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A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the November 26, 2016 governorship election. Akeredolu who was the candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2012 governorship election, scored 669 votes in a governorship primary held at the International Event Centre, Akure, the …

The Presidency has said that prior to the confirmation by the National Bureau of Statistics that Nigeria was now officially in recession critical measures were already ongoing to get the country out of the prevailing economic decline. As a direct response to the fiscal crisis, it said the Federal Government and its agencies were now focusing on agriculture, solid minerals, …

Co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of social networking website, Facebook, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg has said that Nigerians were highly gifted in the Information Communications Technologies, ICT. He said this after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The computer guru said he was impressed by the interest, energy and entrepreneurial spirit displayed by young Nigerians in …

The Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, said that the introduction of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) was the best and boldest monetary policy decision any administration in the country had so far taken. Emefiele, while delivering a lecture to participants of the Senior Executive Course 38 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, …

Hit by the current economic recession in the country, most money deposit banks and insurance firms have slashed their workers’ salaries by between 20 and 50 per cent. Investigations by Saturday PUNCH revealed that Diamond Bank Plc, Heritage Bank Plc, Zenith Bank Plc, First Bank Plc and Wema Bank Plc have reduced their workers’ salaries as of August 31, 2016. …

President Muhamamdu Buhari on Thursday assured Nigerians that despite the various current challenges facing the country, Nigeria would be great again under his watch. Buhari gave the assurance while speaking with Muslim leaders in Osun State shortly after joining them in the Zuhr prayer held inside the Government House after he inaugurated the N1.35bn Osogbo Government High School. The President …

A factional national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Friday, in Abuja, asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise his candidate, Mr. Mathew Iduoriyekwemwen, as the party’s candidate f‎or the September 10, Edo State governorship election. He said that Iduoriyekwemwen remains the “authentic” candidate of the party and not Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who is …

By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON – 2016 — United States Defense Secretary Ash Carter will travel to the United Kingdom and Norway Sept. 6-9 to meet with top officials from the two longstanding NATO allies, Department of Defense officials said today in a statement. Carter and U.K. and Norwegian leaders will participate in discussions regarding U.N. peacekeeping operations and to update counterparts …

By Alltimepost.com Houston, Texas – Premier Edo organization in the Diaspora, Edo National Association Worldwide (ENAW), begins its 25th annual convention today in Houston Texas, with an impending change of guards. Dr. Agharese Aikpehiomwan Osifo of the Department of Agricultural Economics & Extension, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State will deliver the keynote address: AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN EDO STATE; A …

Chief Anthony Ndubuka, a major rice dealer in Umuahia, has expressed optimism that the price of rice would soon fall in Nigeria. Ndubuka expressed the optimism in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Thursday while speaking on the high price of the grains in the country. He said that the grains would become affordable …