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The Senate, Wednesday, confirmed the Director, Communications, Buhari Campaign Organisation, BCO, Festus Keyamo, SAN, as a member, Governing Board of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC. Also, the Senate confirmed Mrs. Ronke Sokefun from Ogun State, South West, as Chairman, with Garba Bello from Sokoto State, North West;  Brigadier General Josef Okoloagu, Enugu State, South East; Mustapha Adewale Mudashiru, Kwara, North Central and Adewale Adeleke, Ondo, South West as members of the corporation. One of the nominees, Garba Buba, Bauchi, North East, was, however, not confirmed because he did not show up for screening. The confirmation of the six persons and rejection…

UEFA Champions League tables after Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s group matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points) Group A Borussia Dortmund    6 4 1 1 10  2 13 – Qualified Atletico Madrid           6 4 1 1  9  6 13 –  Qualified Club Brugge               6 1 3 2  6  5  5 Monaco                     6 0 1 5  2 14  1 Group B Barcelona                  6 4 2 0 14  5 14 – Qualified Tottenham                 6 2 2 2  9 10  8 – Qualified Inter Milan                 6 2 2 2  6  7…

The Defence Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, has charged the military to remain apolitical and be loyal to constituted authority in the course of their duty to the nation. Dan-Ali gave the charge Wednesday at the graduation of 67 graduates of Course 2/2018 at Army war College. The minister, who was represented by General Gabriel Olonisakin, the Chief of Defence Staff, further urged the participants to put all they had learned into use wherever they found themselves in order to justify the enormous resources deployed to give them such a world- class training. He hoped the training at the college would ultimately…

Strong indications have emerged that the global oil market would be relatively stable, and by extension, revenue of nations, including Nigeria in 2019, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has predicted demand to rise by 1.29 mb/d during the period. In its monthly report sent to Vanguard Wednesday, OPEC stated: “Total oil demand is now pegged at 98.79 mb/d. In 2019, world oil demand is anticipated to rise by 1.29 mb/d, similar to last month’s projections. “As a result, total world oil demand is anticipated to reach 100.08 mb/d. Oil demand growth is projected to originate from other…

Two presidential candidates, Wednesday, signed the peace accord, insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent of the accord must be followed up with assent to the Electoral Bill. In signing the peace accord to uphold decency and focus ahead of and during the election, Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate said Buhari’s failure to sign the 2018 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill cast doubts on his sincerity towards free and credible elections. Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, presidential candidate, on her part, accused Buhari of taking contradictory positions on credible elections, affirming that he should…

Different jingles and advertorials used by campaign managers in different social and mass media across the country allude to the prevalence of peace in Akwa Ibom State as a cardinal achievement of the state government. Though peace does not form a five-point agenda of the three-year and seven-month-old administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel under Peoples Democratic Party, peace is given a prime place in the party’s campaign strategy in the state industrialisation success story. Yet, the state government’s five-point agenda- job creation, poverty Alleviation, wealth creation, economic and political inclusion and infrastructural consolidation and expansion- receive less emphasis. Eseme Eyiboh,…

“Since I got the message that our future is in the valley, I kept to myself. I should not go beyond God; I should go before Him. “The Lord said to me that I should tell the nation and the leaders to pray against the interruption of democratic practice. You have to join me in prayer. The Lord gave me what to pray about because in this case, there must be prayers given to you,’ Prophet T. B. Joshua, the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, has revealed. This prophecy came less than two months to the presidential…

Schalke  04            0                             Lokomotiv Moscow             0 Club Brugge            0                             Atletico Madrid                    0 Barcelona               1                             Tottenham                          1 Galatasaray            2                             Porto                                 3 Inter Milan              1                             PSV Eindhoven                    1 Red Star Belgrade   1                             PSG                                    4

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said the the leaders have no solutions to Nigeria’s problems. He said all the nation had were what he described as coping mechanisms to deal with the problems more appropriately. Asked if the solution to Nigeria’s problems is the restructuring of the nation, Kukah said: “Anybody pretending that restructuring is the solution to our problems… it isn’t, because there are no solutions. They are coping mechanisms that you can design. “People focus on power, but the irony now, if we don’t know, is that somebody has written a fine book,…

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, Tuesday in Abuja said the Federal Government has reached partial agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Speaking at the end of the Federal Government’s reconciliation meeting with the Union, Ngige, who is one of federal government’s negotiators said: ”We have finished our deliberation for today. I am happy to report that we touched some areas of understanding in implementation from the memorandum of action which we agreed to in 2017. His words: “Some of these areas we have substantial compliance and some other areas have not been fully dealt…