Daniel Agbolade, Ibadan With Nigerians getting ready for 2019 general elections, Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj, has called for the adoption of what he tagged Africanocracy or divine government. He said with the myriads of problems facing the county, it requires no soothsayer to know that both the Parliamentary and Presidential systems of government have failed to work in Nigeria. He made the call in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on the occasion of his 71st Birthday anniversary celebration. The spiritual leader also warned foreign countries, notably United States of America, to desist from predicting break up of Nigeria…

Amid revenue shortfall pressures, Federal Government intends to introduce new taxes in the fiscal year 2019 as part of its efforts to boost revenue. Briefing the media, yesterday, in Abuja on 2019 budget, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said that current focus of the ministry is on revenue because government has resolved to mobilize more domestic revenue so it can better fund the budget. She stated: “As you can see from the performance (of 2018 budget) that there is a gap between what is in the budget and what is actually generated. So we are doing what we can…

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering strike by university teachers, which has brought academic activities across the country to a halt, warning that failure to do so could adversely affect preparations for conduct of 2019 general elections. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye, who raised the alarm at a one-day seminar on media and gender-sensitive reporting of elections organised by the commission in collaboration with the support of UN Women, stated that students of federal tertiary institutions should and…

North Korea said it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States first removes what Pyongyang called a nuclear threat. The surprisingly blunt statement jars with Seoul’s rosier presentation of the North Korean position and could rattle the fragile trilateral diplomacy to defuse a nuclear crisis that last year had many fearing war. The statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency comes as the United States and North Korea struggle over the sequencing of the denuclearization that Washington wants and the removal of international sanctions desired by Pyongyang. It also raises credibility problems…