GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele,says more state-owned enterprises will be privatised. The governor made this known to journalists at a press conference to mark the end of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, in Bali, Indonesia. Udoma Udo Udoma, minister for budget and national
THE deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, is rallying south-east leaders to back the choice of Peter Obi as the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), TheCable understands. Both men were top favourites considered by Atiku Abubakar as running mate in the 2019 presidential election, with Obi getting the nod. However, south-east political leaders,
No fewer than 500 rice farms at Okpotuwari and Ondewari communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, have been submerged by flood, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mr Ezekiel Ogbianko, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association in the state, who inspected the submerged farms on Wednesday, called on the federal and state governments
The federal government has proposed N24,000 as the new minimum wage for civil servants. Chris Ngige, minister of labour, disclosed this while briefing state house correspondents after the weekly federal executive council (FEC) meeting. He said after the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called off the the nationwide strike, it agreed to N30,000 as minimum wage
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is consulting its lawyers over the directive from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it should not field candidates for the 2019 elections. The commission had barred the ruling party from the elections over its failure to comply with the October 7 deadline for conducting primaries. Internal crisis had
THE President Nigerian Movement for Positive Change (NMPC), Niyi Aborisade has called on Nigerians, both home and abroad to exercise patience in making a choice on who will be their president come 2019,just former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has emerged the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest against the incumbent,
Choosing our president in 2019 . I entreat all of us to take time to study all the aspirants very well before lending our support to anyone of them. Prior to the advent of Europeans in Africa, it was part of our culture particularly in Yoruba land to consult the Oracle to choose for them