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Senate approves Buhari's request for an additional $16bn to fund government spending

NIGERIA'S senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari's request for an additional $16bn loan and an extra €1bn worth of borrowing to help the government fund its budgets under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing Plan.

 

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Ifeanyi Ubah concedes defeat to Soludo in Anambra State gubernatorial elections

YOUNG Progressive Party (YPP) candidate in the recent Anambra State governorship election Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has conceded defeat and congratulated the declared winner Professor Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga).

 

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I just hope that President Buhari's list of proposals and suggestions to President Macron looks something like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria needs French automobile companies Citroen and Renault to come and open manufacturing and assembly plants in Nigeria immediately as Peugeot did. We need them to make Nigeria the centre of electric car manufacturing

[2] Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi should come and open a facility in Nigeria to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine. The French government should offer them a massive tax rebate for doing so

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NDDC bill being amended to add northern oil producing states like Gombe and Bauchi to the list

NIGERIAN senators are courting fresh controversy in the petroleum industry after the amendment of a bill to include several non-oil producing states to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) scaled its second reading today.

 

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US recognises Soludo as duly elected Anambra governor saying polls were credible

WASHINGTON has recognised the victory of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo in the recently-concluded Anambra State elections calling his election credible.

 

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Minister urges Nigerian financial operatives to tap into global $2trn Islamic finance market

NIGERIA'S finance minister Zainab Ahmed has asked for significant financial sector reforms that will enable the growth of Islamic finance in the economy as part of the search for investment capital required to develop infrastructure and boost manufacturing.

 

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Nnamdi Kanu to spend Christmas behind bars as his case gets postponed until January 19

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has had his case postponed to January 19 next year after his lawyers boycotted today's hearing in protest over the fact that one of their foreign colleagues was not allowed into court.

 

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Teenage rightback Tosin Olopade signs two-and-half year contract with Premier League side Burnley

NIGERIAN teenage sensation Tosin Olopade has agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal with English Premier League side Burnley putting paper to his first European professional football contract.

 

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Nigerian health bosses hope to vaccinate 70% of the population by the end of next year

NIGERIA'S National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has set itself an ambitious target of vaccinating 40% of the country's  200m people before the end of 2021 and as many as 70% by the end of 2022.

 

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