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PDP: Comrade Oshiomhole will lead APC to grave

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it was commiserating with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party was currently on the throes of death. The PDP said Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former Edo State governor, was coming in as its national chairman to bury it. Speaking in an interview, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP’s Publicity Secretary, said the statement credited to Oshiomhole that he would ensure the collapse of PDP if he became the national chairman of APC was unfortunate. Ologbondiyan said Comrade Oshiomhole was trying to play God.…

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Convention: Kwara APC raises the alarm over fake delegates list

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has raised the alarm that two different groups, led by some aggrieved members of the party were compiling fake list of delegates ahead of Saturday’s national convention of the party in Abuja. The party in a statement signed by its certified state publicity secretary, Sulyman Buhari, said it have it on good authority that the decision to compile a fake list of delegates for the convention was reached at a meeting held on Tuesday in the house of a chieftain of the…

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Ex-CIBN chief blames National Assembly for tampering with 2018 Budget

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Prof. Olusegun Ajibola, immediate past president, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), on Thursday criticised the National Assembly for tampering with provisions for critical projects in the 2018 budget. Ajibola said this Lagos. The ex-CIBN boss said it was disheartening that National Assembly cut N347 billion on 4,700 projects from the estimates submitted for consideration by the executive and introduced 6,403 new projects amounting to N578 billion. President Muhammadu Buhari presented a total of N18.61 trillion budget to NASS in October 2017, however, it was increased to N19.12 trillion…

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Nigeria explains detention of `journalist’ Abiri

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Presidency has dispelled insinuations that the arrest and continuing detention of Mr. Jones Abiri, who claimed to be a journalist, trampled on freedom of the press. The presidency said on Thursday that Abiri has not been able been able to prove that he is a bona fide journalist. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), said in Abuja on Thursday said: “It is very uncharitable for anyone to infer that the President is in support of restrictions on freedom of expression and the media.’’…

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Indonesia hands death sentence to ISIS cleric Abdurrahman

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An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death an Islamic State-linked cleric, Aman Abdurrahman for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. Abdurrahman, 46, is considered the ideological leader of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) – a loose grouping of Islamic State sympathizers in Indonesia. “The court sentences the defendant to death,” said the judge, Ahmad Zaini, adding that Abdurrahman had been proved guilty of “carrying out terrorism”. According to The StraitsTimes of Jakarta, the five-judge panel ruled that Abdurrahman had…

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Statement of OAU on disgraced sex-for-mark Professor Akindele

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Here for the records is the Obafemi Awolowo University’s council decision on the audio conversation between disgraced and sacked Professor Richard Akindele and Ms. Monica Osagie. The University also announced a programme to stop the menace of sexual harassment. Around the 7th of April, 2018 or thereabout, there was an audio conversation between a man and a lady which was sensationally trending on social media because of its explicit sexual tone. After thorough investigation, it was discovered that the said audio conversation was between a lecturer and a student of…

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Ronaldo now Europe’s leading scorer

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Cristiano Ronaldo became Europe’s all-time leading international scorer with 85 goals when he headed in Portugal’s opening strike in their World Cup Group B match against Morocco on Wednesday. Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in Portugal’s dramatic 3-3 draw against Spain on Friday to match Hungarian great Ferenc Puskas as Europe’s record top scorer with 84 goals. The 33-year-old Real Madrid forward scored in the fourth minute against Morocco to give Portugal the early lead. Portugal went on to win the match to put them at the Zenith of Group B…

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EU leaders to hold crisis talks on migration

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The leaders of ten European Union countries including Germany and France will hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels on Sunday to try to find answers ahead of a major summit next week. European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker called the meeting at the last minute as the issue causes fresh divisions in Europe, three years after the bloc faced its biggest migration crisis since World War II. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government coalition is under threat from the issue and there has also been a row over a boatload of…

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Reports: Donald Trump to meet the Queen on UK visit

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Donald Trump will meet the Queen when he visits the UK next month, according to reports. Originally the US president was invited for a full state visit but after an outcry, it was downgraded to a working visit. However, the US ambassador to the UK has told Sky News that a meeting with the Queen has been scheduled in. Trump will be visiting Britain for the first time since becoming president on Friday 13 July. Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson was asked whether Trump’s itinerary would include seeing the Queen. He…

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Ex-VP Atiku Abubakar: Former Presdent Jonathan hero of democracy in Nigeria

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A former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has described former President Goodluck Jonathan as a hero of democracy in Nigeria. The former vice president made the disclosure yesterday, during a courtesy call on President Jonathan at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Abubakar, who recalled Jonathan’s exemplary decision to hand over the reins of power without qualms, observed that that singular historic decision set him apart as a democrat of unimpeachable credentials. Abubakar, while reflecting on Jonathan’s action that doused tension in the country at that time, noted…

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