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Breaking: Court Clears APC To Conduct Congresses In Rivers

December 18, 2019 12:20 pm

The coast is now clear for the All Progressives Congress,APC, to conduct its Ward Local Government and State Congresses in Rivers State.

This is because a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has struck out the originating summons brought by one Ibrahim Umar and twenty-two others against the APC.

The court also set aside the interim injunction obtained by the claimants on the 14th September, 2019 which stopped the APC from conducting the congresses in Rivers State scheduled for 17th, 18th and 21st of last September.

Delivering the judgment, presiding Judge, Justice G.O Ollor ruled that the court lacked the …

APC Clears 16 Chairmanship Seats in Ekiti LG Poll

December 8, 2019 10:02 am

The candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been declared winners of all the 16 chairmanship seats in the local government election conducted in Ekiti State on Saturday.

A total of 14 political parties participated in the election, including the APC and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

However, the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), Justice Jide Aladejana, has denied the widespread allegation that there was sporadic shooting which led to the death of one Dotun Kosedake at Okitiko unit, Araromi ward in Ikere Ekiti during the election.

Aladejana said preliminary investigation had revealed that no …

Osinbajo’s Aides: Buhari Clears The Air

November 16, 2019 3:16 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari has explained that 35 aides were not sacked from the Office of the Vice President instead they were redeployed to a new ministry.

The President who fielded questions from NTA State House Correspondent at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, upon his return from a private visit from the United Kingdom described the interpretations of his directives as a sack as ‘unfortunate’.

The President described what happened as a re-organisation and not a sacking, stressing that, a new ministry has recently been created, that is, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and …

FG Clears Air On N14b Transferred From NEPZA

FG Clears Air On ₦14b Transferred From NEPZA

November 5, 2019 4:28 am

Minister blames predecessor for confusion

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, has cleared the air on the suspicious ₦14 billion transferred to the Nigeria Special Economic Zones Company (NSEZCO) from the accounts of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA).At the investigative hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Adebayo said the transaction was in order, insisting that NSEZCO was not a private firm, but wholly owned by the Federal Government.He, however, faulted the procedure adopted by his predecessor, Okechukwu Enelama, in registering NSEZCO, saying the process created confusion, which made many Nigerians believe that it

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Trump clears Melania ‘body double’ conspiracy theory

March 13, 2019 10:53 am

No, President Donald Trump told conspiracy theorists Wednesday, he does not have a body double of his wife accompanying him on work trips.A bizarre claim that First Lady Melania Trump is sometimes replaced by another woman hidden behind large sunglasses and similar outfits resurfaced after Trump made a trip to the site of a deadly tornado in Alabama last week.

Days later, Trump leapt on the story, which is an outlier even by the feverish standards of the Washington rumor mill.

“The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it’s actually not her by my side

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