By Banji Ayoola A former presidential candidate and an ex-Secretary to the Federal Government, Chief Olu Falae, has debunked a report which has gone viral that he is supporting the candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, for the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election. In a statement in Akure on Tuesday by his Personal […]
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The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, tells Abiodun Nejo that the legislative house has passed people-oriented bills that have aided Governor Kayode Fayemi’s administration’s accomplishments in the state, among other issues. Excerpts: You have an all-APC House of Assembly but some people prefer a legislative house comprising members from different […]
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No fewer than 53 communities in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, have lamented the hardship of living in darkness for more than 100 years despite a World Bank Electrification Project in the area. The landlords, residents, and business owners, who spoke to our correspondent, said they had never enjoyed power supply […]
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Says security outfit will be armed and backed by law Banji Ayoola Chairman of South West Governors Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has justified why the local security outfit of states in the region, Amotekun, must bear sophisticated weapons like its counterpart in the North. Asserting that the State Security outfits backed […]
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Ondo State governor and chairman of the South-West Governors Forum, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, expressed his commitment to arming the South West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, with sophisticated weapons for effective operation. This is just as the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; the Yoruba Council of Elders; and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo flayed […]
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The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Monday justified its decision to back the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, for the 2023 elections. The group’s leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, made its position known at a press conference in Lagos. Justifying the decision, Adebanjo said the group would not compromise the principle of […]
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The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, on Monday, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. A circular, tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135, was earlier addressed to all vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors, and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities, ordering them to re-open universities. However, in another circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/136, which […]
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Kebbi State Police Command has arrested three biological brothers for killing one Abbas Abubakar aka Zabi, who they suspected to have stolen their motorcycle Haojue known as Roba-Roba. The Command’s spokesperson, Abubakar Nafi’u, who confirmed this, in a statement, yesterday said the suspects were of the same father in the Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi […]
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An erudite professor who is a chieftain of the Labour Party and founder of Centre for Value in Leadership, Prof. Pat Utomi, has stated how his party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, would defeat Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and other presidential candidates. Speaking on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, he said: “People have […]
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Photo/facebook/jidesanwooluofficial Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged religious and traditional leaders to continue to make it a collective responsibility to preach as well as work towards promoting unity, peace, justice and tranquillity in Nigeria. Sanwo-Olu, who stated this, yesterday, at the opening ceremony of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), third quarter meeting for […]
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