Gbenga Daniel, a former governor of Ogun state, and PDP chieftain has quit partisan politics. Gbenga Daniel, who was the campaign coordinators of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP, announced this in a letter to Uche Secondus, national chairman of the PDP. “I joined the PDP in Ogun State on Sunday, the 9th of […]
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday paid a visit to his former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun state. Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo’s media aide, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Akinyemi did not give details of the meeting between the ex-president and former vice-president. The duo […]
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President, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja disclosed that the new report on HIV prevalence put the people living with the dreaded disease currently in the country at 1.9 million. Buhari spoke while formally unveiling the findings of the 2018 Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) in Abuja. Buhari noted during the presidential announcement […]
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Not less than 18 Nigerians die from Tuberculosis (TB) every hour, a TB expert and Board Chairman of “Stop TB partnership Nigeria”, Lovett Lawson, has said. Lawson, disclosed this at a pre-World TB Day press conference in Abuja on Thursday. The World TB Day is celebrated March 24 to raise awareness about the health, social […]
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The European Union Observation Mission to Nigeria (EOM) has narrated how Nigerian soldiers stopped them from monitoring elections in Rivers and some other states. The allegation was made when the observers their preliminary report in Abuja on Monday. Maria Arena, the chief observer, told journalists that they came to Nigeria on the invitation of the […]
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After months of internal party primaries and intense campaign across the nooks and crannies of various states by political parties, the stage is set as Nigeria’s governorship election holds today (Saturday). The governorship election, which takes place simultaneously with the state House of Assembly elections, holds a week after its initial scheduled date of March […]
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An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a 51-year-old dockworker, Lekan Shonde, to death by hanging for beating his 39-year-old wife, Ronke, to death at their Egbeda, Lagos residence. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Josephine Oyefeso found Lekan guilty of murder in a two and a half hours judgment on Friday which […]
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Nigeria’s main opposition party, PDP, has rejected the yet to be concluded result of the presidential election. The PDP, in a statement by its national chairman, Uche Secondus, said the results being announced do not tally with what the party has collated across the country. “Firstly, I want to categorically state that our collation centers […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says anyone planning to snatch ballot boxes during the forthcoming elections will do so “at the expense of his own life”. Speaking at an emergency meeting of leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Monday, Buhari warned against tampering with the electoral process. He said having campaigned across the […]
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The World Bank has given a pass mark to Fadama III programme in Nigeria for the success recorded in the implementation of its programmes ahead of its Dec. 31, 2019 closing date. The World Bank Fadama III AF Project Task Team Leader, Dr Adetunji Oredipe on Wednesday told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja […]
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