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Pressure Mounts On Tinubu To Back Osinbajo For 2023 Presidency

Pressure Mounts On Tinubu To Back Osinbajo For 2023 Presidency

  • APC Stakeholders Say Age, Religion, Experience Favours VP As Buhari’s Successor

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, some powerbrokers in the ruling All Progressives Con­gress (APC) are already mounting pressure on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the party, to bury his rumoured presidential ambition in 2023 and queue behind Vice Pres­ident Yemi Osinbajo, Daily In­dependent has gathered.

Even though Tinubu is yet to declare whether he will run in 2023 or not, a lot of his supporters believe he is very much interested in the race and his silence is borne out of his desire not to distract …

US President, Donald Trump Hospitalised

Records Reveal Trump’s Chronic Losses, Years Of Tax Avoidance

  • The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his …

Election Review Committee meets Obasanjo, Jonathan, Babangida

Election Review Committee Meets Obasanjo, Jonathan, Babangida

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2019 Election Review Committee led by the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has held separate consultative meetings with former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan and Ibrahim Badamosi Babaginda (IBB).

Mohammed and other members of the committee, which include former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido and his Niger State counterpart, Babangida Aliyu, met separately with Obasanjo and former Senate President, David Mark, in Abuja on Sunday.

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The meeting with Babangida was held in Minna, the Niger State capital on Saturday.

Confirming the meetings, …

EU Calls For ‘Immediate Return To Negotiations’ Over Karabakh

EU Calls For ‘Immediate Return To Negotiations’ Over Karabakh

The European Union called Sunday for a halt to fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani separatists over the Nagorny Karabakh region and an ‘immediate return to negotiations.’

The worst clashes since 2016 broke out on Sunday between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia, which have been locked for decades in a territorial dispute over the Armenia-backed breakaway region.

‘Military action must stop, as a matter of urgency, to prevent a further escalation,’ European Council president Charles Michel tweeted, calling for ‘an immediate return to negotiations, without preconditions.’

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stressed the urgency of relaunching negotiations over Nagorny Karabakh under …

Biden Accuses Trump Of Using Supreme Court to ‘Eliminate’ Obamacare

Biden Accuses Trump Of Using S/Court To Oust Obamacare

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden accused Donald Trump Sunday of rushing to install a new Supreme Court justice to “eliminate the entire Affordable Care Act,” known as Obamacare, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a darling of conservatives for her religious views, to replace the late liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a lifetime seat on the top court, potentially impacting some of the most partisan issues in America, from abortion to gun rights to health care.

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His decision to push her nomination …

Former Mali Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane Appointed Transitional Premier

Former Mali Foreign Minister Appointed Transitional Premier

Former Malian foreign minister Moctar Ouane has been named prime minister by the country’s interim president Bah Ndaw, state television announced Sunday.

Ouane, 64, served as foreign minister between 2004 and 2011 during Amadou Toumani Toure’s presidency

The members of the new PM’s government will be unveiled Tuesday, an officer from the military junta in power since Mali’s August 18 coup told AFP on condition of anonymity.

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Mali’s neighbours in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had insisted that the junta name a civilian to the job of …

Gbajabiamila offers NLC palliatives to avert strike

Gbajabiamila Offers NLC Palliatives To Avert Strike

To avert the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) billed to commence on Monday, the House of Representatives has offered organised labour some palliatives.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at a negotiation meeting with labour on Sunday in Abuja said the palliatives would be included in the proposed 2021 budget.

Gbajabiamila said that the budget would soon be presented to the National Assembly, stressing that some palliatives were being considered to cushion the effects of increase in electricity tariff and fuel price hike.

The palliatives, according to the speaker, includes distribution of food items, reduction of …

Schalke Sack Manager David Wagner

Schalke Sack Manager David Wagner

Bundesliga team Schalke 04 have sacked their manager David Wagner with immediate effect.

The club confirmed the sack on Sunday, after just two games of the new season.

His assistants Buhler and Frohling have also been placed on leave.

The club said a successor will be named in the coming days.

Wagner, former Huddersfield Town manager was appointed last season.

But the club finished 12th and just seven points above the relegation zone.

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An 8-0 hammering at champions Bayern Munich in their Bundesliga opener was followed by another poor showing …

Gov. Bagudu applauds Buhari’s rice production policies

Gov Bagudu Applauds Buhari’s Rice Production Policies

Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Bagudu on Sunday commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s policies, stating that they have begun to yield the desired results in the country.

Bagudu made this known during a visit to a private rice mill, owned by a business mogul, Alhaji Sahabi Lolo in Kamba, Dandi Local Government Area(LGA), Kebbi.

The governor was accompanied by Gov. Muhammed Badaru of Jigawa on the visit.

He expressed delight that the policies of the administration were putting the country on a more formidable economic footing.

According to Bagudu, the investment …

Israel Adesanya defeats rival Paulo Costa to retain UFC championship

Adesanya Defeats Rival Paulo Costa To Retain UFC Championship

Nigerian mixed martial fighter, Israel Adesanya has once again defeated his opponent to hold onto his UFC middleweight championship.

‘The Last Stylebender as Israel is fondly called was absolutely flawless in Abu Dhabi, picking apart his far bigger opponent (Paulo Costa) before landing brutal ground strikes in the second round.

Costa was left bloodied and bruised on the canvas suffering his first career defeat to Israel who has never been defeated also.

Adesanya showcased all his kickboxing and boxing experience in the match by utilising his jab and …

All Ekiti Communities Will Feel Govt Presence – Fayemi

Ekiti Health Workers Begin 7-Day Warning Strike Monday

Ekiti State chapter of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) is to commence a seven-day warning strike on Monday to press home its demand for payment of its members’ outstanding benefits.

The stay-at-home directive is contained in a letter the union addressed to Prof. Kayode Olabanji, Chief Medical Director, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital.

The letter dated Sept. 25 was signed by Chairmen of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Comrade C.K. Monde, and Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), Comrade O.O. Farotimi.

The other …

Ekiti Govt Finally Resolves Obas’ Dispute Over LG Allocation

Ekiti Govt Finally Resolves Obas’ Dispute Over LG Allocation

The Ekiti State Government has resolved the disagreement among traditional rulers in Moba Local Government over the sharing formula of the 5 percent allocation to the traditional institution in the council area.

The Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, who mediated and supervised the compromise reached among the 13 traditional rulers, urged them to see themselves as brothers and work in unity to foster development in their domains.

In the course of negotiations, the Deputy Governor helped the monarchs arrive at an acceptable adjustment after the parties had submitted their proposals for an acceptable sharing formula.

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