If Nigeria is to reverse the shameless embarrassment of running a parasitic economy, she has to become a net producer of all of these items by 2021

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(1) Steel nails -$35m
(2) Toothpicks - $18m
(3) Petrol - $6bn
(4) Fertilizer - $500m
(5) Brazilian hair - $400m
(6) Sugar - $406m
(7) Rice - $302m
(8) Fish - $170m
(9) Generators - $2bn
(10) Phone handsets - $745m

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Ipob claims dozens of its members were shot dead during clash with DSS in Enugu

 

DOZENS of people are feared dead in Enugu State following a brutal clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and the men of the Department of State Security (DSS) yesterday morning.

 

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Nigeria's economy contracts by 6.1% during second quarter as a result of Covid-19 lockdown

 

NIGERIA'S gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 6.1% during the second quarter of 2020 as a result of the lockdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic according to statistics just released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

 

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Nigeria almost doubles her AfDB voting rights as Adesina's elections looms on Thursday

 

NIGERIA has foreclosed any possibility of an ambush at the forthcoming elections of African Development Bank (AfDB) president due to take place this Thursday by almost doubled its voting rights.

 

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Malian military junta promises Goodluck-led Ecowas team that it will hold elections after three years

 

MALI'S new military junta has asked the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to allow it to govern the country for three years before holding elections and handing over to a civilian government.

 

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Jordan Aina hopeful of kick-starting his English Premier League career with Fulham

 

NIGERIAN fullback Jordan Aina is hopeful of signing a contract with newly-promoted English Premier League side Fulham ahead of the forthcoming 2020/21 season after his contract with Chelsea expired.

 

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Nigeria’s South East Governor’s Forum needs to urgently launch a retail-to-manufacturing retraining and conversion programme

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(1) It is no secret that the governors of Nigeria’s five states in the southeast geo-political zone are presiding over the plight of Nigeria’s most industrious group of people. However, this energy and ingenuity is being wasted in the highly-limited retail sector, when if unleashed into manufacturing could fetch Nigeria five or six manufacturing conglomerates

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Governor Zulum warns that Boko Haram is planning to start recruiting from IDP camps

 

GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has raised a fresh alarm over the resurgence of terrorism in the country warning that Boko Haram has now resorted to recruiting young militants from internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.

 

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Kaduna chapter of Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria decides to boycott NBA summit

 

MUSLIM legal practitioners from Kaduna State have decided to boycott the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) annual general meeting following the withdrawal of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s invitation to speak at the conference.

 

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Nigeria's president does not have a group of industrialists he can call on the bail the nation out

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[1] This is a picture of the chairmen on the three major US automobile companies and their directors outside the White House, taken in December 1941 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. They had been summoned by President Franklin Roosevelt

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