AT last, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2018 budget into law, but he accused the National Assembly of injecting 403 irrelevant and frivolous projects costing N578 billion, regretting that the budget would be difficult to implement due to the distortion. While signing it in Abuja on Wednesday, he noted that he was compelled to […]
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disqualified the candidate of the Providence People’s Congress (PPC), Mr Stephen Obasola, and expunged his name from the list of candidates for the July 14 Ekiti State Governorship election. Reacting, the party has threatened to sue the electoral umpire for these actions. Obasola had emerged through a primary supervised by […]
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SOKOTO State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has promised to provide basic social amenities and infrastructure to improve the lives of the people. Speaking on Sunday in Sokoto to civil servants and heads of government agencies in the state who paid him the traditional Sallah homage at Government House, he vowed not use available scarce resources […]
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ITALIAN Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stefanou Pontesilli, says at least 1,500 Nigerians are serving jail terms for various offences in Italy. The envoy who made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Abuja said: “In Italy we have about 1,500 Nigerians in jail for various offences. It is a big number. We sometimes send them back […]
Continue ReadingFORMER Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has been described as an asset for the Labour Party, LP, in view of his outstanding performance and record of service as governor, whose qualities will attract fine minds from the nation\’s political circle into the party, according to an ex National Secretary of the party, Dr. […]
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DISTINGUISHED ladies and gentlemen, I most humbly announce to Nigerians today my decision to quit the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), and return to Labour Party (LP), my true political family. I have taken this decision out of the conviction on the need to catalyze a greater focus on the ideological content of the Nigerian political […]
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NOBEL laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop showing loyalty to Nigeria’s former military dictator, the departed Gen Sani Abacha, ‘Abiola’s tormentor,” who arrested and detained the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, who, believably poisoned, eventually died in detention. The president conferred Nigeria’s […]
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By Banji Ayoola ON behalf of the Federal Government, I tender the nation’s apology to the family of the late M.K.O. Abiola, who got the highest votes and to those that lost their loved ones in the cause of June 12 struggle. The above were the exact words of President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in […]
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IMPRESSED with their overwhelming support and solidarity over the declaration of June 12 as the new Democracy Day and the conferment of the nation\’s highest honours on the presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, his running mate, Alhaji Babagana Kingibe and the iconic human rights lawyer and crusader, […]
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Governments of the six South-west states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti have unanimously declared June 12 as a public holiday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the annulled 1993 Presidential election adjudged to have been won by the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Their declaration came on the heels of a […]
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