Politics

President Buhari has said that his government through its National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), has in three years, lifted no fewer than 5 million Nigerians out of extreme poverty.   The president made this known at the opening of the Global Youth Employment Forum of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Abuja today Thursday August 1st.   Represented at …

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Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has proffered solution on how the country can end electoral violence that has plagued the nation for decades. Jonathan proffered the solution in his keynote speech on Thursday at the 2019 African Security Conference holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to him, the deployment of technology in the …

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Former Education minister and Vice-President of the World Bank’s Africa division, Oby Ezekwesili on Friday expressed concerns over the plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to place forex restriction on the importation of milk and according to her, it is punishment to Nigerians for rejecting the proposed RUGA settlement. Recall that CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, while …

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday revealed that Nigeria was ready to work with the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, Buhari said, “In Nigeria, we respect the choice of British people and we are ready to work with the new Prime Minister …

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Prof Wole Soyinka says Nigeria is currenlty raising a generation of illiterates.   Making particular reference to Internet trolls, the Nobel laureate said the nation is raising a generation that is the first to comment on the internet on issues they are deeply ignorant about.   He made this remark when he spoke at the launch …

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Olusegun Obasanjo, former Nigerian President, has written another letter to President Buhari, warning that the “nation is at the precipice, dangerously reaching the tipping point”. This will be the 2nd time the former president who has never hidden his dissatisfaction of the Buhari-led administration, will be writing a letter.   In the recent letter dated …

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A report which studied seven countries; Iraq, Indonesia, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Syria and Nigeria as the world capitals for the persecution of Christians, indicted the President Buhari led government over the persecution and killing of Christians.   The report which took into account the killings allegedly perpetrated by the Fulani herdsmen along the middle belt regions of Nigeria, was …

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Senator Elisha Abbo today clashed with Senator Oluremi Tinubu when he appeared before the Senate ad-hoc committee investigating his assault on a nursing mother inside a sex toy shop in Abuja on May 11th.   Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday July 3rd, announced the senate’s intention to investigate the assault after seeing the CCTV footage from the …

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