Rivers state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has declared the readiness of his administration to host more international football matches as part of efforts to promote sports and also to prove that the state is safe for everybody.

THE situation of our country today, the condition of the president and the intervening variables in the form of our political actors demand that we help President Muhammadu Buhari, if he is to succeed. Whatever we have done with our past are building blocks and serve as direction to the way forward.

SENATOR representing
Kano North Senatorial District, Barau Jibrin has faulted Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu over his remark that the National Assembly was not a party secretariat when All Progressive Congress, APC insisted that its supremacy and wishes in the matter of who occupied leadership position must be respected.
In an open letter to both Senators Ekweremadu and Muhammed Danjuma Goje, in Kano yesterday, Jibrin who is a former Chairman, Appropriation Committee, House of Representatives accused the group loyal to the senate president, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ekweremadu of allegedly turning upside down “the time-tested values of democracy and leadership they had professed publicly and privately”.
He recalled in the Open Letter, how Senator Ekweremadu in a paper titled “Leadership in the National Assembly” he presented in Abuja at the Induction Certificate Course on Legislative Studies for the 8th National Assembly held on April 27th 2015 had espoused party supremacy particularly as it affects the appointment of the principal officers of the senate.
According to the lawmaker, it is not only the flouting of the rules concerning the party’s latitude to present the leadership of its senate caucus that Senator Ekweremadu has provided support for but he has also provided support to Senator Saraki to flout the ranking rule in the legislature unlike what he explained at the same public gathering.

LOKOJA—The World Bank has attributed Nigeria’s stunt economic growth to the high rate of unemployment that has bedevilled the country.

A DECADES-long friend in Lagos was furious when President Buhari’s visit to the United States popped up in our discussion. She was too peeved to see any positive thing about the state visit.

Caverton Offshore Support Group Plc led the cream of price gainers last week on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE with 7.89 per cent or N0.27 per share increase to close at N3.69 per share from N3.42 per share penultimate week.

With two straight wins against the Nigeria Customs which they defeated 60 – 55 on Sunday, and yesterday’s 71 – 51 victory over Benue Princess the inspector General of police Queens, yesterday emerge as the first team to book a semi final ticket at the on-going finals of the 11th edition of the annual Zenith Bank women Basketball league holding at the Indoor Sports hall of the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos.

Last week ,we discussed the topic bothering on AGM and how companies have been able to utilise that platform to solving issues identified by the shareholders. Contiuning,shareholders have said that companies don’t address some issues because sometimes the right steps are not taken by the them that are supposed to report such un-addressed issues to the regulatory authority.

WARRI—The Orosuen Orere of Okere-Urhobo Kingdom Warri, Delta State, His Royal Majesty, HRM, Kesiena Okumagba, the Unubororo, has said that he was chosen by God to be king over the people of Okere Urhobo Kingdom after due consultation as required by the tradition of the people.

OLOMORO— PROTESTING Olomoro women in in Isoko Local Goverment Area of Delta State in their hundreds, yesterday, blocked all access roads leading to the oil rich community causing serious traffic jam.

It’s billed as the adventure of a lifetime, a true life-changing experience. For 20 contestants from South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s Ranger Odyssey 2015 – 12 days of simply amazing 4×4 endurance and action through north-western Namibia’s most spectacular and rugged regions, which kicks off on 23 July in Windhoek.

By Francis Igata DURING his inaugural speech, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State listed urban renewal as one of his major programmes. Top on the priority list was opening up semi-rural towns of Nsukka,9th Mile Corner and Abakpa-Nike among others, to trigger socio-economic growth in the state. To deliver on his promises, Ugwuanyi had to […]

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has said that the state did not benefit from the Federal Government bailout for states.

Dickson in Yenagoa, the state capital, said that the state was left out of the Federal Government largesse to states because it was not owing workers salaries.

Jaguar Land Rover in partnership with Coscharis Motors have announced a five-year warranty or 150,000km, whichever comes first on all Jaguar Land Rover customers for any purchases from July 1, 2015. The objective of this new package according to Coscharis Motors is to provide their valued customers with additional peace of mind motoring for up to five years.

DELTA State Government’s financial burden has been reduced, following the bailout it got from the Federal Government last week.
A source, told Vanguard that the state government received about N70 billion from the bailout released to states to pay workers salaries.