BDSUNDAY BUSINESS DAY
2019: Understanding Igbo leaders’ ‘rage’ over Atiku’s choice of Obi
UBA, Zenith, 2 others post N344 bn PAT in 9 months
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Sunday 21 October 2018 Market & Commodities Monitor Brent Oil
5yr Bond
$84.31
-0.09 15.07%
Gold
10yr Bond
$1,205.60
-0.03 15.10%
Cocoa
$2,024.00
20yr Bond
-0.07 15.07%
inside Nigerian writers converge on Lagos this week as 37th ANA convention begins Oct.25 p. 13
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Zamfara: A test case for APC, INEC Opadokun: Implement Uwais committee recommendation now!
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ZEBULON AGOMUO & INIOBONG IWOK he Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) appears to be on its way to weaning itself from the meddlesomeness of the Federal Government, which has in the past hampered its activities and portrayed it as a biased umpire. If it successfully pulls through its stance
against the ruling party, it would then mean that the long-awaited and much-trumpeted independence of the electoral umpire would be said to have eventually become a reality. The INEC had banned the All Progressives Congress (APC) from fielding candidates in Zamfara State after the expiration of the stipulated time for party primary elections. It had insisted that the APC did not conduct its primaries within the timeframe.
But Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the APC, had equally insisted that his party would field candidates in all the elective positions in the state. In order to meet the October 18 deadline for the submission of the list for the presidential candidate and that of the National Assembly candidates, the INEC had gone to submit, but a deputy director of information in
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APGA: Of dashed hopes and shattered dreams
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‘With Atiku’s candidacy, 2019 presidential election is half won’
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Oseloka Osadebe: The last ‘Zaria Rebel’ returns with Inner Light
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo meeting with some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at a camp in Bayelsa State during his visit to flood-affected areas of the state, weekend.
When militants, cultists laid down their arms to embrace peace in A/Ibom ANIEFIOK UDONQUAK, Uyo
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or more than three years, cultists and militants unleashed a reign of terror in two local government areas of Akwa Ibom State, wreaking immeasurable havoc
on human lives and property. The siege on Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun LGAs of the state began like a child’s play soon after the 2015 general elections. It was thought that thugs who were allegedly used during the elections and later
abandoned were behind the attacks which had become a recurring decimal in the two local government areas. In the two affected LGAs, nobody was spared as everyone was a target of the
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