Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi’s recent criticism of northern leaders is the root of a heated controversy over the region’s economic challenges; report Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu, Abdulgafar Alabelewe, Kaduna and Kolade Adeyemi, Kano It was designed to be a sober economic summit, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Kaduna State. But by the time the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi …
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The Joint Admissions and MatriculationS Board yesterday announced extension of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by two weeks. The extension covers April 19 – 5th May. The examination body also announced suspension of the conduct of its mock examination scheduled to hold yesterday in some selected centres across the country indefinitely. JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, told …
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Dr Ghaji Bello, Director General of the National Population Commission says the National Population Census will hold in 2018 if necessary logistics are provided. Bello, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on Sunday, said that the exercise should have been conducted in 2016 in line with international practice. “If we are given all the …
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The Federal Government has said it would conclude the sale of 10 brand new electricity generation plants built under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) in line with its recently launched Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). The government also stated that within the three-year timed ERGP, it would review the …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele to provide a detailed submission on amount of monies recovered so far by the anti-graft agencies, in its anti-corruption war, since …
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In world capitals, at the United Nations and in military briefings, leaders spent the weekend trying to deduce what doctrine might lie behind the first direct attack by the US on the forces of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday, the White House articulated Donald Trump’s message: your move, world. Three of Trump’s top officials delivered that message to the …
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Is regime change in Syria back on the US agenda? For most of Syria’s six-year civil war the US has been pushing for the departure of Bashar al-Assad, even if former president Barack Obama was unwilling to use military options to remove him. Donald Trump had conspicuously backed away from that stance, with his administration describing Assad’s rule as “political …
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In the quiet streets of Khan Sheikun this week, as people wept for and buried the dead from a sarin attack, they also braced for the sound of warplanes in the skies above them, and the next attack. On Saturday the planes came back, killing a woman and injuring one other person, monitoring groups said. It was not immediately clear …
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A warship armed with cruise missiles has joined the Russian battlegroup off the coast of Syria as part of Moscow’s response to US cruise missile strikes on the Syrian airbase of Shayrat. Russia’s angry declarations, a world away from hopes of a rapprochement voiced in Washington and Moscow after Donald Trump’s election, have overshadowed US secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s …
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The US says it has put Bashar al-Assad on notice that it will take further military action if he uses chemical weapons again, while appearing to back away from wider military involvement in the Syrian conflict, less than 24 hours after launching Tomahawk missiles at a regime airbase. “The United States will no longer wait for Assad to use chemical …
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