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By Mandy Park The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has asked his counterparts in other political parties to suspend their campaigns and join him to help victims of floods across states of the federation. Obi made the call on Wednesday, 29 October, while addressing journalists after his visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State at his Abuja private residence where he had gone to discuss modalities on his planned visit to flood sites in Benue and other states. The former Anambra State governor is in the 2023…

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By Mandy Park The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, today, Wednesday, 19, disclosed that the construction of the 2nd Niger bridge is now completed and will soon be released public for use. He made the confirmation at an ongoing press briefing to present the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s scorecard in Abuja. According to him, the only factor delaying the commissioning of the road is the construction of the link road which the recent surge of flooding has impeded. According to Fashola “I can confirm that the second Niger bridge itself…

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By Mandy Park The Nigeria Army on Tuesday launched three special military operations in the South East, South South, South West and North Central, as part of efforts to tackle rising insecurity challenge across the geopolitical zones. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya who flagged-off the exercises at the Nigeria Army 6 Division Step-up Headquarters in Ahoada, Rivers, said the exercises code-named Exercise Golden Dawn (South East), Exercise Enduring Peace (North Central) and Exercise Still Waters (South South and South West) would complement ongoing security operations in the…

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… insist his extradition and subsequent trial was illegal… His release will douse current tension By Mandy Park As the President Buhari-led Government continues to dilly-dally over the illegal detaintion of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) even after a court of competent jurisdiction discharged and acquitted him, South East Council of Traditional Rulers and Representatives of Igbo Archbishops and Bishops on Peace and Conflict Resolution today, Tuesday 18, called for his immediate release without further delay. The revered temporal and spiritual leaders who noted the July…

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……. Assures Northern farmers of safe return to their farms in 2023 By Mandy Park The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has assured the North that his Presidency if elected will give the region premium place in his agenda because the wealth of the nation is in the region. Obi who titled his remarks, ‘the unmet Needs of the North’, told the Arewa Joint Committee Interactive Session at the Arewa House Auditorium, Kaduna, yesterday, Monday, October 17, 2022 that the region is strategic…

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By Mandy Park Public office holders and the political class were on Saturday, October 15, charged to be deliberate in engaging the youths to fosteri development, peace and unity in the country. Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made the admonition in a lecture themed: “Youths and The Sustenance of Democracy: Issues and The Challenges” to mark the 64th birthday of a renowned activist, lawyer and journalist, Mr. Richard Akinnola held in Ikeja. He urged Nigerian youths to be actively involved in Nigeria’s democratic process for a better future, stressing that…

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By Mandy Park National Coordinator of The Patriots Roundtable, Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, has called on the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to immediately withdraw from the race for asking the North to vote only a northern candidate and disregard any candidate coming from the south. Atiku committed the blunder while showcasing his manifesto at a meeting in Arewa House with Northern elders. Shodipe-Dosunmu, in a statement, described the PDP candidate’s remarks as outrageous, “a nasty faux pas of the worst order.” The statement reads:…

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By Omocho Kalu Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi has assured that if elected ithe President of Nigeria in 2023, he will recreate a nation where the rich and the poor are equitably and fairly represented.And where Citizens’ interests will supersede political interests and the existing trust gap between the government and the governed will be reduced to the barest minimum. Obi made the promise in the remarks he made at the weekend at Queen’s College Lagos Old Girls Association during it’s marking of her 95th anniversary of…

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