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No fewer than 18 people died in an early morning road crash in Awo community in Irepodun/Ifelodun LGA of Ekiti State.

The management of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, has confirmed the death of two of its students in a clash between suspected cult groups in Ekpoma last Tuesday.

(File) Manuel Charr (C) celebrates after winning the WBA world heavyweight boxing title in a bout against Russia’s Alexander Ustinov in November 2017. Guido Kirchner / dpa / AFP

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that he hasn’t committed the state to any debt either by taking bond or borrowing from any financial institution since he assumed office for the second time on October 16, 2014. till date. He therefore challenged anyone, financial institution or the Debt Management Office (DMO) and his accuser, the All Progressive Congress (APC) to publish any debt he owes on behalf of the state since he assumed office. Fayose who stated this on Sunday in reaction to allegation by the Transition Committee set up by the APC Governor-elect, John Kayode Fayemi, claiming that the state’s debt profile according to the data they allegedly obtained from the DMO currently stands at N117 billion, dismissed such claims as : “cheap blackmail and lies from the out of hell ” He said: ” I have not committed Ekiti to one Naira since I assumed office as governor for the second term. I haven’t borrowed from any financial institutions. The Debt Management O

The consequences of the debt might not meet them

FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks during a press conference. Photo: Alexander NEMENOV / AFP

Prof. Wole Soyinka on Thursday lamented that the lives of Nigerians have been so cheapened under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, while calling for the election of new generation of leaders to overhaul the system. Soyinka spoke at the official launch of his Interventions VIII series, titled: "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who keeps Watch over the Watchmen?), Gani's Unfinished Business," held at the Freedom Park, Lagos Island area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Soyinka, who responded to a question posed by Kunle Ajibade, the Executive Editor of The News/PM News whether he had moment of doubt and impulse about Nigeria in recent time, said there were serious acts of mis-governance under the current administration, as there were lots of unforced errors being committed by Buhari. "There are acts of mis-governance under this administration. There are unforced errors and acts that are considered being stupid; failure to secure lives; languages of self-excus