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Governor Babatunde Fashola The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has said Governor Babatunde Fashola should learn from President Goodluck Jonathan, especially in the area of harmonious politics. The party said this against the backdrop of the Federal Government’s approval of a $200m loan sought by the Lagos State Government. The party, in a statement by its publicity secretary, Taofik Gani, accused Fashola of playing bad politics by frustrating developmental programmes of PDP councillors in their wards. The statement read in part “In the opinion of the party, the Federal Government’s gestures to an opposition state government has further confirmed that the Jonathan-led PDP Government is indeed a government of development with human face and with clear direction, contrary to the  impression being sponsored by the All Progressives Congress. “Unlike Fashola and his council chairmen who are deliberately witch hunting our few councillors by denying their wards de...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela died on Thursday at the age of 95. Mandela, the first black and post apartheid President of South Africa, died in his home in Johannesburg, according to South African President Jacob Zuma, who announced the late anti-apartheid hero’s death. Mandela was discharged from a Pretoria hospital in September after spending seven months in the lung hospital, where he was admitted for lung infection. Relatives and the South African government have consistently maintained that his condition was “stable but critical.” In announcing Mandela’s death on Thursday night, President Zuma said in his address, “Nelson Mandela, 95, passed away at his home a short while ago. While the late President’s health had been in steady decline for a number of years, it is still difficult to come to terms with the fact that he is no longer with us. “It is impossible to put into words the impact that Mandela has had on the world. He showed that peaceful resistance, ...

Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital after his battle with Pneumonia in 2013. This is the moment when Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years in company of his wife,Winnie Mandela. A former South African president, shaking hands with Nelson Mandela, when he won the election in 1994. [/media-credit] Mandela poses with the FIFA World Cup Trophy. The tournament was hosted by South Africa in 2010. That was the first time that Africa would host the world in this event. Follow us on Twitter:   Click here