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Former Abia deputy speaker, Ndukwe, picks PDP presidential form
Former Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Cosmos Ndukwe, on Monday picked the Peoples Democratic Party presidential nomination and expression of interest forms. Ndukwe who picked the forms at the PDP headquarters, Wadata Plaza, Abuja said it was the time of the South East to produce the next president. He said if elected he will carry Nigerians…
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Leadership and Tinubu’s excellent footprints in Lagos, By Babajide Fadoju
As far back as 1999, when what we have in Lagos today were only dreams in the minds of visionaries, Tinubu took over like that proverbial Octopus with all its hands in all the jars, weaving Lagos State from pit to the palace it is today. First was the gory sight of Lagos which was occasioned by pollution from different…
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Aiteo owes Shell, 7 Nigerian banks $1.7bn
One of Nigeria’s largest oil producers owes $1.7 billion to Shell Plc and seven banks, which if unpaid, could do significant harm to the country’s financial system, say the lenders. Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. purchased a pipeline and an operating interest in one of the nation’s most prized onshore oil blocks seven years ago for $2.4 billion. Zenith Bank Plc,…
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Osinbajo and the infidelity of integrity, By Bala Ibrahim
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has ended all speculations, by formally declaring his intention to run for the President of Nigeria, come next year, 2023. In giving notice of this intention today, Monday,11/04/2022, the Vice President said: “In the past seven years, I have served as Vice President under a true Nigerian patriot, a servant of the nation in war and…
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Osinbajo and the rope in his portmanteau, By Taiwo Olanegan
I persistently vouched for him despite overwhelming facts. I held on to the last edge of his sanity. But he fell to the old trick of the serpent. He succumbed to the temptation of the Garden of Aso Rock. Ambition is a drug. It makes you drudgery. But he is a professor of law. Millions of us would never be.…
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Osinbajo’s big task without Buhari’s nod, By Kunle Awosiyan
No doubt, APC governors are divided between their National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. It was gathered that 10 out of 22 governors invited to Osinbajo’s dinner showed up on Sunday evening and on Monday 14 governors met with Tinubu. The arithmetic may mean nothing but the loyalty is divided for now. This is a clear…
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Overcoming the crisis of Nigeria’s future:The group mind synthesis, By George Anyiam-Osigwe
Deriving from years of governance failure, statistics reveal that over 80% of our national population leave on less than $2 per day. As a fallout of this reality, in recent times, unemployed Nigerian youths and collapsed families take the path of criminality in order to be able to survive economically. Specifically, with the high level of graduate unemployment, the Nigerian…
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JAMB releases over 175,000 mock UTME results
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has released the results of 175,000 candidates who took part in the mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on April 9. The exam body disclosed this in the organisation’s weekly bulletin on Monday. “Consequently, candidates who sat for the examination are to visit www.jamb.gov.ng and click on ‘2022 Mock Result Checking’ and…
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Alleged N266.5m fraud: EFCC docks fake Army general who claimed Buhari nominated him as COAS
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC), on Monday, April 11, 2022, arraigned one Bolarinwa Abiodun, a fake Army General, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, on a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of documents and possession of documents containing false pretence to the tune…
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Peterside, George, Cole, 7 other Rivers APC guber aspirants agree to work together
The 10 aspirants, vying for the governorship seat of River State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have agreed to work together to ensure the party’s success at the 2023 elections. In a communique they all signed after a meeting, the aspirants said they were going to rally round whoever emerges as the party’s flagbearer. The 10…
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