A former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Bisi Akande, has explained in his new book how the defunct Alliance for Democracy, AD, the political party of followers of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, got crushed through miscalculations. The defunct AD formerly controlled the states of the South West Region including Lagos, […]
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Managing Director Julius Berger, Engr Lars Ritcher (right); Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike; Former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko; Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo and Speaker of Rivers State, Ikuninyi-Owaji Ibani at the commissioning of Rumuola Flyover in Port Harcourt…yesterday. • As former Mimiko inaugurates Rumuola Flyover Governor of […]
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• Lagos tops infections in Nigeria, NMA urges strict travel measures • FG reviews vaccination programme, gets 2.5m doses from U.S. • Continental disease centre decries India’s pulling out of vaccine deal The World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday, said the Omicron variant was reaching more African nations, as weekly COVID-19 cases on the continent surged […]
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Senate President, Ahmed Lawan (left); Chairman of the Occasion/Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sannwo-Olu; President Muhammadu Buhari; Author of the Book/Former APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; Guest of Honour/APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Book Presenter, Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim-Imam during the public presentation […]
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• ‘Nigerians are being killed like chickens’ • Bandits murdered 80 people in a single night, Sokoto leaders write Buhari • Gunmen kill Katsina Commissioner in residence • Bandits gun down 15 worshipers inside mosque in Niger, impose N10m fine on Zamfara communities • Troops rescue 20 abducted policemen in Yobe • Amnesty: Buhari’s orders […]
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Federal Lawmaker, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, has provided six (6) boreholes, eight (8) transformers and one hundred and twenty (120) solar lights for residents in Oluyole Federal constituency. This, the House of Representatives Member, who also chairs the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs said was in line with her campaign promises. A statement by Mr Olamilekan […]
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has shelved the Lagos peace walk planned for this month to prevent the spread of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant which has been recorded in Nigeria. The governor, in an address on November 30, 2021, had invited some known faces of the #EndSARS protest in the state in October 2020 […]
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Says ranching best solution to ending herders/farmers clashes Former Speaker, House of Representatives and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has been vocal on his conviction that restructuring is the only solution to political, socio-economic challenges confronting Nigeria. In this interview with some senior journalists after commissioning of the multi-billion naira diagnostic health centre […]
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The Yuletide is a season of fun, pomp and boisterous global festivities to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Expectedly, it is a season of mass exodus of people moving, visiting and exchanging gifts. THE season which also ushers into a new year is characterised by shopping, traveling and huge spending and expectedly attracts criminal […]
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The high commissioner for Nigeria, Sarafa Tunji Isola, at Buckingham Palace during a video call with the Queen from Windsor Castle. PHOTO: Dominic Lipinski/AFP/Getty Images Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK has described the Britain’s decision to put the country on its red list as a “travel apartheid”. Britain added Nigeria to its travel red […]
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