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Babafemi Ojudu has revealed that in 2009. the Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN. Oni had in the main election and the election petition tribunal that followed been declared winner of the gubernatorial contest. Our party , ACN ...
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January, 2021
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25 January
Ahmed Musa set to join West Brom
Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa is set to join Premier League club West Bromwich Albion on a short term deal. The 28-year-old has been unattached since quitting Al Nassr in October 2020. According to Daily Mail, the Baggies have requested a visa for the winger and have also scheduled him for a medical on Wednesday. Capped 95 times by Nigeria, ...
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25 January
Biden foresees Covid-19 death rise from 420,000 to 1/2 a million next mth ,orders travel bans
President Joe Biden will re-impose a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe, a White House official said Sunday, as the new administration ramps up its pandemic response. Biden will also on Monday extend the ban to travelers who have recently been to South Africa amid warnings that new, ...
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25 January
Amotekun in other S/W states resist Herdsmen relocation plan, as Ondo evicts
The Commanders of Amotekun Corps in Osun and Ekiti have vowed that there will be no safe haven for relocating herders in the states. The notice for the herders to vacate the Reserve Forest expired on Sunday. To prevent the herders from moving to their states, the Amotekun operatives have been put on stand-by in Osun and Ekiti states, it ...
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23 January
Again, family loses bid to reclaim Abacha’s loot @ S/ Court
The Supreme Court on Friday declined a request by a brother to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Alhaji Ali Abacha, to unfreeze the accounts traced to him and relatives of the late dictator in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. The apex court, in a unanimous judgment of a five-man panel led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, held that ...
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23 January
Farmers raise alarm as herdsmen invade settlements in Osun
Imminent food shortage in State of Osun as a result of uncontrolled activities of herdsmen in Esa Oke farm settlement. The activities of herdsmen is becoming worrisome in Ijebujesa/Esa odo/ Esa Oke farm axis as farmers are now afraid of going to their farm for fear of attack by fulani cattle reared that had invaded their farm. It is now ...
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23 January
AMCON takes possession of Enugu school with 50 policemen
The Asset Management Company of Nigeria on Thursday invaded Providence High School, Enugu, with over 50 riot policemen to take possession of the school with 344 boarding students. The officials of AMCON had stormed the private boarding school for girls around 1.30pm and came back at 5.30pm with armed policemen. The policemen were said to have cordoned off all the ...
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23 January
How Gambo Jimeta, nabbed notorious robber, Anini, weeks after appointment as IGP
‘My friend, where is Anini?’ That was not the kind of question a police chief would expect from his commander-in-chief in front of the media. But that was the question Ibrahim Babangida, military president, asked Etim Inyang, the inspector general of police, in the full glare of media cameras sometime in October 1986. Clearly embarrassed, Inyang replied: “We shall find ...
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23 January
Buhari’s ex-aide Obono-Obla, 2 others charged with diverting N19.9m, forgery
A former Special Assistant on Prosecution to President Muhammadu Buhari, Okoi Obono-Obla, and two others were arraigned on Friday before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Apo, Abuja on a 10-count charge by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). Arraigned with Obono-Obla, who Buhari suspended as Chairman of the now disbanded Special Presidential ...
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23 January
600 Nigerians stranded in Saudi housed in detention camp, till Jan 28
Fact has emerged that stranded citizens of Nigeria in Saudi Arabia were being kept at a detention facility by the Saudi authorities pending their repatriation. Federal Government has said that about 600 Nigerians irregular migrants in Saudi Arabia will be evacuated on January 28 and 29 in batches of 400 and 200. The Chairman, Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, ...
