Araoluwa Popoola
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Araoluwa Popoola (Aramanda), playing off handicap 19, carded an impressive 70 strokes (-1) to win the maiden Fun Seekers Golf Kitty, which held at the Sadiq Abubakar Golf Course, Air Force Base, Shasha, Lagos.
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The Nigerian Senate, along with the House of Representatives, has passed the 2025 Appropriation Bill, approving a record-breaking budget of ₦54,990,165,355,396 to finance government activities in the coming fiscal year. The budget, titled A Bill for an Act to Authorize the Issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, was approved after deliberations on…
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