2019: Senator Useni Picks Dr. James Dalok as Running Mate
Yakubu Busari, Jos Senator Jeremiah Useni, the Plateau State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party’s governorship candidate for 2019 general …
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Atiku Disowns Online Grant Scheme
The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization has dissociated itself from an on-going scheme that purports to disburse grants to unsuspecting Nigerians …
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Alhassan Hits Back At APC, Retrieves Computers, Rugs, air-conditioner from Taraba Office
Former Women Affairs minister, Aisha Alhassan, who recently resigned her appointment and dumped the All Progressives Congress, has retrieved computers …
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Abia Pipeline Explosion: Atiku Commiserates with Victims, Donates N10m
Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, representing former Vice President and PDP presidential candidate, …
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Women Less Corrupt Than Men, Says Ethiopian PM
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has given reasons for appointing an equal number of women as ministers in his cabinet …
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Our 23m Votes Can Decide The 2019 General Election, Says JNAPWDs
From Kalu Eziyi, Umuahia The Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JNAPWDs), Abia state chapter, yesterday said votes of …
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Group Kicks Against Sale of Ajaokuta Steel Complex
From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja A group, Kogi Elders Forum said it would resist any attempt to sell off the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State. The forum in a statement issued in Lokoja on Wednesday said it would employ constitutional means to stop the sale of the sprawling integrated steel company. The Chairman of the forum, Dr Julius Elukpo, said its position was in reaction to a statement credited to the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that government intends to sell the company and others to fund the 2018 budget. Elukpo who described the government’s proposal as a rude shock, chided the Federal Government for foot dragging on the completion of the steel project , saying that the outright …
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Senate To Banks: Stop Illicit, Excessive Charges
..Summons CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele for explaination By John Okoh The Senate on Wednesday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to suspend the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) card maintenance charges being deducted from customers. This resolution followed a motion on the illicit and excessive bank charges on customers’ accounts, sponsored by Senator Olugbenga Ashafa. The Senate also called on commercial banks operating in the country to configure their machines to dispense up to N40,000 per withdrawal pending the outcome of the investigation by the Senate committees tasked with investigating the excessive and illicit bank charges. Speaking on the motion, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki said: “This is a motion that affects the lives of every …
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Agbaje Appoints Funso Williams’ Assistant As Campaign Director
By Ayo Kehinde Agbaje and Adeleke The campaign structure of Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate for Lagos State, has appointed a former lieutenant of the Late Engineer Funso Williams to oversee operations as its Director of Organisation. He is Osikoya Adeleke, who in 2011 was elected the Organising Secretary for Lagos PDP. Announcing the appointment in a press statement at the weekend, Agbaje’s Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Felix Oboagwina, credited the new Director with contributing immensely to the successful mileage Lagos PDP recorded in the 2015 elections. Adeleke was part of the think-tank of the Late Engineer Funso Williams, former PDP governorship aspirant assassinated in Lagos in 2006. He first joined Williams’ team …
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CABOTAGE: No More Waivers, Peterside Tells Oil Companies
…Charges IOCs to Play Their Part in Industry Growth …Says Agency Ready to Enforce Strict Compliance to Regulations The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said the Agency will no longer encourage the application of any form of waivers under the Cabotage Act, particularly from the oil firms operations as such does not help the growth of the Nigerian maritime sector and economy at large. Speaking during a meeting with the Oil Producers Trade Sector (OPTS) in Lagos, Dakuku said NIMASA was on the verge of ending such waivers. He urged industry players to draw up a five-year strategic plan for the cessation of application for Cabotage waiver and also pursue the …
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CBN Justifies Naira Depreciation
From Nik Ogbulie’s MONEY REPORT in Bali Indonesia The Governor of the Central of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has said that the Nigerian currency may have gone through some serious levels of depreciation but has remained one of the least devalued currencies in the world. The governor who spoke to Nigerian financial journalist as the 2018 World Bank/IMF meetings come to an end on Sunday struggled to justify the depreciation which is believed to have the capacity to ravage the economy based on the failed efforts to push it beyond it debilitating levels. Unfortunately, his analogy couldn’t win the fancy of Nigerian participants because only the very poor countries in the world have strongly battered currencies. There are strong indications that …
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