Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), says with 15.6 million members nationwide, APC is the largest party in the world. He said this on Wednesday when he presented President Muhammadu Buhari with a new party membership card. Oshiomhole told the president that the APC under his leadership, took advantage of modern technology […]
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The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday said reports of a rift between him and national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, were untrue. Mr Ambode made the clarification in a statement signed by his chief press secretary, Habib Aruna, in Lagos. Both the social and traditional media have been awash with […]
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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi said on Wednesday that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has done so much in all aspects of the economy, beyond the transportation sector. Amaechi said this in Abuja during an interactive session with the media on the ministry’s achievement. He said the Buhari-led administration has achieved a lot in security, […]
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The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says he will never do or say anything to demean the people of Osogbo in Osun state. Recall that while speaking at the palace of Ataoja of Osogbo, Jimoh Olanipekun on Saturday, the former Lagos state governor was quoted as saying “Osun doesn’t have […]
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Some groups in Kaduna state have purchased expression of interest and nomination forms of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna. While receiving the forms at government house, Kaduna on Monday, the governor said he does not have up to N20 million in his account. The forms cost N22.5 million Among the […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has condemned the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the electoral act (amendment) bill. The forum made the condemnation in a communiqué signed by Ayodele Fayose, its chairman and governor of Ekiti state, after its meeting in in Abuja on Monday. The governors said the president’s decline of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will receive presidential nomination and expression of interest forms on Tuesday. Buhari would pick the forms at the new banquet hall of the presidential villa, Abuja, at 11:30am. On September 5, a group known as the Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network (NCAN) presented a cheque of N45 million to Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of […]
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Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, says contrary to claims by Kayode Fayemi, governor-elect of the state, the debt of Ekiti is pegged at N59.5 billion. Reacting to a report by the Debt Management Office (DMO) that the debt profile of the state had risen from N18 billion when Fayemi left office in 2014 to […]
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Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, says Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president, is innocent of the N29.9m bribery allegation peddled against him. Bako Kyari, who said he is a nephew to the chief of staff, had accused Kyari, during a recent radio programme on Berekete […]
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Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, on Saturday said the state had the lowest index of unemployment in Nigeria because of the youth engagement programmes he had instituted since coming to power in 2010. Aregbesola made the assertion while speaking with newsmen in Osogbo, after a fitness walk organised for the newly absorbed 20, 000 youths […]
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