The Nigeria’s manufacturing sector which accounts for 10 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted for a second consecutive quarter, by 3.8 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2015, just against 14.0 per cent a year earlier. This is an indication, according to the latest report by Renaissance Capital Limited released on […]
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· At least 1,600 civilians killed by Boko Haram in last 4 months · More than 3,500 civilians killed by Boko Haram in 2015 · Nigeria yet to investigate military abuses · Almost 400 civilians and dozens of security personnel killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon since January 2014 Despite advances by the military, attacks […]
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari’s threats to probe governance affairs of his predecessors has tumbled into a boomeranging breadth, prompting the General to personally send a plea with apologies to the former President and one of the targets of his proposed probe, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, International Guardian reliably gathered. “I didn’t personally know what was said […]
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The Nigerian government has ordered a full investigation into how a wanted terrorist was granted Nigerian Visa in Lebanon to visit the country. An informed Government official who spoke to BREAKING TIMES on Tuesday on condition of anonymity disclosed that foreign pressure over the Al-Assir-Nigerian passport scandal has forced President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the […]
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Law Mefor: The speculations that there would be no cabinet for the new All Progressives Congress (APC) Government, until September, was laid to rest when President Muhammadu Buhari told his USA audience so. Upon return to Nigeria, he further told the Nigeria Television Network that reason for the delay was mainly for dearth of men […]
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Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of Anambra state, says the Igbo are not begging President Muhammadu Buhari to give them appointments because, on merit, “we have the best people in Nigeria”. In an interview with Sunday Punch on the perceived lopsidedness of Buhari’s appointments so far, Ezeife said the appointment of Ibe Kachikwu as the group […]
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The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately release the blueprint of his economic policy and constitute an economic team that will facilitate a new policy direction. The chamber also said it was not comfortable with the present approach of the Federal Government to economic issues, which […]
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The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to start his anti-corruption fight by probing those that sponsored his election to reveal their sources of income. Fayose said, “Some of those who sponsored the President’s election have not done any other jobs apart from holding public offices. Yet, they provided private […]
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By Remi Oyeyemi: “…. whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, would be pardoned” – President Mohammadu Buhari on March 11, 2015 at a Campaign rally in Kaduna “The right thing to do is to probe at least the administrations from 1966 when this level of corruption and criminal […]
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Ibako William: The anti-corruption credentials of president Mohammedu Buhari sold like wildfire in the run-up to the presidential election that saw the defeat of then president; Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Many Nigerians, across party divide -even among the 5 per cent- saw in our president: a hope, a functional and egalitarian state, and the annihilation of […]
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