LAGOS BY-ELECTIONS: SANWO-OLU CONGRATULATES ABIRU, SAHEED …Says Victory Is Vote Of Confidence In APC By Lagosians Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru, on his emergence as the Senator-elect for Lagos East Senatorial District. The Governor also congratulated the APC …
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Professor Nora Daduut of All Progressive Congress has won the Plateau South Senatorial by-election held on Saturday in the 6 local government areas of Plateau South Senatorial district. Mrs Daduut polled 83,151 votes to beat his closest challenger George Daika of the Peoples Democratic party who scored 70,838 votes to …
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his “good offices and leadership position to urgently instruct the Director-General and Board of the National Pension Commission [NPC] to use their statutory powers to stop the 36 state governors from …
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Organized labour has commended the recent measures of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) aimed at shoring up the value of the Naira. The Naira recently reversed its depreciation trend in the parallel market, recording N20 gain against the United States Dollar closing at N470 per dollar due to what …
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Ibom Air airlifts 300,000 passengers in one yearMore than 300,000 passengers have been airlifted by Ibom Airlines Limited since its inception last year. The Airline also said it has contributed more than one billion Naira directly and indirectly to the economy of Akwa Ibom people through vendors and suppliers within …
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The Bakura local government house of assembly by election in Zamfara State has been declared inconclusive by the independent Electoral Commission (INEC) even as two ad-hoc staff of the commission were declared missing in the state. As at the time of filing this report, their whereabouts was still unknown as …
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There was a drama at the state Secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Owerri when the Election Returning Officer, Hakeem Adikum, declared All Progressives Congress, the winner of the Imo North bye-election which held Saturday without returning a candidate. Adikum, who quickly rose after announcing the results scored …
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The Delta and Edo State governments have spent over N842m on pensions and benefits for two convicted ex-governors in the last 12 years, findings by Newsextra24 have shown. The two former governors, James Ibori of Delta State and Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State, were convicted for embezzling public funds between …
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The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has said that the presidency’s responses to the recent killings of scores of farmers in Zabarmari, Borno State has exposed the deceptions of the federal g in its fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in the country. Spokesman of the organisation, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, who …
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as laughable the claims by Babatunde Gbadamosi, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Saturday’s bye election for Lagos East senatorial district was rigged in favour of Tokunbo Abiru. Reacting to Gbadamosi’s claim, Seye Oladejo, the APC’s Publicity Secretary said the outcome …
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