The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to keep quiet and retire to his farm in Ota, Ogun state. Tinubu said this at the presidential rally which held in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital,on Monday. Speaking to a crowd of supporters that thronged Ramat Square, […]
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Rotimi Amaechi, director general of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a patriot. The former Rivers governor said Obasanjo is the only Nigerian that loves the country. Amaechi, who is the minister of transportation, made the remark in an audio clip released by Reno Omokri, former media aide of […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expresses fear over the readiness of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the forthcoming 2019 general elections. Obasanjo expressed this fear in his book titled “Points for Concern and Action” made available to newsmen in Abeokuta. “I am concerned as a democrat who believes that with faithful and diligent practice […]
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Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday in Benin held a closed-door meeting with Christian leaders in the state. Oshinbajo who was in Benin for the inauguration of tradermoni and other engagements, held the meeting with the clergymeeting at the Bishop Kelly Pastoral Centre, along Airport Road. He arrived the venue of the meeting […]
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Congo opposition candidate Martin Fayulu rejected a court ruling on Sunday that his rival won a presidential election, declaring himself president in a move that could stoke further unrest. “The constitutional court has just confirmed that it serves a dictatorial regime … by validating false results, (and enabling) a constitutional coup d’etat,” he said in […]
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Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says there is nothing worth celebrating about the visit of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the US. El-Rufai said this at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally in the state on Friday. Atiku visited the US for the first time in 13 […]
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has confirmed his arrival in the United States. In a post on Twitter, he said: “Just arrived Washington D.C for meeting with US government officials, Nigerians living in D.C metropolis and the business community. -AA”, with a photograph, showing him clutching a bouquet of flowers, along with Senate President Bukola Saraki and […]
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The United States has raised concern over the handling of security in the elections, starting in February. David Young, a representative of the US embassy in Nigeria, said this during a meeting with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. “One of the concerns is about the neutrality […]
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The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to the prosecution of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, noting that he is sad about the situation. He also said President Muhammadu Buhari did not know about the plan to arraign the CJN until Saturday evening. According to him, the President […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again exposed itself as a party with a natural inclination to rise up in defence of cases of alleged corruption, the ruling All Progressives Congress observed today. “PDP and corruption are siamese twins that are difficult to separate from each other”, the APC publicity secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu said […]
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