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30 Days To Go: Presidency Lists Gains Of Buhari’s Regime

The Presidency, on Sunday, released its 90-page Fact Sheet chronicling the high points of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd)-led regime as it winds down May 29. According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the Fact Sheet highlighted the 37 bills signed into law, 12 executive orders, several …

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Worries Over Nigeria’s N77 trillion Debt Burden

• Tinubu To Inherit $103.11b Public Debt, N22.7t W&M Advances As Economists Decry Poor Application• Downgrade Of Country’s Bonds In Capital/International Market Imminent• Loan From China Hits $4.29b• Borrowings Have Not Impacted People Positively — Rafsanjani When President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, takes the reins on May 29, 2023, he would buckle under the hefty yoke of over $103.11b (N46.25t) debt left behind …

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Accept Defeat Over Election You Lost Woefully, FG Tells Obi, Atiku

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has told the opposition parties to stop their griping over the 2023 presidential election and accept defeat over the election they lost woefully. Mohammed added that both Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party lost the election due to overconfidence and complacency. In a statement …

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FG Raises Import Tariff On Rice, Wheat, Alcohol, Others

The Federal Government has announced a review of the Import Adjustment Tax (IAT) as part of the implementation of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Common External Tariff (CET) 2022-2026, thereby raising tariffs on importation of rice, wheat, alcohol among 189 items.The 2023 revised document, raised tariff on rice packing of more than 5kg or in bulk and in …

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Petrol Subsidy Removal: Buhari Hands Over Tough Problem To Tinubu

…ahead of May 29 •Findings on sharing $800 million palliative or using money to fix Nigeria’s four comatose refineries Nigeria oil resources, especially petrol, seem to have brought more pain than joy to the citizens.While nations such as Norway, Russia, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, through strategic planning and investment of the gains made from harnessing petroleum resources, have turned around …

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BREAKING: Presidential Jet Flown Abroad For Comprehensive Maintenance’

Ahead of the inauguration of a new President on May 29, 2023, Nigeria’s Boeing 737 Presidential jet has been flown out of the country for comprehensive maintenance, The PUNCH learned Sunday evening.  Villa sources told our correspondent that NAF 001, which has served the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in the past eight years was taken out of the …

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Iyare Motors: Edo Popular Transporter, Omoruyi, Dead

The Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Iyare Motors, Abel Omoruyi, is dead. Omoruyi, also the owner of the popular transport company, reportedly died on Friday night. Iyare Motors, which operates all over the country, is headquartered in Benin City, Edo State. A statement issued by the Edo State Government and signed by the Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday, said …

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Sperm Donor Who Fathered 550 Children Ordered To Stop

A Dutch man suspected of fathering more than 550 children worldwide through sperm donations has been ordered to stop. The man named Jonathan, aged 41, could be fined more than 100,000 (£88,000) if he tries to donate again. He was banned from donating to fertility clinics in the Netherlands in 2017 after it emerged he had fathered more than 100 …

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Tinubu Battles Intrigue As Masari, El-Rufai, Bagudu Jostle For SGF Slot

•President-elect set to pull off a joker This expose on the powers and influence of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) will show that the office is very powerful, and President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu must get it right by appointing an unblemished individual and one that can be trusted. In the opaque world of …

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Obaseki, Kukah Highlight Significance Of Quality Education In Improving Devt Indices

…Parents, groups pledge to support initiatives to sustain gains of education reforms in Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, at the weekend, identified quality education as essential in improving human and capital development indices. In his remarks at the Maiden Edo Parents’ Summit, held in Benin City as part …

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