IT was the day formal campaign into elective positions in the 2019 elections commenced and incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, had seized the moment to begin in earnest a campaign that he and his subordinates had until that time taken formal and casual moments to do on and off.

IMO State governor Rochas Okorocha, yesterday said he would support his son-in-law Mr. Uche Nwosu, for the governorship race in Imo, should he (Nwosu) join another political party. 

Waba lamented that a situation where state governments were still owing salaries, pension, and arrears of civil servants despite several interventions in form of bail-out funds, Paris Club refunds, and other budgetary supports as unfortunate.

Kano—The senator representing Kano Central, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, said, yesterday, he was aware of the video which showed Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State allegedly receiving money from some contractors, but did everything possible to stop the release to the public to no avail.

“These unhinged security challenges continue to daily show that the country’s security architecture has collapsed under the crushing weight of unitary arrangement that concentrate  the country’s   Security apparatus only in the hands of the Federal Government.”

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has denied the alleged exclusion of Eastern rail line from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri in the ongoing nationwide rail construction and modernisation.

Nigeria’s immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan yesterday lauded former Minister of Works, late Chief Tony Anenih, saying he was one of the few Nigerian that played politics of ideologies and commitment.

A young Nigerian girl has told a Lagos High Court about her ordeal in the hands of some human traffickers, who shipped her to Dubai in United Arab Emirates, for prostitution.

Kazuare to Buhari: Send me to Sambisa to finish Boko Haram

As Nigeria struggles with N30,000 minimum wage, its counterpart, South Africa has concluded plans to pay her workers N126,480 per month.