BDSUNDAY BUSINESS DAY
MRS, Total, Cadbury lead as cost of sales rises to N631 bn in third quarter
Nigerian art, culture push ahead at NAFEST
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Sunday 28 October 2018 Market & Commodities Monitor Brent Oil
5yr Bond
$77.66
-0.07 15.17%
Gold
10yr Bond
$1,23.80
-0.00 15.39%
Cocoa
$2,251.00
20yr Bond
-0.03 15.21%
inside Entrepreneurship key to unlocking Africa’s economic development – Elumelu p. 4
Atiku must run on his record of public office, not questionable private businesses – Keyamo
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How Peter Obi changes political dynamics in APC
Sources claim party shopping for Osinbajo’s replacement on religious ground It’s all rumour - APC chieftain BY OUR REPORTERS
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he emergence of Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and a staunch Roman Catholic, as the vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may have changed the
thinking in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over who runs with President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. Credible sources told BDSUNDAY that the thinking in the APC right now is that much of the support given to the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket in 2015 by the Redeemed Christian Church of
God (RCCG) community has been eroded in the past three and a half years. This feeling of loss of support base in RCCG, the sources said, is causing discomfort within the APC camp and the party may have decided
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Supreme court aftermath: Amaechi, Abe camps in deep negotiation to hand Abe APC ticket?
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APGA: One last chance to right the wrongs, reclaim Imo in 2019 p. 28-29
L-R: Nike Akande, former president, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Abimbola Fashola, wife of former governor of Lagos State; Sarah Sosan, former deputy governor, Lagos State; Pauline Tallen, former deputy governor, Plateau State; Nkechi Okorocha, wife of the Imo State governor; Siju Iluyomade, convener, Arise Women, and Omolewa Ahmed, wife of the Kwara State governor, at the 10th annual Arise Women Conference in Lagos, yesterday. Pic by Olawale Amoo
Joy unlimited... as parents of separated conjoined twins relive experience CHINWE AGBEZE
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ast year, the story of James and John Ugwoke, a set of conjoined twins whose parents were soliciting for funds to fly them to India to have them separated,
made headlines. The twins born to Mr. Obinna Ugwoke and Mrs. Amarachi Ugwoke on May 8, 2017 at First Covenant Hospital, Abule-Ado in Satellite Town, Lagos, were joined at the stomach. The couple could not afford the mil-
lions of naira that was needed for the surgery. Rev. Fr. Vincent Ezezue, the parish priest at Saints Michael, Raphael and Gabriel Catholic Church (Archangels’ Parish) in Satellite Town, where the Ugwoke family worships,
launched a campaign in October 2017 to raise funds for the surgery and in November, the twins underwent a successful surgery at Narayana-HealthMazundar Shaw Medical Centre, Bangalore, India. It’s now
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