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Commonwealth observers visit INEC chairman, hope for peaceful poll
The Commonwealth Observer Group visited the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Mahmood Yakubu in his office on Monday. The group led by former South Africa President Thabo Mbeki said they hoped that the 2023 general elections in the country will be peaceful. “We come very hopeful and very confident that we will have successful elections, peaceful elections, and…
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Yoruba leaders of thought back Asíwájú Tinubu, commend APC over power shift
Five days to the presidential Eeection, Yoruba Leaders of Thought on Monday formally endorsed the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, for the poll, saying he is the most qualified of all the candidates. The leaders, who met with Asiwaju Tinubu at an interactive session at Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, also commended the APC, particularly…
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PSC removes Naja’atu from election duties after APC petition
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has removed Najatu Mohammed as one of the coordinators to monitor police personnel in the North West during Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. Ms Mohammed represents women interest and the North West in the PSC. Her name was announced on Monday as one of the coordinators for Saturday’s elections. But her nomination was opposed…
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Insistence on southern presidency for fairness, equality – Akeredolu
•••says Tinubu towers above other presidential candidates Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has called on the people to troop-out enmass on Saturday to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The governor also enjoined the people to vote for all Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates of the APC in the…
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Buhari to brief successor on Nigeria-Comoros ties as he gets AU praise on respect of term limit
President Muhammadu Buhari says he takes the existing good neighborly relations between Nigeria and the Union of Comoro Islands to be very important, for which reason he will be briefing his incoming successor on the need to keep them.Speaking to Azali Assoumani, the President of the Union of Comoros who just took over as the Chairperson of the African Union…
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How Erdoğan’s obsession with power got in the way of Turkey’s earthquake response
When Ali Nusret Berker started seeing Twitter videos posted by people trapped under the rubble of the two Feb. 6 earthquakes in southern Turkey, they brought to mind the cousin he had lost when a massive earthquake hit his hometown near Istanbul in 1999. An avid cave explorer who just passed an exam to become an ambulance driver, the 33-year-old…
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Court restrains INEC from engaging MC Oluomo-led Lagos parks committee for 2023 elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been restrained from engaging Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee or any of its commercial bus drivers from distributing 2023 election materials and personnel in Lagos State. The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos gave the interim injunction on Monday. The court granted the order of interlocutory injunction filed…
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Biden visits Kyiv, Ukraine’s embattled capital, as air-raid siren sounds
President Biden made a surprise trip to the embattled capital of Ukraine on Monday, traveling under a cloak of secrecy into a war zone to demonstrate what he called America’s “unwavering support” of the effort to beat back Russian forces nearly a year after they invaded the country. Mr. Biden arrived early Monday morning to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky,…
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2023: It’s about trust, promise keeping, By Ismail Omipidan
As a reporter in Kaduna in 2011, I escaped being attacked by a mere whiskers. But not many Yoruba were that lucky. Our sin was that the average Hausa person rightly or wrongly believed then that the refusal of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to team up with President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change,…
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2023 election: APC rejects Naja’atu’s appointment as North West Coordinator of Police Service Commission
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the appointment of Naja’atu Bala Muhammad as the North West Coordinator of the Police Service Commission for the 2023 general elections. The APC PCC in a statement signed its Director of Public Affairs, Festus Keyamo said Naja’atu would not be able to supervise the election for the…
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