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…Says peace crucial to ensure rapid progress By Tony Agbugba The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins has urged all Nigerians to seek divine guidance in the quest for peace in 2023, to ensure that the New Year is free from chaos and anarchy. According to the …

  Customer demand improved again in the Nigerian private sector at the end of 2022, supporting further rapid increases in both new orders and business activity. In turn, firms took on additional staff, albeit only slightly. Meanwhile, currency weakness continued to exacerbate cost pressures, subsequently feeding through to the second-fastest …

Obasanjo and Tinubu Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday lampooned former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for declaring support for one of the presidential hopefuls, Labour Party’s Peter Obi. In a special New Year message …

Uzoma Obi Colonel Anthony Uzoma Obi (rtd), a former military governor of Osun state, has died. His death was announced by his family in a statement on Monday. “We, the Family of His Excellency, Rtd Colonel Anthony Uzoma Obi, humbly announce the gentle passing of our Patriarch and head of …

Pa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, has said Nigeria will be in trouble if any candidate other than Peter Obi, presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, is elected president in 2023. This as the elder statesman hailed Obi’s endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He however said he …

Obi and Obasanjo Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as his preferred candidate for the 2023 general election. In his 2023 New Year message personally signed by the former President and made available to newsmen by his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo …

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Sokoto State governor, the deputy governor, Alhaji Manir Dan’Iya, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Saidu Umar and several PDP stalwarts in Sokoto escaped death as hoodlums attacked their convoy on Sunday evening. Their convoy was reportedly attacked while returning from campaign rallies in Silame local …

  Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamazat has advised the youths to participate in this year’s general elections. Hamazat made the call during the formal closing ceremony of the society’s 113th Islamic Vacation Course (IVC) in Epe, a Lagos suburb. He stressed that failure to vote was detrimental to good …

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Saturday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would reopen the nation’s borders if elected at the 2023 general elections. Tambuwal, the Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council made the assertion at the PDP campaign rally in …

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said what the five aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have done was a preamble as more troubles will come the way of presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar. Wike spoke on Friday at the flag-off of the construction of …