Month: July 2019
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BREAKING: Buhari Opposes Move By Atiku To Play Video Evidence As Tribunal Set To Rule After Break
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has gone on break for one hour to rule on the objection by the Independent National Electoral Commission, President Muhammad Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress, to the request by the Peoples Democratic Party and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to play a video clip at the hearing of their petition challenging…
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Ondo senator charges police to unravel death of Pa Fasoranti’s daughter
Asks government to devise innovation and technology in tackling insecurity Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, representing Ondo South Senatorial District has urged security agents to bring to book the killers of Afenifere’s Chieftain, Pa. Reuben Fasoranti’s daugher. He also urged the government to devise innovation and technology in tackling insecurity in the country over spate of killings…
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Pandemonium In Ogun As Herdsmen Stab Rafiu Showemimo To Death
Pandemonium broke out in Adao community in Alabata area of Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State after two suspected herdsmen allegedly stabbed a 49-year-old farmer, identified as Rafiu Showemimo, to death. Our correspondent gathered that the heinous act was perpetrated on Sunday when the deceased was on his way back home from his farm…
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Obasanjo writes another epistle, asks Buhari to stop fanning ‘embers of hatred, disaffection, violence’
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written yet another letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, warning that Nigeria is tipping towards a dangerous cliff and only the president could forestall such a looming disaster, Premium Times Reports The former Nigerian leader, between 1999 and 2007, said Nigeria has been consumed by violence and ethnic divisions since Mr…
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Breaking: Buhari In Dilemma of Choice Over Ministerial Nominee For Ondo State
DSS screened Ifeoluwa Oyedele, Executive Director of NDPHC As Daura community prefers reappointment of ex-minister, prof Omoyele Daramola Akeredolu moves to alter game One of the staffs of president Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock who does not want his name mentioned, has told Starnews Online Newspaper, upon inquiry, that the president is currently in state…
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Lawmakers-elect deny impeachment notice on Obaseki
MEMBERS-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly who are yet to be inaugurated have disowned a purported impeachment notice on the Governor Godwin Obaseki, saying the notice circulating the social media did not emanate from them. A statement by the 15 lawmakers-elect described the document as fake and a calculated attempt to smear their…
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Buhari’s anti-graft war selective, says AU consultant
A diplomat and consultant with the African Union, Dr Babafemi Badejo, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the political will to fight corruption, despite his touted anti-corruption posture. According to Badejo, under the Buhari administration, Nigeria’s main anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has been de-institutionalised. The diplomat said the Buhari anti-corruption…
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Dad, son beheaded in communal crisis
TWO persons were feared dead at the weekend in renewed hostilities between Usumtong and Ebom communities in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. The head of Ebom village, Chief Sunday Obite, alleged yesterday that a man and his son were beheaded by people from Usumtong, who ambushed them while they were on their…
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Fasoranti daughter’s murder: Eddy Olafeso, PDP Slam Buhari For Absolving Fulani Herdsmen
Raise concern over allegation of ethnic cleansing agenda They said Buhari was elected to be our Commander in Chief and not mourner in chief In a state made available to newsmen on Sunday by Ayo Fadaka, Zonal Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Southwest, the National Vice chairman of PDP, chief Eddy Olafeso,…
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Appeal Court Orders Immediate Release of Dasuki, Says Detention Illegal, Unlawful, Unconstitutional
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has declared the detention of former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki retired since December 29, 2015, by the Department of State Security Service (DSS) as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional and ordered his release on conditional bail. The appellate court held that the DSS and its Director General acted…
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Herdsmen convert Ondo govt forest reserve into militia camp – fresh report reveals
Mrs Funke Olakunrin would have survived but police demanded N1,000 for fuel – Driver The time to act is now, we have nothing to lose – Gani Adams Fresh facts emerged on Saturday that herdsmen have converted the Ondo Government reserve located in the Odigbo Local Government Area into a militia camp, fresh report by…
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Reports of attack on Atiku’s witnesses misleading, undermining – Police
The Nigerian Police Force has said that there was ‘no any attack by bandits either on villages or on any person or group of persons traveling in Zamfara State on Friday. The Poolice said the story by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s lawyer Chief Chris Uche, SAN, that witnesses they scheduled…