Day: October 15, 2018

“Time Is Up For Buhari” -Fayose

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Outgoing Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has said that the former Director General of the Department of State Service, Lawal Daura, twice asked him to support the government of President Muhammadu Buhari so that Fayose’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party, would retain the control of the State. The governor, who spoke in Abuja on Sunday night at a send-forth party organised for him by his colleagues in the PDP Governors’ Forum, said he turned down the request on both occasions. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr…

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Nigerian artist who painted Obama honoured by Harvard University honours

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Kehinde Wiley, Nigerian painter who was commissioned to paint a portrait of former United States President Barack Obama, was last Thursday honoured with the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Harvard University. Others who were similarly honoured for their good works in other fields include Florence Ladd, Kenneth Chenault, Shirley Ann Jackson, Pamela Joyner, Bryan Stevenson, Dave Chappelle, and Colin Kaepernick. Previous awards were conferred on Muhammad Ali in 2015 and Maya Angelou in 2014. The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal is Harvard’s highest honour in the field of African and African…

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Atiku condemns Buhari’s travel ban

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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari for banning fifty (50) prominent Nigerians from travelling outside the country. In a statement issued on his behalf by his campaign organization, Atiku averred that the ban was ‘a throwback to Buhari’s evil Decree Number Two of 1984 which criminalised truth telling if it did not please Buhari, proving that dictators can grow old, but they can’t grow into democrats.’ Recall that some Nigerians like the former aviation minister, Femi Fani Kayode, former…

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