Last week, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) urged President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the sharing of the $2.259bn in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) among the three tiers of government in order to improve the liquidity position of the states. The governors, during a meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa, hinged their call […]
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This piece is a triangular tool for national unity, peace and progress of Nigeria, if the Presidency, leaders of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Northern Governors will see any wisdom in it. For the first time in the history of this Nation, the Northern Governors are hell bent in arm […]
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Amid Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Beijing this week, Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama announced that China has offered Nigeria a $6 billion loan to pay for infrastructure projects. President Buhari aims to increase spending on public works projects as a means of kickstarting economic growth. Nigeria is facing its worst economic crisis in decades […]
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has described the performance of his party, under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘very poor and unimpressive’. Baraje, who made this remark on Sunday, while speaking during a media briefing in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, lamented that his party has dashed […]
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I saw it coming and I warned shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari assigned portfolios to Ministers and made the former Lagos governor “Oloye Meta”(triple chief). I was guest of Seun Okinbaloye on Channels TV where he asked me to x-ray the new ministers and their portfolios. I had expressed pity for Fashola instead of congratulations […]
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Angry traders, led by Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, on Thursday shutdown the APC secretariat to register their displeasure over the party’s failure to appoint “market women and men” in public offices. Mrs. Tinubu, alongside over 100 other women, stormed the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, […]
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Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, says his people will not be intimidated even if President Muhammadu Buhari relocates the armoury of the Department of State Services (DSS) to the state. Accusing the president of masterminding the recent raid of the state house of assembly, Fayose said he could eject the agency from the state […]
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A sophisticated attack on a sub-sea pipeline in Nigeria’s Delta might herald a return to the kind of widespread militant violence that crippled the oil industry in Africa’s top producer less than a decade ago. Attacks on oil facilities have been on the rise in the swamps since President Muhammadu Buhari vowed to shake up […]
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The emir of Kano and the immediate past governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Muhammad Sanusi II, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s endorsement of the CBN foreign exchange policy encourages corruption. Lauding Buhari’s removal of “wasteful and corrupt fuel subsidies”, Sanusi said the current forex policy endorsed by the president encourages similar rent seeking and corruption […]
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Former president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has been given the Diplomatic Circles Honour Award for upholding human rights in Africa making him the first president from the continent to receive the global accolade. Dr Jonathan, who will receive the honour in Geneva, Switzerland on January 21 2016 at the group’s annual dinner, will also deliver the […]
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