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Southern Governors Forum to meet with Buhari as soon as he returns from France

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 17 southern states plan to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari as soon as he gets back from his trip to France in a bid to find a way to get the federal government to implement the resolutions they recently agreed to at their Asaba summit.

 

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Atiku calls on state governors to organise their own summit to tackle Nigeria's insecurity

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has called in the governors of Nigeria's 36 states to take the initiative and introduce measures to combat the growing insecurity in the country rather than wait for the federal government.

 

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Ohaneze Ndigbo calls for the impeachment of Ahmad Lawan over his opposition to restructuring

PAN-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called for the impeachment of senate president Senator Ahmad Lawan over his recent opposition to calls for the restructuring of the country as advocated by the Southern Governors Forum.

 

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Coalition of Northern Groups asks all herdsmen to relocate saying Asaba declaration was unfair

FULANI cattle herdsmen operating across southern Nigeria have been asked by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) to relocate their livestock assets to the north of the country in response to the recent Asaba declaration.

 

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Newcastle allow Nigerian defender Udoka Chima to train with them as they consider signing him in the summer

ENGLISH Premier league giants Newcastle United are looking to sign Italian-born Nigerian centerback Udoka Chima during the summer transfer window in a bid to shore up their defence next season after a dismal 2020/21 campaign.

 

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President Buhari has arrived in Paris for the African Finance Summit. I hope his shopping list 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 as Peugeot did 

[2] Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi should come and open a facility in Nigeria to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine 

[3] French creditors should wipe off all Nigeria’s public debts 

[4] France should grant 50% tax rebates to any of its companies that invests in excess of $1bn in Nigeria

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Five Ipob members arrested in Imo State over the death of police sergeant last week

FIVE members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) have been arrested by the anti-kidnapping unit of the Imo State Police Command over the alleged killing of police sergeant Joseph Nwaka.

 

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Insecurity costs Nigeria $10.3bn in 2020 according to Presidential Economic Advisory Council

NIGERIA lost as much as $10.3bn to the growing insecurity ravaging the country in 2020 alone according to statistics just published by the  Presidential Economic Advisory Council (Peac).

 

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Governor Wike says ban on open grazing by southern governors is final and irrevocable

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared that the recent decision by the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing across the south of the country is irrevocable and will not be open to discussion.

 

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If agriculture is to soak up the banditry recruits we need an aggressive policy that looks like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] All of Nigeria's 774 local government areas will be obliged by law to organise their farmers into cooperative units

[2] Farmers will be encouraged to sell their produce, buy seedlings, pesticides and fertilisers, as well as farming equipment through these co-operatives to maximise efficiency and overhead costs

[3] Every local government area must build at least one food storage facility within its domain

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