Buhari’s Independence Day nationwide broadcast (Full text)

INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020 Fellow Nigerians I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion of our country’s 60th independence Anniversary. As President, I wish to renew my appreciation to Nigerians for entrusting …

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Tinubu, Aregbesola Deny Rift

There is apprehension in the La­gos State chapter of the All Pro­gressives Congress (APC) follow­ing the disbandment of factional groups within the party like Justice Forum and Mandate Group. Few days ago, Alhaji Rauf Enilolobo, Organis­ing Secretary of the APC in Lagos, who is a staunch ally of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeso­la, Minister of Interior, was named the chairman of the …

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Lagos Assembly Panel Designed To Free Obasa From Corruption Charges —HEDA

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has been accused of setting up a panel that appears destined to exonerate him from raging allegations of graft. In a letter addressed to the lawmakers through the Clerk of the House, foremost anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre), said the Speaker, whose second term had …

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Edo Primary: Tinubu to Decide Obaseki’s Fate Today

Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress are scheduled to meet with the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. The meeting, which is believed to be connected to last-minute efforts to ensure the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, clinches the party’s ticket for the forthcoming governorship election in the state, is scheduled to …

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Inside Zenith Bank of Fraud

The outcry that greeted the award of $9.6 billion to Process and Industrial Projects Limited {P&ID} against Nigeria may not be the last, as a Nigerian bank, Zenith and a Judge of Federal Capital Territory, Justice Angela .O. Otaluka, sitting in Lugbe, a satellite town of Abuja, have incurred the wrath of an international trade agency through alleged willful, fraudulent …

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Lady Dies Mysteriously in Hotel Room

A yet to be identified lady has died mysteriously in a hotel room. On 30 January, 2020 at about 7:45pm, the manager of Jubilee Hotel in Onitsha reported at Central Police Station, Onitsha that a middle aged man allegedly took a lady whose identity is yet unknown to the hotel. After about 30 minutes, the manager heard someone shouting for …

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CUSTOMS DESTROYS 944 CARTONS OF FROZEN POULTRY PRODUCTS

The officers and men of Ogun I Area Command under the leadership of Comptroller Agbara Michael have intercepted nine vehicles fully loaded with frozen poultry products suspected to have been smuggled into Nigeria by daredevil smugglers. The said items were apprehended at Itaege, Idiroko axis of Ogun I Area Command and brought to Sentry (in Idiroko) for proper documentation and …

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