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2019 Elections: Atiku Reveals What He’ll Do For Women If Elected
Mr. Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party has vowed that he will give woman a priority in his administration if he wins come 2019. The former Vice President made his intention for women known when he received an interactive session with Nigerian Women on Wednesday in Abuja.
Theresa May Wins Confidence Vote
British Prime Minister Theresa May has has won a vote of confidence in her leadership vote with a majority of 83, with 63% of Conservative lawmakers backing her and 37% voting against her.
The vote was initiated by 48 of her MPs dissatisfied by at her Brexit policy, which they said is contrary to the 2016 referendum result.
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Doyin Okupe Regains Freedom From EFCC
Doyin Okupe, aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, has been released from custody by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Okupe was arrested by the EFCC last week over allegations of cybercrime and has now been released on bail
Babachir Lawal Spotted In Aso Rock, One Year After Sack
The immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal was spotted at the Presidential Villa, on Wednesday, December 12.
According to Daily Trust, the disgraced former SGF was among dignitaries who graced the launch of a Together Nigeria organized by the Buhari Support Organization (BSO).
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FIRS Generates N5 Trillion So Far In 2018
Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)‘s executive chairman, Tunde Fowler, has noted that the service has generated N5 trillion in 50 weeks of 2018. He said the agency, at the current pace, could make N5.3 trillion at the end of the year.
He said if this happens, it will be the highest revenue ever generated by FIRS in history.
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2019: APC Planning Secretly With Police, EFCC To Rig Elections – Secondus
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police had planned secretly with the All Progressives Congress to cripple PDP states.
Secondus added that the alleged move was aimed at stopping the PDP’s bid to reclaim power and “rescue the country from the inept rule of the APC”.
Oshiomhole Responds To Allegations Of Making Malicious Statement About Aisha Buhari
The National Chairman of the
All Progressives Congress, Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole, has accused
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of sponsoring fake news for the purpose of pitching him against wife of the President,
Mrs. Aisha Buhari.
Breaking: President Buhari To Present 2019 Budget To National Assembly Next Week Wednesday
President Muhammadu Buhari will present a draft of the 2019 budget to a joint sitting of the National Assembly next week Wednesday.
This information was contained in a letter addressed by the President to the lawmakers in which he informed them of his intention to lay the budget before the lawmakers next week.
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Donnie McClurkin Escapes Ghastly Motor Accident, Narrates Experience
Popular American gospel singer, Donnie McClurkin took to his Facebook account to narrate how he survived a ghastly car accident yesterday.
The 59-year-old said he lost his consciousness while driving “but two human angels followed my swerving car with their emergency blinkers onto stop traffic ….drove behind me until my car crashed into the middle concrete island”
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Police Prevent Suicide Bomb Attempt By Teenager In Maiduguri
Few weeks to Christmas, the Police in Borno State said its men had successfully foiled a lone suicide bomb attack on Wednesday night in Maiduguri.
The Police Commissioner, Mr Damian Chukwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone that the incident occurred at about 8:30 pm in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
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Shiites Mark 3 Years Of El-Zakzaky’s Detention With Protest In Abuja
A peaceful protest was today held by followers of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky to mark three years of Zaria massacre and El-Zakzaky’s detention by the Nigerian government.
The protesters, who stormed the federal secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, chanting anti-government songs and various placards with inscriptions on them, demanded the release of their leader, who has been in government detention since December 2015.
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2019: INEC Deny Making Plans For IDPs Outside Nigeria To Vote
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has responded to claims in certain sections of the media that internally displaced persons outside Nigeria would vote in 2019 general elections.
The electoral body clarified that no diaspora or out-of-country voting will be conducted for any Nigerian.
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Breaking: House Of Reps Threaten To Boycott Buhari’s 2019 Budget Presentation
Even as
President Muhammadu Buhari conveyed his intention to present the 2019 Appropriation Bill to the joint session of the
National Assembly next Wednesday, 19th December 2018, members of the House of Representatives have reportedly threatened to be absent during the presentation.
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