EMIR of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called on the Nigerian government to prioritise its expenditure. Speaking on Power Lunch, a CNBC programme, on Tuesday, Sanusi said the Nigerian government needs to prioritise its expenditure in order to be industrialised. Sanusi said that by simply
The #BringBackOurGirls movement (BBOG) has said the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed none of the issues it raised about the efforts to return the remaining abducted Chibok schoolgirls, nor the challenge put by others to produce a proof-of-life video after their claim that our girls are still alive. The group stated this
Google on Wednesday launched the Google Impact Challenge (GIC) Nigeria 2018 aimed at empowering the citizens to drive community impact. The Google Country Marketing Manager, Affiong Osuchukwu, said at the unveiling in Lagos that Google would commit two million dollars into the project in form of grants to non-profits using technology to reach their goals.
The Nigerian military on Wednesday said that it has received credible intelligence report of a plan by Amnesty International (AI) to release a false report on fictitious rape incidents in Internal Displaced Persons camps in the North East region of Nigeria. In a statement signed by the Acting Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brigadier General
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said no fewer than 131, 687 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were still uncollected in Sokoto state. The commission’s Spokesman in the state, Malam Muhammad Musa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Sokoto that the unclaimed PVCs comprised 69, 685 not claimed between 2011 and 2014.
Malaysia has slashed salaries of ministers by 10 per cent and also cut public spending. The decision was taken to control spending as the new government deals with high-level debt, the 92-year-old leader said exceeded more than one trillion ringgit (251.5 billion U.S. dollars). Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday the measures at the first
A non-governmental organisation, Nigerian Movement for Positive Change (NMPC Builders Initiative, holds another democracy lecture series on Saturday June 2, 2018, at SDM Event and Conference Centre, opposite UCH second gate, Ibadan, Oyo state, by 9.00 a.m. The event, second in the last two months by the organisation is themed: Political leadership in Nigeria.” According
The oil sector’s contribution to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP remains below 10 per cent in Q1 figures of the nation’s GDP released by the National Bureau of Statistics in Abuja on Monday. According to the NBS, the nation’s GDP grew by 1.95 per cent year-on-year- in real terms in the first quarter of 2018.
The chairman of LG Group, Koo Bon-moo, who helped transform South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate into a global brand, passed away on Sunday after a battle with a brain disease. Koo, 73, had been ill for a year, LG Group said in a statement. Koo had been fighting a brain disease and had undergone surgery, said
Ohaneze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural umbrella of Ndigbo, has called for the adoption of a six-year rotational single tenure for the president and governors of 36 states in the country. It also demanded creation of one additional state in the South-East geo-political zone, scrapping of local government system and resource control for states where natural resources