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2019: PDP heavyweights whose children and relations work in ‘enemies’ camp
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‘Anybody that tells you that Nigeria is working well needs to think again’
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Walter Onnoghen! Condemnation trails FG’s plan to arraign CJN PDP says Presidency, APC want to destroy judiciary Ozekhome describes move as political witch-hunt
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OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja
Appointment of electoral umpire: The intrigues, politics p.18
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he National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has accused the Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to destroy the judiciary ahead of the 2019 general election. The reaction came following the plan by the Federal Government to arraign the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen on Monday, January 14 before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), in Abuja on charges of failures to declare his assets, Secondus, who reacted to the development in Plateau State during the PDP presidential campaign rally Saturday, said the move was to force the CJN to resign and put in place a lame duck jurist that would do its bidding. The National Chairman said there would be dire consequences if the election is rigged by the ruling party. He traced previous failed attempts by the government to move against opposition politicians and the National Assembly leadership, even as he expressed concern that the present admin-
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Bring back ‘our tourism’ in 2019 p.41
Sanwo-Olu, Agbaje clash at Lagos Chamber of Commerce-organised guber debate Read story in BusinessDay tomorrow (Monday)
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Bukola Saraki, Senate president and director general, Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, acknowledging cheers during the PDP Presidential Campaign in Plateau State, yesterday.
Hope for cancer patients in 2019 on new radiotherapy machines, centres ANTHONIA OBOKOH
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ancer patients will soon beam with smiles this year if the Federal Government stays on track with its plans
for new sets of radiotherapy machines and centres, according to sources who spoke with BDSUNDAY. Radiotherapy, also known as radiation therapy, is part of cancer treatment which aims to control or kill malignant cells
through linear accelerators. Some cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, which is another type of treatment for the sickness that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs in treatment. “In healthcare, by January 15, 2019, we are commissioning
cancer care centres at the Lagos University Teaching Hos pital (LUTH) as part of private-public partnership programme and we are also commissioning diagnostic centres in Kano and Umuahia,” Uche
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