Author: Wale Adebayo

YBNL leader, Olamide Adedeji has welcomed a bouncing baby boy into the Adedeji family. Olamide went online through his Instagram page to declare the new arrival to the world. He wrote: “Mercy said no, never gonna let you go. Never gonna let you walk away. You don’t have to be afraid , mercy said no �� . Got you boy✌️ New signee #YBNL. Batifeori Maximilliano Adedeji. Fans have been congratulating the Story of the God’s crooner on the new baby, but questions still remain if it’s his son. Olamide has in the past denied that his long term girlfriend is pregnant.

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Jimi Agbaje at a Town Hall Meeting in Badagry recently The governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, on Saturday promised to make Badagry the industrial hub of West Africa. Speaking at a campaign rally, Agbaje lamented that the axis has been short-changed in terms of development. “I observed that Badagry has been shortchanged over the years in Lagos state. “I want you all to know that government is for all, Badagry inclusive. There is need to look at the teeming youths because many of them are without jobs.” he said, adding that the…

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Governor of Bauchi State, Malam Isa Yuguda, has expressed concern over the proliferation of small arms and light weapons across the country, saying the impunity in killing of innocent lives is becoming alarming. The governor stated this on Thursday at a two-day stakeholders sensitisation forum on the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Nigeria for the North-East zone titled, ‘Ballot Without Bullet’ held at the Zaranda Hotel, Bauchi. The Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons, inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan on April 23, 2013, is the front leader in Nigeria’s effort to stem the tide of…

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The campaign team of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has issued a statement accusing an unnamed commissioner in the cabinet of Governor Mukhtar Yero of stockpiling arms as part of a plot to unleash violence on the state and blame it on the APC. The allegation was contained in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday. Read the full statement below: “The APC Kaduna Change Team is vigorously campaigning in Southern Kaduna. This is after suspending its Kaduna rally slated for Saturday. “But reports have reached us that the…

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REUBEN WILSON Ex-Niger Delta militant leaders have issued a seven-day ultimatum to a former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), to apologise to them for calling on the authorities to arrest them. The former militant leaders, who spoke under the aegis of Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, also declared Danjuma a persona non-grata in the oil rich region. In a statement signed on Friday by the group’s President, Pastor Reuben Wilson, they accused the former minister of belonging to the clique of northerners that had been benefitting from the oil produced in the region. You may recall that…

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CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, LT.- GEN. KENNETH MINIMAH, INSPECTING A PARADE, DURING APARADE IN HIS HONOUR, AT INFANTRY CORPS IN JAJI, KADUNA, The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Kenneth Minimah, on Friday in Zaria, Kaduna State, said the Nigerian Army has reviewed the training curriculum of the Depot, Nigerian Army, to effectively tackle insurgency in the Northeast. He made this known during the Passing Out Parade (POP) of the 71 Regular Recruits Intake of the Depot, Nigerian Army, which took place at the parade ground of the Chindit Barracks, Zaria. The COAS, who was the Reviewing Officer of the POP,…

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FROM LEFT: GOV. ISA YUGUDA OF Bauchi STATE; PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN ADAMU MUAZU; President GOODLUCK JONATHAN; SENATE President DAVID MARK AND GOV.IBRAHIM DANKWAMBO OF GOMBE, AT THE PDP RALLY IN Bauchi ON SATURDAY (29/3/14). President Goodluck Jonathan will beat the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari in the north, come February 14, 2015. This was the assertion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which noted that President Jonathan’s soaring popularity among the voting population across the country is an evidence. Speaking through its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement, Saturday, the party said President…

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The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, has warned that there would be trouble if the February 28 election in the state is manipulated. Ogboru, who was addressing the Delta Central mega rally at Ughelli on Thursday, recalled that in the past, people of the state had lived with situations where elections were rigged against the will of the people. “But we know that God’s time is the best. This is the time set by God”, he said and burst into a local song, “If Ogboru no win, yawa go dey, if Ogboru no…

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President Goodluck Jonathan has promised that if he is reelected for a second term, he would revisit the controversial issue of 76 oil wells, which the Supreme Court, three years ago, ruled as belonging to Akwa Ibom State. He made this pledge following a public demand made by a former governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke that the issue be resolved politically. Speaking at the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the president said: “Once I return to office, I will sit down with stakeholders from Cross River State and look at…

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President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) to clear his name of charges of alleged certificate forgery and perjury. Jonathan, in a statement on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said the former head of state must stop taking Nigerians for granted and show some leadership qualities by taking personal responsibility of clearing his name of the charges. The president argued that a man could not carry an “undischarged baggage” of alleged certificate forgery and willful perjury and still shout “change” at political…

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presidential candidate of the United Progressives Party, Chekwas Okorie, Muhamadu Buhari, presidential debate, All Progressives Congress The presidential candidate of the United Progressives Party, UPP, Chekwas Okorie, has pleaded with his All Progressives Congress counterpart, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to reconsider his decision not to attend the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria-organized presidential debate. The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation had announced Thursday that its candidate would not participate in the debate organized by the BON because most of its members are sympathetic to PDP’s cause. The presidential debate has been slated for February 8, 2015 from 7-9P.M and will be aired…

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Almost looks like a wax figure…a beautiful one! The reality star was photographed with her more famous sister, Kim K, both dressed in head-to-toe black outfits as they stepped out in LA yesterday morning. Khloe debuted her new blonde look

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Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), on Thursday said that he endorses all 14 presidential candidates in the forthcoming elections. Babangida had warmly received President Goodluck Jonathan and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), in a move that suggests the endorsement of both. Babangida, however, stated during a talk show on Channels TV, that all the candidates had displayed passion for the unity of the country and as such, deserve his support. He also did not deny throwing his weight behind Jonathan, when asked by the presenter of the programme, Ms.…

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Trade between Nigeria and China in 2014 was already in the excess of $16 billion with January and November taking into account, China’s Deputy Chief of Mission to Nigeria, Zhang Bin, said yesterday. “In 2013, the trade volume between Nigeria and China was 13.5 billion dollars and then according to our statistics, from January to November 2014, the trade volume already amounted to 16.47 billion dollars”, Zhang told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday. Zhang said the fact that the trade volume of 11 months exceeded that of the whole of the previous year by 35 percent showed…

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About 30 persons have been killed in Taraba State following an attack by Fulani gunmen on Nwonko village in Wukari Local Government Area of the state on Thursday. The attack, which started in the early hours of the day, lasted for a couple of hours and resulted in the destruction of houses as well as farm produce. The attack was confirmed by the member, representing Wukari constituency in the state’s House of Assembly, Daniel Ishaya Gani, who said most of the deceased were women and children. According to Gani, who expressed regret that the killings are still going on across…

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