President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo are among dignitaries expected to participate at a special pan-Nigerian conference designed to move the national conversation on political restructuring forward in the run-up to the 2019 elections.

The Vice Chancellor, VC, of Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri, Professor Adaobi Obasi, has expressed regret that “women’s greatest problem are traceable to women themselves”.

THE governorship aspirants of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday protested in Owerri, after which they also passed a vote of no confidence on the the national chairman of the party, Victor Oye.
The aspirants numbering over 10 protested from Wethedral road, towards Government House roundabout and through Mbari streets back to Immaculate Hotel in Owerri.

WHEN a yet-to-be-identified person invited a 23-year old man, Mr Muhammed Fatiu Olaimo, to Ibadan about two weeks ago, he never knew that it was a call that would send him to his early grave.

MEMBERS of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Owo/Ose Federal Constituency of Ondo State, yesterday, protested over an alleged plan by the Party’s Electoral Committee to nullify the primary election conducted in the area.

Soon after the results  of the presidential primaries of the two major parties were announced on Sunday, a friend called me sounding despondent. He had voted for President Muhammadu Buhari since 2003, and was ecstatic when Buhari finally won at his fourth attempt in 2015.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, stakeholders in Imo State are holding discussions with the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democrstic Party, PDP, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, with the aim of supporting the party if Senator Hope Uzodinma fails to clinche the governorship ticket of the party for 2019.

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has listed vulnerability to foreign debt as one of the major threats to economic growth amongst African countries, especially in the Sub-Sahara group which includes Nigeria.

FBNQuest Merchant Bank, FBNQuest Asset Management and FBNQuest Securities, all members of the FBNHoldings Group, have emerged as winners in several categories at the EMEA Finance 2018 Awards as the firms were awarded “Best Local Investment Bank”, “Best Asset Manager in Nigeria”, “Best Asset Manager, Pan-Africa” and “Best Broker in Nigeria”.

A widower, Isah Sulaiman, has sued his mother-in-law at a Magajin Gari Sharia Court in Kaduna, over his late wife’s property.

Former Special Assistant on Electoral Matters to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Mfon Udeme, yesterday was shot by unidentified gunmen suspected to be hired assassins.

LAGOS—MEMBERS of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, have kicked against the imposition of an unpopular candidate in the Lagos Central Senatorial District. Messrs Adesunbo Onitiri, Kolawole Vaughan and two other aspirants are jostling for the ticket. In a letter by the PDP Lagos Central, they said Chief Onitiri’s name was forwarded as […]

To give Nigerians an opportunity to meet their aspirations with little risk, an online consumer sales promotion platform called Ekojara game, was recently unveiled in Lagos.

There was pandemonium, yesterday, at Abule-Ado, along Mile 2-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, after protesting commercial motorcyclists, okada, set a tanker ablaze for killing their colleague.

A former local government chairman in Delta State, Chief Francis Maku-Eyituoyor has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress ,APC, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to disregard Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor’s position on the emergence of ex-governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as the party’s senatorial candidate in Delta South Senatorial District.