Tag: President
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You can’t run for president in 2019, Ex-PDP chair, Nwodo tells Fayose
A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Okwesilieze Nwodo, says Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, cannot contest in the party’s primary poll for 2019 presidential election. He stated this on Thursday in Abuja shortly after Fayose’s formal declaration of his intention to contest for the position of president of…
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Buhari hosts Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni in Aso Rock
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday played host to Uganda President, Yoweri Museveni in Aso Villa, Abuja. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the two leaders met behind closed doors at about 2.52ppm. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Ugandan president has been showing interest and concern over the activities of the deadly Boko Haram sect operating in Nigeria over five…
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Alhassan, Minister who wants Atiku as president attends FEC meeting with Buhari
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Sen. Aisha Alhassan who earlier declare her support for the presidential ambition of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday attended the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Minister had last week openly declared her support for Atiku in 2019…
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2019: Osinbajo disowns group campaigning for his election as President
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday disowned a group known as Osinbajo Volunteers, which is campaigning for his election as president in 2019. Distancing himself from activities of the group, Osinbajo, through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, asked Nigerians to disregard the group, adding that he had nothing to do with…
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Buhari used my money, influence to become president, but sidelined me – Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government of sidelining him after helping him to power in 2015. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Atiku spoke on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday. In his words: “Honestly speaking, I’m still a member of the APC; I was…
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Video: Buhari’s Minister, Alhassan declares support for Atiku, calls him ‘Our President in 2019’
…Says if Buhari decides to contest in 2019, I’ll still support Atiku …as other cabinet members kick A video of Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan (popularly called Mama Taraba) endorsing former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential race has gone viral. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Alhassan, who led a delegation of the…
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If Jonathan were President, Dollar wouldn’t exchange for more than N50 – Uwazuruike
The founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, said if Jonathan had remained the president of Nigeria till today, the US dollar would not have exchanged for more than N50. In an interview in the current edition of The Interview, Uwazuruike also criticised the Muhammadu Buhari…
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Olubajo elected president of Nigeria union in South Africa
The Nigeria Union in South Africa has elected Mr Adetola Olubajo as the new president of the union, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Olubajo, a native of Odogbolu in Ogun, was former a Secretary-General of the union. He scored a total of 83 votes, despite the disqualification of his opponent, Mr Theodore Ezeunara.…
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Can Nigerian rats overthrow the President? By Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu George Orwell, born Eric Author Blair in Motihari Bengal, India in 1930, wrote that powerful satire novel, Animal Farm, which was published in 1945. This book that has remained one of the best books ever written by any author in recent history spoke of that kingdom founded by a group of animals…
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Kill ‘idiots’ who resist arrest, Philippines’ President orders police
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told police on Monday they could kill “idiots” who violently resist arrest, two days after hundreds of people turned the funeral of a slain teenager into a protest against his deadly war on drugs. Duterte met the parents of the schoolboy, 17-year-old Kian Loyd delos Santos, at the presidential palace in…