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Ask candidates questions, test their abilities before voting – Fashola
Minister of Works and Housing Development Babatunde Fashola SAN has urged Nigerians to be involved in the voting process by scrutinising candidates. Fashola was speaking at the sixth edition of the annual ‘BRF GABFEST’, which held in Lagos on Tuesday with the theme, ‘What Am I Voting For?’. According to the former Lagos State governor, voters must interact with candidates…
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The cottage industry ‘bring Tinubu down’ is becoming comical, Wale Alonge
It is so comical to see how much energy and bandwidth are being dissipated on social media on the most trivial and most inconsequential issue that has zero impact on the crushing problems that confront common everyday Nigerian. Rather than focus on the existential structural problem of a center-heavy unitary system that is crushing our country’s future, and working out…
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Sanwo-Olu meets Lagos business leaders, hints of state’s 30-year growth vision
Lagos State will be on another 30-year journey in pursuit of physical development, social growth and economic prosperity. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu broke this news to business leaders and organised private sector at an interactive meeting, on Tuesday. The Lagos State Development Plan 2052, Sanwo-Olu said, will be officially rolled out at the forthcoming 9th Economic Summit of the State (known as…
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Academic staff of Adeyemi College of Education express concern over delayed implementation of varsity status
By Temitope Adedeji, Akure College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, has demanded the immediate implementation of the Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo (Establishment) Act, 2021 COEASU Chairman, Dr Adetokunboh Adepoju and the Secretary, Dr Joel Edafe made the call in a letter addressed to the Minister of Education and made available to newsmen…
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Buhari assures APC senators of intervention over primary election crisis
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja said the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will sustain the hearing and healing process that it started to ensure fairness, justice and oneness before the 2023 general elections. In an audience with some APC senators on the outcome of the party primaries and its implications, the President noted that complaints were…
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Senate insists on probing former CJN despite resignation
…seeks measures to avert crisis in judiciary The Senate on Tuesday mandated its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, to go ahead with the probe of the crisis in the judiciary by looking into the complaints raised in the petition by the Justices of the Supreme Court against the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko…
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Tinubu salutes Fashola at 59
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on his 59th birthday. Tinubu saluted Fashola for his outstanding public service record as governor of Lagos State and on his current job as a minister of the Federal Republic. “I specially congratulate the Honourable Minister, Mr. Babatunde Raji…
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Buhari jets out to Portugal on state visit
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, June 28, depart Abuja on a State Visit to Portugal at the invitation of President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. This was contained in a statement by his media office on Tuesday. The President, who will hold official talks with his Portuguese counterpart will be conferred with the country’s National Honour and decorated with ‘Great…
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NASS may amend Electoral Act in favour of direct primaries
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said that efforts will be made by the National Assembly to amend the electoral act to serve as safeguard against weaknesses identified in the law. Lawan made this known on Tuesday in a short remark at plenary, following a matter of national importance brought to the floor by Senator Yahaya Abdullahi (APC, Kebbi North). Rising…
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Fayemi inaugurates committees for smooth handover in Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on Tuesday inaugurated Transition and Advisory Committees that will ensure smooth handover of power to the next administration in the state. While inaugurating the committees in his office at Ado-Ekiti, the governor recalled that he signed the Transition Law 3 years ago to ensure successor government does not abandon the programmes and projects of…
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