That is why he has been primed for defeat on February 28, 2015. Amaechi has a legacy of failed infrastructure, impunity, truncated judiciary, corrupt practices and poor contract governance, a legacy of destroyed legislative arm of government, a legacy of non payment of workers’ salaries and wastage of scarce Rivers State resources in the sponsorship of APC presidential campaign.”

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, has called on candidates of other political parties contesting the 2015 general elections to stick to issue-based campaigns rather than resorting to mud slinging and derogatory comments.

Senator Ifeanyi Okowa’s acclaimed victory in the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may now look like the easier part of his long script to emerge the number one citizen of Delta State. The senator is now faced with the difficult option of choosing a running mate from at least two major ethnic groups in the state.

The Federal Government has approved the removal of Value Added Tax on all commissions on capital transactions two years after the announcement, shareholders in this interview speaks on the removal. Excerpts:

The shares of Nigerian Breweries Plc and Forte Oil recorded heavy transactions in the month of November to emerge the leading stocks in terms of price appreciation in the stock exchange.

Governor of Nasarawa State and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tanko Al-Makura, has named Mr Silas Agara as his running mate for the 2015 governorship election in the state.

EXACTLY one year after the demolition of over 1,000 houses belonging to residents of Atinporomeh Central, Aiyedotun and Ajagbe Community Development Areas, CDAs, in Badagry area of Lagos, allegedly by the Nigerian Police Force, NPF and their assigned contractors, the people have continued to lament the untold hardship they have been subjected to by the activities of the law enforcement agents.

Workers in Enugu State yesterday issued a 21-day notice to the state government threatening to embark on industrial action if the state government continued unfair industrial relations practice in the state.

A clash between supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos Island, has left two persons dead.

WARRI—IJAWS of Ogbe-Ijoh, headquarters of Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have cautioned their Itsekiri neighbours against renewed quarrel over the location of the council headquarters, warning that the disagreement was capable of igniting fresh hostilities between both ethnic groups as witnessed in the late ’90s.

BENIN—NO fewer than eight persons were killed in cult-related clashes in parts of Benin, Edo State, weekend.

Yenagoa—Three soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Pulo Shield, have been reported missing and presumed killed during an attack on their gunboat on the waterways of Bayelsa State by suspected pirates.

A faction of the Labour Party, LP, under the control of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, yesterday disowned some of the governorship candidates on the platform of the party, saying such persons were not known to the party.

BriscoeFord, one of the distributors of Ford brand in Nigeria has described the crowning of Ford as the “Most Improved Auto brand by the Nigeria Auto Journalists Award” as a confirmation of Fords quality as one of the leading auto brand across the globe.

The Toyota Avensis is one of the most powerful cars in its segment and winner of the 2013 Nigeria Auto Journalists Awards, NAJA, Car of the Year.