PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the People’s Trust, PT, Mr.  Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has decried the raging campaign of calumny trailing campaigns for the 2019 elections and wondered why many politicians cannot make their campaigns issue-based.

Continuous investments in machines and printing presses in an era of dwindling circulation and shrinking advert revenue for newspaper companies are not the right kind of investments

Mercedes-Benz says it is not aiming to be the first manufacturer to develop a self-driving car but it wants to be among the first two players able to scale up the technology, Mercedes-Benz executive Christoph Schroeder told German paper Welt am Sonntag.

THE Presidency, yesterday, said President Muhammadu Buhari will campaign only for candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming general elections in the country.

OPERATORS in the capital market have said that the weak sentiment that pervaded the equities market on the first three trading days of the year will continue this week following sell-offs ahead of the general election.

FOR Microfinance Banks, MfBs, operating in Nigeria, year 2018 would not be forgotten too quickly as it opened with the suspension of their customers’ accounts that are without Bank Verification Number, BVN.

All is set for the 4th edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon billed to take place on Saturday, February 2, 2019.

MAIDUGURI—IN an effort to reassure over 57,000 residents, displaced persons from three local government areas, among others, Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, weekend spent the night in Monguno town where Boko Haram insurgents were repelled by the Nigerian military after attempt last week to take over the town.

KATSINA—Governor Aminu Masari of  Katsina State and  leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend traded words over the security crisis in the state.

No fewer than 1,100 Niger Delta youths who underwent free skills acquisition training have cause to smile as they have been empowered with starter packs and seed funds to boost their business enterprises.

LAGOS—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, urged those yet to collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to do so now to avoid rush.

BENIN CITY—THE Benin monarch Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin yesterday, organised a new year party for children in the kingdom where he admonished them to uphold their culture and tradition and endeavour to speak their language at all-time no matter where they live.

Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Front and Niger Delta People Volunteer Force, NDPSF/NDPFV, founded by a leading Niger Delta agitator, Alhaji Mujaheeden Dokubo-Asari, have regrouped to resist purported political enemies of Niger Delta from winning elections in the area.

There is uncertainty in the Police Service Commission, PSC, following the silence of the Presidency over the expected retirement of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, who completed 35 years in service last Thursday, December 3, 2018.

THE  All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State, yesterday, raised the alarm over an alleged planned smear campaign and violent attack against its  governorship candidate, Mr. Dapo Abiodun.