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Peter Obi prevented from holding meeting in his home town of Agulu by security forces

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi has alleged that security forces prevented him from holding a meeting in his home town of Agulu yesterday.

 

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APC governorship candidate's agent in Benue State arrested by EFCC with millions of naira

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have arrested an All Progressives Congress (APC) agent in Benue State with millions of naira said to belong to the party's gubernatorial candidate Emmanuel Jimeh.

 

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Violence flares again at Abonnema town in Rivers State as thugs snatch ballot boxes from six polling units

RIVERS State has been the centre of more political violence today despite a heavy military presence as armed thugs have once again snatched ballot boxes in the town of Abonnema in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area as they did during the presidential polls.

 

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Nnamdi Kanu urges Ipob members to vote out all the southeast governors but return those from the south-south

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has urged his followers to return all of the governors in the south-south in today's gubernatorial elections but to vote against the candidate of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and all the southeastern governors.

 

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CBN and EFCC plan to introduce law laws barring anyone convicted of economic crimes of opening bank account

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have begun working together on a plan that would involve barring anyone convicted of corruption from opening a bank account.

 

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Three Nigerians female authors nominated for this year's Women’s Prize for Fiction

THREE Nigerian authors have been nominated for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world that was once won by Chimamanda Adichie for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.

 

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Magistrates court issues bench warrant for arrest of APC's Akwa Ibom State governorship candidate

TOMORROW'S gubernatorial elections in Akwa Ibom State could have been thrown into turmoil after a Port Harcourt high court judge issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Nsima Ekere.

 

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Saraki risks being sent to jail for refusing to swear-in an APC senator-elect who got election results overturned

SENATE president Senator Bukola Saraki faces the prospect of going to jail after a federal high court judge in Abuja threatened to issue a bench warrant against him for refusing to obey an order asking him to swear-in a lawmaker who got election results overturned.

 

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Dame Patience looks set to lose $8.4m after Supreme Court rules that EFCC was right to seize it

FORMER first lady Dame Patience Jonathan suffered a major setback that could result in her forfeiting $8.4m to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after Nigeria's Supreme Court upheld a judgement on a temporary seizure.

 

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Four Nigerians listed in Forbes's latest survey of the world's 13 black billionaires

FOUR Nigerians have been listed among the world's top 13 black billionaires recently published by Forbes magazine in its latest survey of the wealthy with Africa's richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote topping the list with an estimated value of $10.9bn.

 

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