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Amidst controversy over President Muhammadu Buhari’s withholding of assent to the 2018 Electoral Act Amendment Bill transmitted to him for the fourth time, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu has assured Nigerians that the smart card readers would be used in the conduct of the 2019 General Elections.
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As Nigerians prepare for the general elections in 2019, President of the Senate, Sen. Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara have called for urgent action by stakeholders, especially security agencies to check the menace of vote buying in the country.
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Nasarawa State has been hit by acute malnutrition and diseases, leaving no fewer than 30 children dead and more than 2,000 receiving medical attention in various medical centres across the state.
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WorldStage Newsonline— “If it was a responsible person that raised the issue, some of us would have taken it seriously and looked into it but this is a man that often times keeps lying and says things that don’t make sense to me,” with those words, President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Yerima Shettima dismissed the undying claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was cloned.
Read More Runaway leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has identified Abba Kyari and Mamman Daura as the two men Aisha Buhari said were frustrating her husband government.
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WorldStage Newsonline— Nigerian Senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio has responded to the world conference called by the state governor, Emmanuel Udom, accusing him of using the conference to insult him.
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WorldStage Newsonline—The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) says President Muhammadu Buhari’s deployment of his power in the investigation of bribery allegation against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State is the only thing that can assure Nigerians he’s sincere with his claim of fighting corruption in the country.
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Following the recent high rate of kidnapping and killing in Ondo state, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the state government to convene a security summit to address the situation.
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that it received 75 petitions in the last one year in Gombe State, under its North East zonal office.
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Following the intervention of well meaning Nigerians, Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) has suspended its planned shutdown of depots across the country with five days grace period for the government to settle subsidy debt.
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