Today's Headlines: Allow Niger Republic Return To Democratic Government- Obi, Tinubu Hails Ray Ekpu At 75
Allow Niger Republic Return To Democratic Government – Peter Obi Tells Nigeria, ECOWAS
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Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, is of the view that the people of Niger Republic should be allowed, their national institutions, the opportunity to revert quickly to a representative democratic government.
This is even as he has described the ongoing political crisis in Niger Republic as a matter of dire and urgent national interest and security to Nigeria.
Obi said that primacy must be given to dialogue and diplomacy towards a resolution with minimal disruptive impact on Nigeria and the West African sub-region, regardless of the positions taken by other various parties.
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Tinubu Hails Veteran Journalist
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has hailed veteran journalist and columnist Mr Ray Ekpu on his 75th birthday.
Tinubu’s spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale made this known on Sunday.
Tinubu described Ekpu’s life as synonymous with the struggle for freedom, democracy and the entrenchment of good governance in Nigeria.
Join Politics To Stop Fraudulent Elections, Obasanjo Tells Christians
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The former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday said elections in Nigeria were corrupt, urging Christians to fully participate in politics to make it clean.
He made this known at the 57th annual convention and 67th anniversary of The Gospel Faith Mission International held at the Gospel City, Ogunmakin on Lagos/Ibadan expressway in Ogun State.
Obasanjo, while speaking on the theme, ‘The Roles of the Church in Nation Building at a Time Like This’, said when there is insecurity, hopelessness, poverty, depression, a time that is not conducive to living, the church must rise up to the occasion as the salt of the world.
Anambra APC Members Beg Tinubu For Additional Ministerial Slot
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Anambra Elders Forum of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to give the people of Southeast an additional slot in his ministerial list.
The elders, while briefing reporters Saturday in Awka, said the President should remember the sacrifices some of the party members made during the struggle to make the party solid in the zone. The struggle, according to the elders, claimed the lives of some of the party faithful.
Chairman of the elders’ forum, Chief Innocent Obi, said though the party did not win in the Southeast during the presidential election, the APC members succeeded in not allowing other parties to write figures that could have given them victory.
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