President Muhammadu Buhari says he and the late Shehu Musa Yar’dua sat for the West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1961. Buhari said this on Friday after Iyi Uwadiale, registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), presented him with a re-issued certificate at the presidential villa in Abuja. Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the […]
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Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation and director-general of the reelection campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari, says the president will accept the outcome of the 2019 elections. Speaking when he received a delegation from the European Union (EU), Amaechi said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would adhere strictly to the electoral laws in the forthcoming elections. […]
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The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar says the plan of the federal government to sell national assets will cause long-term pains.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it received nominations from 79 political parties for the 2019 presidential election and 6,352 for the National Assembly. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja on update on the implementation of activities for the 2019 general elections. The breakdown of the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he is disappointed in the Nigerian media for failing to highlight the progress of his administration in the agricultural sector. Buhari said this at a dinner he hosted for young political appointees at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. The president said under him, agriculture had become so attractive that those […]
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Few days after leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central in the Senate on Tuesday joined the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) According to the News Agency of Nigeria NAN, Sani made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser, Political and Ideology, Mr Suleiman Ahmed, in Abuja. “It has […]
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Immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, currently battling curruption charges at the Federal High Court Lagos has been granted a N50million bail. Fayose who has been in EFCC custody since he left office, appeared before the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday. He was asked to provide a surety who must […]
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Serious fighting and shootings broke out on Monday within the premises of the Edo State House of Assembly over the removal of Speaker of the House. The Nation reports. According to the report the fracas ensued because of the sack of the speaker Hon. Kabiru Adjoto. Thugs and unknown armed men invaded the Edo State […]
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Ex-governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, is to remain in EFCC custody, as he lost a bid to be granted bail in his battle with allegations of N30.8b misappropriation. NAN reports The immediate past Governor of Ekiti, State on Monday, appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos, where he pleaded not guilty to the […]
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The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a decision that comes few days after the national body of the APC submitted the name of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s political adviser, Uba Sani, as the candidate for that senatorial district. Mr Sani made his resignation known in a letter […]
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