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5 days ago | 
allafrica.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Juliet Umeh
Lagos — ...Says Tinubu laying foundation for Nigeria's industrial baseTHE Presidency has defended its borrowing strategy as a necessary tool for economic development, insisting that borrowing, when used judiciously, is not a sin. The clarification was made during a presidential media interaction held in Lagos, where top presidential aides addressed the media on the administration's economic performance and future outlook.
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6 days ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, Sunday, lamented that President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope has turned into a nightmare for Nigerians.
Afenifere, in a statement by its Leader and National Publicity Secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan and Justice Faloye, said the midterm report of the Tinubu administration has shown that every human development and sociopolitical index has regressed.
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1 week ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Luminous Jannamike
• Says APC plotting to annihilate opposition
• NEC to consider S-East resolution on Anyanwu
• We won’t bow to FG’s intimidation, says PDP govs
ABUJA— AGAINST all odds, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, held its 99th National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, where it expressed worry over the worsening insecurity and dwindling state of the economy under President Bola Tinubu’s watch.
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1 week ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Omeiza Ajayi |Steve Oko |Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA— Following the decision of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, to seal the national secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over its inability to pay requisite fees regarding ground rent for 28 years, the PDP, yesterday, accused the Federal Government of brazen abuse of power.
Leaders of the PDP said they were ready to be arrested should government continue to harass the party over the ground rent.
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3 weeks ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon
• Warns Appointees Against Unauthorized CommentsGovernor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has suspended Ibrahim Rabi’u, a Senior Special Reporter (SSR) attached to the Ministry of Transportation, over unguarded utterances. The state government also queried the suspended aide for his recent inflammatory comment regarding Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s purported defection.
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3 weeks ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Olasunkanmi Akoni
• We’ll resist imposition in Amuwo-Odofin—Group• LASIEC can’t conduct election in 37 LCDAs —OlarenwajuLAGOS — ANGRY reactions have greeted the just concluded chairmanship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, as aggrieved aspirants and groups kicked against the alleged imposition of candidates by some party leaders. The aggrieved party members and leaders faulted those using President Bola Tinubu’s name to impose their candidates.
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3 weeks ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Luminous Jannamike
• Eno, Kefas, Diri, Fubara absent• Internal forces sabotaging Atiku’s quiet efforts to stabilise PDP — AideIN a move aimed at addressing the gale of defections and internal crisis rocking it, governors elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, met with former governors and other party stakeholders to strategise on its survival and forge a common front ahead of the 2027 general election.
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3 weeks ago | 
allafrica.com | Dapo Akinrefon
Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, in this interview, speaks on the anti-Tinubu coalition headed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar insisting that he (Atiku) does not own the People's Democratic Party, PDP. The former Deputy Governor, who says she has no axe to grind with President Bola Tinubu, however takes a swipe at his two year old administration saying he is building on the disaster of former president Muhammadu Buhari.
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1 month ago | 
allafrica.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Etop Ekanem |Bashir Bello |Ochuko Akuopha |Shina Abubakar
As the defection from Delta State, one of the traditional strongholds of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to stir debates in the polity, President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said a political tsunami which saw Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, and the PDP structure defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, has never happened in the country.
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1 month ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Dapo Akinrefon
• Says they’re hobnobbing with enemies of our party
• Tasks Tinubu to tackle insecurity
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to leave PDP immediately because of their various anti-party activities.
He said the party is being embarrassed by the open display of affinity by the two to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
