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— Chinua Achebe
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Economic Devt: Emir Sanusi Leads Kano Govt Delegation To China
By SALIHI ABUBAKAR BELLO, Kano Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has lead the Kano State government delegation to China in pursuance of beneficial trade and economic development deals with Chinese trading partners. The director press to Kano State governor, Malam Aminu Yassar, revealed that Emir Sanusi II, is having ...
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More than 100 undergraduates arrested for internet frauds -EFCC
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Ibadan office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday said that more than 100 undergraduates of various tertiary institutions were in its custody over financial crimes ranging from online love scam, Automated Teller Machine fraud and online marketing.Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Ibadan office of ...
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EFCC arrests 100 undergraduates for internet fraud
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Ibadan office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday said that more than 100 undergraduates of various tertiary institutions were in its custody over financial crimes ranging from online love scam, Automated Teller Machine fraud, and online marketing fraud. The commission’s Deputy Zonal Head, ...
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Presidency to Jonathan: Buhari inherited economy ravaged by mismanagement, corruption
The Presidency said on Monday that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was handed an economy ravaged by years of mismanagement and corruption. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement in Abuja. The presidential aide was reacting to statements ...
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Lagos to transform Oworonshoki to transport, entertainment hub
The Lagos State Government on Monday outlined plans to transform the blighted areas of Oworonshoki Waterfront into one of the biggest transportation, tourism and entertainment hubs in Nigeria. Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Engr. Ade Akinsanya in a statement, said that the project will improve the aesthetics and security of the ...
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Nigeria: Hope Rises for Kaduna Textile Over Planned $15 Million Investment
[Premium Times] The New Nigeria Development Company says it will invest $15 million through a partnership with a Turkish firm to reactivate the collapsed Kaduna Textile company.
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Don’t distract investors with probes, LCCI tells N’Assembly
Anna Okon The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has advised the National Assembly to apply greater discretion while exercising its investigative powers so as to avoid distraction to private sector players, erosion of investors’ confidence and collateral damage to the economy. In a statement signed by the Director-General, LCCI, ...
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Ozubulu massacre: Let the police do their work
Eze Onyekpere The Nigeria Police Force is established by Section 214 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. The powers and duties conferred on the police by law are essentially for the maintenance of law and order and as an executive agency, to give vent to the ...
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Lagos vs. inland waterways
•Mines and Steel ministry must obey appeal court’s judgment THE spat orchestrated by the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (FMMSD) against the Lagos State government over the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, is tantamount to an abuse of rule of law. The Court of Appeal ...
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Blood in God’s temple
Shock and awe! It was a dehumanizing spectacle to behold as worshippers were mowed down in droves by some demented gun men over suspected business deals that went sour. Elderly village men, women and children who were at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Anambra State for an early Sunday ...
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Power quagmire
•Nigerian manufacturing has stayed afloat in a difficult business environment. But it’s time the government sorted out the power question DREARY news, indeed: by Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) figures, factories in Nigeria spent N129.95 billion on petrol, diesel, gas, low-pour fuel, coal and inverters (what MAN dubbed as “alternative ...
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Naira Firms On I&E Window As US, North Korea Tension Heightens
By Bukola Idowu, Lagos The value of the naira went in different directions at the Investors and Exporters window of the official and parallel market last week as tension between North Korea and the United States impacted the value of the dollar at the international foreign exchange market. Tension between ...
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Focus Paese
Nigeria: Lagos può uscire dalla crisi con il supporto del Belpaese?
La situazione della prima economia africana rimane molto critica tanto che il Paese staziona in fondo alle classifiche mondiali relative alla crescita economica ed ai livelli occupazionali. In un contesto del genere esistono comunque opportunità per chi vuole fare business nello Stato africano? La crisi della più importante economia africana (PIL ...
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My life, my business –Sasha
Anthonia Yetunde Alabi, aka Sasha, used to be known as Nigeria’s First Lady of hip hop but in the fast-paced world of the Nigerian music industry, that seems like aeons ago. Now, her name would most likely be met with blank stares from the majority of young music lovers. The ...
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Ozubulu killing: FG will give victims specialist medical treatment –Onyeama
Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says the Federal Government is prepared to give victims of the Ozubulu attack the best possible medical treatment wherever it is available. Onyeama disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Nnewi when a delegation of the Federal Executive Council ...
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Corruption: We didn’t plug all loopholes, says Jonathan …insists he did well, had sound economic team
Olusola Fabiyi For the first time, former President Goodluck Jonathan said in Abuja on Saturday that his administration did not plug all loopholes in its bid to end corruption in the country. But he said it was wrong to assume or say that the economy would have been in a ...
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Investors provided 42,000 jobs for Kaduna youths — El-Rufai
GODWIN ISENYO Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, on Saturday, said the All Progressives Congress in the state, through the private sector, has created 42,000 jobs for the people of the state. El-Rufai said his administration had provided a conducive environment for private sector investments to thrive, leading to the creation ...
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US, FG back 20,000bpd oil refinery in Lagos
’Femi Asu The construction of a 20,000-barrels-per-day crude oil refinery in Lagos by a Nigerian petrochemical and refining company has received a major boost with the signing of a grant by the United States Trade and Development Agency. Similarly, the Federal Government has pledged to provide the necessary support to ...
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PDP gives Makarfi four months extension
• We would have managed economy better, says Jonathan •APC’s performance is below par – Makarfi The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday granted the Ahmed Makarfi led Caretaker Committee a tenure extension of four months to enable it conduct a proper national convention to elect a new National Working ...
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Nuel O: Changing The Face Of Gospel Music
BY Anthony Ada Abraham, Abuja Emmanuel Chukwujekwu Onyeme “Nuel O” is a Nigerian Christian singer, songwriter from SouthEastern Nigeria. Nuel .O is also a worship leader and a recording artiste, a key member of Lagos Central music team of The Salvation Army who started singing at a very tender age. ...
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Occupation of gas plant by protesting Rivers youths illegal – Shell
The Shell Petroleum Development Company operated Joint Venture (SPDC JV) has decried the occupation of its flow station and gas plant in Kula and Belema Communities in Rivers by some angry youths. The spokesman of SPDC, Mr Joe Obari, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Saturday said that ...