President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, as his new Chief of Staff. Gambari, from Kwara State, was the Minister of External Affairs between 1984 and 1985. A professor of repute and a global citizen, the 79-year-old replaces former Chief of …
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Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) was on Monday granted a tough bail condition of N1 billion. He was granted bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Asides the N1 billion bail, Maina is to provide two sureties in like sum. Both sureties must be …
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Egyptian security officials have raided the offices of the country’s last major independent news outlet, which has been described as the last bastion of press freedom in Egypt. “Plainclothes security forces have raided Mada Masr’s office in Cairo,” the website tweete. “Staff are currently being held inside, and their phones have been …
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A former member of the House of Representatives, who represented the Yagba Federal Constituency for eight years, Karimi Sunday Steve, has withdrawn his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Karimi, who once served as the (Kogi) State Deputy Chairman of the party, in a statement, said that the withdrawal …
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British former Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Monday, said Britain was in a dangerous mess and that neither his own Labour party nor Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party deserved to win a Dec. 12 election. Britain is holding an election three years ahead of schedule because parliament was deadlocked …
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Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, GCON, as he turns 73 on Monday. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba on Sunday, the governor described Atiku, the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, as …
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met with the Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Lyon was declared the winner of the November 16 governorship election in the State. He won with 352,550 votes against 143,172 scored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Douye Diri. Read …
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A coalition of civil rights organisations on Friday stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja demanding transparency in the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa and Kogi States. According to the coalition, to engender inclusiveness in the electoral process, it was important that the Internally Displaced …
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THERE is no plan to reduce the asset recovery powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has said. He said the anti-graft agencies would retain their powers to seize assets from corrupt suspects. Malami made the clarifications …
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APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole has told Bayelsa Government to account for the N100 billion expended on the construction of the state airport runway project. Adams, who described the project as the most costly anywhere in the world, revealed this yesterday when APC governorship aspirant in Bayelsa, Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, paid …
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