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Court stops INEC from ending voter registration June 30
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from stopping the continuous voter registration on June 30. The interim injunction barring INEC from ending the CVR on June 30 was by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon on Monday after hearing an argument on motion exparte by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project. SERAP had approached the court…
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JKF: No longer ‘the apprentice’, By Olawale Olaleye
Last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, has stoked some interrogations on the political artery of the state, with ideology at the centre of it all. There’s also been interesting reports and opinions about the fact that the feat of Saturday had broken 23 years succession jinx in the state. But a few people have equally been stifled by the…
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Not everything about Tinubu is money, By Kunle Awosiyan
If you think Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s emergence as the presidential standard bearer of the APC has come with money, you are very far from the truth. Of course, money is a critical factor on this journey, BAT is living more on his goodwill than throwing money around as some of his haters are alleging. I once visited an office at…
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Orubebe announces resignation from PDP
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Orubebe announced his resignation in a letter he wrote to PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu on Monday, stating it was with immediate effect. He gave as one of the reasons for leaving the PDP as the decision of the party to throw…
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Kaduna govt sacks NUT president, 2,357 teachers – Official
The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) says it has dismissed 2,357 teachers who failed the recently conducted competency test. Its spokesperson, Hauwa Mohammed, in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna, said the board conducted a competency test for over 30,000 teachers in December 2021. She said that 2,192 primary school teachers, including the National President of the Nigeria…
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Reports Kwankwaso can deputise for Peter Obi false, says NNPP
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has denied as false, reports that its Presidential Candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso can be the vice presidential candidate for Labour Party’s Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential elections. NNPP’s National Publicity Secretary, Dr Agbo Major in a statement on Sunday, said the report was a figment of the writer’s imagination. “NNPP has never at any…
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Hoodlums injure WesternPost reporter during attack on Sanwo-Olu’s press crew bus
A reporter with WesternPost, Adeola Ogunrinde, was on Sunday injured when hoodlums attacked the press crew bus of the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The bus was attacked by hoodlums after presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu visited the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu. WesternPost had reported that Tinubu was visiting Lagos for the first…
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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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