FORMER secretary of state for International Development in the United Kingdom (UK), Priti Patel, has called on investors to be wary about investing in Nigeria. In a short op-ed for City A.M., London’s first free daily business newspaper, Patel, a member of the UK parliament, said President Muhammadu Buhari has disrespect for “international law and
THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has launched his policy plan for Nigeria and promised to attract investments and support 50 million Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises, if elected as president in 2019. At the launch in Yola, Abubakar said the purpose was to double the size of Nigeria Gross Domestic
Lawmakers in Anambra state have told the police that they lacked powers to seal the state’s House of Assembly. Addressing newsmen in Akwa on Monday, the lawmakers described the action of the police as illegal, unconstitutional and an abuse of office. It will be recalled that policemen from Anambra State Police Command had last Thursday
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up six reconciliation committees to heal the wounds inflicted on the party in the recent primary elections, TheCable understands. Each committee, set up on geopolitical basis, will have seven members, including the governors elected on the platform of the party — except
SPOKESMAN of the Atiku Campaign Organisation,Segun Sowunmi, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will “make it impossible” for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the 2019 elections. He said Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP, will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari by a “wide margin”. Sowunmi said this on Monday in Abuja at the
A Federal High Court in Osun has remanded an Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Lecturer, Prof. Richard Akindele, in Ilesa prison custody, for allegedly demanding sex for mark from his student. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Maureen Onyetenu ordered the remand on Monday pending the filing of his formal bail application. Mr
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday assured Nigerians that legislative duties in the National Assembly would not be abandoned relegated to the background in view of the commencement of the 2019 electioneering campaigns. Saraki, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Print Media, Chuks Okocha, in Abuja, said while
Digital Satellite Television (DStv) service subscribers in Nigeria are grumbling over the continued payment for services not rendered by MultiChoice, the major distance-to-home service provider in Nigeria. In separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday, DStv subscribers pleaded with the Federal Government to enact a law to compel MultiChoice
By Niyi Aborisade There is no doubt that Nigeria is operating the most expensive democracy in the world. The bicameral legislature is modelled after that of the United States of America but surpassed the latter in the area of budget and financing. The first thing to examine is whether we really need to continue with
The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 General Elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says his commitment is to fix the ailing Nigerian economy. Abubarka said this on Wednesday during a meeting with Igbo leaders in Enugu. He said that he was worried about developments in the country as well as the