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After months of apprehension, President Muhammadu Buhari has broken silence by declaring his intention to run for a second term in the office. The President said this on Monday at a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership. Bolaji Abdullahi, the national publicity secretary of the APC and Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the Chief Whip, House of Representatives confirmed this while addressing journalists in Abuja after the NEC meeting. The NEC meeting is attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and other…

Kentucky couple from United States of America said to have divorced 50 years ago are set to retie the knot on April 14. In 1967, Kentucky couple Harold Holland and Lillian Barnes split up after a 12-year marriage and five children. Holland takes the blame for the breakup of the marriage. “It was 100 percent my fault,” he told the Lexington Herald-Leader, saying he spent too much time working to build his flooring business and not enough with his wife and family. Holland, 83, married another woman in 1975 and she died in 2015. Barnes, 78, married twice but outlived both men; the…

A total of 59 out of the 63 students of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, of Ohogua camp, Benin City, Edo State, who wrote this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB were said to be successful. Solomon Folorunsho the general overseer of International Christian Mission Centre and operator of the camp, said the students scored above 200, with some scoring as high as 298. It will be recalled that Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives, paid the registration fees for the students to sit for WAEC, NECO and NABTEB as…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Sunday, said it has completed the audit of its financial statements up until December 31, 2016, assuring that its accounts were up to date. The NNPC, in a statement in Abuja, said audited backlog had since been formally approved by the Board of the corporation in line with extant laws governing the operations of the national oil company. Mr. Isiaka AbdulRazaq, Chief Financial Officer/Group Executive Director (CFO/GED), Finance & Accounts of the NNPC, said the delivery of the audited financial statements would help foster better relations with stakeholders and further promote transparency and accountability in the…

Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has appealed to Enugu State residents to maintain good relationship with its customers’ enumerators in order to improve service delivery. Emeka Ezeh, EEDC’s Head of Communications, said in a statement issued on Sunday in Enugu, that the ongoing exercise was beneficial to both the company and its numerous customers. Ezeh said that the company was using Enugu as a pilot state for the exercise before extending it to other South-East states within its electricity servicing coverage. “The exercise is aimed at facilitating comprehensive metering of all electricity customers; easy identification of all electrical assets and their…

As the 2019 general elections draw near, 20 governorship aspirants under All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Imo State are said to be jostling for the party’s ticket. The race daily is getting tighter, and Mr. Steve Nwoga, the Deputy National Organizing Secretary has joined it. Vanguard learnt Sunday in Owerri that with Mr. Nwoga and top aspirants included the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of ABC Transport Company, Mr. Frank Nneji. Others were but not limited to, Mr Okey Ezeh, former Commissioner of Information to Okorocha, Mr. Uche Onyegucha, Mr. Ike Ibeh, David Mbamara, Mr. Obi Njoku. On why he wants…

The question has always been asked on why there are more widows than widowers in most neighborhoods. Why is it that women have higher chances of surviving their husbands. What is that thing that kills the man ahead of his wife? A man wants to call the shots in everything he is involved in; politics, religion, business, sports. But as much as he rules these worlds, when it comes to his health, man seems to have a far lower sense of judgment in what makes him healthy or unhealthy. Why would a man want to avoid going to the hospital…

The party’s financial record was said to have breached all known rules, with personalization of party funds in “the most opaque manner” as the hallmark The Nation newspaper is reporting that the N1 billion left behind by the Interim National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, headed by Chief Bisi Akande, has been “hastily decimated without care for transparency” by the party. The highly revered newspaper is reporting that this is one of the reasons the ranks of the leadership of the party, with Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as National Chairman, broke when President Muhammadu Buhari called for the sack…

The management of the global ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox, MMM, has announced a final shut down of operations. The ponzi scheme in a statement on its official global website weekend, said they were shutting down due to the death of the founder, Sergey Mavrodi, an ex-convict who died of heart attack on March 26. The scheme, which collapsed over a year ago in many countries, including Nigeria, has been a subject of controversy globally. Mavrodi launched his controversial scheme in 2011 and crashed in Nigeria in December 2016; with millions of naira belonging to Nigerians trapped in the scheme.…

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for Britain Monday for official visit. Buhari will hold discussions with the British Prime Minister, Theresa May before he will proceed to Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings that will start on April 18, 2018. A statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, on Sunday night said that President Buhari will also meet Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Plc. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on Monday, April 9, 2018 for an official visit to Britain where he is due to hold discussions on Nigeria…