President Muhammadu Buhari The Federal Government should go after the sponsors of the several killings in Nigeria and stop pointing accusing fingers at the youths, a political organisation under the aegis of North-East Youth Initiative for Development has said. While advising the government to engage the youths in nation-building and governance, YEYID said recent developments […]
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Senator urges party to elect presidential candidate at convention Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu on Thursday urged the National Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Mai Mala Buni and members of the planning committee to postpone the party’s national convention slated for February. In a a letter to […]
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Members of the North/South Alliance during a protest on insecurity in Abuja…on Wednesday. Photo: Olatuji Obasa Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded the immediate release of protesters arrested in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of the Northern region. Some Northern youths who were protesting against the rising insecurity in the region […]
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Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, faulted former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu built his Lekki house. Reacting to Akande’s allegation, he described the former Osun State governor as a neophyte and a beneficiary of a struggle he […]
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By Olu Fasan LAST week, at the launch of his autobiography My Participations, Chief Bisi Akande, former Osun State governor and interim chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, said he had no sympathy for President Muhammadu Buhari over widespread criticism of his performance because he applied to be president. “I do not sympathise […]
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Leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, lambasted former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) pestered APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides. The 93-year-old Afenifere leader, who explained how he sold his properties and […]
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We can’t confirm for now —Police Monarchs are meeting on the issue —Chairman Some of these kidnaps and killings are sponsored from outside —Ohanaeze Uzodinma and Okorocha should resolve their problems for Imo to have peace —Mbazulike Amechi The spate of kidnapping of traditional rulers in Imo State has continued unabated as hoodlums have again, […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has assigned portfolios to commissioners and special advisers who were sworn in on Monday. He announced the portfolios during the state executive council meeting held on Wednesday in Akure, the state capital. The commissioners and their ministries are: Adefarati Adegboyega Adeyemi – Local Government and Chieftancy Affairs; Ademola-Olateju Bamidele – […]
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The Ondo State High Court has sentenced a woman, Patience Godswill, to seven years’ imprisonment for stealing and selling a two-year-old girl, Blessing, in Omifon town, in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. The convict and two other women, Martha Ogboji and Nnomah Annaibe, were arrested and charged with stealing Blessing in Ondo […]
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Members of the National Assembly have criticised the Department of State Services for going public with its warning to lawmakers without a formal security notice to the parliament on potential threats. Several lawmakers who were contacted by our correspondent on Wednesday denied getting any advisory from the DSS to the National Assembly. Some of them, […]
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