APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu at Chatham House on Monday, December 5 2023… Credit: Twitter/ BashirAhmaad Responds to allegations of age falsification, family background, academic records Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday vowed to end the security challenges bewildering the country if elected as president in the […]
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In this file photo taken on November 23, 2022 South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, southwest London. – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will not step down despite a parliamentary report this week into the alleged cover-up of a cash robbery at one of his farms, his […]
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Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Monday presented a budget proposal of N272.736 billion for the 2023 fiscal year to the Ondo State House of Assembly. He presented the budget tagged “Budget of Shared Prosperity” to the lawmakers during a plenary sitting presided over by the Speaker of the House, Rt Hon Bamidele Oleyelogun, at the newly […]
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A picture taken on December 3, 2022, in Doha, during the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament, shows the Torch tower of Doha also known as the Aspire Tower, lit by a screen depicting Brazilian star Pele and reading a message in support to the former Brazilian football player who is being treated for a […]
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Proposal by former President Goodluck Jonathan suggesting constitutional roles for deputy governors of states is not ill-informed by any standard coming from a man who has seen it all, first as a deputy governor and later as a vice president. Nigeria’s democracy of the past 23 years has thrown up a lot of frictions between […]
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A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Party. This comes barely 48 hours after Dogara and some aggrieved northern APC leaders declared support for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar. This followed several months of political permutations as the […]
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Motorists drive along the ring-road encircling Egypt’s capital Cairo on October 30, 2022, past a billboard depicting the country’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with the Arabic slogan “our goal together for Egypt is knowledge and work”. (Photo by Amir Makar / AFP) In a rare public show of protest in Egypt, “thousands of lawyers” staged […]
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The newly-elected Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke, has commenced the payment of workers’ salaries in the state. The governor’s spokesman, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. “Presently, the payment of salaries is ongoing starting with the Ministry of Justice,” Rasheed said. Rasheed stated that about 45 state agencies are yet to […]
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There is alleged conspiracy to prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from holding free, fair and credible 2023 general elections. This scheming had provoked stakeholders, who have warned that Nigeria may be set on the path of political crisis. The conspiracy skidded into top gear as politicians, who felt that the deployment of Bimodal […]
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There are concerns that despite the nation’s construction and real estate sectors contributing N20 trillion to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), many Nigerians are unable to own homes and rent property in major cities in the country. The scenario is not a surprise to the operatives as Nigerians have long been complaining about the skyrocketing […]
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