A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Unity Forum, has finally resolved to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC). A leader of the group, Wasiu Olatunbosun, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in a telephone interview in Ibadan on Monday. The defection of members of the group into […]
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The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ekiti has cautioned Governor Ayo Fayose to mind his business and declared that the governor’s meddlesomeness was a sign that he has become frustrated and jittery. The party reacted Wednesday night to claims by Fayose that some of its aspirants planned to monetise Saturday’s gubernatorial primary. The party […]
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OVER 500,000 people are killed yearly by revolvers, pistols, assault rifles, machine guns and other similar weapons, a new UN report, ‘Small Arms Survey’, has found. According to UN Chef de Cabinet, Maria Viotti, the small arms and light weapons, which ended up on battlefields or urban streets and elsewhere, constitute a big problem for […]
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Nigeria’s former Vice President between 1999 and 2007, and now a presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is disturbed by the alarm raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration plots to arrest him on framed-up charges. Obasanjo had in a statement on Friday, alerted that he had been reliably informed […]
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The Federal Government has been asked by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to honour posthumously the wife Chief Moshood Abiola, Kudirat, who was assassinated while campaigning for the restoration of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by Abiola. It made the call in a statement on Friday in Abuja […]
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THE Federal Government has dismissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s allegation of frame-up and impending arrest as groundless and the concoction of a mind worried by guilt. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the government response in Lagos on Friday, saying the Buhari Administration will not be distracted by frivolous allegations from […]
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AMBASSADOR Babagana Kingibe, running mate of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola in the June 12, 1993 presidential election, said Federal Government’s declaration of the day as Democracy Day was a great honour. He also commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the announcement that national honour would be conferred on Abiola, acclaimed winner of the election, […]
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By Banji Ayoola FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has cried out, alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari is plotting to frame him on false charges, arrest and detain him indefinitely. The allegation was contained in a statement on Friday by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, which The Radiance sourced from the WhatsApp page of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, […]
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By Akanimo Sampson THERE are growing concerns in some civic groups that the Federal Government is not yet ready to fight the illicit proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Nigeria. Critics say more than eight years after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Convention on SALW came into force, Nigeria […]
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ENUGU State Government has confirmed the death of Mr Uwakwe Abugu, the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Mr Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Mr Ogbuagu Anikwe, in Enugu on Tuesday said Abugu passed on on Tuesday in a hospital in India after a protracted illness. He said that Governor […]
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