Author: Alex Enemanna
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Buhari seeks traditional rulers’ support in youth empowerment
President Muhammadu Buhari has emphasised the administration’s need for the support of traditional institutions inadequately attending to the demands by the youths of the nation. The President requested the support of traditional rulers in regard to Thursday when he received a delegation of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria led by the Sultan…
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Senate wants Buhari to end overseas medical trips
The Senate on Thursday urged the State House officials to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from embarking on foreign medical trips by ensuring that the State House clinic becomes fully functional this year. The Nation reports that the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, gave the charge when the Permanent Secretary of the State…
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US election: Biden floats transition website
Votes are still being counted across the United States but Democrat Joe Biden has launched a transition website “so that the Biden-Harris Administration can hit the ground running on Day One”. On the website, buildbackbetter.com, is the short statement, “The American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States,…
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COE Council: Dr. Orugun’s appointment perfect fit — Omoluabi
Senior Special Assistant to Kogi state governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello on Political Matters, Omoluabi Bode Adeyemi has applauded the appointment of Dr. J.J Orugun as member Governing Council Kogi State College of Education Technical, Kabba He described the appointment as a perfect fit and justification of the governor’s commitment to recorgnize competence, capacity and best…
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US election: Dead candidate, Andahl, wins legislative seat
A candidate who died of coronavirus in October, David Andahl, has won a legislative seat in North Dakota. New York Times and Washington Post reported that Andahl and Dave Nehring were elected to represent North Dakota’s eighth state house district. Official results showed that Andahl won 36 per cent of the votes cast while Nehring…
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US Election: Two Nigerian-Americans Agbaje, Owolewa Elected Into Congress
As the world awaits the final results of the U.S. presidential election, two Nigerian-Americans Esther Agbaje and Oye Owolewa have been elected into the House of Representatives. Esther Agbaje, contested to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House of Reps on the platform of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Channels TV reports. The 35-year-old scored a…
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Candidates panic as WAEC withholds 2020 WASSCE results in Ekiti
Parents and candidates who sat for the 2020 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) are currently in a state of anxiety as the examination body withheld the results of all candidates that sat for it in all public schools in Ekiti State. Parents and their children, who besieged cyber cafes to check and print their results,…
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IPOB flag not hoisted in Ado LGA, anywhere in Benue — Police
The Police Command in Benue said on Wednesday that no flag of the proscribed IPOB was hoisted in Ado Local Government Area of Benue. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Catherine Anene, via a text message to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said no Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB), the flag was hoisted at Ado.…
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Gunmen kill pregnant woman in Kaduna, abduct husband
A pregnant woman has been reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in the late hours of Tuesday, at Rigachikun, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis. A source from the area told The Nation that, the woman and her husband were kidnapped and taken away from their residence, but the wife, was killed by the…
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US Election: Trump vows to stop vote counting at Supreme Court
Donald Trump claimed the election was a ‘fraud on the American people’ and that he was going to the Supreme Court to stop all vote counting immediately in a White House statement at 2.30am. He effectively made his own declaration of saying: ‘Frankly we did win this election.’ He set the stage for a titanic…