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Makinde to Wike: Tinubu didn’t give Oyo N50bn for airport

Oyo State Governor and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) presidential candidate, Seyi Makinde, has rejected a claim by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that President Bola Tinubu provided N50 billion to support the upgrade of the Ibadan airport. Makinde described the claim as false, insisting that the airport upgrade was being funded […]

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Akpabio: No vacancy in Aso Rock amid Tinubu’s vacation

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed calls for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to hand over power to Vice President Kashim Shettima, insisting that there is no leadership vacuum despite the President’s extended working vacation abroad. Akpabio spoke on Tuesday in Akwa Ibom State while commissioning road projects […]

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Making the Common Northern Education Compact a reality: Pathway from Niger State, by Usman Sarki

“To this class of enemies belong some of the educated or half-educated Europeanized natives whom our educational and religious system divorces from their race, and who, having no outlet and bereft of national or racial pride, betray the interests of their country into the hands of its foes.” — E. D. Morel Instilling pride in […]

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Commercial flights from Gusau International Airport to Abuja begin next month

Commercial flights from the Gusau International Airport to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, will begin next month, in October, 2026. The Zamfara State Government announced this when it signed an Air Route Development Partnership Agreement with XEJet Limited for scheduled commercial flights between Gusau and Abuja on Monday. The Memorandum of Understanding signed yesterday […]

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Gov Alex Otti’s “exit” plan controversy, by Ochereome Nnanna

Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti (OFR), recently got tongues wagging when he, once again, averred that at the end of his tenure he would hand over and disappear from politics. He harped on the need to give the youth a chance to lead, affirming that there are young people who are more intelligent, qualified, […]

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Alleged wiretapping: El-Rufai awaits Oct 26 no-case ruling

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday fixed October 26, 2026, to rule on the no-case submission filed by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in his ongoing trial over alleged unlawful interception of a telephone communication. The ruling date was fixed after counsel for the prosecution and defence adopted their respective positions on

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