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Later today, the prime minister’s “emergency” Rwanda legislation will return to the Commons as he tries to get deportation flights off the ground. But right-wing rebels in his party have proposed amendments to make the bill “tougher” – and last night, Tory party deputy chairs Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith announced they will back the…
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UK Labour’s shadow paymaster general, Jonathan Ashworth, has responded to questions whether the Post Office is still fit for purpose in the wake of the Horizon IT scandal. He said the TV drama that aired earlier this month made him cry and his “blood boil”. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of this, what…
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Labour MP Kate Osborne challenges the PM on his record on LGBT rights after he appointed Esther McVey as minister without portfolio, whom she accuses of attacking the LGBT community. She says Mr Sunak should now resign and call a general election. Mr Sunak disputes her characterization of the Tories’ record on LGBT rights, saying…
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Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper addresses the new Home Secretary, James Cleverly, saying he is the “eighth Tory home secretary in eight years”. She adds: “What a mess he has inherited.” Ms Cooper says the Rwanda ruling this morning has exposed the failure of the policy as well as Rishi Sunak’s judgment. She says…
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The UK government’s flagship immigration policy, known as the Rwanda plan, is hanging in the balance this morning after the highest court in the land found it to be unlawful. But what is the scheme? Why is it so controversial? And how has it ended up in the judicial system? The Rwanda plan was first…
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The government’s Rwanda plan, devised to tackle illegal migration, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in the UK. Lord Reed announced the “unanimous” judgment from the court’s justices on Wednesday, saying those sent to the country would be at “real risk” of being returned home, whether their…
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The crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) appears not to have abated as a factional National Publicity Secretary of the party, Dr Abayomi Arabambi, warned the presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi to desist from attacking President Bola Tinubu over his Chicago State University Diploma certificate. In what looked like a public defense of Tinubu…
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Labour Party (LP) in Nasarawa State has suspended 11 executive members for engaging in anti-party activities at the just-concluded governorship and House of Assembly elections. This was contained in a statement issued in Lafia on Thursday and signed by Mr Alex Emmanuel, Party Chairman and Mr Ashime Benjamin, Assistant State Secretary. It stated that the…
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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, has officially filed his petition with the presidential elections tribunal in Abuja, challenging his defeat in the election. This, according to Yunusa Yanko, the spokesperson of the Labour Party, is the beginning of the “process of reclaiming the people’s mandate.”…
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The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) Renewal Group has advised opposition parties agitating against the declaration of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect to perish the thought of upturning his victory. In a statement issued on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti, the group described Tinubu’s emergence as president-elect as the best that had ever happened to Nigeria in recent…
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INEC has approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja, to stop Peter Obi from inspecting its BVAS devices claiming that they need to reconfigure the devices. INEC has also asked the court to grant them permission to reconfigure the devices using the upcoming State elections (scheduled to hold on Saturday) as an excuse. This is…
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The Rivers State Chapter of the Labour Party has adopted the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sir Siminialaye Fubara. This is coming days before the governorship and state assembly elections slated for March 11. The Rivers State Chairman of the Labour Party, Dienye Pepple, made the disclosure in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.…
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I don’t think Peter Obi is a real Human Being. But if they check and he is, then he definitely is not a Nigerian. His father has questions to answer. This man has conquered man’s most natural, intense and vicious appetite…Greed. I want someone to prove just one of these statements to be false.
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The office in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja described the speculations as the handwork of charitable propagandists. The campaign office of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has accused some opposition political parties of peddling misinformation to confuse Nigerians ahead of the 2023 general elections. The campaign office said this on…
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Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, has joined the Labour Party (LP), about one month after he left the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Okonkwo resigned from the APC on 11 July over the party’s Muslim-Muslim Ticket. The presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, a Southern Muslim, recently picked Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State and Northern Muslim, as…
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Why is the ovation so loud wherever he appears? Church, weddings, airports, Bar Association and even market places ? It is not because he is Obi, it is because for the first time Nigerians have seen a pathway to escape from the prison of our taskmasters. All tags on Obi could not hold. They tagged…
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