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Oyo State Junior Golf clinic commences April 12

Mr Tobi Oyewumi, the Special Assistant on Sports Development to the state governor, said this at a news briefing on Friday in Ibadan. He said that the event was a clinic and also a competition, which aimed to introduce teenagers…

Islamic teacher beats student to coma in Ilorin

An Islamic teacher, Alfa Moshood, has fled for his life after beating one of his students to a coma. Reports have it that Moshood on Thursday allegedly beat his student to coma for stealing his locally made safe/piggybank, popularly called…

Prince Philip: Queen Elizabeth’s husband is dead

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth’s husband for 73 years, has died aged 99. Buckingham Palace announced his passage Friday morning. Flags on landmark buildings in Britain were being lowered to half-mast as a period of mourning…

JAMB halts 2021 UTME registration

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have put on hold sales of the 2021 UTME registration forms. The registration exercise was, hitherto, supposed to commence on Thursday and run till Saturday, May 15 while the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination…

Kidnappers release 8 RCCG members in Kaduna

Pastor Enoch Adeboye has confirmed the release of eight RCCG members, kidnapped on March 26 by gunmen. The church members were kidnapped while travelling along Kachia road in the southern part of Kaduna state. Their bus was abandoned on the…