Day: April 23, 2022

2023: Tambuwal rejects Saraki, Mohammed as PDP consensus candidates

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By Mandy Park Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, who is also a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed reports that northern consensus presidential candidates for the PDP had been chosen. Said Tambuwal on his official twitter handle “Northern Consensus Drive Failed. Therefore, I’m Not Part of Any Agreement.” In the same vein, the Tambuwal Campaign Organisation has dismissed reports that former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Governor Bala Muhammad of Bauchi State emerged as northern consensus presidential candidates for the PDP. In a…

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Strike: FG, NASU Meeting Ends In Deadlock

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By Mandy Park The meeting between the Federal Government and the striking members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU), called to iron out grey areas relating to their agreements made since 2009 in the Universities and Inter-University Centres, has ended without any resolution. It would be recall that the Federal Government had called a meeting of the Renegotiation Committee to iron out grey areas relating to their agreements made since 2009, in the Universities and Inter-University Centres. The meeting was scheduled to hold Friday, 22nd…

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Sanwo-Olu tells ambitious appointees to resign immediately

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By Mandy Park Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has given an order to political appointees and civil servants interested in contesting in the 2023 general election to resign. Sanwo-Olu said all members of the State Executive Council and political appointees who are delegates to the State House of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate, Governorship and Presidential primaries election and those seeking elective offices should resign. The governor gave the directive on Friday in a circular with no 012 titled: “Resignation of political appointees and all other public servants who…

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Russia-Ukraine war: UN chief to meet Putin, hold peace talk

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By Mandy Park The United Nations, UN, Secretary-General, António Guterres will meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Tuesday. Guterres’ meeting aims to appeal for peace and urge Russia to end the war against Ukraine. The move was disclosed by Guterres Associate Spokesperson, Ms Eri Kaneko, at a news conference on Friday in New York. “The Secretary-General will visit Moscow on April 26th. He will have a working meeting and lunch with Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. “The Secretary-General will be received by President Vladimir Putin,” she said. The UN…

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Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Dies At 83

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By Mandy Park Respected, First Class Yoruba monarch, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has died at the age of 83. Newsmark gathered that Oba Adeyemi, the third from the Alowodu Ruling House of Oyo Kingdom, died on Friday at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, in Ekiti State after a short illne Palace sources said the remains of the deceased monarch have been moved to Oyo where his burial rites are underway. Oba Adeyemi was born on October 15, 1938 in Oyo town; he was…

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