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    Politics 2019: Buhari’ll not disappoint Nigerians – APC – Newtelegraph

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party would not disappoint Nigerians come 2019. The party, in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its spokesperson, Mr. Yekini Nabena, declared that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is...
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    Politics Obaseki blames Igbinedion for huge infrastructural decay – Newtelegraph

    Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday took a swipe on the administration of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for running the state aground with enormous infrastructural decay. He stated that the state infrastructural facilities were in a state of...
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    Politics Dogara loses LG to PDP in senatorial election – Newtelegraph

    The news of impending defection of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) heightened at the weekend following PDP’s defeat of the ruling party in his home local government area of Bogoro in...
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    Politics Why we dumped APC, PDP for ADC – Oke Ogun leaders – Newtelegraph

    Some political leaders in the Oke-Ogun zone of Oyo State have said that they decided to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and defected en masse to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), because they wanted to liberate their region from...
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    Sports Minister Dalung: A Huge Disservice to the Sports Industry – Thisdaylive

    Some intrigues that are known to take place in the sports industry leave market observers wondering if some of the operators have a full grasp of what damage they inflict on the business of sport in Nigeria. It becomes a cause for serious concern when the … read more via Thisdaylive –...
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    Sports I can beat Wilder and Joshua on the same night —Fury – Punch Newspapers

    Tyson Fury claims he is the greatest heavyweight boxer ever and says Anthony Joshua has “made a laughing stock of British boxing”, according to The Sun. The Gypsy King slated “idiot” world champion Joshua for avoiding a unification fight with Deontay Wilder. Fury told the Telegraph, “If...
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    Sports Ekundayo to defend IBF title in Lagos – Punch Newspapers

    Larry Ekundayo will defend his International Boxing Federation European title in Lagos, his commercial agent, Ben Gray, has disclosed. Gray said this during a reception for Ekundayo at the Nigeria High Commission in London on Thursday, an emailed statement on Sunday by the Director of …...
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    Metro Youths attack 32-year-old pastor over death of lover – Punch Newspapers

    The Christ Chosen Church of God has disowned its suspended pastor, one Ngbeken Elvis, who was reportedly arrested over the death of a 38-year-old mother of four in the Egor Local Government Area of the state. It was also gathered that Elvis could face additional … Read more via Punch...
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    Metro Lagos light rail to begin operation in 2022 – Punch Newspapers

    The Lagos State Government has announced that its light rail project running between Mile 2 and Marina will now commence passenger operation in 2022. The mass transit rail project called the Blue Line awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation had suffered many delays due to …...
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    Metro Akomolede proffers solution to Nigeria’s housing challenges – Punch Newspapers

    An estate surveyor and valuer, Chief Kola Akomolede, has revealed plans to shed more light on some of the challenges confronting the housing sector, with a view to helping stakeholders find solutions to them. Akomolede said the thoughts had been captured in a book entitled ‘40 … Read more...
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    Metro How Igarra robbery that claimed 6 lives was planned – Edo CP – Vanguard News

    Edo State Police Command has given insight into how last Thursday’s failed attempt by robbers to rob a bank after they invaded Igarra, headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, was … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2nw8Wzf Get More Nigeria Metro News
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    Politics EFCC slams President’s aide for linking it to Saraki – Punch Newspapers

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has berated the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, for accusing the EFCC of playing out a script written by Senate President Bukola Saraki. Ojudu had in an article titled, ‘Fifth columnists … Read more...
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    Politics The people Buhari, Tinubu, Saraki, Akpabio should emulate – Punch Newspapers

    The bypass to hell shouldn’t be Nigeria. It should be Australia because Australia was founded by convicts. Formerly called New South Wales, Australia is just 230 years old. The United States is merely two years older. When Captain Arthur Phillip led a fleet of 11 … Read more via Punch...
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    Politics Defection: Why denialism won’t salvage APC – Punch Newspapers

    Whatever its surface dissembling and false display of calmness at this time when members are jumping off its distressed ship, the underneath reality is that there is a burning hell in the belly of the ruling All Progressives Congress. From the time this Special Project Platform … Read more...
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    Politics Participants boycott Niger trade fair – Punch Newspapers

    Many states and local government councils did not participate in the 2018 Niger State Trade Fair, which ended recently, investigations by our correspondent have shown. Northern City News gathered that many states and the local governments have been boycotting the business exhibition in...
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    Politics Shi’ites, threat to Nigeria, say Islamic scholars – Punch Newspapers

    Some Islamic scholars from the north on Sunday in Kaduna said the Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria, otherwise known as ‘Shi’ites’, remained a security threat to the country. They equally condemned what they termed the “excesses” of the IMN in the north. The … Read...
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    Metro Protesting Nigerian troops fire into air at northeastern airport – Topix News

    Nigerian troops staging a protest at the airport in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Sunday shot into the air for around four hours, soldiers and local people said. The soldiers were protesting their redeployment to a restive part of the Northeast to fight insurgents from the Islamist …...
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    Politics NASS invasion: Afenifere, NEF, PANDEF, Ohanaeze, Middle Belt demand judiciary probe – Vanguard News

    Leaders and Elders Forum comprising Afenifere, Northern Elders Forum, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and the Middle Belt Forum, yesterday, demanded a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to be headed by a retired Justice … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2MGlbV3 Get More...
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    Politics APC: PDP’s latest allegation on anti-corruption baseless, diversionary – TODAY.NG

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) latest allegations on President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-corruption efforts as empty, baseless and diversionary. Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2w2s1x0 Get More Nigeria Political News
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    Politics Ex-Governor Kalu: If court ordered that ex-NSA Dasuki be released, it should be obeyed – TODAY.NG

    A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, has said that if a court of competent jurisdiction ordered that former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, be released, it should be obeyed.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2nzxkQG Get More Nigeria Political News
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