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Barring last minutes change of plans, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, will today make formal declaration of his intent to vie for the office of the president on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2019, LEADERSHIP exclusively learnt last night. The declaration will take place at an elaborate event billed for Abuja. As a part of the last-minute preparation for the declaration, which will be attended by governors, members of the National Assembly and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Saraki yesterday visited former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, where the duo met behind closed-doors. Multiple sources…

Enyimba International, the Nigerian Professional Football League, NPPL, beat Cara Brazzaville of Congo 1-0 in their final group stage game of the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup played on Wednesday, August 29. The People’s Elephant picked up a vital three points in against Djoliba of Mali in their last group encounter to put themselves in a favourable position to advance to the next round. Enyimba needed at least a point to progress to the quarter-finals but three to be sure depending on the result in the other group game between Williamsville of Ivory Coast and Djoliba The first half ended goalless…

At last, Senator Godswill Akpabio has broken his long-held silence over issues of governace in Akwa Ibom State, South South Region he ruled for eight years that have given room for speculations in different quarters. Akpabio who ruled Akwa Ibom State from 2007 to 2015 told his battery of supporters on Sunday “I collected N1.7 trillion in eight years from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC,’’ against purportedly bogus figure bandied by his critics that he collected more than N3 trillion. The immediate past governor who recently left Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for All Progressives Congress, APC, also deflated accusations…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has imposed heavy sanctions totaling N5.87 billion on four banks under its regulatory purview. By implication, the banks are to refund $8,134,312,397.63 for ‘flagrant violation of extant laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, including the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1995 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Foreign Exchange Manual, 2006.’ Figures obtained from the CBN on Wednesday, August 29, 2018, indicate that the highest fine of N2,470,604,767.13 was slammed on Standard Chartered Bank, while Stanbic IBTC Nigeria was fined N1,885,852,847.45. For its punishment, Citibank…

Ibanga Isine More than a dozen naval patrol Hilux pickups barricaded adjoining streets, isolating the Otop Abasi police station in Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital on May 30, 2017. As residents scampered for safety under a barrage of gunfire, one woman, her husband a police officer, crouched on the floor of their police barracks home and pushed her children under the bed. “It was a war. We could not run away because all the routes were blocked and bullets were flying everywhere,” the woman, agreeing to speak in return for anonymity, said. “My kids had just returned from the…

Seven Nigerian states close to the banks of River Niger and its floodplains are listed by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NIHSA over possible flooding. Consequently, Nigerians living in Anambra, Delta, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Niger, Kwara and Kogi states have been advised to immediately relocate to avoid the disaster. In a statement in Abuja signed by Mr Clement Nze, the agency’s Director of Engineering Hydrology, the ageny said the middle Niger portion of the Niger basin (Niger Republic) experienced high flows last week with the flood advancing into the Lower Niger (Nigeria). NIHSA noted that both Kainji and Jebba Dams were…

Two presidential aspirants on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Wednesday condemned the Federal Capital Territory Administrator’s refusal to allow Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano, use Eagle Square to declare his presidential ambition. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku in their different statements, said the move has sent out a wrong message about the country’s democracy. Saraki, who reacted through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in a statement Wednesday, said the development connoted intolerance in the country’s politics. He said: “The refusal to allow senator Kwankwaso to utilise the…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has promised to ensure compliance with the electoral guidelines, fairness and justice in the conduct of its primaries. It also promised to observe all the principles of internal democracy during the primaries which date are yet to be fixed. National chairman of the party , Adams Oshiomhole, gave the assurance when he spoke to state house correspondents at the end of the APC caucus meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday night. He confirmed that the meeting discussed the upcoming party primaries based on the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2019…

Former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso Wednesday declared intent to run for the Office of the President in the 2019 general elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) without police presence at the declaration venue. Kwankwaso, a lawmaker representing Kano Central senatorial district at the National Assembly who had to make do with an improvised venue for his declaration following the non-approval of the use of the Eagles Square, Abuja, attracted thousands of supporters from across the country to Chinda Hotel, venue of the declaration. Decked in red caps (for men) and red head scarfs (for women),…