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Oct 10

Peter Obi: I Won't Trade Words Over Choice Of Candidate, Weird MC Says

Rapper, Shola Idowu popularly known as Weird MC, has said that she will not argue with anyone about who she supports or the other person supports in the 2023 election.

She said this via her Twitter handle on Monday, hours after she shared a picture of herself and the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.

Weird MC stated that she has no issues with the candidate that anyone else is supporting and

that she will never disrespect people's candidates because she respects people's choices and expects them to respect her choice too.

She said, “I still stand my ground. It's ok for us not to support the same candidate. But I will never trade words

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Oct 10

ASUU President Hopeful Strike Will End As Reps Intervene

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has expressed hope that the lingering strike of university lecturers would be resolved soon with the

intervention of the House of Representatives.

Osodeke said this on Monday at a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and others.

He said, “Let’s put a beautiful end to this thing we have started,

so that we have a university system we can be proud of.

“I also want to appeal that in the future, nobody should allow strike to linger. Strike shouldn’t go beyond two days. If the way the National Assembly had intervened had been done long ago,

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Oct 10

Brighton Midfielder, Enock Mwepu, Forced To End Career At 24

Brighton midfielder, Enock Mwepu, on Monday, announced that his football career has come to end after he was diagnosed with hereditary heart condition.

Mwepu made this announcement via a statement on his Twitter handle.

In the statement, the 24-year-old said, “A boy from a small Zambian township called Chambishi has some news to share. He stood strong to follow his dream of playing football

at the highest level and by the grace of God, he lived his dream by reaching the Premier League.”

Mwepu shared the reason he had to hang his boots and his plans to stay involved in football in other capacity even though he wouldn’t be able to play anymore.

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Oct 10

Illegal Pipeline: El-Rufai Knocks SERAP Over Threat To Sue FG

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has knocked the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project for always suing the Federal Government without any reasonable outcome.

SERAP on Sunday said they would be suing the regime of the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) over the discovery of an illegal oil pipeline in Delta State.

“We're suing the Buhari administration over the discovery of illegal oil pipelines,

to compel it to name those responsible for the plundering of the country’s oil wealth, bring them to justice, and recover the proceeds of crime,” SERAP tweeted.

Responding to their tweet on Monday, the former FCT minister said,

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Oct 10

Linking Tinubu To Lekki Shooting Is Political - MC Oluomo

The chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages management committee, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, has said that connecting the killing of EndSARS protesters to the

All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is faulty, given he’s not capable of giving such orders.

MC Oluomo made this assertion on Sunday during a rally, he organised in Lagos, to show support for Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

The former transport union boss went on to say that Tinubu is not the Chief of Army Staff who can order the shooting of EndSARS protesters and he also questioned the whereabouts of the bodies, where they are buried and why the families of the deceased were not coming out to

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Oct 8

Moment Wike Removed Omehia's Picture From Govt House

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, removed the image of Celestine Omehia, from the Government House.