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BREAKING: Buhari meets Ohanaeze, South-East leaders in Ebonyi
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is meeting with Ohanaeze Ndígbo and other South-East leader. The meeting is holding at the New Exco Chambers, Government House Abakaliki. Details later…
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Rights violators can’t get asylum, UK tells IPOB, others
The United Kingdom has barred the Indigenous People of Biafra, the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra and other Biafran groups from participating in its asylum programme. The British government noted that IPOB had been proscribed as a terrorist group by the Federal Government and that members of the group and its…
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Tinubu versus Osinbajo, now there’s real realpolitik (2)
THE German word ‘realpolitik’ – ‘real’ (practical) and ‘politik’ (politics) – is often referred to as “pragmatism” in politics, i.e. taking pragmatic steps. While it’s used mostly as a positive term, realpolitik can also imply political steps that are amoral, or Machiavellian (ruthless; the end justifies the means). It’s been said this latter use of…
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Fiji seizes Russian oligarch’s $300m yacht on US request
Fiji authorities have seized sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov’s $300 million yacht in line with a US warrant, the US Justice Department says. The 348-foot (106-metre) Amadea was berthed in Lautoka, Fiji in the South Pacific when the island state’s law enforcement took control of it. The US Justice Department had requested the vessel, which…
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Man breaks into Soun Palace, injures chief, damages property
A 30-year-old man, Bukola Adediji, popularly known as Ajanlekoko, on Thursday, broke into the Palace of Soun of Ogbomoso and destroyed some property. The man was said to be a drug addict and suspected to be mentally unstable. It was gathered that the intruder attacked one of the chiefs who tried to prevent him from…
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APC gets first female presidential aspirant
The All Progressives Congress got its first female presidential aspirant on Thursday as Ms Uju Ohanenye bought the party’s Expression of Interest and Nomination forms in Abuja. Ohanenye told newsmen after picking the forms that male aspirants in the race would not succeed in intimidating her. “My fear is that men will want to muscle…
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2023: Only Tinubu can deliver presidency for APC – Magnus Abe
A former member of the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, on Thursday, said only the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, can deliver the presidency for the ruling party in 2023. Abe stated this during a meeting with party stakeholders at the inauguration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Vanguard at the Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic…
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2023: Electoral law seeking appointees’ resignation doesn’t exist, says Akpabio
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and presidential aspirant, Godswill Akpabio, has declared that the section of the Electoral Act as amended, which asked aspirants to resign government positions does not exist. The said Section 84, sub-section 12 of the Electoral Act states, “No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be…
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Ebonyi lady tied, gang-raped to death, police recover 12 condoms
Panic gripped residents of Abakaliki metropolis, Ebonyi State, after a 26-year-old lady, Ugochukwu Nworie, was allegedly raped to death. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened at the Hope-in Hotel, Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, on Monday. It was learnt that the victim arrived at the hotel in the company of some young men late…
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Oyetola inaugurates rehabilitation of N3.2bn township roads
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday, flagged off rehabilitation of roads in Osogbo Federal Constituency with an assurance not to neglect governance for politicking. Oyetola gave the assurance in Ilobu during the flag off of rehabilitation work on three selected roads cutting across the Osogbo, Ilobu, Ifon and Egbedore local government areas of…
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