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Soludo in Tinubu’s Campaign: ‘Bitter truth’ is South-East must align with centre — Sly Ezeokenwa, APGA National Chair
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Soludo in Tinubu’s Campaign: ‘Bitter truth’ is South-East must align with centre — Sly Ezeokenwa, APGA National Chair

•Dismisses anti-party claim against Anambra gov By Dickson Omobola National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sly Ezeokenwa, in this interview first aired on Arise News, speaks on the reasons Anambra State governor and national leader of APGA, Professor Charles Soludo, has pitched tent with President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2027 elections, despite concerns over alleged anti-party activities. Excerpts: Your party, APGA, has adopted President Bola Tinubu, and your governor, Professor Charles Soludo, has now been named on APC list.

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Fasoranti’s Death: Why reconciliation in Afenifere will be difficult — Okurounmu, ex-Secretary
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Fasoranti’s Death: Why reconciliation in Afenifere will be difficult — Okurounmu, ex-Secretary

•Group’s future uncertain —Mogaji Adejumo By Dapo Akinrefon Tongues across the country are wagging over a possible leadership crisis within the once formidable pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, especially with the demise of its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Fasoranti had named the deputy leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, as the acting national leader of the group, while the former financial secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago in Atakumosa East Council Area, Ilesa, Osun State, was named the group’s deputy leader.

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What’s left for Tinubu: A legacy to sustain, a name to behold
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What’s left for Tinubu: A legacy to sustain, a name to behold

By Opeyemi Eniola President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has already forced Nigeria to confront a set of structural realities that successive administrations preferred to manage, postpone or obscure. They had been diagnosed repeatedly by domestic analysts, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and successive Nigerian finance ministers.

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Blaming opposition for hunger is delusional — Atiku
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Blaming opposition for hunger is delusional — Atiku

By Luminous Jannamike & Olayinka Ajayi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of shifting responsibility for Nigeria’s economic hardship to the opposition, insisting that the administration must account for its record ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Read Also: 2027: ‘They created the hunger’ — Tinubu slams opponents at Kaduna rally Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), was reacting to Tinubu’s remark at the APC campaign flag-off in Kaduna on Saturday that the opposition created hunger and poverty in the country.

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Tinubu flags-off campaign, blasts opposition, backs APC governors against Rainbow Coalition
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Tinubu flags-off campaign, blasts opposition, backs APC governors against Rainbow Coalition

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Bola Tinubu on Saturday opened the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign in Kaduna with a direct attack on his political opponents, accusing them of creating the hunger and poverty currently facing Nigerians, while asking supporters to mobilise for his re-election on January 16, 2027. In apparent support of the APC governors’ position against the call by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, for a rainbow coalition, Tinubu urged voters to come out “massively” on January 16, 2027, to re-elect him and support APC candidates across…

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Obama attacks Trump as he campaigns for Democrats ahead of midterm elections
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Obama attacks Trump as he campaigns for Democrats ahead of midterm elections

Former President Barack Obama has attacked the Trump administration over the Iran war and high consumer prices as he hit the campaign trail for Democrats ahead of the US midterm elections. Speaking on Saturday in Ohio and Michigan, Obama targeted Trump and his cabinet members, at one point mocking the president’s attempt to redecorate the White House.

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Where is your ‘Cape Point’? By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
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Where is your ‘Cape Point’? By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

I used to scour the stalls of young TingaTingabatik artistes in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, looking for paintings that did not have African women with pots on their heads and babies on their backs, men hunting and Zebras roaming around. In January 2017, I was in Cape Town, and I thought it was time to make it to Cape Point.

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Oyo APC campaign threatens APM gov candidate with defamation suit
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Oyo APC campaign threatens APM gov candidate with defamation suit

The campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Oyo State, Senator Sharafadeen Alli, has threatened legal action against the governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement, Bimbo Adekanmbi, over allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement. The organisation described the allegations as falsehoods intended to damage Alli’s reputation and undermine his growing political

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Obama rallies rapturous Michigan crowd for El-Sayed: ‘He’ll finish the job we started’
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Obama rallies rapturous Michigan crowd for El-Sayed: ‘He’ll finish the job we started’

Former president speaks to crowd of thousands in support of Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate and Democratic ticket Barack Obama told a Detroit crowd on Saturday that Abdul El-Sayed was “fighting for change, real change, that will get money out of politics and put money in your pocket”, as he threw his weight behind the Democratic Senate candidate and the rest of the ticket on the first day of early voting in Michigan. Obama said in front of thousands of onlookers at Cass technical high school in Detroit that El-Sayed would “finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act and guarantee quali

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