Alarm by former President Olusegun Obasanjo is terrifying as it has heightened the tension in the polity and confirmed the fears that Nigeria has descended into a police state where any Nigerian, who holds a divergent view to President Muhammodu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid, becomes endangered, the opposition People\’s Democratic Party, PDP has said. […]
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THE Federal Government has invited the major stakeholders in the struggle for the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election to the post-humous investiture of the election’s winner, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, as the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR. Late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, will also be […]
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The Senate on Thursday passed the Independent National Electoral Commission Act Amendment Bill without the clause that seeks to reshuffle the order of polls in a general election. Also referred to as the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, its passage by the Senate was in concurrence with the House of Representatives, which had earlier passed an […]
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Two Nigerian students from Osun State have emerged the best again at the final examinations of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University\’s Medical School, Kharkiv, Ukraine. The two students: Mustapha Lateefat Kemi, a native of Okuku, in Osun State had the highest mark, while Adebayo Rukayat Abiodun, a native of Ede, also in Osun State, […]
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission says it has identified 299 flashpoints among polling units in Ekiti State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Abdulganiyu Raji, made this known on Tuesday at the Nigeria civil society situation room dialogue ahead of the July 14 gubernatorial election in the state. At the programme, which took place […]
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THE National Assembly has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to address the worrisome killings in the country, problem of insecurity and perceived threat to the country’s democracy, or face the necessary constitutional sanctions. At a joint sitting of its two chambers, there was a subtle threat of impeachment of the president, as the face-off between the […]
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NO fewer than 60 persons have collected form to contest for positions in the forthcoming convention of All Progressives Congress, APC. Former Secretary of the party\’s National Convention Committee, Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while handing over to the new secretary of the committee, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba, at the party’s […]
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that he would not betray the trust reposed in him by Nigerians no matter the challenges on ground. He made the vow when he hosted traditional rulers and religious leaders from across the country to breaking of Ramadan fast at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. He also vowed that […]
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FORMER Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday formally bowed out of office with a special valedictory session held in his honour. President Muhammadu Buhari led other members of the Federal Executive Council to bid the Ekiti State governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, farewell at a brief […]
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THERE were indications on Tuesday that aggrieved members of the Unity Forum of the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, may defect to another party soon after the National Working Committee recognised Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s candidate, Chief Akin Oke, as the chairman of the party on Monday. Oke was among the state […]
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