The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged members of the public to disregard the allegation that it created illegal polling units in Osun ahead of the Saturday governorship election in the state. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi made the call in an interview on Friday in Abuja. Oyekanmi, stated […]
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The stage is set for today’s governorship election in Osun State with 48 candidates accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to contest the polls. However, five candidates are expected to be the major contenders in the election which is the last major poll before the 2019 General Election. The five top contenders as […]
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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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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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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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The All Progressives Congress, APC, in South West has said it cannot afford to lose any of the six states in the zone to the opposition. APC stated this at a caucus meeting by chieftains of the party in the zone, presided over by the National Vice Chairman, Pastor Bankole Oluwajana, APC is at present […]
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The Federal Government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered 322 million dollars Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July. Mr Tukur Rumar, of the National Cash Transfer Office (NTCO), said this at a roundtable on assets recovery organised by the Swiss Embassy on Thursday, […]
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Bank of Industry (BoI) has disbursed N3.5 billion to business men and women in Osun State to boost Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the state. Its Managing Director, Mr Kayode Pintan, disclosed this at the Osun State Business Summit held in Osogbo, recently. He added that the move was in tandem with the bank’s […]
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The Oyo/Osun Command of Nigeria Customs Service has raked in ₦8.8 billion (approximately ₦9 billion) in the first half of 2017 fiscal year, notwithstanding economic recession slowing down commercial activities in the country. The Command also made 57 seizures of various prohibited items like textile materials, foreign rice, footwear, vehicles and bales of second hand […]
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The Federal Government says it has so far disbursed ₦3.7bn to nine states under for one of its Social Investment Programme, the HomeGrown School Feeding Programme. According to the Federal Government, the amount is meant for the feeding of 1,287,270 school children. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media […]
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Lagos State had the highest debt of N603.25 billion of all Nigerian states in 2016, as against its revenue of N410.5billion. Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, the Director, Communications of NEITI made this known in the latest Quarterly Review of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) by NEITI The report, which is the third in the […]
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