaps in Youths’ Preoccupation with Social Media

Web News 12 August 2022 515 0

Social media is a means of interaction between people regardless of race, age or gender.  Various social sites that have found their way to the global space contain contents that are both helpful and inimical to the social behaviours of youths.   As the International Day of Youths is observed across the world, focus on the negative […]Continue Reading

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X-raying Ekiti 26 Years after Creation

Web News 13 June 2022 510 0

Twenty-six years after the creation of Ekiti State, residents and stakeholders are not happy with the economic growth of the state. As the state prepares for another election to elect new leaders, concerned citizens want a change of tactics from the old order to move the state to an enviable height.  Ekiti State was created […]Continue Reading

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The Fray and Will of the Masses

Web News 3 June 2022 481 0

The hats stumble, tumbling onto the arena with a heist of millions of naira in hand. Who needs a Nostradamus to know that 2023 looms on the horizon with queer enactments blazoning our political space?  As in Sergio Leone’s 1966 Italian epic spaghetti starring Clint Eastwood as the Good, Lee Vancleef as Bad, and Eli […]Continue Reading

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Finland, Sweden NATO Membership: Voices that Matter

Web News 11 April 2022 550 0

After four years, the staccato of guns and booms of cannon ceased giving the world relief from a brutal war, World War 1 between 1914 and 1918, which left some 8.5 million soldiers dead as a result of battle wounds or disease.  The world would be swarmed by another apocalypse twenty-one years later, World War […]Continue Reading

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Ukraine: Between Donald Trump, Joe Biden

Web News 31 March 2022 528 0

On January 20, 2021, baton changed hands in Washington, Trump gave way to Biden, after the horror of the January 6 Capital riot. Over a year after, Biden finds himself marshalling Europe to confront what the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, 30 nations body has tagged Putin war against Ukraine. And Biden has not spared […]Continue Reading

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Power Supply, what is the way forward?

Web News 31 March 2022 592 0

In this piece, Tayo Sanni writes on the way forward to the worsening electricity supply in Nigeria. Those who bought the power holding company of Nigeria, PHCN, and turned it into Electricity Distribution Companies owe Nigerians one vital explanation. They must tell the people what has happened with the discos since the ownership changed hand. […]Continue Reading

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Ukraine Invasion: Ripples and Diplegia

Web News 24 March 2022 546 0

*As the world grapples with the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with trepidation and the need to avoid the crisis escalating into a third World War, Simeon Ugbodovon looks at core issue behind the booming canons.* February 25 at 5:49 pm, the world found itself in a new face of conflict, Russian President, Vladimir […]Continue Reading

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Suicide! Is it the Answer?

Web News 23 March 2022 555 0

In this peice, Anthonia Akanji writes on ways of discouraging suicide in the society. A quote by an anonymous author says “suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting any better” Suicide is death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die over various issues. […]Continue Reading

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Agbalumo: Health Benefits Of African Star Apple

Web News 15 March 2022 6872 0

It’s the season of African Star Apple, known as Agbalumo in Yoruba,Udara in Igbo, Agwaluma in Hausa and botanically called Chrysophyllum albidum. African Star Apple is a tropical plant and abundant in Nigeria. Agbalumo is a great fruit that gives you a star shape when you cut it open like.This is the reason it is […]Continue Reading

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Hijab For Policewomen: Nigeria Has Lost Focus – Traditional Worshippers

Web News 14 March 2022 515 0

The Traditional Worshippers Association of Nigeria, Oyo State Branch has condemned the approval of use of hijab and other adornments for policewomen in Nigeria, saying the government has lost focus on its priority on development. The body said this in a statement made available to reporters in Ibadan on Monday and signed by its Chairman, […]Continue Reading

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Health Benefits of Monkey Kola

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Monkey kola is a popular name for this edible wild relatives of West African kolanut, including Cola lateritia K. Schum, Cola pachycarpa K. Schum, and Cola lepidota K. Schum.  These are indigenous tropical fruit species that thrive in the humid woods of West and Central Africa. In Yoruba, monkey kola is referred to as Obi […]Continue Reading

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Strange Trees around the World

Web News 22 February 2022 1564 0

Have you ever given a thought to these silent natural wonders around you standing tall in diverse shapes and sizes? I am talking about trees — yes, trees are natural wonders and a gift to this world and to the entire humanity. They are a vital source of survival of all the living things on […]Continue Reading

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Need To Encourage Nigerian Inventors

Web News 2 February 2022 664 0

In the later part of the eighteenth century to four decades into the nineteenth century, precisely between 1760s and 1840, the industrial revolution began in Britain. Today, western countries top the list of the developed world.  Asia is not left behind, as China, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have emerged as strong manufacturing hubs. African […]Continue Reading

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Straight Talk: Sports Development in Nigeria, How Far?

Web News 16 January 2022 640 0

Super Eagles of Nigeria is currently making the country proud at the ongoing AFCON 2021 holding in Cameroon. The team has qualified for the knockout stages of the 2021 AFCON tournament. For analysis on the tournament and efforts at developing sports in Nigeria, tune in to Straight Talk on Premier FM 93.5, Ibadan on Monday […]Continue Reading

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Meet Cities, Events that Celebrate Man’s Primal Nature

Web News 11 January 2022 782 0

During Stone Age era, people use to roam around naked and it was considered normal. However, when the society developed, people started covering themselves with clothes and we adapted to a different lifestyle. However, there are places and events where walking naked is still accepted, such event is the bike ride which takes place every […]Continue Reading

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Collaborating To Strenghtening Anti-Corruption Drive

Web News 8 December 2021 1662 0

Corruption remains a global phenomenon with no racial boundaries. More often than not, print and electronic media are awashed with cases of sleaze, monetary or in kind. And there is hardly any sphere of activities or profession that corruption is not found. Corruption wreaks enormous damage on good governance, disrupts systemic administration, compromises the Continue Reading

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Promoting Inclusion of Women, Youths, PLWDs in Nigeria’s Political Process

Web News 24 November 2021 1159 0

Over the years, mainstream media played a pivotal role in information dissemination to the public, upon which decision of the people is formed about a particular subject. The media has played important role in influencing the opinions and attitudes of its viewers and listeners, as the choice of words of news stories and images on a […]Continue Reading

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Checking The Spate Of Jail Break

Web News 25 October 2021 1200 0

Nigeria Prison Service is one of the major institutions in the criminal justice system. It provides restraint to individuals accused or convicted for offence. Prisons could be referred to as correctional centres which is the third phase in the criminal justice system. Their functions include keeping custody, producing suspects in court as and when due, […]Continue Reading

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Coast Redwood: Tallest Living Trees

Web News 18 October 2021 1904 0

Coast redwood, (Sequoia sempervirens), also called California redwood, coniferous evergreen timber tree of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), the tallest of all living trees. They are endemic to the fog belt of the coastal range from southwestern Oregon to central California, U.S., at elevations up to 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) above sea level. The coast redwood […]Continue Reading

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Rape And Its Attendant Challenges

Web News 12 October 2021 1052 0

According to a survey in 2018 by Nigeria demographic and health, thirty percent of girls and women aged between fifteen and forty-nine suffers sexual abuse. The survey sates that at least two million girls experience sexual abuse annually and that only twenty-eight percent of cases is reported while only twelve percent result in convictions. Available […]Continue Reading