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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Dirisu Yakubu
Senate President Godswill Akpabio The Senate leadership on Thursday cautioned the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, against making public statements that could create friction between the National Assembly and the executive led by President Bola Tinubu. The warning came after Badaru publicly dismissed a planned two-day national security summit by the Senate, stating that such gatherings were unnecessary in addressing Nigeria’s security challenges.
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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Dirisu Yakubu |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |John Charles |Maiharaji Altine
As the National Assembly resumes from its long recess today, the House of Representatives and the Benue State Government have disagreed on the reasons for the spates of killings in the state in the past few months.
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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Olufemi Adediran |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Godfrey George |Nathaniel Shaibu
The suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Friday, countered a United States-based activist, Dr Sandra Duru, who alleged a plot to frame Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The lawmaker, in a statement issued by her media aide, Israel Arogbonlo, said all the recorded conversations played in Duru’s live stream were manipulated. The allegationsDuru, popularly known as Prof.
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2 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Dirisu Yakubu |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
An associate of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revealed that his principal is willing to work with the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in a bid to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. Atiku, who emerged second in the 2023 presidential election with 6,984,520 votes, has consistently expressed his resolve to lead a formidable opposition capable of challenging the All Progressives Congress in the next electoral cycle.
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3 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Dirisu Yakubu |Adeyinka Adedipe |Matthew Ochei
Opposition political parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party, the New Nigeria Peoples Party, and the Labour Party, are bleeding as some of their prominent members have dumped their platforms for the ruling All Progressives Congress.
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3 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Abdulrahman Zakariyau
As preparations for the 2027 general elections gain momentum, there are growing indications that the ruling All Progressives Congress may offer President Bola Tinubu an automatic ticket to represent the party. Sources close to the APC secretariat in Abuja confirmed the potential move in separate interviews. Several anonymous sources emphasised that, based on the power of incumbency, the President would be given the “first right of refusal” to seek re-election for a second term.
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4 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Gift Habib
President Bola Tinubu’s continued stay in France has drawn sharp criticism from opposition leaders and security experts amid a surge in violent attacks and killings across the country. The 2023 presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party and other opposition parties urged the President to return immediately, citing recent massacres in Plateau and Benue States.
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1 month ago | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Stephen Angbulu |Gift Habib |Abdulrahman Zakariyau
The Presidency on Sunday dismissed any notion of fresh revelations emerging from a United States court order directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration to release files on President Bola Tinubu’s past investigation. It insisted that the records, which date back to a drug trafficking investigation in Chicago from the early 1990s, have been publicly available for over three decades and posed no fresh concerns for the President.
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1 month ago | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Dirisu Yakubu |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, along with the Peoples Democratic Party, Coalition of United Political Parties, and the New Nigeria People’s Party, have berated President Bola Tinubu’s administration for failing to promote inclusive governance, amid ongoing backlash over uneven political appointments since the beginning of his tenure.
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1 month ago | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Dirisu Yakubu
The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has written union leaders to begin mobilising their members in readiness to invade and take over the 36 offices and national secretariat of the Labour Party in Ajaero gave the directive in an internal memo made available to The PUNCH in Abuja on Tuesday. The NLC president’s directive comes in the wake of Friday’s judgment of the Supreme Court which vacated earlier judgment of the lower courts.
