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Jan 10, 2025 | 
theafricareport.com | Bankole Taiwo James
It is 10 on a busy Monday morning in Idi-Araba in Lagos, Nigeria and the Buchi Betting Center is in full swing: on one side, a group huddles over a television showing the weekend Premier League matches. Men crowd around tables, some seated, others leaning against the walls, clutching their betting slips. The atmosphere is half anticipation, half desperation. Get full access to The Africa Report
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
westafricaweekly.com | Bankole Taiwo James
When asked, “How did you become a nursing mother while pursuing your studies?” Halimat responds cheerfully. Honestly, I don’t even know, it just happened because it wasn’t part of my plans that while I was in school that I am going to be a nursing mother at the same time. It wasn’t in my plan because then when we were still in secondary school, you know the way we used to plan that after secondary school, institution, get a job and get married.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
saharareporters.com | Bankole Taiwo James
Skip to main content Chief Nanga just like every other Nigerian politician, is a ruthless embodiment of everything wrong with the political class. But how fitting then, that we now see Achebe’s prophetic vision fulfilled in Tinubu.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
saharareporters.com | Bankole Taiwo James
Skip to main content Nigeria's leader has been globetrotting, accumulating countless frequent flier miles. If only these miles could be converted into solutions, the country's fuel scarcity issue might be a thing of the past. The first year of the Tinubu administration has been one of the hardest for Nigerians in recent history.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
saharareporters.com | Bankole Taiwo James
As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration spends 15 months of cold, bitter and unforgiving governance in office, it is worthy to note that abduction is gradually becoming a major issue in Nigeria, while the Nigerian public, security experts, and policy-makers are grappling with the continuous surge in kidnapping and abduction cases.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
saharareporters.com | Bankole Taiwo James
Don’t bite me when I say social media or the internet is gradually becoming misleading. Have you seen Mumbai’s Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world? Or Khayelitsha in South Africa? I have been seeing several articles online referring to Makoko slum as the “Venice of Africa” or what do you people even call it? I must say that this is a very wrong misconception. Speaking of “Venice” we should be talking of places like Italy, France and the likes, but Makoko - Lagos Slum?
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
saharareporters.com | Bankole Taiwo James
On the 18th of April 2024, I took a solo trip from the quiet city of Ilorin in Kwara state to Ikeja in Lagos State. You might want to ask why. Don’t rush to ask, we shall get there. It was a peaceful but yet a long stressful journey right from the junction of Oke-Odo, the bus-stop between my school road, University of Ilorin and Terminus under- bridge.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
nairaland.com | Bankole Taiwo James
Sanwo-Olu, Makinde, others present as Southern Governors meeting holds in Ogun24th June 2024By Taiwo BankoleTen governors have arrived in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, for the Southern Governors’ Forum meeting. The governors are meeting at the presidential Lodge, Ibara housing, Abeokuta, the state capital. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos and the Chairman of South West Governors’ Forum, led the pack of early callers at the meeting. He was received by the host governor, Dapo Abiodun.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bankole Taiwo James |Tianzhou Ma |Itika Arora |Zhentian Lei
1 Introduction The increased prevalence of obesity has been a major healthcare challenge worldwide. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, more than 40% of adults have obesity condition in the United States.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
quicknews-africa.net | Bankole Taiwo James
The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, installed the co-founder of EKO Hospital, Olor’oogun Sonny Kuku, as the 4th Ogbeni Oja of Ijebuland on Saturday. The ceremony was also marked by Kuku’s 80th birthday. The Pro-Chancellor, University of Benin, succeeded his late uncle and lawyer, Bayo Kuku, the 3rd Ogbeni Oja of Ijebuland, who died in 2015.
