Ganduje and Wike Stakeholders rally against Kano, Benue governors’ preferred candidates Ahead of the governorship primaries of the major political parties, efforts by some governors to hand-pick or influence who emerge as their successors in 2023 are facing serious resistance by party loyalists and other aspirants, it has been learnt. Our correspondents gathered that attempts […]
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The Federal Government on Friday approved the reopening of four additional land borders shut in August 2019 as part of efforts to curtail smuggling and boost local production of rice. A circular released by the Nigeria Customs Service, signed by Deputy Comptroller-General E. I. Edorhe, on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, listed […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan will only be joining the All Progressives Congress presidential race on the condition that he is endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari, it has been learnt. Anything short of this would not be acceptable to Jonathan who served as deputy governor, governor, Vice-President and President on the platform of the Peoples Democratic […]
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Niger State Correspondent of the Africa Independent Television (AIT), Mallam Mohammed Danladi, has died in a road crash. He was aged 50. Danladi was involved in a ghastly motor accident in Minna on Thursday evening. He was said to have been returning home when his car was rammed into by some youths who were at […]
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He was a worthy ambassador of Yoruba culture – Atiku Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111, as a voice for Nigeria’s unity. While condoling Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde, the family of Oba Adeyemi, and the entire people of Oyo on the transition, the former president […]
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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has described the passage of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111, as a huge loss to the state, Yoruba race and Nigeria as a whole. Besides, he said the incident is a personal loss to him, adding that the monarch was an ever-supportive royal father and […]
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The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has been buried in the ancient town of Oyo in south-west Nigeria. His remains were laid to rest on Saturday within the premises of the palace, barely a day after he was certified his passage in a hospital in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. Alaafin, popularly […]
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At least, 100 persons were feared dead as fire razed an illegal crude oil refining site at Abaezi forest, in Ohaji-Egbema council area of Imo State. This ugly incident, which happened in the early hours of Sunday, also had about 150 others sustained serious degrees of burns, it was gathered. During his visit to the […]
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Prince Akeem Adeyemi, one of the sons of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, said his father reconciled with almost everybody he had differences with before his death. Adeyemi, also a member of the House of Representatives, representing Afijio, Oyo East, Oyo West and Atiba Federal Constituency, said his father could have […]
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National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), May Agbamuche-Mbu (left); Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and National Commissioner, Festus Okoye at a special meeting with resident electoral commissioners in Abuja… yesterday The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked political parties to submit copies of their membership register to the commission before their primary elections. The […]
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