Ahead of 2019 general election, the people of Enugu West Senatorial District, have opted to purchase the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship nomination form for Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, in reconfirmation of their earlier endorsement of the governor’s re-election.

 President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday night that he was not bothered about the defections in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Akure—ABDUCTORS of the former council chairman in Ondo State, Dele Fagoriola, have requested for N10 million ransom before his release.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has described Nigeria’s capital market as one of the most formidable institutions for finance mobilisation, providing opportunity to raise long-term capital from sectors of the economy with surplus for new projects that will help expand and drive industrialisation.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, recently introduced guidelines for USSD transactions. Among other things the guidelines include daily limit of N100, 000 on USSD transaction, apparently in a bid to checkmate fraud through the channel. Some bank customers who spoke with Financial Vanguard shared the opinion about the limit

Let our leaders and the citizens begin to see Nigeria as a nation of one people with one interest, that our all-embracing cardinal focus should be our national interest

ENUGU—IMMEDIATE past Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr. Eugene Odoh has said President Mohammadu Buhari should not be blamed for the vexed issue of restructuring the Nigeria polity.

The Directorate of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FSAN) of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has warned Nigerians to beware of consumption of contaminated PINGUIN brand of mixed vegetables,  shipped to Nigeria recently.

Indications emerged yesterday that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is moving against loyalists of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki in government as Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, yesterday directed the Senate President’s loyalists in the various agencies of the Federal Government to resign from office or be sacked.

I think regulators are too harsh on companies with the numerous and high amount of fines they impose on companies. The money that companies pay as fine is shareholders own. So I feel regulators should be soft pedal on the fines they impose on companies. It is the employees that somehow flout some of these rules.

OWERRI—IMO State governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday, alleged that there was a plan to scuttle President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid under the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun.

SHAREHOLDERS of 11PLC (formerly Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc) have approved N2.6billion for payment as dividend translating to 800 kobo per share for its shareholders for the financial year ended December 31, 2017. However, the company‘s profit dropped marginally by 1.4 percent to N15.3 billion in 2017 from N15.5billion posted in 2016. However, financial sales revenue grew significantly to N125.26 billion in 2017, up by 33 percent from N94.11 billion recorded in 2016.

THE release of more half year, H1’18, positive corporate results will spike trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, this week as equity trading drew to a positive close, finishing 58 bases points, bps, higher last weekend, majorly supported by oil and gas stocks.

HOUSE of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) has given the management of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, two weeks to furnish the committee with all information on its operations.

It was a bloody weekend in Akwa Ibom as armed militants ambushed soldiers at a checkpoint at Iwukem in the volatile Etim Ekpo council, killing one soldier and five civilians, while two persons sustained injuries.