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Abba Yusuf, the Kano State gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result of the supplementary election that declared Governor Ganduje the winner as been characterized with violence. Yusuf issued this statement on Monday after the announcement of Ganduje as the winner of the Saturday supplementary election. “This is the most …

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LIST OF STATES WHERE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION HAS BEEN DECLARED INCONCLUSIVE AND RESULT COLLATION PROCESS SUSPENDED. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, March 9, conducted governorship elections across 29 out of 36 states across Nigeria and state House of Assembly elections across the country. However, while collation of results commenced on Sunday, March 10, …

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By Joseph Obumneme, Leading our teeming readers into the achievements of President Muhamadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osibajo 1. “Despite 60% less revenue, we have, by stopping grand corruption, made the highest capital spend in the history of the country in the sum of about  N1.3 trillion. We are, for the first time, taking …

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Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode on Saturday attributed the high level of development, peaceful coexistence and stable economy enjoyed in Lagos State to God’s intervention.Ambode made the assertion at the 2018 Lagos Marathon Praise in Lagos, organised by the Office of the Wife of the state governor in collaboration with Jubilee Concept International in Lagos. “The Lord …

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The National Assembly on Tuesday, gave President Muhammadu Buhari 12-point condition to address urgently or face the invocation of its powers against him. This was the outcome of closed-door joint executive session of both chambers of the assembly in Abuja. President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, read the resolution from the session, which lasted …

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  Wife of the Lagos State Governor and founder, Hope for Women in Nigeria Initiative, (HOFOWEM), Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Tuesday flagged off the distribution of 50,000 shoes and branded socks to primary one pupils of public schools across the State. Mrs Ambode flagged off the distribution at the Cherubim and Seraphim Primary School, Lagos …

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Gov. Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi has nominated Alhaji Audu Sule , the Chief of Staff, Government House, to serve as his Deputy.Alhaji Umar Sade, State Commissioner for Information, confirmed the nomination to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Bauchi. “The governor nominated Audu Sule Katagum as the deputy governor after due consultation …

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The president signed the bill this afternoon inside the Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. Buhari had, in his Democracy Day broadcast on Tuesday, pledged to sign the bill. The bill was passed by the National Assembly last year to alter Sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the Constitution to reduce …

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By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor LAGOS—  Permutations by high-level stakeholders opposed to a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari have gravitated towards three North-West politicians, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso and former minister of special duties, Turaki Tanimu. While Governor Tambuwal and Senator Kwankwanso have for long been on the radar, Vanguard has …

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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode says what his administration has achieved in Lagos State in the last three years is divinely inspired. Speaking yesterday at a special thanksgiving service in Alausa, the governor noted that it was obvious from the “upward trajectory of the state that God is involved in the process of thinking, planning as well …