The recent exit of political protégées of Governors Rochas Okorocha and Ibikunle Amosun brought to a climax the upheaval that arose from the quest by the new leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC to enthrone internal party democracy in the ruling party.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode last week presented cheques to another batch of over 2,000 beneficiaries of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) loan programme. 

Most overwhelming also is that all across the states House of Assemblies where laws concerning both men and women in the country are made, the number of women representatives is mostly in single digit. In fact, in some states, there isn’t a single woman.

African Democratic Congress, ADC, House of Assembly candidate in Burutu North constituency, Mr Oweikeye Ndoro, has assured neglected and remote communities of development if elected.

FSDH Merchant Bank has projected inflation rate of 13 percent for 2019 fiscal year citing implementation of the new minimum wage, upward review of electricity tariff and likely removal of fuel subsidy as factors that will drive up prices next year

Delta State Government has urged its senior civil servants  to use the knowledge acquired at the senior management course, organised in collaboration with Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, ASCON,  to equally to deliver on the SMART agenda.

Nnewi—Following the alleged humiliation of the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,   Peter Obi by the  Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, yesterday called on the Third Vatican Council to retrain the priest, saying doing so “will help in saving the image of the Catholic Church and its people of good conscience, as Enugu Adoration Spiritual Director  is  in dire need of fresh ideas and higher studies.”

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has picked holes in a statement credited to a Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo,  which said that boycott of 2019  general elections by the south-east and the south-south  will not help the Biafra cause.

ANGERED by the refusal of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to give Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State a second term, his Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Wale Oluwo, yesterday, resigned.

Sports minister, Solomon Dalung has said that about 8,861 athletes are expected to participate in the 19th National Sports Festival scheduled to commence in Abuja today.