2018

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President Olumide Akpata has set up an Electoral Audit and Reforms Committee to audit the body’s 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections. The Committee, headed by Ayo…

A total of 17,193 point of sales terminals were registered by banks for cashless transactions across the country in the first three months of the year. This brings the total number of registered PoS terminals in the country to 199,999 as…

United States President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign raised $10m in the first quarter of the year, leaving his re-election operation with $28m in cash, his campaign has said. Trump spent $3.9m in the first quarter. He has…

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would have reviewed the cost of its Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms upward but for the fear of President Muhammadu Buhari, a party source told New…

• Gov borrowed N56bn in four years Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday vowed to jail Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, if reelected. He spoke during the declaration of intent to contest for…

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, has boasted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will deploy all the governmental advantages it has to wrest power in Ekiti from the Peoples Democratic Party come July 2018…

All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Ekiti Southwest Local Government of Ekiti State have bought governorship nomination and expression of interest forms for Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. They…

Rep. Zakari Mohammed, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, has assured that the country’s 2018 budget would by end of April. Mohammed told newsmen in Ogbomoso on the sideline of an empowerment programme…

Former Ekiti State Deputy Governor,  Chief Adebisi Omoyeni, has been adopted as the consensus candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the July 14 governorship poll. Omoyeni, was the deputy governor to Governor Ayo Fayose…

•Yet to decide alternative platform A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to ex-Osun State Deputy Governor Senator Iyiola Omisore yesterday resolved to dump the party for another platform. Members had gathered at…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday issued a Notice of Election for the July 14 poll in Ekiti State. The issuance signalled beginning of activities toward the conduct of the election. However, the ban on…