The gubernatorial candidate of Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party, ANRP, in Imo State,  Professor  Alphonsus Njoku  Ekwerike  has  promised to turn Imo State into the Dubai of Nigeria if voted into power in 2019.

The nation’s pension scheme is targeting to enroll about 30 million Nigerians in the next five years, about 275 percent increase from current position.

NATIONAL Coordinator of the Movement for Democratic Equity, MDE,  Josiah Mashomi has urged the people of Delta State to work assiduously towards the reelection of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in the 2019 gubernatoral election.

BARELY 24hours after President Muhammadu Buhari directed that the local debts incurred by the Federal Government should be serviced, House of Representatives members, yesterday, moved that local debts put at about N3.48 trillion should be probed.

Let us re-orientate and sensitise our people on the importance of picking and being in custody of their PVCs and be ready to cast our votes

STAKEHOLDERS in the South-East geopolitical zone, comprising civil society groups, the media, among others, yesterday, made inputs in the ongoing review of the Nigeria Police Reform Bill, intended to effect constitutional amendments on the 73 years old Nigeria Police Act.

Amid revenue shortfall pressures, the Federal Government intends to introduce new taxes in the fiscal year 2019 as part of its efforts to boost revenue.

Jos—Many of those displaced by herdsmen about six months ago in some communities in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State broke down in tears as they returned to their ancestral homes, yesterday.

THE  Senate, yesterday, passed a bill for the Establishment of Federal Polytechnic Item, Abia State.

Investors swooped on the shares of Diamond Bank Plc following the announcement of its merger, Monday, with Access Bank Plc, resulting in 44.2 percent increase on the shares of the bank in four trading days.

LOYALISTS Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, yesterday, flagged off the Allied People’s Movement in Abeokuta, Ogun State and threw its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in the 2019 elections.

MAIDUGURI—A faction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, backed by a court judgment in Borno State has rejected the candidature of Alhaji Mohammed Imam for governorship, Mohammed Abba-Aji, Isa Kangar and Kudla Satumari, among other candidates produced by another faction of the party in the state.

Leaderships of the key Igbo organisations at home and abroad, under the aegis of Ndigbo Consultative Assembly, NCA, has called for the postponement of the 2019 general elections, due to the imperfections in the 1999 constitution.

Bayelsa State Executive Council has announced the readiness of Governor Seriake Dickson to present the 2019 budget proposal to members of the state House of Assembly.

EDO State deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu yesterday said but for the press who exposed his detention in Gasua prison by the military junta of late General Sani Abacha, he could have been a dead man.