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1 month ago | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Dapo Akinrefon |Olasunkanmi Akoni |John Alechenu |Ebunoluwa Sessou
•He’s back for good —Source•I’m not a quitter —Meranda•It’s victory for democracy —APC chairman•Obasa’s return a show of shame —De Renaissance Patriots•Lagos drama a distraction —CUPPBy Dapo Akinrefon, Olasunkanmi Akoni, John Alechenu & Ebunoluwa SessouLAGOS— AFTER weeks of crisis, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, retraced their steps and re-elected its embattled former speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa. This followed the resignation of Mrs. Mojisola Meranda.
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2 months ago | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Omeiza Ajayi |John Alechenu
•APC desperate to destroy us, entrench totalitarianism – PDP•Accept responsibility for PDP’s political carnage, APC tells Atiku, TambuwalBy Omeiza Ajayi & John AlechenuABUJA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, were yesterday locked in a war of words over the crisis in the former.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
lucky-wap-ams.op-mobile.opera.com | Clifford Ndujihe |John Alechenu |Shina Abubakar
By Clifford Ndujihe, John Alechenu, Shina Abubakar, Gift ChapiOdekina &Haruna Aliyu Usman As crisis along regional lines looms over President Bola Tinubu’s four tax reform bills before the National Assembly, some northern leaders have changed strategy to ensure that the North was not hurt by the reform.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | John Alechenu
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has presented a unified structure, as members intensify efforts to ensure victory for its candidate, Agboola Ajayi, in Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State. As part of the confidence-building mechanism, party stakeholders in Ondo state equally passed a vote of confidence in the Party's National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, for his leadership role, especially in galvanizing support for the candidate.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Omeiza Ajayi |John Alechenu
Abuja — Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said yesterday Nigerians have had enough of President Bola Tinubu's trial-and-error economic policies. But All Progressives Congress, APC, described Atiku's policy prescriptions as a mere rehash of the same old disastrous initiatives that brought Nigeria to its knees. According to him, the policies have plunged the nation into its present predicament.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Johnbosco Agbakwuru |John Alechenu
The Presidency and former Vice President Abubakar Atiku were at daggers drawn, yesterday, over the manner the economy was being managed. While Atiku listed ways he would have properly managed the economy, the Presidency said the former vice president would have plunged Nigeria into a worse economic situation had he won the 2023 presidential election.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | John Alechenu
Abuja — The League of Northern Democrats, LND, has endorsed the decision by northern governors to reject provisions of President Bola Tinubu's proposed tax bills currently before the National Assembly. The new political movement convened by the former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, said the new proposal on VAT represented a deep-seated threat to the collective interests of the people of northern Nigeria and lacked rational or equitable justification.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | John Alechenu
Abuja — -- The pressure on the naira in the foriegn exchange market, and the removal of fuel subsidy have taken a toll on earlier projections on what the Federal Government would require to complete inherited ongoing road projects nationwide. The Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, who disclosed this at a briefing yesterday, said President Bola Tinubu's administration would now require over N19 trillion to get the job done.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
theafrica.co.za | John Alechenu
As OBJ asks LND to look beyond Northern Nigeria By John Alechenu Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Chief of Army Staff, Gen. T. Y. Danjuma retd, have decried the dwindling quality and standard of leadership in Nigeria. The two statesmen spoke when members of the League of Northern Democrats, LND, paid them courtesy visits in Abeokuta and Lagos respectively.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | John Alechenu
For the third time in as many months, the Proples Democratic Party, PDP, has postponed its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting. The meeting, which was originally scheduled for August, was first shifted to September. Then it was moved to October 2, and now shifted to November 28. The latest descision to shift the meeting was taken at the an enlarged meeting of the PDP Governors Forum with the Board of Trustees, BoT; National Working Committee, NWC, and former governors, among others.
