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 Vice-President Kashim Shettima is meeting with members of the private sector including the Chairman of the Dangote Group, Mr Aliko Dangote, and the founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr Tony Elumelu. The meeting is being held behind closed doors with the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Muhammad Ali Pate in attendance. Others present are international development partners, including the Country Director of the World Bank, Schubham Chaudhuri among others.

  There’s no better feeling than waking up on your birthday and getting an onslaught of messages of birthday wishes from your favorite people! Apart from the well-deserved messages celebrating you completing yet another journey around the sun, some people will take this time to tell you how much they love you and how much they appreciate your presence in their lives. My heartfelt appreciation goes to my great people of Lagelu, Oyo and Nigeria as whole for the best wishes, lots of gifts, messages through phones and social media. To my immediate family, friends, political associates and leader both local and Oyo State (Home and Abroad) I say a very big THANK YOU! Ao ri oun rere bara wa se o *Hon Olajide Akintunde AKT* _House PDP chief whip_ _Chairman, House Committee  on Local government, Chieftaincy matters and State honors_

  Far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei has won Argentina’s presidential run-off poll, according to provisional results. Milei’s rival, economy minister Sergio Massa, called him to concede. In his victory speech to supporters in Buenos Aires, Milei said: “Today begins the reconstruction of Argentina. Today begins the end of Argentina’s decline. “The model of decadence has come to an end. There is no way back. “Argentina will return to its place in the world that it should never have lost. We are going to work shoulder-to-shoulder with all nations of the free world, to help build a better world.” After his defeat, Massa said: “Obviously the results are not what we expected. I have contacted Javier Milei to congratulate him. “From tomorrow the responsibility of providing certainty belongs to Milei.” It was a close race to the very end but the former pundit who at one point wielded a chainsaw on the campaign trail, won out. The election comes at a difficult time for Argentina with r