Why grains importation won’t happen soon – Stakeholders
There may be delay in implementation of the zero-tariff grains importation policy of the federal government as Financial Vanguard reliably learnt at the weekend that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is yet to receive a comprehensive list of the firms to select for participation in the intervention programme.
Fallout of APC Crisis: Amosun, Okorocha’s in-law bomb Oshiomhole again
The controversy over the governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ogun and Imo States continued, yesterday, as Governor Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) and Mr Uche Nwosu, an in-law of Governor Rochas Okorocha (Imo), attacked the National Chairman of the ruling party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
APC has no room for emperors Oshiomhole fires back at Okorocha, Amosun
The insistence of Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha and his Ogun State counterpart on fielding their choice candidates as governorship flagbearers in their respective states despite the position of the All Progressives Party, APC, finally met a brick wall yesterday with the party’s refusal to recognise their candidates.
Shi’ites: US, CDHR condemn use of ‘maximum force’
ABUJA — Reactions yesterday trailed the bloody clashes between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, and security agencies, as the United States Government, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, and Committee for Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, flayed the use of maximum force on the sect.
Minimum wage: FG, Labour tackle state governors
ABUJA — THE Federal Government and organised labour yesterday rejected the N22,500 minimum wage proposal put forward by the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF.
Death, blood, as Shi’ites, soldiers clash in Abuja
Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shi’ites, and a combined force of the Nigerian Army and police, yesterday, engaged in a bloody clash which left some dead and many injured.
Anxiety grips APC govs as NWC meets
A number of All Progressives Congress, APC, governors are on tenterhooks ahead of a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, to approve the list of its governorship candidates for the 2019 elections.
Buhari moves to avert mass defections from APC …
Ahead of Tuesday when top leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) meet to look at their final list of candidates for the 2019 elections with a view to using the last window for substitution, President Muhammadu Buhari has moved to avert possible defections from the party arising from the crisis generated by the primaries.
APC crisis : Amosun, Okorocha defiant, insist on chosen successors
Governors Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday, dismissed the tag of ‘bad losers’ put on them by the All Progressives Congress, APC, as they separately reiterated the determination to foist their chosen successors on the state, irrespective of the inclinations of the party leadership.
Party Crisis : Amosun, Okorocha, Yari, bad losers — APC
The national leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, rallied against forces seeking removal of the chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, describing Governors Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun and Rochas Okorocha of Imo states as bad losers.
Protests rock APC secretariat as Govs Amosun, Akeredolu throw weight behind Buhari
With protesters, yesterday, laying siege to the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in support and denunciation of the party’s recent primaries, Governors Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), yesterday, denounced new narratives allegedly spun to pitch them against President Muhammadu Buhari.
