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 "Nigeria We Hail Thee " During Today's Sitting After President Tinubu Signed Into Law Bill To Revert To The Old National Anthem. NATIONAL ANTHEM  ●Nigeria we hail thee Our own dear native land Though tribes and tongue may differ In brotherhood we stand Nigerians all, are proud to serve Our sovereign Motherland. ●Our flag shall be a symbol That truth and justice reign In peace or battle honour'd, And this we count as gain, To hand on to our children A banner without stain. ●O God of all creation Grant this our one request. Help us to build a nation Where no man is oppressed And so with peace and plenty Nigeria may be blessed.

The Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), Barrister Hashim Abioye has called for a true State Independent Electoral body with full financial autonomy, reported by Orionframe. Abioye, in his remarks while receiving the delegates of the Online Publishers Association (OOPA), led by its frontier able man, Mukhtar Ajelogbon, in friendly visit on Tuesday in office at Testing Ground, Osogbo, the Osun State capital, welcomed and applauded OOPA Excos for being outstanding in the digital media, he narrated that, agitation for the scrapping of the State Electoral Commissions due to the bastardization of the system at a time Nigerians are craving for restructuring and true federalism, should be used to support and bolster the state electoral Commissions that is closer to the grassroots. Abioye, further proposed that the state electoral umpire should be indipendent and centralized under the Independent Electoral Commission, (INEC) According to him, "We are cravi...

  Thirty years ago, South Africans cast their ballots in the country’s first free and fair election. Today, as they head to the polls, the African National Congress may lose its outright majority for the first time since then.  A new generation of voters do not have the lived experience of apartheid, and they blame the A.N.C. for joblessness, rampant crime and an economy blighted by electricity blackouts.  Voter turnout fell below 50 percent for the first time in 2021, reported by the NYT. ccording to NYT.  

  Presidential Aspirant in the last general elections, Chief CBN Onwuasoanya Ezendigbo, has condemned the Sit at home ordered as the whole world were celebrating the children day. The Founder of Better Nigeria For Better People, in a statement made available to Oriontimes said, At this era of civilisation, I wonder how we are still in this mess in south east. With all our level of education and advancement in commerce and skills, some criminals are taking us backwards to an era of primitive.  "As Nigeria and rest of the world are celebrating Children day with joy and happiness, "what we are experiencing in the south east is another round of Sit at home imposed by IPOB, denying every child the right to exist and enjoy childhood in good spirit of happiness.  These people hiding behind IPOB and perpetrating all sort of terroism against igbo people.  Therefore, it must be fulminated by all men of conscience. IPOB are hopeless and useless criminals. They don't deserve mer...

  Hamas fired a barrage of rockets yesterday afternoon, setting off air-raid sirens in the Tel Aviv area for the first time since at least late January.The attack showed that the group retained some long-range missile capabilities. The Israeli military said that at least eight rockets were launched from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where Israeli forces have been advancing, "There were no immediate reports of major damage. Israel’s emergency service said that two women were lightly wounded as they fled to a bomb shelter." Hours after the Hamas rocket attack, an Israeli airstrike on a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians killed at least 35 people, said the Gaza Health Ministry.  The Israeli military said that its operation was aimed at a Hamas compound.  Officials said that negotiations could restart in the next week, after a meeting in Paris among U.S. and Israeli intelligence chiefs and Qatar’s prime minister.

  More than 48 hours after a landslide struck a densely populated region of Papua New Guinea with boulders the size of shipping containers, a U.N. official in the country said that at least 670 people were estimated to have died. The landslide occurred around 3 a.m. on Friday, when many residents were asleep.  As of Sunday afternoon, land was still sliding, rocks were falling, and the soil was cracking from increased pressure and running groundwater, hampering search-and-rescue efforts and forcing residents from their homes.

  As I rejoice with my friend on his birthday celebration, memory brings me back to the days of struggle when I barely execute anything without the involvement of my great ally. Swiss, was very talented in drawing the map of the streets we have to captured, he brings on the desk a new blueprint as a co-founder of Global Voice Of The Young Generation. He was so very active more than some allies they both ran for presidential seat during the college struggles. Swiss, was the only man whom God shew a great vision about what's unknown unto many people as we both worked together. His ambition was priceless, so high, and he beliefs it could only be actualize in one God. But today, it's a testimony that he's using his God given powers to work for Almighty creation. After his NYSC, I saw transformation in his life, he came to me directly in Osogbo, Nigeria from service. My friend was so lean as a result of fasting and prayers, he changed his narratives, broke the chain which makes ...