APC refuses to concede defeat in Anambra elections saying it will seek to get result overturned

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in the recent Anambra State governorship elections Senator Andy Uba has rejected the outcome of the polls and refused to concede defeat to the winner Professor Charles Soludo.

 

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Folarin Balogun advised to leave Arsenal as the lack of playing time is stifling his development

ENGLAND'S U21 manager Lee Carsley has advised Arsenal's Nigerian-born striker Folarin Balogun to leave the club and go out on loan to enable him, get valuable playing time if he wants to realise his true potential.

 

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I keep asking myself what has happened to the pan-African dreams of our founding fathers like Kwame Nkrumah

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On this day, November 12, in 1961, Queen Elizabeth visited Ghana for what was a hugely popular tour. She danced with President Kwame Nkrumah on the night and after event, all talk of Ghana leaving the Commonwealth just ended. I long for a return to the days when an African leader could force the British monarch to embark on a trip like this

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Lagos police arrest 107 trainees during raid on self-styled Nigerian Merchant Navy's camp

MEN of the Lagos State Police Command have smashed a military camp belonging to the outlawed merchant navy in the Ogudu area of the state and arrested 107 trainees being trained to become military personnel.

 

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Ngige says Nigerian-trained doctors should be made to sign nine year bond after their training

NIGERIA'S labour minister Dr Chris Ngige has proposed that medical doctors be asked to sign a nine year bond committing them to remaining in the country for nearly a decade after they complete their training as a means of addressing the current brain drain crisis.

 

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APC governors press Buhari to veto direct primary voting bill recently passed by National Assembly

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have begun lobbying President Muhammadu Buhari not to sign the new bill calling for direct primaries as a means of selecting party candidates unto law.

 

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Senate approves Buhari's request for an additional $16bn to fund government spending

NIGERIA'S senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari's request for an additional $16bn loan and an extra €1bn worth of borrowing to help the government fund its budgets under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing Plan.

 

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Ifeanyi Ubah concedes defeat to Soludo in Anambra State gubernatorial elections

YOUNG Progressive Party (YPP) candidate in the recent Anambra State governorship election Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has conceded defeat and congratulated the declared winner Professor Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga).

 

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I just hope that President Buhari's list of proposals and suggestions to President Macron looks something like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria needs French automobile companies Citroen and Renault to come and open manufacturing and assembly plants in Nigeria immediately as Peugeot did. We need them to make Nigeria the centre of electric car manufacturing

[2] Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi should come and open a facility in Nigeria to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine. The French government should offer them a massive tax rebate for doing so

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NDDC bill being amended to add northern oil producing states like Gombe and Bauchi to the list

NIGERIAN senators are courting fresh controversy in the petroleum industry after the amendment of a bill to include several non-oil producing states to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) scaled its second reading today.

 

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