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Oct

2023

“Show You’re True Patriots By Telephoning To Congratulate Tinubu” – Festus Keyamo(SAN) Advise Atiku And Obi

"Show You're Patriots By Telephoning To Congratulate Tinubu" - Festus Keyamo(SAN) Advise Atiku and Obi Festus Keyamo (SAN), the minister of aviation and aerospace development, has told Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to call President Bola Tinubu and congratulate him after the Supreme Court affirmed his election win. Messrs Atiku and Obi are the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) respectively. 'Show you're patriots': Keyamo to Atiku, Obi Telephoning President Tinubu, Keyamo said, will show that the opposition leaders are “true patriots”. Furthermore, the minister asked citizens to “close ranks to help steer our…

Oct

2023

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President Tinubu Appoints Nine New Resident Electoral Commissioners(REC) Of INEC

Abuja, Politics, Presidency

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu confirm the appointment of nine Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Tinubu appoints new INEC commissioners on Wednesday, October 25. The new appointments were announced in a statement issued and signed by the presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale on Wednesday. According to the statement shared by an aide to President Tinubu on social media, @DOlusegun via X page (formerly Twitter), the appointments are for a term of five (5) years each, subject to the confirmation of the Nigerian Senate. The statement reads: "By powers vested in him by Section 154 (1) of…

Oct

2023

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Tinubu’s Victory At The Supreme Court Tomorrow, Sure Banker – Presidency

Abia State, Judiciary, Politics, Presidency

Tinubu’ll be victorious – Presidency on Supreme Court giving final verdict in Atiku, Obi’s petitions Thursday. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has expressed hope that the Supreme Court will affirm the president’s victory in the February 25 presidential election. Onanuga made the remark in reaction to the Supreme Court’s announced date to give its verdict on the appeals filed by presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party, LP’s Peter Obi. Atiku and Obi had filed appeals before the apex court challenging Tinubu’s victory in the last presidential…

Oct

2023

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Breaking News: So Fast, Supreme Court To Deliver Final Verdict In Atiku, Obi’s Petitions Tomorrow.

Abuja, Judiciary, Politics, Presidency

BREAKING NEWS: So Fast, Supreme Court to deliver final verdict in Atiku, Obi’s petitions Tomorrow, October 26th. The Supreme Court has finally fixed Thursday, October 26, to deliver final judgements in the two surviving petitions challenging the legality or otherwise of the declaration of President Bola Tinubu as winner of the last presidential election. They are the petitions filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Peter Gregory Obi. A 7-man panel of Justices of the Court led by Justice John Inyang Okoro had on Monday, October…

Oct

2023

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Just-In: President Tinubu Launches Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme For 15 Million Households

Abuja, CBN/Commercial Banking, Presidency

Just-In: Tinubu Launches Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme For 15 Million Households President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, 17th of October, 2023 launched the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for 15 million households, GMATE MEDIA reports. The President represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, launched the programme at an event held at the Press Gallery of the State House in Abuja. It would be recalled that the President had in his maiden Independence Day broadcast to Nigerians on October 1, 2023, announced the cash transfer programme which he said would target vulnerable citizens. In attendance at the…

Oct

2023

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2023 Presidential Election: Truth Is That Peter Obi Won The Election, Tinubu A Distant Third – Babachir Lawal( Former SGF)

Politics, Presidency

Peter Obi Won 2023 Presidential Election - Babachir Lawal( Former SGF) Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) has claimed that Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), emerged victorious in the February 25 presidential election. Babachir who made the remark on Tuesday said the presidential election in his opinion was actually won by Peter Obi rather than the officially declared winner, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He also added that various sources of factual data, independently aggregated, suggested that Obi received the majority of votes in the election,…

Oct

2023

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Liberia Presidential Election: George Weah And Opposition Leader Joseph Boakai In Close Tie

International, Politics, Presidency

DAKAR, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Liberia's President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai are nearly tied in the race for the presidency following a Oct. 10 election, provisional results published by the West African nation's election commission showed on Sunday. Weah holds a slim lead at 43.80% of the vote, while Boakai has 43.54%, according to tallied results from 72.92% of polling places, the commission said. To avoid a runoff, the winner must secure more than 50% of vote Casts. SPECIAL ADVERT PROMO FOR 2023 IGBA-OTOMU, IGBA-UCHE, IGBA-EKPE, IGBOTONMA AND IZA-AFA This is a special promo designed for our…

Oct

2023

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President Tinubu Appoints Bayo Onanuga As Special Adviser On Information & Strategy

Politics, Presidency

President Tinubu Finally Appoints Bayo Onanuga As Special Adviser President Bola Tinubu has appointed Bayo Onanuga, a spokesman of his campaign team, as Special Adviser on Information & Strategy. Presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, announced this in a statement issued on Friday night. “As part of efforts to prioritize effective and efficient working synergy between the Presidency and Federal Ministries, President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of professionals who have prior working experience within the architecture of the Federal Ministries they will be coordinating with, in addition to duties that will be carried out at the President’s discretion: "Senior…

Oct

2023

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Dele Momodu Makes Fresh Revelation About Who Allegedly Helped Tinubu Forged His Certificate

Politics, Presidency

Dele Momodu Makes Fresh Revelation About Who Allegedly Helped Tinubu Forged His Certificate Dele Momodu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called out President Bola Tinubu for allegedly hiring an incompetent person to forge his academic documents. According to him, the person who designed the alleged fake certificate of President Tinubu failed to carry out a research which could have informed him that the secondary school the President said he attended wasn’t in existence in the year stated in his documents. The PDP chieftain also called out those who slammed him for criticising President Tinubu who is…

Oct

2023

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Just-In: Tinubu Expands The Scopes Of Wike’s Portfolio As FCT, Abuja Minister

Abuja, Politics, Presidency

Just-In: Tinubu Expands The Scopes Of Wike's Office As FCT, Abuja Minister President Bola Tinubu has given the green light for the creation of a Civil Service Commission in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This move is aimed at enhancing career advancement opportunities for civil servants within the FCT Administration. The announcement was made by the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, during a press briefing held in Abuja on Friday. According to Mr. Wike, the National Assembly passed a bill in 2018 advocating for the establishment of the CSC in the FCT, which received the assent of the then-acting…