Month: January 2019
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Atunwa Will Ensure Your Welfare, Gov. Ahmed Assures Kwarans
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has assured the people of the state that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship candidate, Hon. Razak Atunwa would ensure their welfare and wellbeing if elected. Ahmed added that if elected, Atunwa would also place high premium on the welfare of traditional rulers in…
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Alleged N2.5b Fraud : Kwara PDP Seeks immediate Suspension Of Kawu, NBC DG
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called for the immediate suspension of the Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mallam Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, over the N2.5billion corruption charges preferred against him and others by the Federal Government. The party in a statement by its state publicity secretary, Tunde…
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Kwara: Court-backed APC Writes INEC, Demands Withdrawal of Candidates’ List
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Ishola Balogun-Fulani led All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to urgently withdraw the list of candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Kwara State published by the commission last week. The party, in a letter, addressed to the Chairman, INEC,…
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Taxi driver charged with drugging, defiling, dumping 13-year-old
Lagos, Jan. 24, 2019 (NAN) An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Wednesday remanded a 42-year-old driver, Adebola Akinyele, who allegedly drugged, defiled and dumped a 13-year-old girl. The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, ordered that Akinyele should spend the next 96 days in prison pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).…
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Ezekwesili withdraws from presidential race
The Presidential Candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has announced her withdrawal from the presidential race. Ezekwesili, in a statement by the spokesman of her Hope “19 Campaign Organisation, Mr Ozioma Ubabukoh, announced her withdrawal early Thursday morning. She explained that she stepped down from the Feb. 16 presidential…
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INEC trains 1,000 supervisory presiding officers in Lagos
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has begun training of about 1,000 Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) in preparation for the forthcoming general elections. Mr Femi Akinbiyi, the INEC Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, disclosed to this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday. According to Akinbiyi,…
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Buhari departs for Anambra, Enugu as campaign train moves to South East
President Muhammadu Buhari and members of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday departed Abuja for Anambra and Enugu states in continuation of the nationwide re-election campaign. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president would pay a courtesy visit to the Obi of Onitsha, in Anambra, inaugurate…
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Sowore pledges to cut NASS members’ jumbo pay
Abuja, Jan 23, 2019 (NAN) Presidential Candidate, African Action Congress (AAC), Mr Omoyele Sowore, on Wednesday, said if elected into office, he would cut the jumbo pay of the National Assembly members. Sowore made the pledge at a town hall meeting tagged: ‘’The Candidates” organised by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with NTA and DARIA…
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Over Sixty Percent under graduate course projects in Nigeria university system are plagiarised.
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benn City The Former Executive Chairman, National University Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola, says 60 percent of under graduate course project in the Nigeria university system are plagiarised. Prof Okebukola stated this at the Edo State University, Iyamho during the commissioning of the CANVAS Learning Management System (LMS) in the institution. He…
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Court-backed Kwara APC Confident INEC Will Put Its Candidates’ Names On Ballot Paper
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Chairman of the court- backed All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state, Hon. Ishola Balogun-Fulani has expressed confidence that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will this week put the names of the party’s candidates on its list of those approved to contest the February 16 and March 2, general…