The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has assured Nigerians that negotiations are ongoing with a number of countries on the modalities for the repatriation of some looted funds stashed abroad. The minister stated that the Federal Government had been in touch with Switzerland, which he said, had earlier repatriated $700m to Nigeria. He noted […]
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The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and probe him. Bakare, who was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election, said this while delivering his State of the Nation address, titled, ‘Roadmap […]
Read More More than three months after the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission said it would give the country a new salary structure for political office holders, the agency is yet to submit the report to President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Punch, those to be affected by the new remuneration packages are the president, vice president, […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party has said the continued detention of its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission since Tuesday without charging him to court shows that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is dictatorial. The major opposition party noted further that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government had “disdain for […]
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would fight corruption conclusively. Soyinka said this when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, visited him at his home in Lagos. He said that the level of exposure concerning corruption under the Buhari administration showed that government was […]
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THE former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of pursuing a selective war against corruption and ignoring the rule of law. According to Okupe, recent developments including the arrest of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, is making the […]
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday expressed the commitment of his administration to invest in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in order to enhance Nigeria’s competitiveness at the continental and global levels. He made the remark during an inaugural meeting with the National Research and Innovation Council (NRIC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to him, […]
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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the Federal Government to be careful with its borrowing plans. A statement issued yesterday by the Managing Director of the IMF, Ms Christine Largarde, at the end of her visit to Nigeria urged the Federal Government to identify ways to broaden the revenue base, particularly to create additional […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and other heads of state are expected at the US-Africa 10th Biennial Business Summit to be held next month, the organiser, Corporate Council on Africa, has said. According to a statement on Wednesday, Buhari will lead some top members of his cabinet and top Nigerian business leaders to the summit. The summit, […]
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The Federal Government on Wednesday denied withdrawing the 2016 Budget proposal presented to the National Assembly in December. Reports, especially on social media, had attributed the purported withdrawal to suspicious bloating of budgetary votes in the proposal. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President […]
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The news has been awash of the visit of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, to Nigeria on a working visit to Africa but dedicating a whole four days to Nigeria. Not surprising, she did us the “honour” of having to touch down on our soil first. Trust the ludicrousness of […]
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Campaign for Democracy, CD, South East Zone, yesterday, joined other human rights bodies in the call for the immediate release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, the Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh and the former National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki […]
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