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Ezekwesili withdraws from presidential race, insists on coalition

Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili on Thursday, January 24, 2019, announced her withdrawal from the presidential race to help build a coalition to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 16, 2019 election. In a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, Ozioma Ubabukoh, Ezekwesili was quoted […]

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After the vice presidential debate of December 14, 2018, Peter Obi who is Atiku Abubakar’s running mate ahead of the presidential vote of February 16, 2019,

Since Nigeria gained independence from colonial rule in 1960, it has not been led by a woman. With the 2019 presidential election less than five weeks away, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, is one of the five female candidates working hard to upset that history. However, she’s not selling her candidacy simply as a potential history-making first […]

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Oby Ezekwesili launches scholarship programme for young Nigerian women

According to Vanguard, the beneficiaries of the scholarship will study at Nexford, an American university. Ezekwesili made this known is a post on Twitter on Friday, January 11, 2019. The ACPN presidential candidate also revealed that she recently joined the university’s Global Advisory Board. Speaking on the latest development, the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) […]

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Ezekwesili promises to lift 80 million Nigerians out of poverty

Ezekwesili made the pledge at the launching of her Presidential campaign at the Chief of Karu Palace, in FCT on Monday. Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Presidential Candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has promised to lift 80 million Nigerians out of poverty, if elected in the upcoming general election. Ezekwesili made the pledge […]