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• Stock investors count losses as RT Briscoe, SCOA hit a 10-year low• Stakeholders blame worsening forex shortage, inflation, weak demand, others• Auto sector on verge of collapse over rising imports, operators warn• FG urged to support industry with credit facilities, tax relief Worsening foreign exchange (forex) scarcity in the country, coupled with an unfavourable operating environment, weakened purchasing power and …

* Ex-Lagos governor may be delayed by polling result   *Group urges APC candidate to consider technocrat. Although it is the constitutional prerogative of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to choose his running mate for the 2023 presidential poll, a final decision has yet to be taken. Tinubu has not presented a list of his preferred persons …

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, Governorship Candidate, Engr Segun Oni, yesterday rejected the outcome of the Ekiti State governorship election won by Mr Abiodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Spokesman of the Segun Oni Campaign Organization, Mr Moses Jolayemi, in a chat with Vanguard, accused the APC of engaging in vote-buying and security agencies of compromise during the …

Despite the submission of the name of former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswin Akpabio to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC), DIG Udom Ekpoudom (rtd) is still optimistic of flying the party flag for the Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial district election come 2023. This was just as …

Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has finally taken the bold step that would see the popular drug market from head bridge, Onitsha to Oba in Idemili South local government area. There had been several attempts by previous administrations in the state to relocate the market considered to be one of the biggest in the country, but the drug dealers …

The priest pledges obedience to the Catholic bishop who issued a ban of his ministry. Outspoken Catholic priest, Ejike Mbaka, has denied involvement in the protest held by his followers against the recent ban on his Adoration Ministry. Members of the Catholic Church have been banned from attending programmes at the Adoration Ministry. The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Callistus …

Huge crowds flooded into the British capital for the rally to demand that the government do more to help people faced with bills and other expenses that are rising more quickly than their wages, the AP reported. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been criticised for being slow to respond to the cost-of-living crisis.Inflation in Britain and across Europe has been …

The outcome of our presidential nominations season has produced a new landscape of mixed blessings. The two major parties have produced rival contestants straight from the dark recesses of Africa’s political past. Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu are in many ways a throwback to the African ‘Big Man’ politician of the 1970s to 1990s. On the contrary, a minor party, …

The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Calistus Onaga has banned Catholic faithful from attending Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry. This ban came on the heels of Mbaka’s recent vituperation against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi. Mbaka had during his mid-week prayer activities described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, as a ‘stingy …

TUNDE AJAJA examines some politicians who have spent years jumping from one party to another seeking political office and have yet to win the respective seats The three failed attempts by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to become the President before he eventually won in 2015 has become a classic example of how people should be resilient in their …