This is my 2023 election manifesto titled Getting Nigeria off Her Knees

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[1] We will get the federal government to buy the rights to the Volkswagen Beetle. Then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors where the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles. Make Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles

[2] We will build the world’s largest wind farm along Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline stretching from Calabar to Badagry 

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Tinubu dismisses opposition to his same faith ticket as the handiwork of imposters like Dogara

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has dismissed the opposition to his same faith ticket by several prominent northern Christians as a minority viewpoint that does not represent the opinion of party members.

 

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Asuu says it is willing to return to work after losing appeal against industrial court judgement

UNIVERSITY lecturers are planning to call off their eight month long strike that has crippled activities across the country's tertiary institutions in response to a recent National Industrial Court ruling which ordered them back to work.

 

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Trade minister warns Governor Bello that his actions against Dangote will drive investors away

TRADE and industry minister Niyi Adebayo has waded into the ongoing dispute between the Kogi State government and Dangote Industries stating that trying to use force to resolve a dispute with an employer could drive investors away from the country.

 

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APC confident that nullification of Buni's tenure as party chairman will not affect Tinubu's candidacy

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) officials are confident that a recent court ruling nullifying the tenure of Governor Mai Mala Buni as the chairman of the party’s national caretaker committee will not affect the candidacy of its presidential aspirant Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

 

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Arsenal loanee Tim Akinola voted man of the match on his full Chesterfield debut

NIGERIAN-born Arsenal loanee Tim Akinola was voted man of the match in his full National League debut on Saturday when he featured for Chesterfield in a league game against Eastleigh at the Silverlake Stadium.

 

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Which of the presidential candidates has a programme to end the collection of these damaging and extortionate taxes 

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[1] Police collecting bribes at checkpoints

[2] Governors collecting security votes

[3] Clergymen extorting 10% of their followers’ wages

[4] Kidnappers collecting ransom fees

[5] Boko Haram and bandits receiving “protection fees” from state governors

[6] Religious leaders selling all sorts of miracle cures to desperate people afflicted with illnesses

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Aregbesola promises that Nigerian passport regime will be fully digitised by December

INTERIOR minister Rauf Aregbesola has revealed that the full digitisation of Nigeria's  passport processes would be completed by December by which time there would be no need for contact between applicants and immigration officers.

 

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Ngige asked to resign from the cabinet if he cannot back Tinubu as the APC's candidate

LABOUR and employment minister Dr Chris Ngige has been asked by several senior members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to resign from the party over his refusal to support its presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

 

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Nigerian politicians are forever travelling abroad but alas, we have not heard a single word on a diaspora policy from the 2023 presidential aspirants 

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[1] Once a year, 500 diasporans will be invited to Abuja to rub minds with the government

[2] The presidents of the major diaspora organisations in four or five key countries will be granted observers status at Nigerian Governors' Forum meetings

[3] The Nigeria Diaspora Commission will be upgraded into an agency with a mandate to attract foreign direct investment 

[4] By 2027 diasporans will be allowed to vote in presidential elections

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