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PDP says, APC, INEC is creating illegal polling units to rig Osun election

The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress of conniving with Independent National Electoral Commission to create illegal polling units with the intention to rig the poll. Addressing a press conference on Friday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, however, said the party would dismantle all the plots of APC. He […]

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Lancaster University Honours Valentine Ozigbo, MD/CEO Transcorp Hotels

University Vice Chancellor – He Makes Alma Mater Proud Kempinski, Accra: September 21, 2018; The Managing Director/Chief Executive, Transcorp Hotels Plc, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, was on Friday conferred the award of a Distinguished Alumni of the Lancaster University. The award was conferred on him at a special convocation ceremony of the university held at its […]

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NAFDAC seizes cartons of Tramadol, Diazepam from Lagos warehouse

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) operatives raided a Lagos warehouse and seized controlled drugs, such as Tramadol, valued at N105.6 million. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. She explained that NAFDAC carried out substantive surveillance on nefarious activities […]

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Ambode directs state public works to fix Lagos roads in 4 weeks

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has directed the state Public Works Corporation to fix potholes on major and inner roads across the state within the next four weeks. The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya, said this on Friday, during an inspection of the ongoing Pen Cinema bridge in Agege area of […]

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Osun Election: EFCC to track, prosecute politicians seeking to buy votes

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has moved in its investigators to track and arrest for prosecution politicians and their agents planning to lure voters with money to win the Osun State Governorship election slated for tomorrow. The commission, which made the announcement in a statement it sent to Saturday Vanguard on Friday, also said […]

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ABUJA, NIGERIA - MAY 22: Police officers stand guard during a demonstration that Nigerians demand release of Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by extremist militants Boko Haram in capital Abuja, Nigeria on May 22, 2014. The protesters called for the safe return of the girls and for the Nigerian government to play a more active role in helping to return the girls to their families. (Photo by Nacer Talel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Police recover 9,657 illegal firearms in nationwide mope up exercise

The Nigeria Police said yesterday that it recovered a total of 9,657 illegal firearms and 26994 illegal ammunition in possession of suspected militias, bandits, armed herdsmen and farmers, vigilante groups, neighbourhood watch and other groups and individuals in the country. The recovery, the police explained, was in the mope up exercise earlier directed by the […]

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NAF to strengthen strategic partnership with NCC over insecurity, says CAS

The Nigerian Air Force, has said it would strengthen its strategic partnership with the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in order to contain emerging 21st Century security challenges. The Chief of the Air Staff, CAS, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who said this during a courtesy visit to the commission’s Executive Vice Chairman,Professor Umar Danbatta, in Abuja, […]

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Nigerians react on Twitter with ‘Here’s my NYSC photos’, after Shittu, Adeosun scandals

After the resignation of Buhari’s former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun over National Youth Service Corps, NYSC certificate scandal, and now, with the news of another, the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu being also embroiled in an NYSC certificate scandal, many Nigerians have taken to the micro-blogging site, Twitter, to show picture evidences of their […]

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Navy warns against oil theft

Nigerian Navy has enjoined oil thieves to quit the illicit act, saying anyone caught will be made to face the full weight of the law. Flag Officer Commanding, Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Saidu Garba, who spoke in Warri, Delta State, yesterday, said: “We are advising them (oil thieves) to engage in productive legal ventures […]

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Nigeria’s Buhari officially declares for second term

2019 Election: Buhari appoints a Campaign Organisation with Amaechi as D-G

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a campaign organisation for his re-election in 2019 with Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi as Secretary/Director-General. A statement issued by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Thursday disclosed this. President @MBuhari has approved the appointment of a campaign […]

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I‘ll dance to govt house after wining Osun election, Adeleke boasts

The embattled senator Ademola Adeleke and the Peoples Democratic Party aspirant in the forthcoming Osun election, Thursday said that he would dance to the government house after winning the Saturday’s election. Speaking in Osogbo at an interactive session organised by the Oduduwa Youth Development Initiative, Adeleke opined, “I will dance to the Government House after […]

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Bukola Saraki gestures during an interview with Reuters at his office in Ilorin November 16, 2010. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

Saraki will reveal to PDP, secrets on how to defeat Tinubu, APC in Lagos

Senate President and presidential aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday, excited members of the party in Lagos as he assured them that he will do everything within his reach to ensure PDP produced the next governor of the state. Saraki, who spoke at the PDP secretariat in Lagos State, where he […]

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