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Use of placeholder shows APC not ready for 2023 election – Okowa
Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Govenror of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa says the decision of the All Progressives Congress to use a placeholder as its presidential running late shows the party is not ready for the elections in 2023. WesternPost had reported that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, APC’s presidential flagbearer, had submitted the name of a…
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I didn’t say Anambra investment in SABMiller now $100m – Obi
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party Peter Obi has denied saying his $20 million investment in International Breweries while he was Anambra State governor had increased to $100 million. Obi said this in a letter written to Anambra State Governor Prof Charles Soludo by his media aide Valentine Obienyem. According to Obi the erroneous statement must have been made by one…
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Ekiti governor-elect, Oyebanji, on ‘thank you visit’ to Ewi
Ekiti State governor-elect, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, on Thursday, paid a ‘thank you’ visit to the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, HRM, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe , following his victory at the polls in the just concluded governorship election. Oyebanji, who led some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the palace of the respected traditional ruler, said the purpose of the…
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CHOGM22: Buhari visits Kigali memorial centre
President Muhammadu Buhari visited the Kigali Memorial Centre to lay wreath in honour of victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. While recalling the ugly incident that led to the death of almost 1 million people during a 100 days of rage between the Hutus and Tutsis, Buhari charged Nigerians and other Africans not to allow ethnic and religious differences to…
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NIGERIA: Deliver us from restless idealism, By Folabi Ogunleye
Look ehn, me, the people I dread the most to be in positions of power are the barely tested talkers – including the ones who spend more time going on about what is wrong than what, specifically, they will do to fix what is wrong. It is worse when these people are lone-rangers who have no established support system of…
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Oyetola, competent, performing leader deserving of re-election – Obokun/Oriade monarchs
Monarchs in Obokun/Oriade federal constituency have described Governor Adegboyega Oyetola as the pillar of Osun State’s sustainable growth in the last three and half years. They also described the governor as a competent, performing leader that is deserving of re-election, just as they commended him for bringing stability to the affairs of the state at a time when the political…
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Warning shots from Kigali
On the sidelines of the 26th edition of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) holding in Kigali, Rwanda, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team Thursday morning visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which is one of the monuments in memory of about a million people that were killed in the 1994 pogrom. The Hutus had in 100 days of rage and…
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The Sino-American parley: An eye-opener for Nigeria, By Bola Ahmed Tinubu
“We have been here a week. This was the week that changed the world.” The above quotation were the words of President Richard Nixon in his toast at the concluding banquet on February 27 1972 during his state visit to China. Some might have said his comment was an overstatement, but the event truly changed the course of history of…
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Drama as lawyer attends Supreme Court proceeding in traditional worshippers’ regalia
Human rights and constitutional lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, on Thursday storms the Supreme Court dressed in Olokun (river goddess) robes aftermath of the apex court’s ruling that Muslim students can wear Hijab to schools in Lagos State. The Delta State born activist, who said he is an Olokun worshipper, had a circle of white around his right eye with feathers…
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Amotekun arrests suspects in connection with Owo Catholic church massacre
By Temitope Adedeji, Akure Operatives of Amotekun Corps in Ondo State said some have arrested some suspects in connection with the June 5 massacre at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. The state commander of Amotekun, Adetunji Adeleye, made this known to journalists on Thursday in Akure while parading 71 suspected criminals. He however did not give the actual figure of…
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