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IBADAN — AS the 2019 general elections draw nearer, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, yesterday, advised Nigerians to stop glorifying corrupt people but should see the anti-corruption war by the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration as a collective fight.
The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu
He also hinted that a total of 150 convictions had been secured by the agency as at June 2018.

He said this at a stakeholders’ interactive session held at the premises of Ibadan zonal office of EFCC at Iyaganku...

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Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Haruna Isa, winner of the Lokoja-Kogi State House of Representatives bye-election on Sunday, August 11, 2018.

The Returning Officer, Professor Rotimi Ajayi, announcing the results after the collation, said Isa of the APC polled 26,860 votes to defeat Alhaji Bashir Abubakar of the Peoples a Democratic Party, PDP, who polled 14,845 votes to come second....

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Nigeria’s Falconets will receive a personal gift of $10,000 from the sports minister should they beat China in a final group game to qualify for the knockout rounds of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in France today.

The kick-off is 3.30pm.

Both Nigeria and China have three points from two matches, but the Falconets enjoy a better goals difference and only need a draw to go past the group stage.

The players have received their first win-bonus of $2000 each for beating Haiti 1-0 as promised by sports minister Solomon Dalung as well as daily camp allowances paid till Monday 13th August, 2018.

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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the ruling APC of corrupting the nation’s electoral process through their devious love for massive vote-buying.

Frank, in a statement in Abuja said the Senate and House of Representatives bye-elections held in Bauchi, Katsina and Kogi States, respectively, at the weekend, have further exposed the desperation of the APC to win local, regional, state and national elections at all cost.
He stated, yesterday, that the ‘vote-buying policy’ now adopted by the Buhari-led administration will further weaken the base of the nation’s democratic enterprise and return the country to its inglorious past where outright manipulation of the electoral process to confer undue advantage on the ruling party held sway....

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