A major controversy has broken out in the Akoko North federal constituency over which local government to present the candidate to replace the former occupier of the office who has been appointed as Minister by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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Aregbesola in a tribute he personally signed, titled: “MALLAM BALARABE MUSA: THE END OF AN ERA,” said the passage of the former presidential candidate caught him unawares, adding that a leader and pillar in the struggle to build a just, humane and progressive society in Nigeria has returned to his Maker.
President Muhammad Buhari has granted presidential pardon to 2,600 inmates of Correctional Centres nationwide, according to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbeshola.
Aregbesola, who made this known while addressing a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, said 70 of the inmates would be released from Kuje Maximum Custodial Centre
He said: “After the release of the first phase, the committee will continue to meet regularly to consider those who deserve the benefit.”
The Federal Government has announced the cancellation of already issued visas for travellers from 13 countries as part of measures to contain the pandemic Coronavirus.
Aregbesola said this on Thursday in Benin, at the opening ceremony of the Comptroller General of Immigration annual conference holding in Benin.
National President of the society, Bolaji Anani, made the call on Tuesday when he visited the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd).
Contributing to a motion sponsored by the Chairman, Committee on Interior, Senator Atiku Bagudu, the senators, who took turn to speak, unanimously condemned the manner in which the exercise was conducted nationwide
Some of them are in the Open University, some of them are writing examinations and have registered for JAMB, writing NECO, obtained first school leaving certificate and the rest of them