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Buba Galadima, spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign, has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of illegitimately enriching some of the President’s relatives. Galadima, who spoke on Sunrise Daily, a live programme on Channels Television, on Wednesday, alleged that some individuals close to Buhari, who were poor in 2015 when the President assumed office, had somehow become owners of choice houses in the President’s hometown of Daura, Katsina State. The PDP campaign spokesperson made the accusation during a heated debate with an All Progressives Congress member, Senator Ayo…

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President Muhammadu Buhari said his wife Aisha Buhari’s allegation that his government has been hijacked was baseless and described it as “her business.” Buhari insisted there was no cabal running his government and asked his critics to name one decision taken by the cabal. “That’s her business,” Buhari said during an interview with the Hausa service of Voice of America. “What they are saying is different from what is happening.” “They should come out and say those things they feel was staged managed by the cabal. What the cabal forced…

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Nigerian billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola has disclosed plans to sell his 75 per cent direct and indirect shareholdings in Forte Oil. Forte Oil in a statement signed by its General Counsel, Akinleye Olagbende stated that it has notified the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC and the investing community that its majority shareholder, Mr. Femi Otedola has reached an agreement with the Prudent Energy team, investing through Ignite Investments and Commodities Limited, to divest of his full 75 percent direct and indirect shareholding in the company’s downstream…

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Professor Sophie Oluwole, renowned philosopher and Nigeria’s first female doctorate degree holder in philosophy is dead. She was 83 years old. President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the Oluwole family over their loss. The President in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in Abuja on Monday, joined members of the family, the academia and other close associates in mourning the philosopher. He noted that the deceased had through her teachings and works celebrated the Yoruba culture, history and worldview, and reminded the world…

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Four siblings, twenty-four-year-old Chioma as well as Stephen, 22; Rita, 20; and Joseph, 18, are demanding the sum of N200m as damages from their. parents and other defendants in a fundamental rights violation suit they filed against their parents, Pius and Eucharia Anowai, the Inspector-General of Police and eight others before a Federal High Court in Lagos for putting them under house arrest. Other defendants in the suit marked, FHC/L/CS/2031/18, before Justice Babs Kuewumi, are the Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, Mrs Nkem Ezeonwu; Assistant Commissioner of…

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Four stowaways who allegedly threatened the crew of a cargo ship with armed bars and demanded the crew sail close to the British coast so they could jump off and swim ashore, have been detained by police on Friday night after an operation to secure the vessel was launched off the Kent coast. The crew of Grande Tema, en route from Lagos in Nigeria to Tilbury in Essex, locked themselves on the bridge after the stowaways they had discovered broke free from a cabin and started to make their demands. The…

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