Tag: Senator

Borno: Senator disburses ₦135m to APC executives for Sallah celebration

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Borno senator disburses for Sallah

The Senator representing Borno-Central, Kaka Lawan, has disbursed one hundred and thirty-five million, six hundred and fifty thousand Naira (₦135,650,000) to All Progressives Congress executives in his constituency ahead of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. In a statement shared on his Facebook page on Friday, the senator’s legislative assistant, Usman AlÆ™ali, said the gesture marks the third time Lawan has made such a donation since he joined the National Assembly. The post, written in Hausa and translated by our correspondent, read: “Senator Kaka Shehu Lawan shares ₦135,650,000 to APC executives in Borno-Central…

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“Nigeria’s Presidency run from ‘outside’; Tinubu caged in Villa” – Sen. Yari

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Sen. Yari on Asiwaju

Zamfara-West Senator, AbdulAziz Yari, has declared that the Nigerian Presidency is being operated from outside the Presidential Villa. Yari also claimed that President Bola Tinubu is caged in Aso Rock. The former governor of Zamfara State, who spoke during the One Nigeria Project Conference in Abuja yesterday, also declared that United States President, Donald Trump, can’t help Nigeria. Yari said, “This country called Nigeria, America says their own country is God’s own country, but this country called Nigeria is more of God’s own country than any other. This is because…

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Sen. Ibrahim Bomai donates N20m, relief materials to Yobe flood victims

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Senator Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai, representing Yobe-South Senatorial District, has provided relief support to victims of flood in five wards of Potiskum and Nangere local government areas. The affected wards are Nangere, Chukuriwa, Dogonini, Yerimaram, and Barebari-Bauya-Lailai ward. Senator Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai who was represented by Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed (Ibbiyo) donated the sum of N20,000,000; 500 wrappers; 1,000 blankets, and 1,000 children’s wears to the flood victims. In his remarks, at the occasion of distribution of the relief support, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed, on behalf of Senator Bomai, sympathized with the flood…

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Protest: Attack on Senator Bomai’s Potiskum house condemnable

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It is most condemnable the singling out of Senator Bomai’s house for attack in Potiskum during the recent nationwide protests on the 1st of August 2024. The protesters did not earmark or conceived as part of their plan to attack the residence of Senator Bomai as the routes followed by them were far away from his residence. But some persons, whom we have now identified who are not happy with the electoral successes of the Senator, which comprise supporters of a former Senator, some elements in the APC who had…

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2023: “It is North’s time to pay back Tinubu ” – Sen. Abu Ibrahim

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An All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Sen. Abu Ibrahim, has said that 2023 is the time for the geo-political North to pay back the party’s presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, by supporting him. Ibrahim, from Katsina State, stated this on Thursday in Katsina, during his visit to the Campaign Office of the Katsina State APC gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Dikko Radda. According to him, the call is to complement the support Tinubu has been giving to candidates from the North. He recalled how Tinubu supported PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar when…

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Just In! Senator Gbenga Aluko slumps, dies in Abuja

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Senator Gbenga Aluko, a former governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, has died suddenly. He was 58 years old. The Ekiti-born politician reportedly died Saturday evening in Abuja. He had no prior illness, reported Progress FM, in Ado Ekiti. According to the report, citing his aide, Aluko was rushed to hospital after he suddenly collapsed in his office. He was certified dead in hospital. Aluko, son of renowned economist, Professor Sam Aluko, was a senator representing Ekiti-Southon the PDP platform between 1999 and 2003. He was born on 20 July 1963.

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