Wike. Photo/Twitter/GovWike Blasts Former VP’s Loyalists Ayu Accuses APC Of Instituting Suit Amaechi’s Camp Depletes Further As Finebone Defects To PDP Amid heightened romance with chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) and internal frictions in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the outcome of the party’s presidential primary in May, Rivers State Governor, […]
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Rivers State Governor and a former presidential aspirants, Nyesom Wike, has denied reports that he sued the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate and a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. The governor, who scored the second highest number of votes at the party’s presidential primary, has been aggrieved since, contrary to his expectation, […]
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Graduates from a leading UK university who missed out on in-person graduation celebrations due to the pandemic are returning for official ceremonies this week, but for one graduate this trip to the University of Dundee is his first. Chidi Okonkwo, who is originally from Anambra, Nigeria, secured a Commonwealth Scholarship to study Infection Prevention & […]
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Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) building. Photo/facebook/officialNDDC The recent promise by President Muhammadu Buhari to reconstitute a substantive Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), following formal implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), with the rebranding of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) into Nigeria National Petroleum Company limited (NNPC) has attracted reactions […]
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Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has asked a court to declare him the winner of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) primary election and sack Atiku Abubakar from being the presidential candidate. Wike and a PDP chieftain, Newgent Ekamon also sued Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal; and the PDP over the conduct of the presidential primary […]
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Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says state governors have no justification to challenge the $418 million deductions from the Paris Club refund paid to consultants they hired. According to him, the noise making arising from the Governors Forum is not only unjustified, but “a clear case of absence […]
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says a Nigeria free of its past, and current challenges and engaging the future with the best tools in human and material capital is within reach. His spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice-president said this when he represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the global virtual […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government is doing everything within its powers to ensure the safe return of the remaining abducted passengers of ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train. Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s media aide, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said Buhari gave the assurance when he met with representatives of victims of Kaduna […]
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A group, Concerned Catholics in Nigeria has cautioned Plateau State governor, and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, Simon Lalong against dragging Pope Francis and the Catholic Church into local politics in Nigeria. The organisation was reacting to the comment made by Lalong on Wednesday tha he was yet to receive any […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday urged Nigerians to make the right choice during the 2023 general elections. He warned that making the wrong choice in the election may hurt the nation. Speaking as the special guest of honour at the Wilson Badejo Foundation’s 15th annual lecture with the theme, ‘Overcoming the twin challenge of […]
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