Oke denies pact with Akeredolu ahead APC primaries

A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Chief Oludola Oke, has denied entering any pact with Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu ahead of the party’s primaries scheduled for July. Oke was last week adopted as the consensus aspirant of the Unity Forum, an APC group with the mandate of stopping Akeredolu of securing […]

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Consensus candidacy deepens Ondo APC crisis

Will Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) survive its internal wrangling ahead of the October 10, 2020 governorship election? Many political analysts in the state said the answer lies with the party’s national leadership. Although the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is expected to reap from the crisis in APC, the issue […]

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PDP alleges N13.5b scam as ‘modified’ school feeding scheme begins

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, has flagged off the modified Homegrown School Feeding Programme at Kuje Primary School in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). During the event yesterday in Abuja, she indicated that the ministry was working with state governments to ensure the project catered for […]

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Fed Govt frowns as states reopen mosques, churches

Task Force to engage governors after Borno, Gombe, Zamfara, Adamawa eased lockdown More Lagosians favour return of lockdown In one fell swoop, four states in the North – Borno, Gombe, Adamawa and Zamfara – on Thursday reopened Mosques and Churches. It was a major easing of the lockdown imposed to curb Coronavirus spread. The Federal […]

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Nigeria cuts 2020 budget by N71.5b

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a revision of the 2020 Budget from N10.594 trillion to N10.523 trillion, reflecting a N71.5billion downward review. Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, who stated this while briefing State House correspondents after the virtual FEC meeting  at the State House yesterday, also said an […]

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Buhari pledges to end Nigerians’ sorrows

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met with security and service chiefs where he again pledged to address to all issues bringing a lot of sorrows to Nigerians. The National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, said the president made the pledge during a closed-door meeting with members of the […]

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