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.
Govs inherit N3.9trn debts
AFTER the euphoria of their swearing-in, state governors, especially 12 of them, who are first timers will face major hurdles that may hurt their ambitious plans for their states.
OIC: CAN hits Buhari, insists Nigeria’s membership unconstitutional
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), yesterday, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of engaging in unconstitutionality by attending the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit currently holding in Saudi Arabia.
INSECURITY: Don’t withdraw licensed guns, Reps tell Buhari
THE House of Representatives, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately rescind his decision to withdraw licensed guns from their owners.
Inauguration : Buhari mum, as govs reel out promises
TWENTY-NINE governors, yesterday, made lofty promises as they took their oath of office across the country.
Their promises ranged from timely payment of salaries and pensions, fighting insecurity, improving the welfare of the citizenry,
APC boils again : Resign now, Deputy Chair tells Oshiomhole
Fresh crisis, yesterday, hit the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as Deputy National Chairman of the party, North, Senator Lawali Shuaibu, asked the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to resign, following last Friday’s Supreme Court judgment in favour of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Zamfara State.
Sallah celebrations put off in Buhari’s Daura
WHEN Muslims all over the world celebrate Eid-Fitr, next week, their counterparts in Daura, Katsina State, the birth place of President Muhammadu Buhari, will not be part of it.
Herdsmen: S’West under siege, Yoruba elders, Agbekoya tell FG
BARELY a week after former President Olusegun Obasanjo accused the Federal Government of being lackadaisical about invasion and unprovoked attacks by herdsmen across the country, the Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has advised the Presidency to check the killing spree of the herders, especially in Yorubaland to prevent people from resorting to self-defence and anarchy.
Fulanisation agenda: Obasanjo seeks to divide Nigeria in his old age – FG
THE Federal Government, yesterday, thumbed down former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comments, weekend, that the Boko Haram insurgency has become an agenda to ‘Fulanise’ West Africa and Islamise Africa.
FIRST QUARTER ’19: Insecurity, election slow economic growth to 2%
The Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), yesterday, said the nationfs Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which represents level of economic activities in the country, grew at 2.01 per cent in the first quaer(Q1’19), representing 0.38 percentage points decline when compared with the 2.38 per cent growth recorded in fourth quarter of last year (Q4’18).
Storm over Obasanjo’s stance on ‘Fulanisation’ agenda
SOME northern leaders, yesterday, gave former President Olusegun Obasanjo hard knocks over his comments that the Boko Haram insurgency was no longer about lack of jobs for youths but a full blown ‘Fulanisation’ of West Africa, Islamisation of Africa and global organised crimes.
