The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Lagos State on Friday urged the state Governor-elect, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu to be a father to all residents and prioritise alleviating suffering of the people. Alhaji Shakirudeen Olofin, the state Chairman of IPAC, gave the advice in an interview on the sideline of the presentation of certificates of return to […]
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Sudanese security agents on Friday released a prominent editor who had been detained for weeks for criticising a state of emergency, as scores of protesters including football fans held anti-government rallies, witnesses said. Osman Mirghani, editor-in-chief of independent daily Al-Tayar, was taken away by security agents from his office on the night of February 22 […]
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Nigerians expect 100 percent better performance from President Muhammadu Buhari in his second term in office. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN delivered this message to the President on Friday at the State House, Abuja during a congratulatory visit of its leadership to the President. CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle, who spoke with State House […]
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Defence team complains about tribunal chairman’s conduct Proceedings ended abruptly and on a rowdy note on Friday at the resumed hearing in the trial of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen before the Code of conduct Tribunal (CCT) as his lawyers protested what they viewed as the highhandedness of the tribunal Chairman, […]
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An Ikeja High Court on Friday declared Oba Rilwan Akiolu as the bona-fide Oba of Lagos. Justice A. Candide-Johnson made the declaration after dismissing a 16-year suit filed by several Lagos princes seeking to remove the royal father as the Oba. In a two-hour judgment, the judge held that the claimants, including Prince Adedoyin Adebiyi […]
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decry abandoned gas project, 30-year blackout Angry youths under the auspices of Egbema Elites have threatened to shut down oil facilities if the Federal Government fails to complete an abandoned Gas plant in Ohaji-Egbema Council Area. They lamented the project, which was awarded in 2001, has been abandoned for 13 years without any feasible reason. […]
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Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, described the victory of the party’s candidate in Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, as a confirmation that the party is truly of and for the people. According to him, the decision of the majority of his kinsmen to vote for the PDP is an endorsement […]
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All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, says party discipline would be upheld in addressing the leadership tussle of the 9th National Assembly. Addressing journalists in Lagos on Friday, Tinubu said the party’s choice must be respected and whoever is against such should leave. According to NAN, the APC leader warned against what the […]
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“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities” is how Abraham Lincoln wrote in one of his collected works, Fragment on Government. Lincoln does not […]
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Adamawa State governor elect, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri has promised to run an all inclusive government as part of his commitment to transformed the state. He gave the promise in a short broadcast on Friday in the state. “Election is over and the most needed thing now is for the diverse people of the state to […]
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