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My dream was to play football for Barcelona – Zlatan Ibile

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By Philip Alawode  Nigerian rapper, Zlatan Ibile has revealed that his dream career was to be a football player. The ‘Zanku’ crooner said he wanted to play for La Liga giants, Barcelona, after failing at school. He explained that he never had the intention of being a musician, stressing that he stumbled into music. In an interview with Echo Room, Zlatan said he picked interest in music after one of his friends played a song he recorded for him. He said, “I was not a bright student in secondary school. I struggled with Mathematics and Accounting. I was in a Commercial class. I failed my WAEC and I was supposed to sit at home for a year. All my dream was to play for Barcelona. “I tried my possible best but the corruption in Nigerian football discouraged me. I was playing for a local club then. When I failed WAEC, I was going to sit down at home for a year, and then one of my friends came and played his record for me. I told him to take me to the studio the next time he was go
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Meet the Yoruba man, who owns a Aiport in Uk

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By Philip Alawode  In Nigeria, the name Adebayo Ogunlesi does not ring a bell like the Dangotes, Adenuga, Otedola, e.t.c. Adebayo Ogunlesi  was born on December 20, 1953 (age 73) hails from  Makun, Sagamu, Ogun state, Nigeria. Bayo was born into the family of Theophilus O. Ogunlesi, the first Nigeria professor of Medcine at University Ibadan. He started his primary Education at King's college, Lagos. He received. a B.A. with first class honour in Philosophy, Politics, and Economy from Oxford University in England. In 1979. Adebayo is a Nigerian lawyer and investment banker. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He was a lecturer at Harvard Law School. In july 2006, Ogunlesi started the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure  Partners (GIP). a joint venture whose initial investors includes Credit Suisse and General Electric. He currently serve as the Chairman and Managing Partner at he firm. GIP invests in infrastructure businesses with assets i
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UNIJOS graduates 20,532 students as 112 bag first class

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By GROUP 24 The University of Jos, Plateau State, will on Saturday graduate a total of 20,532 students at its 33rd and 34th convocation ceremony. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Ishaya Tanko, who disclosed this during a pre-convocation press briefing, said out of the number, 112 of the students would graduate with first-class Honors. The VC said during the convocation, various categories of students would be awarded different degrees as well. According to him, the degrees comprised 159 PhDs, 3,669 Masters, 281 postgraduate diplomas, 11, 281 Bachelors, and 5,142 from affiliate institutions. He added that, “For the Second Class Honors (Upper Division), we have  3,093 graduating students and for the Second Class (Lower Division), we have 6,325. For the Third Class category, we have 1,361, and 281 students will graduate with Pass Division while Pass qualified for Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine program is 109.” Tanko further stated that the high point of the convocation ceremon
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BVN has no expiry date says CBN

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By GROUP 24 The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has clarified that the Bank Verification Number, BVN, has no expiry date.  CBN’s spokesman,  Dr. Isa AbdulMumin, made the clarification in a statement last night. He was reacting to media reports that the BVN expires after 10 years. He said: “The attention of the CBN has been drawn to reports suggesting that the BVN issued by the bank in collaboration with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System, NIBSS, expires after a ten-year period.  Contrary to these claims, we wish to clarify that the BVN issued in Nigeria has no expiry date.  Once a customer’s biometrics have been captured and enrolled in the database of NIBSS, the BVN remains for life. However, the Regulatory Framework for BVN issued by the CBN in 2021 stipulates that customers can only change their records due to certain conditions spelt  out in the document and after being cleared by relevant authorities.  “Therefore, we urge bank customers in the country, especially t
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:Supreme Court Affirms Sen. Adeleke As Osun Governor

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By GROUP 24 The Supreme Court has affirmed the victory of Governor Ademola Adeleke as the winner of the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the State of Osun. Delivering the lead judgment in Abuja on Tuesday, Justice Agim, a member of the five man panel held that issues 3, 4, 5 and 9 of the petition of former Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola lacked merit. In a unanimous judgment, the five-man panel established that Oyetola failed to prove over-voting in his petition, noting the BVAS machines are the basis for proving over-voting. The court also held that Register of Voters is very cardinal to the process of accreditation and as such, over-voting cannot be proved without it. The justices noted that Principal Witness 1 presented by the appellants as an expert relied on hearsay evidence, and his opinion is therefore not admissible and ruled that as such, the appellants did not discharge the burden of proof placed on them by the law. The Court said that Adeleke’s qualification i
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