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May, 2021

• 15 May

  Leicester Wins English FA Cup For First Time

  

  Super Eagles stars of Nigeria, Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho, and their Leicester City have won the English FA Cup for the first time after a 1-0 defeat of Chelsea at the Wembley Although it was Youri Tielemans’s sensational screamer which handed Leicester victory, Iheanacho, who had a dour final, …

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• 14 May

  Possibility of Shifting UTME 2021 Date Is Very High-JAMB

  

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) says there is high possibility to  shift the date for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination The JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede said this was because close to 600, 000 candidates who have indicated an interest in the exam are yet to register. Speaking …

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• 14 May

  Lessons For Nigeria From EPL – Femi Adesina

  

  Manchester City football club was on Tuesday confirmed winner of the 2020/2021 English Premier League (EPL). For those who follow football keenly, whether it is played in the dusty fields of Ajegunle, in Lagos, the La Liga in Spain, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, or EPL, this was one pulsating …

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• 14 May

  Falola and the praise of greatness

  

  By Olayinka Oyegbile (In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation; by Toyin Falola, Carolina Academic Press, 2019) In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind – Edmund Burke It is only the …

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• 14 May

  A CONVERSATION WITH EBENEZER OBEY-FABIYI, PART 6

  

  The Unknown Ebenezer Obey: A Loving Father and A Darling Husband By Toyin Falola   (This is the third report on the interview conducted with Chief Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi on April 18, 2021. With viewers on three platforms now at over 16,000, there is a strong loyalty between him and his …

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• 14 May

  Shrinking Civic Space: Labour, CSOs Agree to Form Transformative Governance Initiative

  

  Members of the civil society organisations and the Labour movement in Nigeria have agreed to work together to initiate a Campaign For Transformative Governance, with the central theme on corruption and Insecurity and their deleterious impact on the trajectory of Human Development. The groups said in a communique issued after …

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