Tag: Tafawa Balewa
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Travel advisory: Traffic diversion from Tafawa Balewa Road to Warri street in Abuja
…as President TInubu commissions ICC today The Federal Capital Territory Directorate of Roads Traffic Services, FCTDRTS has issued a travel advisory on diversion of roads as President Bola Tinubu commissions rehabilitated International Conference Centre , ICC today. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports the the diversion from Tafawa Balewa Road to Warri street will further be linked to…
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![Afe Babalola’s son Gboyega marries Tafawa Balewa’s daughter [VIDEO]](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Gboyega-Afe-Babalola-and-wife-Amina.webp)
Afe Babalola’s son Gboyega marries Tafawa Balewa’s daughter [VIDEO]
The son of the renowned lawyer Afe Babalola, Gboyega Afe Babalola has married his lover, Amina, daughter of Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa from the Tafawa Balewa dynasty. Their ceremony was sealed at the Ansarudeen Mosque Maitama, Abuja on Friday. Former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani and former Ogun State governor,…
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Court restrains Abduljalil Balewa from parading himself as late Tafawa Balewa’s son
An FCT High Court on Monday restrained Dr. Abuduljalil Balewa from claiming that the late first Prime Minister of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was his father. Mukhtar, Saddik, and Umar, children of the late prime minister,
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Obasanjo, Balewa, Mandela, others, nominated for leadership awards
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo-Addo and Mahamad Ennaceur, former interim President of Tunisia have been nominated for the African Leadership Award. Similarly, the first Prime Minister of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, former President of Ghana Jerry Rawlings and Desmond Tutu, former Chairman of the…
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Remains of Balewa’s wife buried in Bauchi
The remains of Hajiya Jummai Abubakar, wife to Nigeria’s first prime minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, has been buried on Monday at the Bauchi Central Cemetery in Bauchi State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the funeral prayers, presided by the Chief Imam of Bauchi Central Mosque, Mallam Bala Baba-Inna, took place at…
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Death of Balewa’s wife: BASG urges Bauchi people to honour Balewa family
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has called on people of the state to honour Balewa family by turning out enmass and attending the burial of Jummai Abubakar, wife of late Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In a statement issued by Muntari Gidado, his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Muhammed, described the death as a…
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Wife of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa is dead
…Buhari mourns, sends presidential jet to evacuate her remains The only surviving wife of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, is dead. Hajiya Jummai Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday in Lagos. It was learnt that she was taken to India to seek medical attention for her heart disease…
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Bauchi gov denies conceding defeat as INEC resumes collation of Tafawa Balewa results
The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the collation of the contentious results of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State which were earlier cancelled. The collation, which is taking place at the INEC Headquarters, Bauchi instead of Zwall, the Tafawa Balewa LGA Collation Centre, will lead to the declaration of the winner of…