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How Deji Tinubu died

The Lagos State Government on Friday morning explained how the special adviser on Commerce, Industry and Cooperative to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode died.

Deji Tinubu, a former chairman of Lagos State Sports Commission, slumped while playing five-a-side match with fellow participants at a retreat of members of the state executive council and permanent secretaries at the Jubilee Chalets, Epe.

Musa warns Buhari against second term

Elder statesman and leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said the government of President Muhammadu

APC panel okays devolution, resource control, state police

The committee set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to look into calls for restructuring presented its report to the Chief John Odigie-oyegun led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, yesterday.

Led by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-rufai, the committee backed the devolution of powers, resource control and the establishment of state police.

Outrage trails government’s N1b claim on Ekwueme’s burial

Disbelief and shock yesterday trailed Federal Government’s claim that it would spend over N1 billion in preparation for the burial of the former Vice President, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, whose remains arrived in Enugu yesterday.

The Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, was quoted as saying that the Federal Government approved

N1bilion, part of which had been spent, in readiness for the burial billed for February 2 in Oko, Anambra State.