President Muhammadu Buhari expressed fears yesterday that the opposition in the country has stupendous resources at its disposal in preparation for the 2019 elections which the ruling All Progressives Congress , APC, may not be able to match.

LAGOS—  Permutations by high-level stakeholders opposed to a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari have gravitated towards three North-West politicians, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso and former minister of special duties, Turaki Tanimu.

Sharp reactions, yesterday, trailed submissions by Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, that former President Olusegun Obasanjo should be tried over alleged improprieties in the execution of the National Integrated Power Projects, NIPP, initiated by his administration to boost power supply.

The family of the late General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Musa Asake, has rejected CAN’s offer to assist in the burial of the deceased.

Makurdi—Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to cry out for help from the international community to stem the killings by herdsmen which he, yesterday, described as ethnic cleansing.

Strong evocations of political indiscretion overflowed yesterday as supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari and former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo took positions against one another.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, made a direct rebuttal of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s summation of his administration as a disaster as he lampooned the former president of harvesting nothing out of the $16 billion allegedly expended on the power sector.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, won the support of the apex Yoruba social-cultural body, Afenifere, in his campaign to stop the second term bid of President  Muhammadu Buhari.

National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, is accusing the leadership of the Christian of Nigeria (CAN) of corruption and abuse of office.

The All Progressives Congress, APC is set to elect new state officers today in congresses across the country with the quest for political supremacy by competing stakeholders threatening the party’s dominance of the political space.

LAGOS—The Federal Government has expressed helplessness over the continued killing of Nigerians in xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

SENATE President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, raised the alarm of a grand plan by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, to implicate him, using some cultists who have been arrested in Kwara State and warned against what he described as rascality, intimidation and harassment.

President Muhammadu Buhari may have rebuffed the threat from the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, bloc in the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the seven-day ultimatum from the group for a meeting ran out last night.

IF succeeding regimes had checked corruption as his government did, Nigeria would not be swimming in graft with the attendant socio-economic and developmental problems, former Military Head State, General Yakubu Gowon, retd, has said.

ALMOST one year after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, began a drive towards lower interest rates, about eighteen banks have declined to toe the apex bank’s policy line.