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Obaseki salutes Nigerians as country celebrates 58th independence anniversary 

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2018

Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated Nigerians on the country’s 58th independence anniversary celebration. The governor, in a statement, reflected on the sacrifices and broadmindedness of Nigeria’s founding fathers, noting that the efforts of past heroes shall

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After defecting from APC, Senator Hunkuyi loses PDP governorship ticket

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2018

A former member of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Isah Ashiru, has been elected as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State. The Chairman of the PDP Governorship Primary Election Committee in the state, Mr Phillip Aivoji, on Monday in Kaduna declared Ashiru winner of the election with 1,330 votes. […]

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Bolaji Abdullahi, seven others withdraw from Kwara PDP governorship primary

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2018

Eight out of the 10 governorship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, Kwara State chapter, withdrew from the primary election on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the eight aspirants announced their withdrawal at the resumed delegates’ conference to elect a governorship candidate for the state in Ilorin. NAN also reports that the primary, which […]

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Nigeria Independence Day: Buhari’s speech full of empty assertions –PDP

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party has described the Independence Day anniversary speech by President Muhammadu Buhari as “a litany of false claims, empty assertions and bogus promises.” The party also said that the President was “fictitious” in his assertions that the economy had made progress under him and that there was enabling environment for local and […]

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NDDC MD emerges APC gov candidate in Akwa Ibom

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2018

Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission was on Monday declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 general elections in Akwa Ibom. The chairman of APC’s committee for the governorship primary, Yamah Momoh, who made the declaration at the party’s secretariat in Uyo, said the election was conducted in the

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2019: I’ll not surrender Ogun to ‘profiteers,’ Amosun vows

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2018

  Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has vowed not to “surrender the state to those desirous of reaping from where they had sowed nothing.”   Amosun said his supporters are on ground, well prepared and ready for the ‘profiteers’ on which ever date the governorship primary is fixed.   The Governor who made this known […]