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  By Tony Obiechina The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Thursday, listed Nigeria among eight African countries on its debt distressed category following the failure of their fiscal consolidation to positively impact the citizens.  Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF’s African Department, who gave the hint at a briefing he …

  By Attah Adgidzi The recently conducted primary elections in Nasarawa State by the various political parties have marked the end of another beginning for a fierce battle between the governorship candidates in the effort to occupy the seat of power come 2019.

    From Deji Fakorede, Lagos   Corporate Chieftains in Nigeria cutting across different sectors of the nation’s economy may have begun massive mobilization to buoy the presidential aspiration of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Chief Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the 2019 election.

  From AbdulGafar Oladimeji, Kano   About 10 weeks ago, when former Kano State Governor and Senator representing Kano Central, Engr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join his former biggest political rival in the state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, many saw the move as a …

      By Gabriel Atumeyi The stage is now set for campaigns for the 2019 presidential election with the emergence of candidates of the various political parties.The real battle however appears to be between the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that of the Peoples Democratic Party …

   By Yemi Akinsuyi Russian Company, The Arctic, plans to commit a whopping $47.6bn in complex LNG projects at the gas company’s Novatek’s playground, within the Arctic circle. Once fully operational, LNG 2 will be pumping out 18.3m cubic metres of liquid gas a year.

  Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has emerged candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 election. Atiku emerged after a keen contest between him and 11 other aspirants at the party’s national convention held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The former vice president scored 1,532 votes to …

  Twelve years after he discovered the site of the crashed Nigerian Army aircraft in Kwande local government, Benue State, Mr Detimbir Chia, has graduated from the Nigeria Defence Academy as a 2nd Lieutant. Chia who was commissioned an officer of the Nigerian Army, after bagging a degree in military …

    By Gabriel Atumeyi A rude shock awaits some presidential aspirants of the main opposition-Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), as the party hierarchy may have resolved to drop seven out of the 11 aspirants jostling for the party’s sole presidential ticket, DAILY ASSET has learnt.

By Abdulgafar Oladimeji Elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has accused Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere of plotting to destabilise the country, using restructuring. He called on those who had been in the forefront of calls for restructuring to explain to Nigerians, the real meaning of it. “Restructuring, as many other …