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  The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Tuesday called for more technical and institutional support from the Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center West 2 (AFRITAC West 2) for West African countries. Adeosun made the call while declaring open the sixth Steering Committee meeting of the IMF –AFRITAC West...

  —-Launches Focus Lab for ERGP —Our target is to mobilize $25bn in private investment—-Udoma President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that his administration was working hard to attain the target of moving Nigeria up in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings by 2020. He stated this at...

  Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, on Tuesday filed a fresh suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking N1 billion damages against the Police over alleged unlawful sealing of his property in Lagos. The suit, filed by his lawyer, Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, has as the Inspector...

  The Registrar and Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Segun Ajiboye, on Tuesday said only teachers who were registered with the TRCN would be considered for teaching appointment in Liberia. Liberian President, George Weah had requested during his state visit to Nigeria that Nigerian teachers should...

  The House of Representatives has lifted the suspension placed on the former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin, Kano -APC. This followed a letter of apology signed by Jibrin which was presented by the Speaker of the House, Mr Yakubu Dogara, at the plenary on Tuesday. Jibrin...

  The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun to release the results of the ongoing 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) The examination began on Friday and will end on March 17. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday. He...

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria said that Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP0) will grow at 2.0 per cent year-on-year in 2018, propelled by oil production increase and government spending. This was contained in the latest economic report the multinational professional services firm, stressing that significantly higher oil sector growth in the...

Presidency Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday that the Federal Government  plans to negotiate for the release of 110 girls abducted from a school in the northeastern town of Dapchi last month, rather than use a military operation to free them by force. The kidnapping is one of the largest since...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has slammed the Nigerian government for continuing the bad practice of discriminatory cut-off points into federal government-owned schools in Nigeria. In a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Uche Achi-Okpaga, the group alleged that under the guise of educationally disadvantaged areas, some states...

  Governor of Kano state, Umar Ganduje has described the calls for Restructuring of the country as a plot against the North. Speaking at the state government house on Monday, Ganduje made this comment after receiving a progress report from the Kano state committee on true federalism. The panel inaugurated...