Author: Vreporters
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Labour Party Governorship Candidate in Adamawa Defects To APC
Dr. Umar Mustapha Muqaddas, governorship candidate of Labour Party, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Muqaddas, who announced his defection at a media briefing in Yola, the state capital, on Thursday, asked his supporters to vote for APC on Saturday. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the APC, while Peter Obi…
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SDP Faction Declares Support For Peter Obi
The Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s faction led by Chief Supo Shonibare has declared support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, ahead of the Saturday’s elections. The decision was reached at party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting held in Abuja, on Wednesday, the 22nd of February, 2023. Chief Supo Shonibare and Hon…
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Scores of APC, Labour Parties’ Supporters Collapse Structures For Atiku
With less than 30 hours to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, no fewer than 5,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Labour Party (LP) have collapsed their structures into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The decampees, whose structures had all along worked for the APC and LP across the country, changed…
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How Troops Arrest Masterminds of Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack, Recover $5,000
Troops of Nigerian military attached to Operation Whirl Punch have apprehended one of the masterminds of the Abuja-Kaduna Train attack of March 28, 2022. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, who revealed this at Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, also disclosed that the sum of $5,000 as well as other currency were…
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Election: Peter Obi Bounds To Fail – Labour Party’s Chairmen Claim
Less than twenty four hours to the presidential election, slated February 25, the North-East Chairmen of the Labour Party, LP, say as a result of alleged undemocratic internal activities of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the party is bound to fail during the poll. This they said was coming on the heels of Obi’s…
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PVC Collection: INEC Replies Tinubu
Vanguard News Ahead of this weekend’s general election, a total of 87,209,007 Permanent Voter Cards PVCs have been collected by Nigerians, according to the latest data released by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC. The data which was collated as of 5th February 2023 shows that uncollected PVCs stood at 6,259,229. Nigeria has a registered…
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Security Operatives Arrest Finland-based Pro-Biafra Agitator, Simon Ekpa
Finland based pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa has been arrested. Ekpa was arrested by the police in his residence in the Lahti area of the country, a Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat reported Thursday. The separatist has repeatedly declared that there will be no elections in the South-East region of the country and insisted on the observance…
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2023 Election: Banks React To Purported Plan To Disrupt Financial Transactions
Financial institutions under the aegis of the Association of Corporate Affairs Managers of Banks (ACAMB), have denied purported plans to disrupts financial transactions for the general elections slated for Saturday, February 25, 2023. Following the polls, there have been some trending messages suggesting that commercial banks will close its services. But in a statement on…
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Old Naira Notes: Supreme Court Send Message To State Willing To Challenge FG’s Directive
Vanguard News The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, shut its door to more states seeking to be joined as interested parties in the suit challenging the decision of the Federal Government to ban the use of the old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes as valid legal tenders. A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court,…
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Naira Scarcity: Supreme Court Consolidates Suits By 10 States
Channels TV The Supreme Court on Wednesday consolidated the suits instituted by the 10 state governments against the Federal Government challenging the implementation of the naira redesign. At the last hearing on February 15, seven states joined the three initial states as co-plaintiffs, while Edo and Bayelsa states joined the Federal Government as co-defendants. Expectations…