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APC: NWC’s Tenure Extension Will Not Hinder Tinubu’s Reconciliation Assignment

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2018

A House of Representatives member, Abdulrazak Namdas, said All Progressives Congress (APC) reconciliation assignment of Sen. Bola Tinubu’s committee would not be hindered by the party’s National Working Committee’s tenure extension. Namdas told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on

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2019: Begin Ground Work Now To Make PDP BroadBase, Committee Tells Party

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2018

Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) post convention reconciliation committee and Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has charged the national leadership of PDP to commence ground work that will position the party to spearhead the broad base coalition that will defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019. The governor, who […]

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Buhari ‘never knows anything’-Senator Abaribe attacks president

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2018

A senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia-PDP), has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for constantly denying responsibility when things go wrong. The senator said Mr. Buhari is always in the habit of saying, “I don’t know.” Mr. Abaribe said this while contributing to a motion on the recent violence killings in Kogi state by suspected herdsmen. Atai Aidoko […]

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[BREAKING] Senate to write CJN over court judgment stopping Electoral Act amendment

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2018

The Senate has resolved to write the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to expressed their reservations about the judgment by a Federal High Court stopping the National Assembly from overriding President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the amended Electoral Act. The Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, moved a motion at the plenary on […]

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President Buhari losing control of security chiefs – PDP

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2018

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the disobedience of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to relocate to Benue State, as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, shows that the president is losing control of his security chiefs, even as the Chief Security Officer of the nation. Also, […]

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Electoral Act: House of Reps to re-transmit rejected amendment

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2018

The House of Representatives has vowed to gazette the amended Electoral Act which President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to and re-transmit the reordering of the election sequence for passage. This is as it informed that it has commenced the process to veto the Peace Corp bill. In making it’s position on the rejected electoral act, […]