Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has accused Barack Obama of pushing for his defeat in the 2015 Presidential election. Mr Jonathan who lost the election to President Muhammadu Buhari blasted the then United States President of taking an unusual step by “prodding the electorate to vote for the opposition” in the election. […]
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Ikechukwu Eze, the spokesman to former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has said his boss “wasn’t aware” of any use of Cambridge Analytica by his party in the country’s elections. The Nigerian government is probing claims that Cambridge Analytica, a British-based political consultancy, illegally used Facebook data in past election campaigns for the People’s Democratic […]
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Contrary to claims that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was one of the major financiers of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday disputed claims. El-Rufai who spoke on a Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service Programme, “Democracy Today”, challenged the former Vice President to come up with evidence to prove […]
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The European Union (EU) has denied favouring President Muhammadu Buhari above other candidates during the 2015 presidential election. Santiago Fisas, the former chief observer of the 2015 EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM), and member of the European Parliament, said this in Abuja on Sunday while making clarification on EU assessment of the 2015 elections. […]
Continue ReadingInformation from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, says that the Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils have shared a total of N387,771 billion as Federal allocation for the month of December, 2015. A communiqué issued by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) and signed by the Accountant […]
Continue ReadingThere is pandemonium in Ogbonicha, the home of the All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidate in the Saturday election in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu, following the delay in the burial of the politician, who died Sunday evening. Audu’s burial was initially fixed for 10am (today) Monday, prompting friends, relatives and concerned citizens to flood the home […]
Continue ReadingSenior secondary school students in Nigeria have a few more days more to enter the UBA Foundation national essay competition, which closes November 13, 2015. UBA Foundation, which is the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced that the closing date for the entries will not be extended. Ijeoma […]
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