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A former governor of Cross River State has said the Nigerian Senate may not be peaceful until former state governors stop becoming lawmakers after leading their states.
Donald Duke, also in the running for the Nigerian presidency, said the Nigerian Senate has become a “retirement home” for the former governors.

“The Senate won’t find peace until former governors stop making it a retirement home,” Duke tweeted.

There are about 20 former state governors in the Senate, including Senate President Bukola Saraki, who was a two-term governor of Kwara State.

Until his resignation on Tuesday, Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State was the minority leader....

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Oyo State said it had started recording larger turnout of eligible voters registering or coming to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited some of the INEC registration centres in Ibadan on Friday, reported the he saw scores of people patiently waiting to either register or collect their PVCs.

NAN reports that INEC had fixed Aug 17 for suspension of the ongoing continuous voter registration which commenced on April 27, 2017.

According to the commission, the suspension will allow for enough period for consolidation of data and running of Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) for detection and identification of multiple registration.....

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A Nigerian on twitter, Oreoluwa Fakorede has recounted the story of how the driver of a Taxify car he boarded on the 9th of August raped a girl and accused her of playing a role in it.

According to him, the driver stated that the girl was “wearing a short skirt and her privates were exposed.” Blaming the girl for arousing him, he told Fakorede, “I fingered her”......

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Real Madrid have completed a move for Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois after he passed his medical at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Chelsea have replaced the goalkeeper by signing Kepa Arrizabalaga from Athletic Bilbao after triggering his €80m release clause.

Courtois said at his unveiling: “Today I am realising a dream. This is the best club in the world.”

He was voted the best goalkeeper at the Russia 2018 World Cup.....

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