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Tinubu hails Oyebanji, APC for Ekiti electoral victory
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji, and the party for winning the Saturday June 18th, 2022 governorship election. Oyebanji won the election, polling 187,057 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr. Segun Oni, who garnered 82,211 votes. While celebrating the electoral…
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, hospitalised in London
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, is ill and has been hospitalised in London for an undisclosed ailment. WesternPost gathered from a reliable source in London that the former military ruler was brought into London last week for urgent medical care, adding that the Chairman of the National Peace Committee had been sick for some time before the family…
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Ekiti 2022: APC victory good omen for 2023 general elections, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji for emerging victorious in Saturday’s governorship election. In a statement signed by Femi Adesina, his special adviser on media and publicity, President Buhari said the victory was a good good omen for the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. He also…
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APC presidential jesters and the Umahi, Akpabio con, By Yemi Adebowale
For about three years, I was projecting Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State as one of the few politicians around that could help Nigeria disable those of the old order that turned this country into a big mess. Prior to the All Progressives Congress’ presidential primary election, whenever I ran into him, I would ask the Ekiti governor, “Do you…
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Kolawole, Ekiti PDP guber candidate concedes defeat, fails to congratulate Oyebanji
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Ekiti State governorship election, Bisi Kolawole has conceded defeat. Kolawole placed third in the election behind eventual winner Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Social Democratic Party’s Segun Oni. Kolawole in a statement thanked his supporters and former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose. He, however, failed to congratulate…
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Politics, religion and 2023, By Segun Ayobolu
It is only natural that identity issues featuring such factors as ethnicity, religion, culture and region will always be key determinant influences in the politics of a complex, plural polity like Nigeria. Thus, the extant constitutions of the First, Second, and Third Republics and now this Fourth Republic have always had provisions requiring that the composition of governments at various…
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Ice Prince to release new album June 22
Nigerian Rapper, Ice Prince has confirmed June 22 as the release date for first single in the year, ‘Hustle,” featuring Seyi Vibez and Ceeza Milli. The rapper announced the single in a tweet shared on his Twitter account. He tweeted: “My first single 2022 is called ‘Hustle,’ and it drops June 22, Pls keep a date with me.” Ice Prince…
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Literature transformed rascality of Soyinka, Achebe into greatness – ANA President
Dr Camillus Ukah, President, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), has said that literature helped to mediate the rascality of Nigeria’s two biggest writers – Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. According to him, it is the same way the reading of creative literature will assist in shaping the minds of Nigerians to prevent their involvement in violence. Ukah said this on…
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PHOTO NEWS: Olubadan decorates Gandujes as Aare Fiwajoye, Yeye Aare Fiwajoye
Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Olalekan Balogun on Saturday conferred honourary chieftaincy on Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and his wife, Dr. Hasfat Ganduje They were coronated as the Aare Fiwajoye and Yeye Aare Fiwajoye of Ibadanland. The Gandujes are in-laws to Ibadan people by virtue of the marriage of their daughter to the son of late former Governor of Oyo…
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APC’s Oyebanji floors SDP, PDP, declared winner of Ekiti governorship election
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress Biodun Oyebanji has been declared winner of the Ekiti State governorship election. Returning officer for the election, Kayode Oyebode declared the Ikogosi-born politician winner after of the election early Sunday morning. “That Abiodun Abayomi Oyebanji of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Oyebode…
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