PDP governors felicitate President Muhmmadu Buhari and some Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors yesterday congratulated Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki for winning Saturday’s election Buhari and the governors also hailed the peaceful conduct of the election. The President restated his “commitment to free and fair elections.” In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on […]
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Prominent Peoples Democratic stalwarts, including, two former Senate Presidents- Bukola Saraki and David Mark, have welcomed the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. Others who cheered Obaseki’s victory were erstwhile Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu. They […]
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By Seinde Arogbofa Governance in a season of anomie In this period of anomie, I wonder why any person or group of persons should be thinking of Utmost Good Faith in Governance. One is surprised too at the choice of words and how they have been put together: all positive and superlative – utmost, good, […]
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By Martins Oloja Inside Stuff This is indeed another week of positive distraction, thanks to the oracle again. I was planning to write solely on a report that our leaders in Abuja have come up with another distraction – to set up another anti-corruption agency – just to manage ‘proceeds of crime’ when the oracle […]
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Former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, said on Sunday that Saturday’s Edo State governorship election had demonstrated the possibility of a free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. Fayose, in a tweet, congratulated Edo State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the election, Godwin Obaseki, urging the governor “to see this victory […]
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Former Chief of Army Staff and former Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen Alani Akinrinade, retired; with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, sitting, at the occasion By Banji Ayoola The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai has defended President Muhammadu Buhari’s policies and efforts at ensuring […]
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Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka speaks during a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian Civil War in Lagos, on January 13, 2020. – Activities have been lined up across the country to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, […]
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Eight persons have been injured and a vehicle razed in an attack between supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at Oba Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The clash occurred on Wednesday when Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s campaign team ran into the campaign train of […]
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By Olatoye Ojo It is with a very great pleasure that I, on behalf of His Royal Majesty, Oba Hammed Adekunle Makama Oyelude, Tegbosun III, Olowu of Owu-Kuta, His Royal Majesty, Oba Afiz Adigun Badeji Akinmoyero Akinropo III, Onikoyi of Ikoyi and the entire sons and daughters of the two communities, most heartily welcome Your […]
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Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, on Monday, narrated how his deputy, Lt. General Lamidi Adeosun, the present Chief of Training and Operations, saved his life the first time he was ambushed in the North-East. He spoke in Kuta, Osun state, during the commissioning of a bridge named after him constructed by the […]
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