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The presidency in Nigeria said on Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to China has yielded additional investments in the country exceeding $6 billion. Spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement that the several agreements concluded with the Chinese during the visit will have a huge and positive impact on key sectors of the Nigerian economy including […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari declared on Friday that his administration will take “urgent steps” to diversify Nigeria’s economy by encouraging new investments in mining, agriculture and manufacturing. Many have accused President Buhari of speaking as if he was still campaigning more than a year after he defeated Goodluck Jonathan in March 2014. But Mr. Buhari said ‘‘this […]Read More

Nigeria’s anti-drug trafficking operatives have arrested a Nigerian passenger travelling to Dubai with 193 wraps of cocaine concealed in sucks. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said its operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos made the discovery of cocaine in sucks with a total weight of 3.4kgs during routine screening of passengers on an […]Read More

Press Statement Some recent media reports have distorted comments made by former Finance Minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala regarding how lack of political will negatively impacted national savings over the past few years. Contrary to the slant given by these loud headlines, Dr Okonjo-Iweala did not indict the Jonathan administration in which she served. Rather, she […]

Fayose in China Nigeria’s opposition governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, called on the international community on Friday to investigate the President Muhammadu Buhari government and save Nigeria from sliding back into dictatorship under a former military ruler turned democrat. In a statement, Mr. Fayose said he was very pleased with the international community, especially the United […]

L-r:  Commissioner of Commerce, Alh. Rabi’u Bako: DG Special Service, Col. Umar Malami Tudun Wada (rtd): Commissioner of Justice, Barr. Haruna Falali: Commissioner of Information, Comrade Mohammed Garba: Exec. Sec. Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alh. Abba Yakubu: Gov. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje: his Deputy, Professor Hafiz Abubakar and the Principal Private Secretary to the Governor, Usaman Bala […]

Press Statement We of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), FCT, Abuja chapter hereby condemn the killing of Peter Ofurum, a student of the University of Port-Harcourt, by trigger happy policemen on 11 April 2016 during a peaceful protest against the decision of the University management to prevent students who had not fully paid up their […]

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria have called for interest rates on loans to reduce to between 3 and 5% per annum. According to an article in The Nation, the MAN President Dr. Frank Udemba Jacobs, who spoke during the week on the sideline of the association’s Council in Lagos, said: “One of the challenges we have […]Read More

The Governor of Ekiti State,  Ayo Fayoshe was at a mall in China allegedly giving a speech to a crowd of shoppers who didn’t seem to be listening. The governor has often been accused by his opponents of being unstable considering is frequent remarks against them. This picture if true,  appears to justify some of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the immediate redeployment of the Director General of the National Youth Service Commission (NYSC), Brigadier Johnson Olawunmi from the NYC to the Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, as acting commandant. In his place, the president approved the appointment Brigadier-General S.Z. Kazaure as the new NYSC Director […]

The Nigerian Senate seems to be rushing an amendment to the Act establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal as the bill crossed a second reading just a day after its introduction. The amendment is happening at a time the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is facing trial at the Code […]

Justice Abdulkadir Abdu-Kafarati of Federal High Court has dismissed the fundamental rights suit filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Abdu-Kafarati who gave a judgement today dismissed the suit as an abuse of court process. The judge was scheduled to deliver judgment at noon. But he […]