Today's Headlines: Don’t Confirm El-Rufai For NG To Have Peace–Sani, Obasanjo to deliver maiden presidential lecture at Catholic varsity
Ministerial list: Don’t confirm El-Rufai for Nigeria to have peace – Shehu Sani
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Shehu Sani, a socio-political commentator, has advised the Senate against confirming former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai to be minister.
Sani warned that El-Rufai should not be cleared if Nigeria wants peace to reign.
Describing the former governor as playing god while he was governor, Sani said El-Rufai was now at the mercy of the Senate.
Tweeting, he identified the former governor as a religious extremist and a fanatic.
Obasanjo to deliver maiden presidential lecture at Catholic varsity
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A profound Catholic University, Godfrey Okoye University is set to welcome the Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on the 25th of August, 2023.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Christian Anieke made this known in his office while officially announcing students’ second-semester examination results for the 2022/23 academic year of the University.
Prof. Anieke said that the former President will visit the University to deliver first presidential lecture on the impact of good governance on national and youth development.
“I want to use this opportunity to announce that we are going to have a very important visitor, former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo here on the 25th of August, 2023.
“He is going to give the first Presidential lecture on the impact of good governance on national development and youth development. He will be the first and we are naming one of the faculty after him,” he said.
Ganduje presides over first NWC meeting as APC chair
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Abdullahi Ganduje, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is currently presiding over his first national working committee (NWC) meeting.
The meeting is taking place at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
On August 3, Ganduje was elected as the party’s national chairman during a national executive committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja.
During the NEC meeting, Ajibola Basiru, former senate spokesperson, was elected as the party’s national secretary.
Fashola petitions IGP over allegation of writing tribunal judgment
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Babatunde Fashola, former minister of works and housing, has petitioned the inspector-general of police over “defamatory” social media posts.
The posts claim that he is drafting a favourable judgment for the presidential election petition tribunal.
Recently, Jackson Ude and some Twitter users alleged that Fashola and some lawyers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were writing the judgment which would be handed to the judges.
Reacting to the claim, the former minister described the allegation as “baseless and defamatory”.
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