Ilorin—KWARA State governorship candidate on the platform of Labour Party, LP, Issa Aremu, has said the state needs “a second liberation and independence from internal colonialists and oppressors.”

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) Purchasing Managers Index, PMI, for the manufacturing sector stood at 56.2 in September 2018, indicating further fluctuation against 57.1 recorded in the previous month, August .

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday said it has disbanded the Ahmed Gulak-led Committee for the party’s governorship primaries in Imo State and that the Lagos primaries under control.

Ogilvy, a member of WPP Group, has ac-quired a 24.9 per cent stake in First Primus Group, even as it opens its Nigerian outlet with Seni Adetu as Group Chief Executive.

A Pan- Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Koya Movement, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to revert to the regional system of government being operated before the coup d’état of 1966 describing the current 1999 Constitution as martial law in civilian garb.

Palpable tension has gripped Ogun State following the breach of security following controversies over the conduct of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries in the state just as the wall of the Abeokuta home of a former governor of the state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, was decorated with graffiti by some unknown persons.

Onitsha is agog with excitement as the 2018 edition of Ofala festival, sponsored by national telecommunications company, Globacom, kicked off on September 29, at the Ime Obi, Onitsha with Oraeze International Arts Exhibition.

On the 17th of September 2018,, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, announced that he had issued a directive to Judges of that Court barring them from granting ex parte orders in political cases. Reporting the development, the Vanguard stated as follows:

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has said Nigerians share in the blame of the country’s bad ranking in Transparency International’s corruption perception index, CPI.

The Naira, yesterday, depreciated to N363.88  per dollar in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window even as the volume of dollars traded on the window dropped by eight percent. 

THE Board of Trustees, Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, has passed a vote of confidence on its National Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Dania and also reaffirmed Mr. Fela Durotoye as its Presidential flag bearer for the 2019 elections.

AHEAD of the 2019 general election, a House of Representatives aspirant for Idemili North and South on the platform of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Anambra State chapter, Uchenna Okonkwo, has promised to tackle youth unemployment and erosion challenges if elected.

Fellow contenders for the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential ticket have faulted the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the party saying that the process was fraught with fraud.

Thousands of Armenians heeded a call by reformist Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to protest in the capital Yerevan on Tuesday as MPs approved a bill making it harder to disband parliament and hold snap elections.

The chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State Chapter, Alhaji Tunde Balogun has declared Babajide Sanwoolu the winner of the Gubernatorial primary election, held Tuesday, across the 245 wards of the 20 Local Government Areas of the state