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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that he is not a member of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.


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The Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, on Tuesday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will always work with facts and verified figures as he does not believe in voodoo arrangements or magic.


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Lai Mohammed, minister of Information, and culture has raised the alarm that expired rice meant for animals is being exposed to Nigerians to consume in their countries of origin.


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Jonah Jang, former Governor of Plateau State who is also a serving senator representing Plateau North has declared his intention to contest for the presidential primary on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.


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A protest occurred Saturday afternoon at the site of a collapsed building in Abuja as government agencies including the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA ended its rescue mission.


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Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Aide on Social Media has listed how she thinks over 13 million citizens will vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the upcoming 2019 Presidential election.


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Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is dead.

He reportedly died Saturday morning in an hospital in Switzerland.

Born 8 April 1938, Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.



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The recent gale of defections by top ranking members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sparked crises in at least nine state chapters of the opposition party.

Kano, Kwara, Benue, Kogi, Gombe and Sokoto are top on the list of the affected states.

The rest are Imo, Adamawa and Bauchi.


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A former Kaduna State governor, Balarabe Musa, has provided details of his discussion with Shehu Sani, which reportedly contributed to the latter not defecting from Nigeria’s ruling party, APC.

Mr Sani has said that Mr Musa, APC national Chairman Adams Oshiomhole and party leader, Bola Tinubu, were among those who persuaded him not to leave the APC for the main opposition party, PDP.


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Two former governors of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Ibrahim Shekarau, met Saturday night in Abuja after their last chance meeting at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja in 2011.

Mr Kwankwaso was among members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) who recently decamped to the People Democratic Party (PDP), while Mr Shekarau had decamped from APC to PDP in 2104 before the general election of 2015.

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The family of the detained former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has formally dragged the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, before the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) praying for an investigation and sanction of the minister over his alleged unprofessional conducts and utter disregards to the rule of law.

The family in the petition accused Mr Malami of exhibiting unprofessional conduct likely to cause anarchy in the country through his promotion of disobedience to the lawful order of court by the federal government.

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ADEMOLA Nurudeen Adeleke, senator representing Osun West Senatorial District and the state’s PDP gubernatorial candidate, did not graduate from Jacksonville State University (JSU), says the authorities of the public university located in Alabama, United States.

According to his profile on the National Assembly website, Adeleke has a Diploma in Criminology from JSU and graduated in 1986. He also graduated from Ede Muslim Grammar School, Osun State, where he obtained an Ordinary Level Certificate.


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Festus Keyamo, Director of Strategic Communications for President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization, has reacted to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement that he will support anyone who will take Nigeria to the promised land.

Keyamo said Obasanjo by his statement implied that the former President did not take Nigeria to where it should be when he was in power.

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The Nigeria Police has maintained that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has a case to answer.

The Police also insisted that as such, the lawmaker must report to the Force Intelligence Response Team, Guzape, Abuja to give more details on his alleged link to the act which claimed more than 33 people in Kwara State.



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Femi Gbajabiamila, Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in the House of Representatives has advised the party’s leadership to stay in constant touch with its members because communication gap between the party and members caused some aggrieved lawmakers defection to another parties.

He spoke on Thursday in Abuja when he led the party’s caucus at the House of Representatives to a meeting with the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).


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Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state will any moment from now announce his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Tambuwal has his eyes on running for president in 2019 and is the preferred choice of PDP governors, according to party insiders.


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The Spiritual Director, Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has prophesied impending disaster following the defection of 15 Senators from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Mbaka said this on Wednesday during a live programme titled ‘E No Dey Again’, stating that Buhari would not sleep very soon as more disasters would follow news of defecting senators.


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Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose.

Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points.

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Fire on Monday gutted the office of the Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola.

It was gathered that the fire started at the White House office of the governor around 4pm.

Governor Aregbesola was reportedly not around when the inferno broke out.


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Maryam Garba Bagel, the only female member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly representing Dass Constituency, has dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Bagel, an aspirant for Bauchi South seat at the National Assembly who belongs to the APC camp loyal to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, announced her decision to dump the party over irreconcilable political differences before and after the party’s congresses recently.

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The immediate past Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, High Chief Edem Duke, has declared his intention to run for the governorship of Cross River State in 2019 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Duke who declared in his hometown in Ikot Edem Odo Ward in Akpabuyo local government area of the state on Monday, regretted that the state has last its status as “a jewel in the crown of Nigeria” under the present administration.


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The Spiritual Director, Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka stirred controversies online following his recent criticism of the President Buhari-led administration over killings in the country.

He advised the President to travel to Rome where he would seek God’s forgiveness for the blood of men of God and innocent men, women and children killed under his watch.


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