President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the murder of a female student, Deborah Samuel, in Sokoto for alleged blasphemy. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu in a statement said Buhari “strongly condemns the resort to self-help by the mob in Sokoto, resulting in violence, destruction and killing” of 200-level student “following an allegation that she had blasphemed Muhammad […]
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Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and 15 fifteen other political parties, yesterday said they had concluded plans to join the ongoing protest by university students over disruption of academic activities in the country. ZLP’s National Chairman, Dan Nwanyanwu, told reporters in Abuja that he had the nod of the parties for the planned march. Concealing the […]
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Vows to be resolute against political pressure as 18 parties submit register Considers relocation of sensitive materials from CBN Says commission can’t regulate cost of nomination forms for politicians The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, announced it might move sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria to another location. Speaking during a consultative […]
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• FG releases detailed categories of persons expected to resign • Emefiele meets Buhari, says there will be news soon • Political appointees sue APC, INEC over disqualification threats • Afenifere: You’ve done well by asking appointees to resign but apply same decisiveness to insecurity, ASUU Ministers affected by the presidential directive to resign after […]
Continue ReadingCredit: TheCable Nigeria pushing for plutocracy, says Kukah Yiaga Africa: APC, PDP used forms’ prices to marginalise youths, women Garba dumps APC after withdrawing from presidential race Stakeholders want units in EFCC, ICPC to probe funds, tax politicians Experts seek leeway for lax campaign finance regulations, monitoring Described by some stakeholders as obscene, money laundering […]
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Mourners pay last respect to Akleh Qatar Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, said yesterday that those responsible for killing veteran Al Jazeera reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, must be held accountable. His comments were made at a live press conference with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran. Abu Akleh suffered a gunshot wound to the […]
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Contrary to speculations that the last Friday’s meeting of presidential aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from Southwest zone, convened by former Governors Segun Osoba and Bisi Akande, at the State House Marina Lagos State, did not achieve much, some adherents of the party said the gathering was a success. They said one […]
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Bayelsa State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dennis Otiotio, has said that the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, is officially not yet a member of the APC in the state. He said this in a telephone chat on Thursday morning. According to him, Jonathan could only join the APC if he had been formally granted […]
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The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said the South-East cannot get the ticket of any party in an open contest as it is today without a gentleman’s agreement to concede it to the region. Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him and shared on his Facebook wall, said this in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities to consider the plight of students and call off the ongoing strike. He also urged students in Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions to exercise patience as the government strives to address the nagging issues in the nation’s university system within the ambit of […]
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