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2 days ago | 
allafrica.com | Abdullateef Aliyu |Abbas Jimoh |Salim Umar Ibrahim
The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has come under fire over his remarks suggesting the party is not opposed to Nigeria becoming a one-party state. Ganduje had, in an interview with State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, insisted the APC was not actively pursuing a one-party system.
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3 days ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted desperate attempt by a woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, who disguised with hijab to export large consignments of cocaine concealed in her private part, stomach and false bottom of her handbag to Iran.
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3 days ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted desperate attempt by a woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, who disguised with hijab to export large consignments of cocaine concealed in her private part, stomach and false bottom of her handbag to Iran.
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1 week ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
The protracted leadership crisis in the Labour Party (LP) lingers on as the National Caretaker Committee of the party under the leadership of Senator Nenadi Esther Usman has set up a six-member disciplinary committee to investigate allegations of corruption and anti-party activities against the party’s embattled national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure.
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1 week ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
State governments have been called upon to embrace and entrench community-based interventions that will curb the impact of the scourge of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking at the grassroots.
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1 week ago | 
allafrica.com | Saawua Terzungwe |Abbas Jimoh |John Chuks Azu |Mumini Abdulkareem
Fifty-six prominent civil society organisations (CSOs) including Amnesty International Nigeria and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) have called for the immediate resignation of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, following the Court of Appeal's affirmation of the conviction of Professor Peter Ogban, the returning officer in the 2019 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial election, for electoral fraud.
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1 week ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and the Coalition of National Civil Society Organisations (CNCSOs) have said that they were vindicated over their persistent calls for a probe of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) under the leadership of the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer, Engr. Mele Kyari. This followed the arrest of top management officials of the NNPCL by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged monumental corruption.
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1 week ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has condemned the manner at which Martins Vincent Otse, social media commentator known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), was arrested by security operatives. There were initial reports that VDM was arrested on Friday shortly after he visited a Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) branch in Abuja to complain about alleged unauthorized transactions from his mother’s account.
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1 week ago | 
allafrica.com | Abbas Jimoh |Philip Shimnom Clement
The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line. The World Bank stated this in its latest April 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief for Nigeria which was obtained yesterday.
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1 week ago | 
dailytrust.com | Abbas Jimoh
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has expressed support for ongoing peace initiatives aimed at addressing the rising insecurity in the Middle Belt region, particularly in Plateau, Benue, and Gombe states. The CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, weekend in a statement he personally signed, condemned the brutal attacks and persistent violence afflicting communities in the area and called for national unity in the pursuit of lasting peace.
