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Monday, 5 September 2016

Nigerians Rate Buhari Poor In Economic Management

Vanguard Media online opinion poll has revealed large scale disapproval of the economic management policies by president Mohammadu Buhari, even as economists and institutional analysts clamor for policy changes.The poll asked respondents how would they score Buhari’s government on economic management so far, on three rating scales: Fantastic; Bad; Average.With a total...

Nigeria spends N1trn on 4 food imports annually – FG

Massive importation of food, especially, rice, wheat, sugar and fish, has continued to bleed the nation’s economy, with the four items accounting for a whopping N1 trillion loss to the nation annually. , Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria, ARCN, Prof. Baba Abubakar, disclosed this at a sensitization seminar on Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, and Agricultural Biotechnology, organised for staff of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...

2016 budget funding: FG to raise additional N110bn bond next week

The Federal Government will raise N110 billion from its bonds issuance next week in continuation of its 2016 budget funding strategy. The Debt Management Office, DMO, which is spear-heading this option, gave the breakdown of the latest bond roll-out as N40 billion bond maturing in 2036, N30 billion maturing in 2026 and N40 billion of debt maturing in 2021. The trade would be conducted using the dutch auction system. The latest bond issue would be...

Nasarawa to replace striking workers with fresh graduates

Umaru Tanko Al-Makura Nassarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, on Saturday threatened to recruit fresh graduates to replace workers in the state currently on strike over non-payment of their salary. The governor issued the threat in Nassarawa Eggon at the celebration of the 35th coronation anniversary of Aren Eggon, Dr Bala...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has admitted that President Muhammadu Buhari is no longer popular like he was during the 2015 general election. “All governments worldwide in between terms lose some degree of popularity; no question about that,” he told Punch. “We are having harsh economic times, no question about...

Rivers, Kano, Imo, Kogi rerun elections to be concluded before July 31 – INEC Chairman

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has expressed readiness to conclude rerun elections in four states not later than July 31, adding that the commission is also ready for the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. It would be recalled that the re-run elections ordered by the court in Rivers,...

A Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court in Apo, Abuja, has struck out a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kay‎ode, seeking an order releasing him from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The spokesman of the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 Campaign Organisation‎ ‎had filed...

A mild drama reportedly played out recently at Krystal Lounge Night Club, Wuse II in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja as a commercial sex worker, Blessing Olili, assaulted a man she mistook for her ‘run away’ customer. The man, identified as Onuma Kalu who dragged Olili before a Grade 1 Area Court sitting in Karmo on Tuesday, said he had never set eyes...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has cried out over the alleged action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to keep him in custody for five years without trial. Jude Nduke, spokesperson to the former Minister, in a statement said, "An inside source said a senior operative of the EFCC had told Fani-Kayode to the hearing of those around...

According to a post shared on Facebook by Abraham OC Ogolo, doctors at a Nigerian hospital removed a giant fibroid weighing 26kg from a woman's stomach. His post below: "Doctors from Safe Hands Medicare Center Nigeria have removed this. According to the hospitals social media report, confirmatory results shows that the mass weighed 26kg in Histopathology lab and was...

Photos: JSS3 Student In Anambra Manufactures Keke

According to Chidiebere Maduafor,a JSS3 student in Anambra constructed tricycle popularly known as Keke.He wrote….. ‘Anambrarians no de carry last at all.This is a boy Ifeanyi IGWE by name, a jss3 student of st Raphael secondary school okpoko ogbaru LGA anambra state constructed a tricycle popularly known as KEKE’. ...

Petition security agents if any of our members are involved in corrupt practices – APC dares PDP

The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Wednesday charged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to petition the various anti-graft agencies if any member of the ruling party is found to be involved in corrupt practices. The ruling party made the assertion in a statement while responding to the declaration by some Senators that they have withdrawn their support for...

The Katsina State Judicial Commission currently probing the immediate past administration of former Governor Ibrahim Shema, on Wednesday adjourned sitting indefinitely. This was following a court action instituted against the commission by the former governor. The former governor had dragged Governor Aminu Masari and 10 others, including the Chairman of the commission,...

Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, has described human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) as a mischievous lawyer, who is always out to defend any position that satisfied his selfish desire, saying, “Falana is only deceiving the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Governor...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the erosion of powers given to local governments by state governments. Obasanjo said that the local council structure had been bastardised, battered and encroached upon by states, contrary to the objectives of creating the third-tier of government in 1976. “I wish I could help, but I am helpless,” the former...

President Muhammdu Buhari on Wednesday met with staff of the State House, Abuja. It was his first close meeting with them since he assumed office a year ago. President Buhari, who addressed the staff in the court of the State House, read out the riot act to them. While seeking the cooperation of the staff, the president warned that anyone who tried to use their closeness...

The inability of over two-thirds of state governments across the country to pay workers’ salaries, has been described as a national disgrace by President Muhammadu Buhari. The president stated this yesterday when he had an interactive session with State House workers, who gathered at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa to welcome him back from his 10-day vacation...

Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari has labelled Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose a mad dog -Fayose had alleged that Mrs Buhari was indicted in the bribery scandal of US Congessman, William Jefferson As shocking as it can be, Mrs Aisha Buhari wife of President Muhammadu Buhari has labelled Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose a mad dog. Mrs...

On this day in 2014, a suicide bomber blew himself up alongside 7 others, while 20 sustained life threatening injury at the premises of Kano School of Health Technology located along Gida Murtala–B UK Road. According to the Kano Commissioner of Police , Adelenre Shinaba, 8 vehicles parked within the premises of the state owned tertiary institution were...

Governor Ayodele Fayose’s troubles with the Buharis, the number one citizen of Ekiti state has yet courted another trouble. Fayose had on Monday evening, mentioned Aisha Buhari as one of those involved in the corruption scandal of Williams Jefferson, a United States congressman. The governor received backlashes afterwards, with the presidency describing him thus: “he...

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