archiveAugust 2018

  Says 'I’ve decided to answer the call to run' His 19 vocal points Senate President Bukola Saraki has finally declared his intention to contest the presidency in the 2019 elections. He made his declaration at the #NotTooYoungToRun Public Dialogue on Youth Candidacy in 2019, where he was a keynote...

  Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday said he would work for the success of the Peoples Democratic Party if level playing ground is provided during party primaries. Atiku, who is seeking party ticket for presidency, also vowed that he would not defect from the party any more, even...

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the Union will not rest until the Federal Government revamps public education from its current bad state. ASUU chairman at the University of Ibadan, Dr Deji Omole, stated this on Thursday at the Lying-in-State ceremony in Ibadan in...

  The Executive Director/Chief Executive, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Olusegun Awolowo, Thursday said that the Federal Government was committed to growing the country’s non-oil export value to $8 billion next year from $1.2 billion in 2016-and further $25 billion by 2025. He noted that the failure to diversify...

      In line with its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan to boost job creation and the economy, the Buhari administration will continue to create the right environment for the growth of technology companies, startups, and for innovation to thrive, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo...

  The South-South Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Mustapha Lecky, has said that the commission will re-design the structures of all polling units to curb vote-buying during the 2019 general elections. Lecky disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Auchi in Etsako...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that prudent management of national resources and providing for the people remains the main challenge facing the nation rather than geographical restructuring of the country. He said this while fielding questions from a cross section of Nigerians at a town-hall meeting in Minnesota, the...

  The Federal Government has released the list of the 69 ongoing road and bridge projects in the South-east. In a statement in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said though the contracts for many of the roads were awarded before the advent of...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday declared that “President Muhammadu Buhari knows that he has failed”, stressing that the Buhari-led administration had “irredeemably failed in every sector of our national life.” The opposition party noted that available data, both “locally and internationally, confirm that the Buhari administration has failed...

  Says Obasanjo assembled most competent economic team The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), Pastor Tunde Bakare has raised the alarm that Nigeria was on another collision course, stressing that he worked with former President Goodluck Jonathan and President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the country did...