Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has shared some shocking secrets about the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Moshood Abiola. According to the former president, the late dictator, Abacha, is responsible for the deaths of Yar’Adua and the June 12 hero. Punch reports that he made these revelations at a dinner programme organised by an…
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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III, has expressed concern at a development where social media are diverting the attention of students in the country. Abubakar expressed the feeling in Sokoto on Sunday at the closing ceremony of the 6th National Edition of the Quranic Recitation Competition. The Sultan said:” There is a disturbing…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday announced Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the Osun West Senatorial bye-election. The election was held in 10 local government areas making up the district. The winner, who is the younger brother of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, had 97, 480 votes to defeat a former senator, Mudashiru Hussein of the…
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The Lagos State Government, on Sunday, urged residents to remain calm and vigilant in the wake of the torrential rain experienced in the State in the last few days. The State’s commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, who spoke after inspecting areas affected by the flood in the State, allayed fears of residents, assuring that…
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The Jigawa Government has declared Friday, July 7, as a public holiday to enable public servants offer special prayer for President Muhammadu Buhari’s quick recovery. Alhaji Isma’il Ibrahim, the Public Relations Officer, Office of the state’s Head of Civil Service (HoS), announced this in a statement in Dutse on Thursday. Ibrahim said that the State Executive Council…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, arraigned the duo of Ejere Kelvin Chris and Edoma Omagha before Justice A. M. Nicol-Clay of the State High Court sitting in Igbosere, Lagos on a 10-count charge bordering on conspiracy and forgery to the tune of N7.3billion (Seven Billion, Three Hundred Million Naira). The accused…
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo paid a condolence visit to the family of orator, elder-statesman, distinguished diplomat and the Danmasinin Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, on the Third day prayer in Kano State. While on the visit, the Acting President paid a courtesy call to the Emir of Kano. According to the Acting President, “One of the…
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There was a mild drama in the senate on Tuesday after Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Abia State, said there was a vacuum in government because Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was not in the country. THEWILL recalls that Osinbajo, who did a day trip to the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,…
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, attended the 29th Ordinary Session of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He joined other heads of states & governments from all over the continent and other invited global & continental leaders. The 29th session, themed “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Youth,” also discussed the report…
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The Lagos State Government on Monday arraigned the Managing Director of Lekki Gardens Estate Limited, Mr. Richard Nyong, before a Lagos High Court in Igbosere for alleged involuntary manslaughter. Nyong was arraigned on six counts alongside the company’s Executive Director, Mr. Sola Olumofe; the firm’s contractor, Odofin Henry Taiwo; Omolabake Mortune, Omotilewa Oluwatosin Joseph, Lekki…
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