NIGERIAN Intervention Movement, which is chaired by former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and a foremost human rights activist, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has adopted Alliance for New Nigeria as the political party to contest the 2019 general elections. The political movement, co-chaired by Dr. Abdul Jelil-Tafawa Balewa, announced its adoption of […]
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THE Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday kick-started the campaign of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, asking the electorate to vote the party’s candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Speaking at the campaign kick-off at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, he described Fayemi […]
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AT last, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2018 budget into law, but he accused the National Assembly of injecting 403 irrelevant and frivolous projects costing N578 billion, regretting that the budget would be difficult to implement due to the distortion. While signing it in Abuja on Wednesday, he noted that he was compelled to […]
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disqualified the candidate of the Providence People’s Congress (PPC), Mr Stephen Obasola, and expunged his name from the list of candidates for the July 14 Ekiti State Governorship election. Reacting, the party has threatened to sue the electoral umpire for these actions. Obasola had emerged through a primary supervised by […]
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SOKOTO State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has promised to provide basic social amenities and infrastructure to improve the lives of the people. Speaking on Sunday in Sokoto to civil servants and heads of government agencies in the state who paid him the traditional Sallah homage at Government House, he vowed not use available scarce resources […]
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The Federal Government has been asked to establish a national institute for the promotion of Herbal Medicine. Director-General of The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof Moji Adeyeye, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday. She explained that traditional medicine is […]
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ITALIAN Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stefanou Pontesilli, says at least 1,500 Nigerians are serving jail terms for various offences in Italy. The envoy who made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Abuja said: “In Italy we have about 1,500 Nigerians in jail for various offences. It is a big number. We sometimes send them back […]
Continue ReadingFORMER Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has been described as an asset for the Labour Party, LP, in view of his outstanding performance and record of service as governor, whose qualities will attract fine minds from the nation\’s political circle into the party, according to an ex National Secretary of the party, Dr. […]
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DISTINGUISHED ladies and gentlemen, I most humbly announce to Nigerians today my decision to quit the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), and return to Labour Party (LP), my true political family. I have taken this decision out of the conviction on the need to catalyze a greater focus on the ideological content of the Nigerian political […]
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NOBEL laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop showing loyalty to Nigeria’s former military dictator, the departed Gen Sani Abacha, ‘Abiola’s tormentor,” who arrested and detained the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, who, believably poisoned, eventually died in detention. The president conferred Nigeria’s […]
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