The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has said he was in search of a credible vice presidential candidate who has the potential of succeeding him. Unveiling the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate on Thursday at the party’s headquarters, Atiku said Okowa has the potential he sought for. Atiku…
Trust Africa News, By Ayomide otitoju Barring any last minutes change of plans, the Lagos State government has resolved to demolish the three uncompleted high-rise structures on the site where a 21-storey building collapsed last year November. The decision is sequel to reports that the three structures have failed integrity tests. A structural engineering firm,…
Inflation in Nigeria maintained a “galloping trend” in May, rising above expectations to 17.7 percent, against the 16.82 percent recorded in April, data released by the state-backed National Bureau of Statistics has shown. Concerns about inflationary pressures driven partly by war in Ukraine, as well as domestic security challenges pushed the Central Bank of Nigeria…
Nigerian soldiers have found one of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram operatives eight years ago in the conflict-torn northeast, the military has said. The April 2014 attack on a girls’ boarding school in the town of Chibok and the mass kidnapping that followed sparked international outrage and a global campaign called…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says steps should be taken to address Ankara’s “legitimate” concerns over the NATO bids of Finland and Sweden. According to a statement by Turkey’s Communications Directorate on Wednesday, Erdogan told NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a phone call that no progress can be achieved without seeing “concrete steps” by both…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar is scheduled to meet with governors of the party. The meeting is aimed at concluding plans on who emerges as Atiku’s running mate ahead of the 2023 elections. A notice of the meeting was made public by the Secretariat of the PDP Governors Forum, signed by…
By Ayo Oluwole Peters Were he not well recognized as a lawyer of repute and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, one would have been forgiven for ascribing a personally signed press statement this week by Mr Ebun Olu Adegboruwa to the theatrical antics of an ignorant and deliberately mischievous mind. In his…
……As Food & Beverage West Africa opens in Lagos Players in the food and beverage sector have called on the governments of African countries to address the increasing costs of manufacturing on the continent.Rising production costs they said will force importers to flood the African market with goods which raw materials are sourced within the…
A chartered accountant, Omoniyi Osunsanya , the pioneer Managing Director of Unique CFO Limited and a former Finance Director at MediaReach OMD, a member of the Omnicom Group, has emerged the 5th Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Mowe & District Society of Ogun state. Osunsanya and the other Executive Committee…