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Do Not Implement 2014 Confab Recommendations – Arewa Youths Warn, Backs Igbo’s Secession

Ade Adewale — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:23:18 +0000

Some Northern youths under the umbrella of Arewa Liberation Movement (ALM) has issued a stern warning against the implementation of the 2014 Confab Recommendations, saying that it was drafted to favour a particular group. The group exressed this in a statement jointly signed by its National President, Usman A. Usman and National Secretary Kabir Haruna [...]

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Nigeria Must Be Restructured For True Federalism To Prevail, Says Governor Fayose

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 19:00:40 +0000

The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has lend his voice to those of other Nigerians calling for the restructuring of the country, saying it was strange that the All Progressives Congress (APC), which was at the fore-front of the agitation for true federalism was now against restructuring as the ruling party. The governor, [...]

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Yoruba Nation Has The Largest Population In Nigeria, Says Afenifere Chieftain

Wale Adebayo — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:33:46 +0000

A Chieftain of Yoruba Socio-cultural group ’Afenifere’, Barrister Niyi Owolade has declared that Yoruba ethnic group was the most populous Nation among the all tribes in Nigeria with over forty million people, just as he said that Osun State was the centre and source of Yoruba race with the most urbanized towns among the comity [...]

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Why I Stayed Away From PDP National Conference – Governor Fayose

Wale Adebayo — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:20:37 +0000

With the glaring absence of more than half its governor at its highly publicized national conference yesterday in Abuja, the question now on the lips of many is has the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) really gotten over its defeat at the last general elections? The conference, aimed at re-branding and re-positioning the opposition party ahead [...]

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PDP Tenders Unreserved Apology To Nigerians

Wale Adebayo — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:20:24 +0000

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday apologised for mistakes made during its 16-year rule in the country. The Chairman of the PDP Reconciliation Committee, Mr Raymond Dokpesi, offered the apology at a news conference in Abuja ahead of the party’s National Conference slated for Thursday. “on behalf of PDP, I tender our apologies,” said [...]

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Eight Facts You Need To Know About New INEC Boss, Mahmood Yakubu

Wale Adebayo — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:44:57 +0000

Following the appointment of Mahmood Yakubu as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) on Wednesday, here are eight facts you probably did not know about the Professor of Political History and International Studies. Yakubu, a Professor of Political History and International Studies, was Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education [...]

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False Assets Declaration: Most Politicians Are Guilty – Okunrounmu

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:02:44 +0000

Chairman of the 2014 National Conference Convocation Committee, Senator Femi Okunrounmu, on Saturday said that more than 90 percent of politicians in the country were guilty of false declaration of assets. Senate President Bukola Saraki is standing trial over a 13-count charge bordering on false declaration of assets in a development some people have described [...]

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#Nigeria > Senator Okunrounmu Blasts Northern Re-awakening Forum For Seeking Fresh National Conference

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:30:14 +0000

Afenifere chieftain, Senator Femi Okunrounmu, has lampooned northern leaders calling for a fresh national conference, saying that it was unfortunate that they could denigrate the 2014 confab organized by the outgone Goodluck Jonathan administration. Some prominent northern leaders under the aegis of Northern Reawakening Forum, led by a former member of the House of Representatives, [...]

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#Nigeria > Ohaneze Ndigbo Urges President Buhari To Adopt Outcome Of National Confab

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:30:10 +0000

Apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt the outcome of the National Conference as an anti-corruption template. Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan had convoked the Confab at the twilight of his administration to address multiple structural imbalance plaguing the nation. He handed over the report of the conference to President Buhari. [...]

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#Nigeria > National Working Committee Puts PDP National Conference On Hold

Wale Adebayo — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:30:28 +0000

All activities pertaining to the yet-to-be constituted committee on the proposed Peoples Democratic Party’s national conference have been put on hold by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC). The PDP National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo, in a statement Wednesday, said the decision is to create room for further consultations and exhaustive consideration by critical stakeholders, [...]

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Female Delegate Walked Out Of Confab Over Misconduct

Wale Adebayo — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:15:19 +0000

Immediate past President of National Association of Women Journalists, Ms Asabe Baba was humiliated Thursday when the Chairman of the National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi walked her out of the conference for misconduct. Baba, a delegate from Gombe State representing NAWOJ at the conference had left her seat for another when another delegate, Chief Mike [...]

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Nigeria’ Government Releases List of 492 CONFAB Delegates

Ade Adewale — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:05:28 +0000

The Federal Government, on Thursday released names of 492 delegates to the National Conference, which would be inaugurated on Monday, 17 March. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, made it known that the Federal Government has appointed three additional Assistant Secretaries for the [...]

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‘We Have No Hidden Agenda On National Conference’ – FG Cries Out To Critics

David Folami — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:58:56 +0000

Security of the venue and places where officials and delegates to the forth-coming National Conference will be given top priority by the Federal Government even as it denies that there is a hidden agenda by the Jonathan administration. The Federal Government lashed out at those inputing hidden agenda on the conference came on a day [...]

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National Conference Will Increase Mutual Understanding

David Folami — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:29:24 +0000

Alhaji Ibrahim Birnin-Tsaba, former Secretary to the Zamfara State Government, said the proposed National Conference would help Nigerians to understand and accommodate their differences. . Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Sokoto on Saturday that it was necessary to discuss with each other so as to appreciate mutual differences and seek out [...]

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