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Buhari: It’d Have Been Major Blow If APC Lost Kano, Plateau

January 21, 2020 10:45 am

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said it would been disastrous for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, if it had lost the politically strategic states, of Kano and Plateau at the Supreme Court.

President Buhari stated this in his congratulatory message to the APC over the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the elections of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano State and Governor Simon Lalong, Plateau State.

The President felicitated with APC National Executive Council, National Working Committee and all members for the loyalty and consistency that translated into many victories, particularly the politically strategic states, Kano and Plateau, after tough legal …

Major Gideon Orkar: What You Need To Know About Him.

January 16, 2020 7:13 am

 

Major Gwarzar Gideon Orkar was a Nigerian military officer who in April 22, 1990, staged a violent coup against the government of General Ibrahim Babangida. Orkar and his Co-plotters took control of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) radio station, various military posts around Lagos. They also succeeded in taking control of Dodan Barracks, Lagos, which is then military headquarters and presidential residence. According to report, the then Military dictator General Ibrahim Babangida was present when the barracks were attacked but managed to escape by a back route.

In his coup address, Major Orkar called for the excision …

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Maina: Court Takes Major Decision In Trial

January 13, 2020 2:59 pm

Justice Okon Abang of an Abuja Federal High Court on Monday, overruled Abdulrasheed Maina’s plea to reject documented evidence presented against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Justice Abang, said that the defendant was not in a position to determine before the court which document was relevant to the case of the prosecution.

He said that any document the prosecution decided to bring before the court to proof their case, provided it was admissible to the law, such documents will be admitted in evidence.

He, however, noted that whether the court will consider the document relevant to

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2020: Buhari Lists Major Projects To Be Completed This Year

January 1, 2020 5:26 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has listed some projects Nigerians should expect to come upstream by 2020.

This was part of the President’s New Year message he personally signed and made available to THISDAY on January 1.

Buhari said, “To recapitulate, some of the projects Nigerians should expect to come upstream from 2020 include:

“47 road projects scheduled for completion in 2020/21, including roads leading to ports.

“Major bridges including substantial work on the Second Niger Bridge.

“Completion of 13 housing estates under the National Housing Project Plan.

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Terrorism, Major Threat To Peace, Progress Of West Africa

December 21, 2019 2:02 pm
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said terrorism remained the major threat to the peace and progress of the West African sub-region.
This is even as the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, said attacks in the region rose by 80 percent in the first eleven months of 2019 compared to the year 2018.
President Buhari, while speaking during the 56th Ordinary Session of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Abuja, said recurring attacks by terrorist groups was a reminder to the sub-region about the urgency to build an enduring security partnership to
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‘Wise Owl’ Lagarde Launches Major ECB Review

December 12, 2019 2:36 pm

Christine Lagarde on Thursday announced a major review of the ECB’s tools and goals and said the eurozone slowdown was beginning to ease, as she made her debut as president vowing to bring her “own style” to the job.

Speaking at a Frankfurt press conference after chairing her first governing council meeting, Lagarde said the bank would launch its “strategic review” next month and aim to finish by “the end of 2020”.

A central focus of the reassessment, the ECB’s first since 2003, will be whether the bank’s main objective of keeping inflation “close to, but below” two percent …

Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General

December 11, 2019 8:22 am

The entire country and a global audience are rightly scandalised by the unfolding saga over Omoyele Sowore and the unruliness of the SSS and the government; but it is only a pattern, a reflection of the serial disregard of the Buhari regime for human rights and its battering of other arms of government and our democratic institutions. PUNCH views this tendency and its recent escalation with serious concern, knowing as the great thinker, Edmund Burke, said that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Nigeria had trod a path, a veritable …

Young Rapper Juice Wrld Dies At 21 After Major Seizure

December 8, 2019 1:24 pm

Young rapper Juice Wrld died at the age of 21 early Sunday after suffering a seizure at a Chicago airport, TMZ reported.

Jarad Anthony Higgins, as he was also known, was walking through Midway Airport when he experienced a “medical emergency,” an official with the Cook County medical examiner’s office told The Associated Press. TMZ reported that he had a seizure.

He had just landed in Chicago.

Police and fire officials confirmed to The Associated Press that a 21-year-old male was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy has not been conducted.

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