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Progressive senators will stand against any plan by the National Assembly to veto President Muhamadu Buhari’s refusal to sign the recent amendments to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018, Senator Gbenga Ashafa…

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has lauded Nigerians for curbing excessive taste for foreign products. The new development, he said, has positioned the country for food self-sufficiency and resulted in saving over $21 billion.…

TWO years after Ekiti State stopped Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) from patronising Zenith Bank, GT Bank and Ecobank, the government has lifted the embargo. Governor Kayode Fayemi announced the…

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he will never be neutral in choice of a president for Nigeria in 2019 election in the face of alleged glaring incompetence and brazen impunity. He stressed that only…

The naira has made some gain against the dollar after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) began a special $15,000 disbursement to Bureau de change (BDC) operators for the Yuletide. It sold at the weekend for N366 to a…

The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) has directed its members to shut down all loading operations by midnight. The association gave the directive in a statement released on…

The Federal Government at the weekend, expressed excitement over firm’s $600 million (N183 billion) investment in an integrated iron ore mining processing and steel production. This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance,…

French champions Paris Saint-Germain have quashed reports the club could be forced to sell either Kylian Mbappe or Neymar in a bid to circumvent eventual Financial Fair Play (FFP) sanctions. Qatar-owned PSG are one of a…

The Iyalode of Ibadan-land and member of Olubadan-in-Council, Alhaja Aminat Abiodun, who was said to have been installed the 12th Iyalode in 1995, has passed on. She died on Saturday afternoon at the age of 93…

The family of the late founder of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Fredrick Fasehun, says the late sage will be buried on January 10, 2019. Kayode Fasehun, son of the late activist, announced this in Lagos on…

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) at the weekend paid N1,565,190,623.12 to 500 next of kins of the deceased Nitel/Mtel pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme. The Next of Kins (NoKs) who are…

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari will neither steal nor allow stealing in his administration. He said this on Saturday in Lagos as he commenced a door-to-door campaign for the ruling…

The break-down of the National Assembly CCTV has given bandits the full control of the Assembly premises to vandalize cars and steal batteries of cars parked within the premises, Sunday Punch authoritatively reports. READ THE…

Two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State are currently in court, seeking to be handed the gubernatorial and senatorial tickets of the party in the state and Kwara central senatorial…

Reigning African champions, Super Falcons, have been handed a tough section at next year’s FIFA after the draws  were held b at a Seine Musicale in Paris yesterday. The draw was conducted by FIFA Legends Alex…

A pro-democracy group, Lagos Peoples Movement (LPM), has said that there is no vacancy for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), or any other party beside the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. According…

• Recruits foot-soldiers from front-line churches, NGOs, cooperative societies, etc, across the country • Deploys social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, whazapp as major channels of communication • EFCC,…

Ahead of the 2019 elections, there’s a growing trend of finding President Muhammadu Buhari’s image on campaign posters and billboards of politicians from other parties. Buhari, presidential candidate of the All…

The National Conscience Party (NCP) has disassociated itself from the adoption of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, as the consensus candidate of the Coalition of United…

Fa c t s have emerged why the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, turned down an offer by the presidency and national leadership of the party for him to lead President Muhammadu…

Engineer Mohammed Lawal is a long time political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari. He has been with him since 2003, when Buhari joined politics to contest the presidential election on the platform of All…

The senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Chief Victor Umeh, on Friday, said the restructuring plan outlined by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was not…

•National Microfinance Bank takes off January 2019 Commercial banks are not lending over N60 billion five per cent contribution from their annual profits to the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Central Bank of…

Against the run of play, former Lagos State Commissioner for Establishment Pensions and Training, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this wide-ranging…