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17 PDP Presidential Aspirants rake in N646m for party through forms •Ayu to Amaechi: We don’t want president that can run round stadium like Usain Bolt, but can’t run railway transportation 17 presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have been listed for further screening ahead of the party’s primary elections. The aspirants are … [Read more…]
Rethink Your Policy on Fuel Subsidy, World Bank Tells Nigeria •Insists the rich benefit more from fuel subsidy than the poor •Says barriers distorting country’s trade flows The President of the World Bank Group, Mr. David Malpass has once more reiterated the need for Nigeria’s federal government to reconsider its policy on fuel subsidy, saying … [Read more…]
Call For Interim Government: Nigerians React The suggestion to set up an interim administration at the end of the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari made by prominent legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola, is a call to anarchy, Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, has warned. Speaking to correspondents after a meeting with President Buhari at the … [Read more…]
Controversial Easter advert: CAN wants Sterling Bank Chief Executive, management removed CAN National President, Rev (Dr) Samson Ayokunle The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called for the removal of the Chief Executive of Sterling Bank and his management, over the controversial Easter advert which likened the resurrection of Christ with Agege … [Read more…]
Just In: APC pegs Presidential Forms at N100m, settles for indirect primary, rules out consensus The All Progressives Congress (APC) has resolved to sell its presidential form at the cost of N100 million. While the Expression of Interest form is fixed at the cost of N30 million, the nomination form cost N70 million. This was … [Read more…]
Petrol subsidy payments grew by 349.42 per cent from N350 billion in 2019 to N1.573 trillion in 2021, propelled by the rising price of crude oil in the international market and the falling value of the Naira. The cost of subsidizing the product in 2020 was N450 billion. In 2022 alone, the total cost of … [Read more…]
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has warned that Nigeria might not be able to compete in the global circle in the next few decades because of the kind of people that will take over the affairs of the country’s political leadership. It said the country is producing children who are not provided with the … [Read more…]
The Presidency, yesterday, knocked critics who have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism, poor leadership and graft. Particularly, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, in his Easter message, had lamented that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government had destroyed Nigeria, impoverished and divided citizens along ethnic lines. But spokesman for the president, Mr. … [Read more…]
Enugu 2023 Guber: PDP SE ZWC to meet with Guber aspirants, Tuesday Chetanne Chinelo, Enugu The Southeast Zonal Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has scheduled a meeting, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, with all Enugu State Guber aspirants running under the platform of the PDP. The statement signed by Hon. Chief James O. … [Read more…]
There are strong indications that the Peoples Democratic Party has settled for indirect primary to pick its 2023 presidential candidate on May 29. It was also gathered that the opposition party was looking at ways of reducing its current 17 presidential aspirants by encouraging consensus talks among them so that some of them would step … [Read more…]
Ozigbo, Anambra PDP guber candidate, joins Senate race Valentine Ozigbo, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate who lost the November 6, 2021, governorship election in Anambra, has declared his intention to contest in the Anambra South Senatorial District election in 2023. Mr Ozigbo’s intention was made known in Awka on Sunday by Aziza Uko, director of … [Read more…]
Similarly, Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Owerri Archdiocese, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, and the Anglican Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. David O. C. Onuoha, decried the worsening state of insecurity and excruciating hardship in the country. While Obinna said Nigeria had become a brutal, deadly dungeon, Onuoha lamented that the worsening state … [Read more…]