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Chelsea have reached verbal agreement with Saudi side Al Ahli to sell Edouard Mendy , here we go 🇸🇳🤝🏻 ◉ Mendy agreed personal terms with Al Ahli on three year deal, contract ready — as revealed last week. ◉ Final documents to be checked, then set to be signed if all goes to plan with Al Ahli and Chelsea. ◉ After Hakim Ziyech to Al Nassr, Mendy leaves the club in order to join Saudi — next one, Koulibaly.

  Alabi Emmanuel A serial entrepreneur and student leader, comrade Alabi Emmanuel (EMCJ) has join other well meaning individuals across the globe to felicitate with women all over the world on the 2021 international women's day celebration.  Emmanuel, an experienced HR expert with demonstrated experience in CV writing and graphics designs in a statement made available to Heritage News on Monday described women as Jewels and fragile vessels that must be protected, valued and taken care of.  Read the full statement below; Be a Girl with a mind, a Woman with attitude, and a Lady with class... (EMCJ 2021 IWD)  "I celebrate with Nigerian/ African women all over the world in this year's International Women’s Day. "I also want to use this medium to encourage everyone most especially those in power and the male gender to join the ongoing campaign to address issues of gender equality in every strata of life, ensure gender balance in government, employment, remuneration of e...

 For failure to pay examination fees of its students National Examination Council, NECO, has withheld results of the over 30,000 students of Niger State. Following this development, affected students risk forfeiting their admissions into higher institutions for one or more years. It was gathered that the lean purse of the state government has hindered the release of funds to pay fees leading to the huge debt. It is said that students who graduated in 2019 and 2020 from Niger State are yet to access their results due the debt . Recall that the state government had earlier said it would not pay the NECO fees of non-indigenes and indigent students who did not get seven credits in the mock examinations organized by the state government. However, it was gathered that the non-indigent students who paid the NECO fees to the state government are still unable to access their results because NECO said such fees were not remitted to it by the state government. Parents of the affected students...

A group within the Peoples Democratic Party in Orire Local Government of Oyo state, Battle Against Imposition, has raised alarm over possible injustice and imposition of candidate in the PDP local Government primary election slated for tomorrow. The group in a statement made available to Heritage News on Wednesday expressed concern on how a person known to be contesting for Councillor made it to the list of Chairmanship aspirants.  Read the full statement ; "Sequel to the time table released by the Oyo state Independent electoral commission OYSIEC that gives opportunity to every political party to participate in the Local Government Election, it's worrisome to hear the unbelievable that OYSIEC can sold a form or interchange an application for councillorship to Chairmanship after the closure date. "With all indication, it is Crystal clear that five persons purchased the form of Chairmanship in Orire Local Government with the following names.  1. Monilola Lydia Bankole 2. O...

Dreams Media and Citizens Media in their usual ways of always getting identified with good governance, did collaborative report on the progress of development in Surulere, and education was picked as the point of focus. To this end, it is not a gainsaying that no nation can grow or develop above her educational system, thereby making it paramount for each nation who's aim is to grow and develop to cherish education. Without mincing words, education is the bedrock of any civilisation, and it is on record that the World Health Organization (WHO) while commenting on the impact of the pandemic after countries ended their lockdowns noted that it is time for World leaders and policy makers to see COVID-19 as our new reality which requires creative ideas to ensure that activities go back to normal while reducing the risk of the citizens contracting the pandemic. But the distinct and respected Speaker of the Federal Republic Nigeria, did not only make policies that have a better and positi...

  In politics, a political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement their agenda. Party membership is a tool to which the system of that society work for all, it is one of the factors that makes governance of the country to be democratic, by accommodating and sensitizing the citizens towards the importance of party membership and political participation. To this end, the Supervisor for Finance expressed his feelings on the consequences of shrinking party membership, particularly in many developing democracies, ours is not an exception, while levels of membership have fallen considerably in many developed democracies in the last couple of decades. This development gives rise to concern for various reasons. Which are: 1. Limiting the opportunities for political participation of citizens. 2. Widening the gap betw...

 The Seriki Fulani of Oyo State, Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, on Saturday said none of his children was killed in the alleged attack by youths on his Igangan settlement. Newsmen also learnt on Saturday evening that the attack on the Seriki's house happened shortly after a pro-Oodua Republic agitator, Sunday Igboho, and his men left Igangan. The Seriki however told newsmen that his children and first wife sustained gunshot injuries and were responding to treatment at an undisclosed hospital. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the state chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders of Nigeria, Alhaji Ibrahim Jiji, on Saturday urged the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, to work his talk by ensuring that Igboho is arrested. The Fulani leader said Makinde should consider Fulani people as his children, saying Yoruba people are doing well in other part of the country and are not being intimidated.  According to him, many Fulani people in the North are now afraid to visit the southwest states for f...

Development is a continuous process, just like the way Government is a continuous process, we live with the expectation of having economic development, economic growth, education, entitlements, equality, equity, freedom, gender equity, goals, good governance, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), health, human development, income, justice, livelihoods, participation, peace, positive change, poverty reduction, process of change, production, progress, reducing vulnerability, self-determination, social development, social inclusion, and employment opportunities, which is gradually becoming reality. And also known as: stages of development, before being seen as developed society. Development is a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the addition of physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components. The identification of these traps enables relating to political – economic – social conditions in a country in an attempt to  advance development. Surulerian'...

 The Osun State Police Command has arrested one Musa Mohammed Musa, a 400 level student of the Political Science Department of the Oduduwa University, Ipetu Modu for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting Nigerians using the internet. Newsmen  gathered that Musa had opened a fake Twitter account in the name of a popular social media personality, Jaruma Empire, through which he garnered more than 10,000 followers before luring and duping some of them with ‘giveaways’. The suspect was also alleged to have perfected the act by opening a bank account in the name of Nigeria’s leading logistics company, GIG Logistics, through which he defrauded several victims by asking them to pay money for freight into the account. It was also gathered that Musa, on receiving money transfers, immediately proceeded to block further communications with his victims. The bubble, however, burst when in September 2020, a customer alerted GIG Logistics via its Twitter handle that someone had opened an account...