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Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu unemployed graduates pension

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has asked to be addressed as ‘Mr Governor’ as against His Excellency which has been in use since Nigeria returned to democracy. Taking to his official Twitter page, the governor wrote, “Your Excellency is a nice title that has been used to signify authority, position in government, authoritarian disposition, executive arrogance, and a demi-god mystique. Today, I wish to drop the title and to embrace a more representative one; Mr. Governor.” He added that, “In the last five months that I have been privileged to exercise the mandate freely given to me by the great…

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Senate Minority Leader, Biodun Olujimi of PDP has lost her reelection bid

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti has hailed Wednesday’s Appeal Court judgment which upheld the Tribunal verdict that sacked Sen. Dayo Adeyeye of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in favour of Mrs Abiodun Olujimi. This is just as the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC) in its reaction rejected the judgment, describing it as a rape on the mandate freely given by Ekiti electorate to the APC Senator. The PDP made the commendation in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday by its Publicity Secretary in the State, Mr Jackson Adebayo. Adebayo commended the judiciary for upholding the victory of…

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Grace Taiga, a former director, Legal Services in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources

A principal witness, CSP Umar Babangida, on Wednesday alleged that Grace Taiga, a former director, Legal Services in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, played a major role in the fraudulent gas supply agreement between the Federal Government and Petroleum and Industrial Development (P&ID). Testifying in an FCT High Court in Abuja, Babangida, informed the court that he led the team that investigated the alleged fraudulent activities of the P&ID. ”We opened an investigation as a result of a petition forwarded from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation to the acting chairman of EFCC in July 2015. ”The…

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