Tag: FCT
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Easter: Police assure FCT residents of peaceful festivity
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command, says it has deployed human and material resources across its nooks and crannies to ensure that residents enjoy the Easter celebration.
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Presidential poll petitions: Sticky issue of 25% votes in FCT – By Ehichioya Ezomon
There’s a saying: “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” This appears to summarise section 299 of Nigeria’s amended 1999 Constitution that designates the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, “as if it were one of the States of…
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Guber Polls: EFCC to prosecute vote buyers – Uwujaren
For today’s Gubernatorial and State Assembly election in the country, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, has given its men the go-ahead to storm polling units to arrest and prosecute anyone involved in vote buying.
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Why Tinubu needs 25% votes in FCT to be president – By Anietie Usen
I am not a lawyer. My first daughter and first son are. But that does not convey to me any scintilla or atom of knowledge of the law and the technicalities thereof. I have two degrees only in political science and have attended many executive leadership courses in Harvard Business School, Oxford Business School,
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Agbakoba SAN writes INEC for ‘correct’ interpretation of electoral laws
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba SAN, has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, requesting the “correct” interpretation of certain sections of the 1999 constitution that determines who wins a presidential election. He noted that Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution prescribes a presidential candidate meet the requirements…
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PDP, LP lose scores of members to APC in FCT
Barely 48 hours to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) have lost scores of members to APC in the FCT. According to reports, the defectors were received into the fold of APC on Wednesday in Abuja.
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Election: FCT minister of State intensifies campaign for Tinubu
The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has continued to drum up support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidates, Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Sen. Ibrahim Shettima. Mr Austine Elemue, Special Assistant on Media to the minister, in a statement on Saturday, said Aliyu who spoke at the APC Presidential Campaign…
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Minister inaugurates integrated medical outreach for women in FCT
The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, on Sunday in Abuja inaugurated an Integrated Medical Outreach, in Karshi to be conducted across all the 62 political wards in the territory. Newsmen reports that the free medical outreach powered by Nigerians Unite for Tinubu/Shettima Mandate was targeted at the vulnerables in the hard-to-reach communities. The…
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UPDATE: 22 rescued, 2 dead in Abuja building collapse
The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says no fewer than 22 persons have so far been rescued in the ongoing efforts to evacuate those trapped in a building which collapsed in Gwarinpa, Abuja.
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BREAKING: Rescue efforts ongoing as building collapses in Abuja
Four people have been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building on Thursday in Gwarinpa Estate, Abuja.