Election Tribunal Ahead of Wednesday’s judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have resorted to serious fasting and prayers. The fasting and prayers season which was equally attended by staff commenced last Monday and ended on Tuesday with a special prayer session at the party’s national secretariat […]
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Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has approved a 100% increment in the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to the state for their mandatory one-year service. The governor made the announcement on Tuesday during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream 2 of the NYSC at the State’s […]
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• World Bank: Subsidy removal makes 7.1 million Nigerians poorer • Economists score president high on pro-market reforms • Hardship is short-term pain of removal of historical distortions – Muda Yusuf • President has demonstrated rare courage with economic reforms, say dons • Threats by labour complicating government’s woes • 45 ministers raise question about […]
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A former deputy national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, has said it would be a shame if the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) pronounces anybody as winner of the February 25 presidential election. His comment followed report that the court will, tomorrow, deliver judgment on petitions against the declaration of Bola Ahmed […]
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By Bolanle Bolawole In many States of the Federation, the story is the same: State governors treat Local Governments as appendages and not the independent third tier of government that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) proposes them to be. The three tiers of government in the awkward Federal system that we operate are the Federal, […]
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The detention of the Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, Wale Adedayo over his petition against Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has elicited reactions from concerned Nigerians who have called on the Department of State Security (DSS) to immediately release him from detention. One of the concerned Nigerians is a human rights activist and […]
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Retired Captain Moshood Adekunle Raji, who is the Personal Assistant to the Elder Statesman, former Secretary to the Federal Government and the Olu-Abo of Ilu-Abo, in Ondo State, Oba Olu Falae, CFR, GCON, has thanked the eminent Nigerians who attended the 8th Day Fidau Prayers and Final Burial of his departed mother on August 30, […]
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There is anxiety as President Bola Tinubu and 25 state governors await the verdicts of the tribunals handling the presidential, governorship, National Assembly, and state assembly election petitions. The panels are expected to deliver their judgments this month. Out of the 28 states where the governorship elections were held, the results of the polls announced […]
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A suggestion lately from the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde that governors can do with one term in office as against the current two terms is interesting and a reenactment of age-old debate about the desirability of one term for elected public officers. The suggestion is worth revisiting for a country in a hurry […]
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President Bola Tinubu has reassured Nigerians of his determination not to fail the country in carrying out a permanent transformation of the nation’s economy to an enduring prosperity. He said this while receiving members of Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO) on a solidarity visit to the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This is contained in a statement signed […]
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