Kastina—Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, yesterday, presented a N200.7 billion budget for 2019 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.

OWERRI—ENUGU Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, yesterday cried out  over the illegal distribution of electricity to members of the public by unauthorised persons. 

The Governor General of Canada, Ms Julie Payette, on Tuesday arrived in Lagos for an official visit to the state amid tight security.

The Danish government has hit back after Donald Trump’s White House listed Denmark as an example of a failing socialist nation in its recently released report “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism.”

THE Norwegian Seafood Council has disclosed that Nigeria imported more than 9,000 metric tonnes of stockfish from Norway in 2017, valued at $51.6 million, making it the largest importer of Norwegian stockfish.

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to be in Kaduna state today to meet with religious and traditional rulers in the state over the recent killings in the state.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has arraigned a businessman, Ogbo Tochukwu, at the Federal High Court in Lagos for breaking into his warehouse that the agency sealed, to steal seized substandard goods.

Residents of Mararaba/Nyanya and environs, were subjected to hardship following protest by members of Shi’ite Movement.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday chided President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC for allegedly waging a campaign of calumny against its Presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, saying Nigerians have resolved to elect the former Vice President.

THE Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOBTOB, has express worry over job insecurity in the sector.

Amidst on-going controversy over Nigeria’s debt sustainability, the Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Alex Okoh, has said that the fiscal policy will do better raising budgetary funding from privatization.

THESE are not the best of times for the pseudo- progressives of Yorubaland as the rubber hits the road on the major issue that will determine the outcome of the 2019 elections , returning Nigeria to the path of productivity a.k.a restructuring.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed confidence in the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to conduct a free and fair election contrary to the assertion of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has called on all the international Human righhs organisations to note the record of brutal killings, especially that of Shiites people under the current administration, saying President Muhammadu Buhari and his Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, must face trial after their stay in office.

A Non- Government Organisation,  Centre for Objective Media has flayed what it described as the deplorable state of facilities at the  Delta State Broadcasting Service, Warri, DBS, Delta state.