Warns governors against denying opposition parties access to public facilities NBC parleys broadcast stations, urges equal access for parties, candidates Afenifere: Igbos brutally marginalised, it’s their turn for the presidency You’re speaking for yourself, not Yoruba people, group tackles Afenifere over endorsement of Obi Inauguration of APC Campaign Council on hold over the inclusion of […]
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Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said the recovery and eventual return of the seemingly lost asset to the state, Legacy 600 aircraft, was a reality, and not mere politics. Wike, who had embarked on a short trip to London last Friday, spoke after receiving the Legacy 600 aircraft that touched down at the Port […]
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By Banji Ayoola A former presidential candidate and an ex-Secretary to the Federal Government, Chief Olu Falae, has debunked a report which has gone viral that he is supporting the candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, for the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election. In a statement in Akure on Tuesday by his Personal […]
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The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, tells Abiodun Nejo that the legislative house has passed people-oriented bills that have aided Governor Kayode Fayemi’s administration’s accomplishments in the state, among other issues. Excerpts: You have an all-APC House of Assembly but some people prefer a legislative house comprising members from different […]
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No fewer than 53 communities in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, have lamented the hardship of living in darkness for more than 100 years despite a World Bank Electrification Project in the area. The landlords, residents, and business owners, who spoke to our correspondent, said they had never enjoyed power supply […]
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Says security outfit will be armed and backed by law Banji Ayoola Chairman of South West Governors Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has justified why the local security outfit of states in the region, Amotekun, must bear sophisticated weapons like its counterpart in the North. Asserting that the State Security outfits backed […]
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Ondo State governor and chairman of the South-West Governors Forum, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, expressed his commitment to arming the South West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, with sophisticated weapons for effective operation. This is just as the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; the Yoruba Council of Elders; and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo flayed […]
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The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Monday justified its decision to back the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, for the 2023 elections. The group’s leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, made its position known at a press conference in Lagos. Justifying the decision, Adebanjo said the group would not compromise the principle of […]
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The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, on Monday, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. A circular, tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135, was earlier addressed to all vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors, and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities, ordering them to re-open universities. However, in another circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/136, which […]
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Kebbi State Police Command has arrested three biological brothers for killing one Abbas Abubakar aka Zabi, who they suspected to have stolen their motorcycle Haojue known as Roba-Roba. The Command’s spokesperson, Abubakar Nafi’u, who confirmed this, in a statement, yesterday said the suspects were of the same father in the Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi […]
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