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PHOTO NEWS: Soludo visits Osinbajo
Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo paid a courtesy visit to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja on Wednesday.
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UNGA: Buhari advocates for promotion rule of law, democracy in West Africa
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in New York vowed to entrench a process of free, fair, transparent and credible elections through which Nigerians elect leaders of their choice.In his farewell speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as President, he told the 77th session that next year, there would be a new face speaking for Nigeria from the podium…
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Russia calls up 300,000 reservists, says 6,000 soldiers killed in Ukraine
Russia will draft 300,000 reservists to support its military campaign in Ukraine, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday in televised remarks. In Moscow’s first update on casualty numbers in almost six months, Shoigu said 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict. President Vladimir Putin had ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two in…
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Obi’s manifesto will be released before commencement of campaign – Utomi
A chieftain of the Labour Party, Professor Pat Utomi says the party will release the manifesto of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi before the start of campaign. Utomi said this in an interview with Vanguard Newspaper on Wednesday. According to the timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), campaigns by parties and candidates for the presidential election are…
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Keeping faith with values that endure, By Muhammadu Buhari
On behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria, I congratulate you on your well-deserved election as President of the 77th Session of this August Assembly. I assure you of the full support and cooperation of the Nigerian delegation during your tenure. I commend your predecessor, H.E Abdullah Shahid for the many remarkable achievements of the General Assembly under his…
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Of bread, cinema, photos and Ilorin reminiscences, By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu
I HAVE spent the weekend in Ilorin, after a week’s visit to Maiduguri. And that included my birthday, September 5th, which meant that, for the umpteenth time, I was away from my family, on the eve of my children’s return to school for the new session. When I tell my friends that I carry the gene of travel as a…
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The Bola Tinubu they don’t know, By Balogun Ibrahim
The seemingly ingrained tendency for human beings to so easily forget their antecedents, repay evil for good and seek to destroy those God chose to use as their benefactors never ceases to amaze me. As a passionate member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I am saddened at the concerted, coordinated and consistent effort by a caucus within the party…
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Putin escalates Ukraine war, issues nuclear threat to West
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning the West he was not bluffing when he said he’d be ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia. In the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion, Putin explicitly raised the spectre…
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Akin Mabogunje: Nigerian urban geographer who mapped the origin and trends of African cities, By Basirat Oyalowo
I was introduced to Professor Akin Mabogunje’s work when I joined the Department of Estate Management at the University of Lagos in 2011. As a new junior lecturer, I had to read the key text being used by my course leader. It was here that I first encountered Mabogunje’s work on urbanisation in Nigeria. I never met Mabogunje, who died in Lagos…
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‘We won’t work for you until Ayu resigns,’ Wike’s group pulls out of Atiku’s campaign
The team loyal to River State Governor Nyesom wike has pulled out of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Members of the group are asking for the resignation of PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu over what they tagged imbalance in the party with the presidential candidate and the national chairman coming from the North. Rising from…
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