Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi, the Finance Director of the Group of Companies of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged money laundering. The commission’s Acting Spokesman, Mr Tony Orilade, stated this in Abuja on Monday and confirmed that Abdullahi is in […]
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Nigeria has overtaken Egypt as the largest rice producer in Africa, according to the Director-General of Africa Rice Centre, Benin Republic, Dr Harold Roy-Macauley. He said that Nigeria is now the largest rice producer at 4 million tonnes a year. Egypt was producing 4.3 tonnes annually but her production has reduced by almost 40 percent […]
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‘Our flag-bearer, Laosun remains best option for state’ The African Action Congress, Oyo state Chapter has said it is not part of any endorsement of any other governorship candidate for the March 9, governorship election in the state. Rather, the party said it remains focused, committed and determined to bring about a government that is […]
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Barely five days to the governorship election, a Federal High Court in Kano on Monday nullified the governorship primary election conducted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP,) which produced Abba Kabir-Yusuf as the PDP’s flag-bearer in the state. The cancellation of the primary election followed the suit filed before the Court, by one of the […]
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The Nigeria Police has promised to pay special attention to states with history of electoral violence during the forthcoming gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections. Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), ACP Frank Mba, who disclosed this in an interview, said the police had already devised a strategy to mitigate challenges from states with records of […]
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By Banji Ayoola We want, indeed, demand saints as our leaders; while inwardly generally, we are unclean; while generally in our thoughts, words and deeds, we glorify and revere corruption and filth, secretly and even openly too. We demand saints while our dominant thought is that of using the opportunity of an earthly office to […]
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By Banji Ayoola Human opinions, wishes, decisions, free decisions, free choices, volition, free will. As expressed in what we call democracy, the foundation of our elections. Where on our own, we freely appoint, choose, decide, or elect our political rulers or leaders; a process through which we elect our own government without recourse to any […]
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Six Nembe communities in Bayelsa State have been taken over by crude oil, and the people are in dire need of medical and relief supplies. This followed an explosion that resulted in an oil spill in their area on Friday. The Nembe communities said to be affected include Nembe Creek 1, 2 and 3, Jalungo, […]
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Barely one week to the House of Assembly election in Ondo State, some masked suspected thugs have reportedly attacked the campaign train of a Social Democratic Party, SDP candidate in the election, Mr Ebenezer Adeniyan. Adeniyan, publisher of a popular Akure based news magazine, The Trace, and a former Secretary of the state council of […]
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Dissatisfied still over alleged irregularities and massive rigging which he said robbed him of victory in the February 23 presidential poll, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is set for an epic legal battle. With all plaintiffs who have embarked on this endeavour drawing blank since 1979, legal practitioners […]
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