World record holder in women’s 100m hurdles Tobi Amusan has secured her spot at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, France. Last December, World Athletics revealed the pathway to qualify for athletics at Paris 2024, including the entry standards athletes will need to achieve between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. For 100m hurdles, the entry standard was set at 12.77 seconds. (culled from QED.ng)
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May Yul-Edochie, estranged wife of actor Yul Edochie, has congratulated her father-in-law Pete Edochie on receiving doctorate degrees in literature and arts. The 39-year-old took to Instagram on Thursday to share pictures of Pete with his certificates, thanking ISTM University in Togo for conferring the degrees on him. She also prayed for God to strengthen the veteran actor. “Only a veteran and legend gets decorated twice on the same day. Thanks to ISTM University for making the right decision to confer the degrees of ‘Doctorate of Arts’ and ‘Doctorate of…
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Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) All Stars house guest Kim Oprah has denied the allegation that she is a fake housemate. The 27-year-old did so on Wednesday in a conversation with Mercy Eke when the latter said that Biggie had put a tag on the former by asking housemates to nominate either Kim Oprah, Omashola, Prince or Lucy for possible eviction. Mercy said, “I still feel like you guys are fake housemates with the way things played out on Sunday. “Even during the first nomination, it was like a compulsory thing…
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The police have arrested an associate professor at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Dr Kadiri Akeem accused of rape.The alleged victim (name withheld) had said the lecturer raped her on August 16, 2023 when she visited the lecturer in the office to sort out issues about her results. A non-governmental organisation Inclusive Social Welfare and Empowerment Foundation, where the victim reported the case, got the police involved. Spokesman of the Lagos Police Command Benjamin Hundeyin said in a post on X that the lecturer “is to appear in court in…
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Mandy Park The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has taken a critical analysis of the policies and programmes of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since it assumed office on 29 May 2023, submitting that it’s a mix bag of opportunities if well harnessed and confusion without a clear policy direction. Speaking on existing and emerging issues in the environment sector under the present administration, Executive Director of ERA/FoEN, Chima Williams stated that several initiatives have been introduced by the new government with varying degrees of impact on…
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The management of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has confirmed the missing student Modupe Atanda has been found dead. Ms Atanda, a student in the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Basic Medical Science, went missing after she went out to study at night on Monday, September 4, 2023. Her roommates declared her missing when she did not return. A statement by the university’s registrar Mufutau Ibrahim said, “It will be recalled that earlier today, the Management had made public the disturbing development of the missing of the deceased and assured…
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By Kazie Uko One of the campaign promises of the Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, was the establishment of a ministry or an agency that would serve as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to drive the process of revamping Aba, the commercial capital of the state. Aba featured so strategically in Dr. Otti’s campaign for the governorship of Abia State to the extent that he was willing to introduce a full-fledged ministry to oversee the realisation of his dream of a renewed Enyimba City, where trading and manufacturing…
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Emeka Njoku The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, today, Wednesday, sacked the member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi federal constituency, Hon Amobi Ogah (Labour Party). It subsequently ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to withdraw the certificate of return given to Ogah and issue same to the Petitioner, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Onyejeocha is the Minister of State for Labour.
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Mandy Park The Labour Party has rejected the judgement delivered today, Wednesday by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). The court dismissed petitions by the party and its presidential candidate in the 2023 poll, Peter Obi, stating that they did not prove their cases against the election of President Bola Tinubu. National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, stated the party’s position in a press release. He said, “The Labour Party watched with dismay and trepidation the dismissal of petitions by the five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petition…
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The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal ruled on Wednesday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) lacks the locus standi to challenge Peter Obi’s membership of the Labour Party (LP). The APC and President Bola Tinubu had in their petitions argued that Obi’s name was not contained in the list of LP members forwarded to INEC on April 25, 2022, and breached Section 77 of the Electoral Act, 2022. However, in the lead judgment on the objections by the APC against the petitions of Obi and the LP, Justice Abba Mohammed said…
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