Year: 2016

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, on Wednesday commenced follow-up discussions with the management of the Chinese EXIM Bank in Beijing, China, that will lead to the implementation of the various projects discussed during the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to China. President Buhari during a State visit in April this year reached various agreements with the Chinese government on development assistance particularly the funding of some critical infrastructure in the country. The visit by the President further bolstered Nigeria’s participation in the ten critical…

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The first wife of Mujahid Dokubo Asari, Alhaja Zainab is dead. It was gathered that she died alongside a friend in a motor accident on her way to Ibadan. Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni, chairman Oyo state Muslim community, who confirmed the death in a statement said. Zainab was already a Muslim years before she married Dokubo. He recalled that Zainab, who lived in Ibadan had to relocate to Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa when she was appointed Secretary of the Muslims Pilgrims Board. “Even then, there was hardly any month she…

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As Edo State governorship electioneering campaigns heat up, reliable information available to TheLeaderng.com indicate that the APC led government of Governor Adams Oshiomhole has again prevented the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from using the Olua Primary School. The school at Uselu was prescheduled and prepaid venue for their Edo South Senatorial rally. No excuse was given. Their money paid has reportedly been returned. The APC has however held all their rallies at public schools across Edo State. But they prevent the PDP from using the same public facility for their…

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) for appropriating the Abuja – Kaduna Standard Gauge Rail Line Project which was conceptualized, awarded and constructed by the PDP’s administrations. The Party in a Statement by its Chief Spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 said, the Rail Project was conceptualized by the Obasanjo Administration and successive PDP administrations of President Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, commenced work and built the Project to 99% completion saying that the only work done…

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As US Consulate-General promises to assist The Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has called on the United States and other European nation missions in Nigeria to show huge interest in the Edo State governorship election fixed for September 10 – in order to ensure free and fair election. The PDP candidate stated this when he received Mr. John Bray and Mr. James Plasman, the Consul-General and the Economic Officer of the Consulate General of the United Stated of America respectively, in his residence in…

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As Edo State governatorial electioneering campaigns begins, the flagbeaer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Godwin Obaseki displayed ignorance of projects in the state he wants to govern as he recommended that Institute of Management Science and Technology, Usen be shut down. Addressing the elders and people of Usen community, Obaseki told them that he would recommend that the Federal Government should shut the school down following the poor academic activities running in the school. However, he was rudely interrupted by one of the youth who corrected him that the…

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President Muhammadu Buhari says he was overthrown as head of state in 1985 because of his crusade against corruption in the military. In an exclusive interview published in the current edition of The Interview magazine, Buhari said senior military leaders ousted him in August ’85 to save themselves from his wrath. After himself coming to power in 1983 via a coup, Buhari was deposed two years later by a coup led by Ibrahim Babangida, a retired general and former military president, Aliyu Gusau, former director of military intelligence (DMI), and other members of the…

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