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Ipob should have used its presence in Japan to push for infrastructural development across the southeast
By Ayo Akinfe (1) I think Ipob has missed a trick at the Seventh Tokyo African Investment Summit in Japan. It should have used the opportunity to project itself as the true voice of Ndigbo and use the opportunity to woo Japanese investors to...
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60 Nigerian engineers land in China to be trained on how to set up transformer manufacturing plant
SIXTY Nigerian engineers have commenced a four month training programme in China to equip them with the necessary skills required to manufacture transformers as part of a scheme to address Nigeria's chronic electricity supply...
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Our four governors who accompanied President Buhari to Japan need to negotiate robust infrastructure-for-raw material deals
By Ayo Akinfe As we debate this President Buhari's visit to Japan, we are once again focusing on minor issues like the Ipob protests and forgetting the major point that he is in Yokohama for an investment conference. For me, the most important...
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Ipob members storm ambassador's residence in Tokyo with doctor saying they want to carry out DNA test on Buhari
MEMBERS of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) have stormed the Nigerian ambassador in Japan's residence in search of President Muhammadu Buhari claiming that they want to arrest him and arrest him over to the Japanese...
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Buhari should use his Japanese visit as an opportunity to resolve the Ajaokuta debacle once and for all
By Ayo Akinfe (1) President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Japan for the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development holding in Yokohama. Basically, the summit is about Japanese investors exploring investment opportunities in...
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Have we ever asked ourselves why Nigeria is not a major player in the global automobile market?
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Today is August 24. As most Nigerians in the UK continue to enjoy the long bank holiday weekend and revel at the carnival, I ask if they actually ever ponder to think about socio-economic developments that took place on this day...
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Ngige reveals that over 60% of 2019 budget will be carried over to next year due to poor implementation
ABOUT 60% of the expenditure programmes included in Nigeria's 2019 budget are to be carried over into next year because of a lack of aggressive implementation according to the labour and employment minister Dr Chris Ngige. Earlier this...
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NNPC under-remitted over 216m from crude oil and gas sales to federation account in 2017
CRUDE oil subsidiary the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been accused by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Neiti) of under-remitting N77.92bn ($216.63m) into the federation account during the course of...
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