Former Lands and Housing Minister under President Goodluck Jonathan and two-term federal lawmaker, Chief Nduese Essien, who has remained in the Peoples Democratic Party since its inception in 1998, is optimistic that the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to substantially meet the expectations of most Nigerians who voted for him in 2015, will make the election of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and presidential candidate of the PDP, easy in next year’s elections.

Minister of State for Education, Professor Anthony Anwuka has confirmed that there is an ongoing meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, adding that the government is doing everything possible to end the strike.

As the end to the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other institutions is far from being resolved, students in institutions of learning in Nasarawa state have decried the attitude of the federal government towards the resolution of the strike action.

THE Organised labour on Thursday, told the Nigeria’s Governors Forum, NGF, that the threat to retrench workers should the new minimum wage of N30,000 agreed upon by the Tripartite Committee be implemented was an invitation to anarchy with grievous consequences.

Former Minister of Aviation and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has tasked Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to come clean on the alleged diversion of the sum of N5.8 billion under his watch as Acting President.

CALABAR- THE palace of Chief Edward Osim, the Paramount Ruler of Abi local Government Area of Cross River State and father in law to former President Goodluck Jonathan   and those of other members of the Usumutong community have been reportedly razed by  their Ebom neighbours  in a communal conflict between the two which is still raging on Thursday afternoon during the time of this report.

THE Igbo leaders, including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Igbo Leaders of Thought, the political elite, the intelligentsia, women groups, religious leaders, among others, have resolved to support the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi in the 2019 presidential election.

Skyway String Transport Technology, a private firm, says its fast light rail service can move passengers from Lagos to Abuja in about 45 minutes.

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has described the purported endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar by some Igbo leaders as an affront on the Igbo nation.

THE on-going strike by the academic staff of public universities is obviously an indication that  the recurring face-off between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and Federal Government is not likely to end any time soon. ASUU, through its national president, Abiodun Ogunyemi,  said it embarked on the strike, which has again thrown the Nigerian university system into another round of crisis, to protest poor funding of universities in the country and the refusal of government to honour an agreement it entered into with the union through the signing of a memorandum of understanding, MoU, in 2017.

ABUJA—The lingering crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, arising from its recent primary elections has assumed another dimension with a chieftain of the party threatening to jail the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, disclosed that it has uncovered alleged fresh multiple withdrawals from the dividend accounts of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, totaling $1.151.609 billion, illegally withdrawn by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC .

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has asked the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to prove his allegations of graft against him or risk facing legal action.

THE thirty- six state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, met last night in Abuja, saying only Lagos State Government can pay the new minimum wage of N30,000.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has on Wednesday stormed Enugu state with his running mate, the former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi.