Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has blamed her decision to run for presidency on the platform of her now estranged party, the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, on an error of judgement on her part. Ezekwesili, who announced her withdrawal from the presidential race, last week, stated this on Monday at a world […]
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Published on 24.01.2019 at 10h54 by AFP Nigeria’s leading female presidential candidate Oby Ezekwesili on Thursday withdrew from the race, pledging to form an opposition coalition to defeat the ruling party. Polls to elect a new president and parliament take place on February 16, while governorship and state assembly elections take place two weeks later. […]
Read More The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesil, wants the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mamoud Yakubu, to reverse the recent deployment of Mrs. Amina Zakari, as chairperson of INEC’s Results Collation Centre in next month’s presidential election. Ezekwesili, in a statement yesterday said “The […]
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The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party (ACPN), Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has picked the chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdul-Ganiyu Galadima, as her running mate. According to her campaign organisation, Hope ’19, Ezekwesili announced Galadima, a former presidential candidate of the party, while unveiling her manifesto on Wednesday in Ilorin. The presidential candidate said […]
Read More Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, has identified and proffered solutions to seven “monstrous challenges” facing Nigeria. This was part of her policy speech, which she read out to the media, on Monday in Lagos. Ezekwesili, who was Nigeria’s former Minister of Education as well as Solid Minerals, […]
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A group of Atiku Abubakar’s supporters, under the aegis of Atiku for Better Nigeria, has warned a former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, to desist from using derogatory remarks against Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party. The group advised Ezekwesili, who is a presidential candidate for 2019, to concentrate on her campaign and stop […]
Read More Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to a 20 hour debate to defend his achievements or lack of it. Affirming that debate by proxy should not be accepted by Nigerians, she said that those who shy away from presenting themselves before the people do not deserve […]
Read More Presidential Candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, Dr. Obi Ezekwesili, yesterday, described the daunting situation facing Nigeria as lack of leadership failure. Ezekwesili, who is co-founder of Transparency International, while Fielding questions from newsmen, said: “I have a disruptive mindset and I am not somebody that will use a flowery language to describe […]
Read More Stakeholders, including a former Vice-President, Africa Region, World Bank, Oby Ezekwesili, on Monday called on the Federal Government to insist on accountability and binding rules on revenue outflow from the nation’s Excess Crude Account. They said the absence of rules of practices governing deposits, withdrawals and investment of the ECA led to Nigeria being ranked […]
Read More Nigeria’s former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has called for an urgent national dialogue to discuss the problems of exclusion and poverty in the country. Speaking at a plenary session at the Nigeria Economic Summit, which ended in Abuja on Thursday, the former World Bank Vice President for Africa said talks on political restructuring […]
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Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Nigerian Stock Exchange have said legal firms should consider listing their shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The Director-General, SEC, Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, and the NSE’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Oscar Onyema, said this while discussing ‘Creating secondary market for investors’ at a break out session of […]
Read More Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Thursday, took a swipe at young Nigerians for condoning, what she termed, the ‘comedies’ going on in the Senate. The Nigerian Senate has recently been embroiled in several scandals, including an allegation that Senator Dino Melaye does not hold a first degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaira as […]
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