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Ex-Governor Urge Politicians To Sheath Their Swords

January 26, 2020 1:14 pm
The former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has urged politicians and winners of Abi/Yakurr re-run election in Cross River to sheath their swords and give peace a chance.

Senator Imoke in a press statement issued by Mr Christian Ita, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ben Ayade also urged citizens to condemn and abhoer denigration.

“We must condemn and abhor the denigration and abuse of leaders and the perpetuation of divisive tendencies. Abi/Yakurr and indeed Cross River State, can only grow if we give our representatives the requisite support.

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Nigerians Have Right To Protect Their Domains – Oba Muftau

January 22, 2020 12:31 pm
The paramount ruler of Offa in Kwara State, Oba Muftau Gbadamosi, Esuwoye 11 on Tuesday said considering the peculiarities of Nigeria’s security architecture, it is incumbent on communities to protect their domains.

He opined that every effort to safeguard lives and property within the ambit of extant law of the land is necessary, arguing that security is realistically the business of everybody.

Gbadamosi averred that community-driven security arrangement has been in existence for long amongst different communities in Nigeria for the sole aim of complementing Federal Government’s efforts towards securing Nigerian citizenry.

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South West Govs Have Duty To Protect Their Citizens’

January 22, 2020 12:24 pm
The gubernatorial candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the March 9th, 2019 governorship election in Oyo State, Engineer Hakeem Alao, on Wednesday declared that Governors in the South West region have a duty to protect their citizens when the federal government of Nigeria failed to do do.

Alao, who maintained that, though the issue of security is exclusively a statutory function of the federal government, insisted that the Governors; Seyi Makinde (Oyo) Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) have a duty as Chief security officers of their respective

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Guardiola Claims Man City A Victim Of Their Own Success

December 15, 2019 3:10 pm

Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City are paying the price for having raised the bar in how many points it takes to win the Premier League.

Guardiola’s men have won the title in the past two seasons with record tallies of 100 and 98 points, but travel to Arsenal on Sunday already 17 points behind runaway leaders Liverpool.

“I didn’t want to think it too much in the beginning of the season but I thought will we be able to do it again?” Guardiola admitted in his pre-match press conference.

“When we arrived here the standard was 85 points to win. …

England Shuffle Their Aces For South Africa Series

December 13, 2019 5:05 pm

England opted to limit the workload of some of their World Cup winners when they announced the squads on Friday for one-day and T20 series in South Africa in February.

Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Mark Wood will all be rested when England play their first ODIs since beating New Zealand at Lord’s on July 14.

Test captain Joe Root is in the ODI squad, led by Eoin Morgan which plays a three-match series from February 4 to February 9 but not in the 16 for the three T20s.

Worcestershire seamer Pat Brown, Somerset batsman Tom Banton and …

Senate Seeks 20% Of Budget As Their Constituency Projects

December 13, 2019 11:20 am

The Senate on Wednesday sought to provide legal backing to the provision of Constituency Projects in Nigeria’s annual budget by a minimum of twenty percent.

A statement on Wednesday by Mr Lawans’s Special Assistant on Press, Ezrel Tabiowo, said the move to do so was initiated with the consideration of the Constituency Projects (Budgetary Provisions) Bill, 2019, sponsored by Senator Stella Oduah, PDP, Anambra North.

Mrs Oduah, in her lead debate, said the intention of the bill is to ensure that good governance is delivered to the people, most of whom statistics show, are seventy percent rural dwellers.

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Tinubu, Osinbajo Scammed Into Betraying Their People – FFK

December 9, 2019 12:13 pm

The former Minister of Aviation, Nigeria, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode via his verified Facebook page lambasted Tinubu and Vice President on how they were hoodwinked into betraying their own people by the unscrupulous Fulani cabal.

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“Finally Tunde Fowler of FIRS is out and, just as I predicted, he has been replaced by a northern Muslim.”

“When will Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo finally accept that they were outflanked, outmanouvered, fooled and scammed into betraying their own people by the Fulani cabal.”

“More to come!”

 

 

Chief Femi …

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APC And Their Celebration Of Impunity

November 22, 2019 11:49 am

It was Andrew Napolitano, a former US judge and now Fox News analyst who wrote sometime ago, at the height of claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) might have abused its powers by inserting a spy/spies in the Trump Campaign Organisation to gather intelligence about its contacts and interactions, that “liberty is rarely lost overnight. The wall of tyranny often begins with benign building blocks of safety — each one lying on top of a predecessor — eventually collectively constituting an impediment to the exercise of free choices by free people, often not even recognised until it …

I Will Keep My Officers On Their Toes -Lagos Police Boss

November 18, 2019 12:52 pm

The new Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu has vowed to keep men and officers of the Command on their toes to checkmate crimes.

CP Odumosu, who officially took over from the former, now an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Zubairu Muazu, said his mission was to fight crime to a standstill and protect lives and property.

Odumosu, who spoke during the official taking and handing over ceremony, said, “Today is not a speech-making day, but I want to assure members of the public of my commitment in the fight against crime in Lagos.

“I am a believer …

Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Expecting Their Fourth Child

Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Expecting Their Fourth Child

October 31, 2019 10:36 am

There will soon be another member of the Kardashian-West crew to keep up with.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting a baby through a surrogate, Us Weekly and People reported.

It will be the fourth child for the reality star and the hip hop artist, who also have 5-year-old daughter North, 3-year-old son Saint and 11-month-old daughter Chicago.

The new bundle of joy is expected to be a boy and is due at the beginning of May, according to Us Weekly.

A rep for West declined comment, while a rep for Kardashian did not immediately respond to a request

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England's Semi-Final Win 'The Finest Of Their Lives'

England Semi-Final Win ‘The Finest Of Their Lives’

October 26, 2019 8:27 pm

This time, against New Zealand in a stone-cold World Cup classic, there was no need to go to boundaries scored.

If England have ever produced a better 80 minutes of rugby union then no-one dancing round Yokohama or screaming the sofas down back home could care to remember it.

It was supposed to be close. It was supposed to be the All Blacks, because it is almost always the All Blacks, going back through the years at Twickenham and Auckland and all points in between.

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Igbo Are Architects Of Their Political Fortune - Nakande

Igbo Are Architects Of Their Political Fortune – Nakande

October 26, 2019 8:24 pm

A former Minister of State for Information and stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, has berated politicians who have begun campaigning for the 2023 elections, describing them as political jobbers.

Nakande said such persons were neither governors nor the President himself but political gossips trying to be relevant in the scheme of things or those who have been schemed out in other dispensations, especially in the areas of their ambitions and aspirations.

“These are the people trying to bring the issues of politics to the front burner just barely eight months after the last …

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