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Towards 2023 with new ideas, By Kayode Komolafe
One of the positive things in the ferment about the 2023 elections is the increasing advocacy that the elections should be a contest of ideas. In other words, candidates contesting on the platforms of the various political parties should be identified by the ideas underlying their programmes beyond their ethnic, regional and religious labels. The corollary to that, of course,…
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Bello meets business owners, charges them to contribute to safe business environment
…queries insincere CSR initiatives Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello on Thursday met with the business community in the state comprising of company owners, manufacturers, contractors and business owners where he charged them to invest more in the state and their host communities. The governor also queried some of the big commercial establishments and big companies over their insincere Cooperate Social…
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APC will win Cross River guber, presidential polls in 2023–Ndoma-Egba
A former Senate Majority Leader and ex-Chairman Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has said that next year’s presidential and Cross River State governorship elections will be won by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ndoma-Egba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and stalwart of the APC stated this in a media interview. According to him, the presidential…
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How NGF contracted $418m consultancy debt liability – Malami
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar says the Nigeria Governors Forum are liable for the $418 consultancy debt liability on the Paris Club funds. Speaking with journalists at the 46th Session of the State House Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications team, Malami stressed that the state governors had no right to complain about the…
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FIFA confirms date change for opening night of Qatar World Cup
The 2022 Qatar World Cup will now get under way a day earlier than originally scheduled with the host nation facing Ecuador in the opening match on Sunday, November 20. The opening game of the tournament was due to see Senegal face the Netherlands at 1pm (10am GMT) on Monday November 21, but that fixture will now take place at…
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‘I still believe in Buhari’
*Lesson from Hassan Usman, freed train abductee To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a lawyer, it didn’t just rain on March 28, this year, it poured. He was not only onboard the Kaduna-bound train attacked by terrorists, his wife, Amina, was also there. They both got abducted.…
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Between grievance and organisational indiscipline
Some reactions to a political disappointment could amount to anti-party activities, writes Bolaji Adebiyi It is becoming increasingly difficult to understand the ways of politicians straddling the political firmament of Nigeria. Largely unprincipled and inconsistent, they flow with the tide and seldom play by the rules except when it suits their purpose. They say one thing and do the exact…
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PHOTOS: Fire incident at National Assembly destroys Storeroom
The Storeroom at the National Assembly, Abuja, where important documents and other valuables are kept has been gutted by fire. Eyewitnesses account noted that the NASS Fire Service and security agents responded on time to put out the fire and stopped further damage to the complex. Chairs and many documents were lost to the fire.
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Nigeria free of past, present challenges is achievable, says Osinbajo
*VP represents President Buhari at launch of Imagine Nigeria A Nigeria freed of its past, current challenges and able to engage the future with the best possible tools in human and material capital is within reach. And this, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is achievable through a strong collaboration between young Nigerians, private and public sector stakeholders. Prof.…
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Kwara’s functional firms grew by 87.5% under us – AbdulRazaq
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday said the local economy has recorded huge gains over the last three years of his administration, with the number of active companies in the state growing from just 41 in 2019 to 77 in 2022, representing an impressive 87.5 per cent increase. Quoting a data from the Kwara Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines…
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