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FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has declared that he will accept the verdict of the Presidential Election Tribunal even if it rules that President Muhammadu Buhari was the winner of the elections he is challenging.

By Ayo Akinfe 

(1) This week, we have been inundated with news about how the Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje aka Gandollar has waged war on the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido. Gandollar is unhappy about how the emir was opposed to his re-election after the governor was video taped receiving bribes to collect government contracts, so had the monarch probed and now is creating four more emirs in Kano to reduce Sanusi’s influence 

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to launch a campaign against open defecation known as Clean Nigeria Use Toilet in a bid to bring about an end to the practice of Nigerians relieving themselves in public by 2025.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's senior special adviser on foreign and diaspora affairs Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has been confirmed by the senate as the new chairman and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NDC).

GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has joined in ridiculing the appellation of chief security officer given to Nigeria's governors saying that the title is meaningless unless they are allowed to run state police forces.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has re-appointed Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele for a second five-year term in a surprise development that will see him occupy the post until 2024.

GOVERNOR Gboyega Oyetola has won the latest round in the battle to govern Osun State after the Federal Court of Appeal declared him the winner of the September 2018 Osun State gubernatorial election earlier on today.

By Ayo Akinfe 

(1) Whenever I agonise over how under-developed Nigeria is and how developed it should be, I always ask myself whether we as a people are not responsible for our own plight. There is a popular school of thought that the masses are fine but the problem is just bad leadership. However, does this theory stand up to scrutiny?

FORMER Anambra State governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate Peter Obi has denied that he is suffering from a heart attack pointing out that he is only felt feverish yesterday and decided to visit the hospital for treatment.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has been warned by the National Association of Nigeria Students (Nans) to desist from commercialising education or he should be prepared for an all out confrontation.