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ON JANUARY 10, 20197:42 PMIN NEWS, POLITICS194 COMMENTS On January 10, 2019 in our Online edition  we published a news item titled:  ‘‘TINUBU SLUMPED, NOW IN HOSPITAL  AFTER APPOINTMENT INTO BUHARI’S APC – FANI-KAYODE’ which stated among other things that the All Progressives Chairman of the President Muhammadu  Buhari  Campaign council, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu collapsed shortly after he was appointed …

…Said terrible things always happen to Tinubu each time he’s given something in APC Former minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that the former Governor of Lagos state and Co-Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, collapsed shortly after he was appointed Chairman of Buhari’s Campaign Council. He said Tinubu always experiences …

Angered by the non-prosecution of crime suspects, Suleiman Dikko, Chief Judge of Nasarawa State, has threatened to stop signing arrest warrants for the police. Mr Dikko issued the threat on Wednesday in Wamba during his tour of federal prisons in the state. He expressed shock at the persistent lack of prosecution of a large number of accused persons in prisons, …

Supporters of Congo’s president-elect celebrated an unlikely win on Thursday, but the runner-up denounced a fix and France, Belgium and the Catholic Church all cast doubt on the results. A chaotic vote in the vast and volatile nation of 80 million people has raised fears of renewed violence and at least two people were killed in clashes at one town …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed that one person died in an early hour train derailment on Thursday at Ashade railway crossing Agege, Lagos. Jerry Ochi, the Lagos Railway District Manager, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the victim died at the NRC hospital at Ebutte Meta while receiving treatment. “Efforts have been put in place …

President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that the salaries of workers earning above the new minimum wage will be renegotiated. He also appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of a national minimum wage. President Buhari, who stated this at the inauguration of the technical committee at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, said …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has spelled out the voting procedures for the 2109 General Elections. The election umpire wrote via its verified Twitter handle, @inecnigeria. The following are the seven steps, as stated by INEC: Step 1: Upon arrival at the polling unit, joins the queue and present yourself to the INEC official (APO111) at the polling unit who will determine …

A team of scientists working with the staff of Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital,  Edo State has made a breakthrough with a “rapid portable genomic sequencing technology to identify viruses without prior knowledge of the cause of the disease.” The research led by scientists from Public Health England (UK), the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Germany, in collaboration with the …

…Govt queries 28 other private school principals …Warns 16 public, private schools over complicity in exam fraud  Edo State Government has suspended 28 principals of public senior secondary schools over their involvement in examination malpractice in the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Emmanuel Agbale, made this known in a memo to the …

By Louis Odion, FNGE In a recent article, Femi Ojudu, one of Nigerian journalism’s best currently making a difference in national politics, declared the forthcoming general elections as potentially the cheapest in the nation’s history. I cannot agree more. By deliberately keeping the campaign budget low, Buhari has, perhaps unwittingly, helped reduce the financial pressure on his opponents, thereby availing …