PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is expected to seek fresh medical attention abroad over the coming week as he is reported to have an appointment with his medical doctors in the French capital Paris.
Due to be away from the country for about four days, President Buhari was originally scheduled to visit the Ugandan capital Kampala...
READING playmaker Michael Olise has told all other nations vying for his services to back off as he has already committed his international future to Nigeria putting to bed a recent last minute desperate bid by Algeria to acquire the playmaker.
Olise, 19, a mercurial playmaker seen to have a bright future ahead of him, is...
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President Joe Biden is about to embark on a $2.3trn spending spree in what is being dubbed as the modern equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. It is designed to create millions of jobs, rebuild national infrastructure and position the US to out-compete China
Many of the challenges the world currently faces,...
BRITISH minister for Africa James Duddridge has expressed concern about the growing insecurity in Nigeria saying the violence unleashed by Boko Haram sect and its allied groups poses a great risk but added that the UK is willing to help combat the menace.
According to the Institute for Economics and Peace's 2021 Global...
NIGERIA has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) which offers an amnesty to very poor countries.
As a result of the economic fallout of coronavirus pandemic, many poor countries have been unable to...
NIGERIANS living in the UK will be barred from travelling home as from next Monday under new stringent Covid-19 restrictions which will penalise travel outside Britain without reasonable reason with a £5,000 fine.
In the most recent crackdown on the pandemic, the UK government is doing all it can to protect the country from...
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(1) One of the biggest inhibitions society will always face is refusing to let go of the past. Tearing up the rule book, departing from conventional wisdom and plunging into the unknown is a step societies are always reluctant to take. This was most pronounced at the start of World War Two when Britain and France were still...
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(1) Nigeria is offering 99 year leases and three year tax holidays to any international investor who comes and invests in her cattle industry. Foreign investors are needed in the animal feed production, leather processing, milk production and ranch maintenance sectors
(2) Nigeria wants to expand her cattle population to...
FINANCIAL house Ecobank Nigeria has listed its $300 senior unsecured bond on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as part of an ambitious move to increase liquidity and attract more international shareholders.
Floated in 1985 by bankers and the governments of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) member states,...
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(1) Today is February 5 and for me it is significant in that it was on this day in 1945 that America’s General Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila after the US recaptured the Philippines from Japan. By February 1945, it was clear that the Allies were going to win the war both in Europe and Asia. Thinking ahead, they...
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