James Faleke, running mate to the late Abubakar Audu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21, 2015 election, has lost his bid to unseat Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state. The Kogi State governorship election tribunal, sitting in Abuja, upheld the election of Governor Yahaya Bello as the duly elected governor of Kogi State. The three-man …
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Muhammad Ali’s brother has taken centre stage at a Sunday worship service at the church where their father was a longtime member in Louisville, Kentucky. An emotional Rahaman Ali clapped and swayed to hymns and hugged members of King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville’s west end. The church features a painting by Ali’s father, Cassius Clay Sr., and isn’t …
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SOME members of the House of Representatives said on Sunday that Nigeria was overdue for restructuring. They argued that doing otherwise was to postpone the inevitable as the present structure could not be sustained for too long. Also, the Ijaw Youth Council believed restructuring the country was the only solution to the multi-faceted problems besetting the country. The lawmakers, argued …
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Today (Monday) begin a 10-day vacation to attend to an ear infection that has forced him to shelve some local and foreign trips lately. According to a statement on Sunday evening by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President is currently battling with what he called “a persistent ear infection.” …
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In a bid to resolve the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the leaders of the party will today meet with concerned and aggrieved members. The intervention which is coming under the auspices of the national caucus of the party, would see the PDP Governors’ Forum meeting at the Ondo State Governor’s lodge today in Abuja while the National …
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Nigeria Police recruitment shortlist has been published. The Police Service Commission (PSC) has released the list of shortlisted candidates qualified for the screening exercise for Nigeria Police Force Recruitment 2016. Nigeria Police Academy NPA How To Check: Candidates are to visit the NPF recruitment portal via link below; >> http://psc.gov.ng/shortlisted-candidates.html Click on their respective states of origin to access the …
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The new militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, that has intensified attacks on the nation’s oil facilities in the Niger Delta region, said on Saturday that it would not kill or kidnap anybody. It also warned other militant groups in the region to desist from killing soldiers and oil workers as not to offend God in their mission to ‘liberate the …
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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently studying the gazette signed by late President Umaru Yar’Adua on the Niger Delta crisis as one of the possible ways of tackling the renewed violence being orchestrated by the Niger Delta Avengers in the region. The purpose of revisiting the gazette, it was further learnt, was to ensure that all the agreements contained in the …
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A public funeral procession and memorial service for boxing legend Muhammad Ali will take place in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky on Friday, a family spokesman said. Former US president Bill Clinton, comedian Billy Crystal and sports journalist Bryant Gumbel will offer eulogies for Ali, the three-time world heavyweight champion who died on Friday at age 74 after a long …
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An unusual pressure is learnt to have been mounted on President Muhammadu Buhari by internal and external forces to drop the idea of publicly naming the names of alleged looters of the national treasury and the amount each individual had returned. However, the details of the money recovered so far have been made public today by the Ministry of Information. …
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