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Why Anambra guber poll is more expensive than Edo, Ondo – INEC

Ihesiulo Grace 29 October 2021 0

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the amount expended on the rehabilitation of its burnt office and materials is the reason for the high cost of the Anambra gubernatorial election. On May 23, gunmen burnt the commission’s office in Awka, Anambra state, and also destroyed

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PDP Convention: Anxiety as party awaits Port Harcourt Appeal Court ruling

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2021 0

*Successful convention will end defection to APC – Fintiri *Members optimistic Tunde Opalana, Abuja Less than 48 hours to the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), leaders as well as members are confused as to whether the convention will hold or not. The anxiety on the state of affairs of the party was […]

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Anambra 2021: APC’s Andy Uba launches 10-point agenda

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2021 0

The governorship candidate of the All Progress Congress, APC, for the November 6 Anambra guber elections , Senator Andy Uba has launched a ten-point agenda to tackle the current problems the APGA administration has plunged the state into. Unveiling this at his Set New Agenda campaign tour, he called the ten-point agenda ‘Igwebuike’, enjoining Anambra […]

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Why Anambra will fare better under APC – Andy Uba

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2021 0

Senator Andy Uba, the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the upcoming governorship election in Anambra State enjoys the massive backing of the ruling party especially with the recent gale of defections from other major parties. But there are still lingering perceptions in some quarters of the state about the APC being […]

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Gumi’s statements: Again, Afenifere calls for return to 1963 Constitution

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2021 0

*Insists on decisive actions against banditry, kidnapping STEPHEN GBADAMOSI, IBADAN The Pan-Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group, Afenifere, has again called for the abolition of the 1999 Constitution and return to the 1963 Constitution, asking in the alternative that the deliberation of all ethnic groups should be held to move the country forward. Afenifere, in a communiqué issued

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PDP National Convention: We must get delegates accreditation right – Okowa

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2021 0

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Chairman of the Accreditation Sub – Committee for this weekend national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has said that the committee plays key role of ensuring that all delegates to the convention are duly accredited. The Delta State governor at the sub-committee meeting at the PDP national […]

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Omo-Agege is next Delta governor, says APC

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2021 0

By Nosa Akenzua, Asaba The All Progressives Congress (APC,) Delta state chapter on Monday reacted to a publication with the subject matter “DELTA 2023: WHY DSP OMO AGEGE WILL NOT BE GOVERNOR” published 19th October 2021, by one Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, a politically aide of Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa. In a statement […]

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North Central states back review of revenue allocation formula

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2021 0

Idris Ahmed, Lokojo Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has lamented that the non-review of the revenue allocation formula has increased the burden of states and local government councils in the country. In his remark at opening ceremony of zonal public hearing on the review of current revenue allocation formula, organised by Revenue Mobilisation Allocation […]

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Anambra guber poll: NSA reads riot act, warns IPOB, other criminal elements to rethink

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2021 0

*As Yakubu says INEC will proceed with the election Tunde Opalana, Abuja Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Munguno (rtd), has warned criminal elements threatening to scuttle the poll to have a rethink as security agents are ready to crush any act inimical to […]

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Dimwitted politicians manufacturing, exaggerating ethnic tension – Moghalu

Ihesiulo Grace 7 October 2021 0

Kingsley Moghalu, a former presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, has said that the country’s ethnic tension was manufactured and exaggerated by dimwitted politicians. Moghalu, who made this known on his Twitter page, said Nigerians need a transparent leader to manage diversity. This, he said, was how to build trust and a better nation. […]

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S’East govs move to end IPOB’s sit-at-home order

Ihesiulo Grace 6 October 2021 0

*Condemn spate of killings in region *Say Ebube Agu, regional security outfit to take root before end of 2021 South East governors rose from a meeting in Enugu on Tuesday and declared that they would do everything to end the “sit-at-home’’ order of proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). The declaration is contained in a […]

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APC can’t give Igbo’s presidency, not set to manage Nigeria properly – Abaribe

Ihesiulo Grace 6 October 2021 0

The Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has insisted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would not allow the Southeast to produce its 2023 presidential candidate. Abaribe said only his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can produce an Igbo President in 2023. In an interview on Channels Television, the PDP chieftain said the APC was […]