A clash between herders and farmers in Gora Village of Katsina State has left many people dead, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. This year alone, about 2000 Nigerians have dead from herders and farmers clashes. “The violent clash took place when a herdsman pushed his cows into the farm of a farmer who was […]
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“Recall that the opposition and their sympathisers and campaigners, both local and international, with their malicious propaganda, tore our economy to shreds, threatened our stability and existence as a nation and intimidated our citizens, all in the bid to take over power. Rather than forge a coalition and build on the momentum we had gathered […]
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The Delta Ports are a quadruplet of seaports sited along the Niger delta coastline in the port towns of Warri, Sapele, Koko and Burutu, all in Delta State and in their named order of sizes. The ports belong to second generation Nigerian ports, coming after the Lagos Port Complex and the Port Harcourt Port. They […]
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The IMF Country Chief, Amine Mati, who spoke last Thursday (November 8, in Abuja, at the presentation of the Regional Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, 2018), was clearly concerned that, despite Nigeria’s very precarious 1.9 percent projected growth rate for 2018, and a debt to GDP ratio between 20-25 percent, Nigeria however, is unfortunately, already also […]
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BUSINESSDAY PH Court nullifies APC congresses; voids guber, assembly nominations Stocks may follow historical sell-off path despite Q3 scorecards 2019: Atiku’s emergence will strengthen opposition, say Fasehun, Afenifere FG spends N460bn from 2018 budget on capital projects Factoring will help Nigerian economy to blossom Dangote urges deepening of African economy through free trade Quickteller removes […]
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In these hard times, most youths are caught-up in the web of lack and want, thinking of where to get their next meal from. The reality is that nobody is willing to give out funds or cash for free without your own input, drive, zeal, or ideas that tend to add value to the other […]
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Recently, a number of people criticised pop singer, Davido, for donning a Peoples Democratic Party attire during the PDP mega rally for his uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke’s gubernatorial bid. They say that as a serving member of the National Youth Service Corp, Davido ought not to promote a political party. I thought long and hard […]
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We see different things even when we are looking at the same picture. When CBN asked MTN to return the $8.1 billion dividends it “illegally” repatriated between 2007 and 2015, I was not thinking about MTN or CBN. Rather, my mind was on Econet, the ancestor of Airtel. Econet and MTN launched operations […]
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But for the way we are – as a country without leaders who are afraid of the people, I would have borrowed the title of an artful writer, Brett Baker who had on August 18, 2017 said of his country, ‘Don’t look now, but we are a country with no leader’. I mean, I […]
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A Nigerian Engineer, based in Canada, Jude Igwemezie, has won a $500 million contract to build a monorail network in Iraq. Mr. Igwemezie, who was also trained in Canada, heads TransGlobim International, the engineering company that won the bid. The contract is to construct what is described as “a viable rail transportation network” for the […]
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