The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has asserted that the party is working towards addressing the grievances of all aggrieved members after the fallout that greeted the choice of his running mate. Atiku’s assertion followed Wednesday’s outburst of Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, that his Rivers State counterpart, …
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A Federal High Court in Lagos State on Thursday adjourned the money laundering trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and others until October 27 and 28. Mr Fani-Kayode is charged alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, and Yusuf Danjuma, a former Chairman of …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his assurances to give a free hand to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that the Commission (INEC) delivers peaceful, transparent, free, fair and credible elections next year. He spoke on Wednesday night in Lisbon, Portugal at a meeting with representatives of Nigerians …
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The Borno chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday suspended its chairman, Alhaji Zannah Gadama, for engaging in anti-party activities. This is contained in a communique at the end of an emergency meeting signed by state PDP legal adviser, Mr Abdu Jidda in Maiduguri on Thursday. “The chairman …
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The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the reported defection of ten thousand members of the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a basket of lies emanating from a failed ruling party. The Osun PDP called on the APC to stop the self-deceit with …
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President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Russia would respond in kind if NATO deployed troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the U.S.-led military alliance. This comment was made by Putin a day after NATO member Turkey lifted its veto over the bid by Finland and Sweden …
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Zamfara State government has halted the feeding of boarding students in government schools due to financial constraints. The development was necessitated by failure of the State government to pay the outstanding debt of the State’s feeding agency. Th suspension of the programme has now led to truancy among hitherto enthusiastic students …
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The house of representatives has resolved to investigate “petroleum products subsidy regime” in the country. Speaker of the house, Femi Gbajabiamila is scheduled to name members of the ad hoc committee which is expected to probe the “petroleum product subsidy regime” from 2017 to 2021 on Thursday. The resolution was …
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The federal executive council (FEC) has approved reforms to increase Nigeria’s non-oil revenue by N3.8 trillion and oil revenue by N160 billion annually. The approval was given on Wednesday by FEC in a meeting presided over by the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja. Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the …
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Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, the state capital, has issued an order restraining the state House of Assembly from removing the deputy governor of the state, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan. Recall that 24 out of the 32 members of the State House of Assembly had last week petitioned the speaker …
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