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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set a June 17th deadline for all presidential candidates to name their running mates and July 15th deadline for all Governorship candidates to name theirs.  INEC Chairman, Prof. MAHMOOD YAKUBU, said this on the commission’s social media page.  The chairman warned that any party or candid...

The manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN) companies of Nigeria have said they cannot access loans at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s five per cent lending rate under its intervention scheme for manufacturing and other critical sectors. According to them, the loans have structural framework problems and are almost never accessed in banks at five per cent.  They added ...

The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, ATIKU ABUBAKAR, has released his economic agenda guiding principle, with a vow to break government monopoly in all infrastructural sectors. The former Vice President stated this in his agenda released on his Twitter page today titled, ‘The three guiding principles of my economic agenda'. According to him, the country&r...

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President ATIKU ABUBAKAR, has began the search for their running mates. The spokesman  for the TINUBU Campaign Organization,  BAYO ONANUGA, said the APC presidential candidate would meet the APC governors whom he said would pick the former Lagos State governor’s running mate....

Former Lagos State Governor, BOLA AHMED TINUBU, has won the All Progressives Congress’ presidential primary at a special convention held in Eagle Square, Abuja yesterday. He won the election by a landslide after defeating Vice President YEMI OSINBAJO, former Minister of Transportation, ROTIMI AMAECHI, and the Senate President, AHMAD LAWAN. BOLA AHMED TINUBU delivered a speec...

Ogun state government has asked local Government officials to comply with the relevant law and process, set up to regulate all procurement activities of government across the State. The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Dr. ADESINA OLANLOYE said this during a one-day course and meeting on Strategic Development and Due Process in Public Procurement, organized for Procurement Planning Committee members in the Local...

As the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is underway, former Senate President, KEN NNAMANI and two other presidential aspirants have stepped down for Vice President YEMI OSINBAJO. APC chieftain and Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), KABIRU GAYA, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. Although he d...

A presidential hopeful of the All Progressives Congress (APC), BOLA TINUBU, has secured the support of some of his fellow aspirants to get the party’s ticket as they took turns to announce that they were stepping down for him. These aspirants later beckoned on their teeming supporters who stormed the venue of the APC presidential primary to vote for TINUBU when it was time for the election. ...

Governor of Anambra State, Prof. CHUKWUMA SOLUDO, has ordered the repeat of the online recruitment examination teachers which took place on Saturday, June 4. There have been criticisms about the examination by some candidates owing to network failure as the website failed for about 30 minutes into the one-hour exam. About 31,000 candidates had applied to sit for the examination to...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has said he has no anointed candidate for the office of the president as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, holds its presidential primaries.  In a statement issued by his media assistant, GARBA SHEHU, President  BUAHRI reaffirmed his position  while hosting governors on the platform of the All Progressive Congress from the northern states, in Abuja.  ...