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CAPPA Urges FG To Increase Tobacco Control Budget

The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has renewed its call on the Federal Government to significantly increase budgetary allocation for tobacco control. CAPPA’s Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, made the call in a statement signed by Robert Egbe, Media and Communications Officer, CAPPA, yesterday in Abuja. Oluwafemi said Nigeria’s current budgetary allocation remained grossly...
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Abiodun Congratulates APC Chair, NWC Members

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, on his re-election at the party’s 8th National Convention. The convention, which took place at the Eagle Square in Abuja, was at tended by over 8,000 delegates and was described as peaceful and credible. Governor Abiodun also...
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NNPP Not Following Kwankwaso To ADC – Founder

The Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Dr Boniface Aniebonam, has said members of the party are not part of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s planned defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Aniebonam made this known in a statement yesterday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kwankwaso in a statement...
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INC Sets To Settle N’Delta Ex-Agitators, Politicians

The Ijaw National Congress (INC), the apex sociocultural organisation of the Ijaw people, has set up an adhoc mediation committee to address lingering disputes among some ex-agitators, businessmen and politicians of Ijaw tribe. This is contained in a statement signed by the INC Publicity Secretary, Chief Ezonebi Oyakemeagbegha, and made available to the News Agency...
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Delta ADC Leadership Crisis Deepens

The emergence of two factional secretariats of the African Democratic Party (ADC) in Delta State has polarized the party. While the secretariat located in Okpanam is laying claim to the soul of the party, another in Asaba is claiming authenticity. Although the opposition party’s Transition Leadership Team (TLT) of the party, led by Fred Akpewe,...
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NRC Secures Another Vandal’s Arrest In Lagos

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has recorded another breakthrough in its crackdown on railway vandalism, with arrest and prosecution of a suspected track vandal in Lagos. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, NRC, Dr Kayode Opeifa, said this in a statement yesterday in Lagos. Opeifa noted that the 32-year-old suspect was arrested on Thursday by Multi...
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Afenifere Leader, Fasoranti, Salutes Tinubu At 74

…commends him for the uncommon courage brought to governance The Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, has congratulated President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on his 74th birthday, saying that he has demonstrated ‘uncommon courage and wisdom in governance’. According to the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, the National Leader...
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