Nigeria

The country’s debt profile has risen to N16.29tn, the Debt Management Office has said. Statistics obtained from the DMO on Tuesday showed that the country’s total debt liability had risen to N16.29tn as of June 30, 2016. As of June 2015,…
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Nigeria’s record-setting Paralympics athletes have returned to the country. The team, which won a Nigerian-record 8 gold medals at the Rio Paralympic games, arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Sunday evening to…
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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described President Mohammadu Buhari as the major problem of Nigeria that Nigerians must solve, saying; “Our President, through his actions and inactions is destroying everything that makes…
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Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, has called for a roundtable discussion that will give birth to a new Nigeria as well as achieve “unity and nationalisation.” Musdapher said the country must be brave to address…
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A United States District Court, has dismissed a case by a Nigerian lawyer seeking to stop the repatriation of over $550 million of stolen funds during the regime of late General Sani Abacha (referred to as the Abacha loot) to Nigeria until…
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The National Bureau of Statistics on Friday said that the Consumer Price Index which measures inflation increased year-on-year from 17.1 per cent in July to 17.6 per cent in the month of August. The bureau in the CPI report for the month…
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The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has said that Nigeria spends about $22bn a year on importation of food. Lokpobiri made this known on Saturday at a town hall meeting in…
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On the occasion of the celebration of this year’s Eid el-Kabir festival, former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has urged Muslim faithful and all Nigerians to learn to be one…
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The Federal Government has declared Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th September, 2016 as Public Holidays to mark Eid-el-Kabir Celebration. Making the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. (Rtd)…
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The Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism (CATE) has called on the federal government to shun any form of negotiation with Boko Haram. The group, during a protest march to the Ministry of Defence in Abuja, advised the government not to…
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