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Several cities and states were left in darkness over the weekend, as the national grid collapsed yet again. Reports said that the grid crashed in the evening leading to the eventual grid collapse after it recorded that the quantum of power on the grid as at 6am on Sunday was 3,628.6 megawatts.  Several electricity distribution companies announced the collapse of the national ...

The Chief of Defence Staff, General LUCKY IRABOR, has said citizens must trust the military and other security agencies for the war on insecurity to be more effective. He made the comment while speaking on a monitored television for Democracy Day. The General noted that “a lot of improvement” has been recorded in securing the country in the past one year....

And as part of activities marking this year’s democracy day, President MUHAMMADU BUHARI will address the nation via a live broadcast on Sunday. Minister of Information, LAI MOHAMMED,  who disclosed this while  briefing news men  in Abuja, said a public lecture at the National Mosque on Friday and Jumaat prayers as well as a church service at the National Christian Centre are  some of the events scheduled fo...

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...