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1 week ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

Renowned Kenyan author, scholar, and activist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died. His family announced his passing Wednesday evening, May 28, 2025, saying he “lived a full life, fought a good fight.”“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,” her daughter Wanjiku wa Ngugi said in a Facebook post on Wednesday night, reports The Star. “As was his last wish, let’s celebrate his life and his work. Rîa ratha na rîa thŭa.

1 week ago | centurypost.com.ng | Benjamin Omoike

Olajide Babatunde, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, on e-GIS and Urban Development, says the state government has made major progress in modernising land administration and urban development through its Enterprise Geographic Information Service (e-GIS), a project led by the Lagos Geographic Information Service (LAGIS).

1 week ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

No fewer than 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination after the recent resit organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination Board, following the technical and human errors that marred the original exam.

1 week ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

A high-level coalition meeting involving former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi, former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and others descended into chaos as delegates from Jigawa State disrupted the proceedings. The coalition meeting at the Abuja Continental Hotel, organised by the National Political Consultative Group (North), was briefly disrupted following a disagreement over representation for Jigawa State, reports The Punch.

1 week ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has declared that Northern Nigeria holds the key to solving the nation’s deepest challenges, calling on leaders from the region to take bold steps toward driving national transformation. Speaking at a strategic meeting with Northern political stakeholders under the National Political Consultative Group, Obi described the North not as a problem, but as “Nigeria’s greatest untapped asset,” reports The Guardian.