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Rep. Aguocha Commends DSS, AGF For Timely Medical Aid To Nnamdi Kanu

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Rep. Aguocha Commends DSS, AGF For Timely Medical Aid To Nnamdi Kanu

The federal lawmaker representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/Umuahia South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Obi Aguocha, has commended the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) for intervening in the medical care of detained separatist leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Speaking on Thursday in Abuja, Aguocha confirmed that following his formal appeal to the...

Peter Obi Took Labour Party From Zero To Hero – Reno Omokri

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Peter Obi Took Labour Party From Zero To Hero – Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri, a former media aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has asserted that the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi took the party “from zero to hero”. He stated this while reacting to the internal crisis rocking the Labour Party over a leadership tussle. Taking to his Twitter page on Wednesday, Omokri said the factional leaders have to recognise...

FG Unveils Plans To Boost Food Production

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FG Unveils Plans To Boost Food Production

The Federal Government has unveiled new agricultural reforms aimed at ending hunger, boosting food production, and reducing post-harvest losses estimated at over $10bn annually, in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda for food security and national prosperity. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, and the Minister of State, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, announced this through...

Benue: ‘You Don’t Wear Agbada To Mass Grave’ – Peter Obi Tells Tinubu

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Benue: ‘You Don’t Wear Agbada To Mass Grave’ - Peter Obi Tells Tinubu

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has launched a scathing criticism of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent visit to Benue State, describing it as an ill-timed display of “optics over empathy” amid the grief of a community reeling from deadly violence. Obi’s reaction comes in the aftermath of the president’s visit on Wednesday to Yelewata in...

Zamfara PDP Chairman Dead

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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Zamfara State, Ahmad Sani Kaura is dead. He reportedly slumped on Wednesday in Gusau, the state capital, during a peace accord meeting with Zamfara State Council of Ulama ahead of next year’s poll/ A chieftain of the party in the state, Aminu Umar, said Kaura was sick and had not fully recovered before...

I Feel Pity For Next Cross River Governor — Duke

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Mr Donald Duke, a former governor of Cross River, has said that he felt sorry for the next governor of the state, revealing that such individual would be faced with an uphill task to reinvent governance in the state. He made the remarks at the inauguration of 1,080-member campaign council of the charter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in...

Tinubu Reaffirm Commitment To Judicial Reforms

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Media Barred From N’Assembly Chamber Ahead Of Tinubu’s Speech

President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed the administration's dedication to the rule of law and the judiciary's independence in Nigeria. Speaking through the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, at a book launch in Abuja held in honour of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the President said legislative measures are...

Natasha Petitions Senate, Demands Immediate Reinstatement

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Natasha Petitions Senate, Demands Immediate Reinstatement

Suspended Kogi lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has formally petitioned the Senate to reinstate her immediately, following a Federal High Court judgment that declared her six-month suspension “excessive and overreaching.” In a letter dated July 11, 2025, addressed to the Senate via her legal team, M.J. Numa & Partners LLP, Akpoti-Uduaghan demanded full compliance with the judgment delivered by Justice Binta...

Sen. Kalu Commends Buhari For Construction Of Over 50 Roads In Abia North

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Senator representing Abia North, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government through his constituency projects has carried out over 50 road projects across Abia North Senatorial District. Speaking on Monday during the Ezumezu festival of Igbere Clan, Bende LGA, the former Abia governor said the ongoing projects underscored the fact that the All Progressives...

Abia PDP Chapter Defies NWC Order, Ortom, Anyanwu Face Panel March 4

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Abia PDP Chapter Defies NWC Order, Ortom, Anyanwu Face Panel March 4

The Peoples Democratic Party Abia State chapter, on Wednesday, has insisted on suspension of the chairman of the Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara. Countering the party’s National Working Committee’s declaration of the suspension as illegal, the Abia PDP leadership insisted that there was no going back. The Abia State Working Committee of the party had on Tuesday announced Wabara’s suspension...

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