Fuel scarcity: Stop punishing Nigerians, PDP tells Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, as Minister of Petroleum Resources, to find a quick solution to the lingering fuel scarcity now ravaging many parts of the country.

It called on the President to stop punishing Nigerians.
The PDP, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary,  Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday, in Abuja, insisted that it was wrong for the President to sit in his comfort zone and put the blames of the fuel scarcity at the doorsteps of marketers, while Nigerians continue to suffer untold hardship.

PRESIDENCY 2019 OBIANO HAS NO INTEREST

Okey Maduforo

Contrary to the rumour bruited in some quarters that the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano is nursing an ambition to contest the 2019 presidential election in the country the members of the public have been urged to discountenance such stories as they are handiwork of mischief makers.

It has been confirmed that the governor has no such plans rather he is more interested in improving the welfare of his people and expanding the frontiers of development in the state. What the governor achieved in his first term in office is nowhere close to what he intends to do in his second term and as such does not want to be distracted by idle rumours of the type making the round.

In the same vein the story that the governor is threatening that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) will take over the remaining four states of the Southeast zone during the next election was unfounded. The word threatening is alien to Governor Obiano who in the face of provocation during the just concluded governorship in the state maintained dignified silence. The governor is urbane and understands

Factional group: Buhari plans to be sole candidate in 2019, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is planning to be the sole presidential candidate in the country during the 2019 elections.

It argued that this was the reason agents of the All Progressives Congress were bent on causing dissatisfaction among PDP members ahead of 2019.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, who spoke with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, said those who opened an “illegal office” of the party at the Asokoro District of Abuja were being deceived.

BREAKING: Osun workers declare strike over half salary

Workers in Osun State have declared their intention to begin an indefinite strike following  the refusal of the state government to revert to paying them  full salary and arrears despite the receipt of the third tranche of N6.3 billion Paris Club loan refund.

The workers under the umbrella of the Osun State Joint Public Service Negotiating Council gave the strike notice  in a statement issued on Friday following an emergency meeting of labour leaders on Thursday.

Cyril Ramaphosa, Possible Successor To Jacob Zuma of South Africa

Ramaphosa became deputy president after his election to the position in the ANC in 2012. At the time he was wooed by President Jacob Zuma’s camp to give the slate “credibility” when then ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe contested Zuma for the top post.

Before that he was the chair of the national planning commission that produced the National Development Plan, the country’s blue print for growth towards 2030.

HIS UPSIDE: Ramaphosa founded one of the biggest and most powerful trade unions in the country – the National Union of Mineworkers.

Trump nears tax victory as US Senate passes overhaul

The US Senate narrowly approved a sweeping tax overhaul early Wednesday, putting President Donald Trump on the brink of his first major legislative triumph nearly a year after he took office.

Hours earlier, Trump’s $1.5 trillion deficit-busting tax cuts cleared the House of Representatives, but a rare last-minute snag over parliamentary rules will force the lower chamber to vote on the updated package once again Wednesday.

The deepest rewrite of the US tax code in three decades provides dramatic tax breaks to corporations, and families at all incomes levels will see their income tax drop starting next year, with the largest benefits going to the wealthy.

Seven money-saving apps to help you eliminate debt

For a lot of people, budgeting, saving money and tracking their finances is difficult. That’s because we are bombarded with a bunch of marketing schemes every day that makes us want to spend rather than save our hard-earned money.

With these seven powerful money apps listed by www.forbes.com, you will learn to like budgeting and saving. Check out the list below to find an app that suits you best.

Era of endless wait for Nigerian visa over, Consul-General claims

Mr. Tanko Suleiman, Acting Consul-General at the Nigerian Consulate in New York has said that the era of an endless wait to obtain Nigeria visa was over with the biometric system.

Suleiman told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York at the inauguration of the Nigerian biometric visa project that it was another achievement of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

The Nigerian official said, “The essence of this new system is to make it easier for Nigerians and other people who have legitimate reasons to visit Nigeria, to obtain Nigerian visa.

Abuja mansion: You’re chasing shadows, Mark tells EFCC

Immediate past Senate President, David Mark, has described the allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he purchased his house in Apo Legislative Quarters Abuja illegally as “spurious, contrived and baseless.”
Mark, in a statement on Tuesday by his Media Assistant, Mr. Paul Mumeh, said the EFCC or any other agent of government were chasing shadows as the property was duly offered for sale, bided for and he purchased it in line with the Federal Government’s monetisation policy, which was started by the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Anambra Rice, Safe and of Best Quality -NAFDAC

The Anambra Rice brand has been satified safe and of good quality by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) contrary to a sponsored fake and malicious news being peddled by individuals who were out to score cheap political points by demarketing the product.

Mrs Christiana Essenwa, a Deputy Director of NAFDAC had on Monday during a visit to the state Ministry of Agriculture in Awka, warned against the adultration and counterfeiting of the popular Anambra Rice brand by outgrowers and individuals trying to boost sales of local rice during the Christmas holidays.