Despite the harsh criticism of the planned establishment of Ruga settlements across the country, the Federal Government is set to commence the pilot phase of the project in Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Kaduna and seven other states, investigations have confirmed. It was learnt in Abuja on Friday that the execution of …
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A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Jonathan Asake, has said the new move to create Ruga settlements in some parts of the country is nothing but an attempt to ‘Fulanise’ the country. Asake, who was a member of the seventh House of Representatives between 2011 and 2015, …
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Ahead of the judgment of the Supreme Court on the Osun State governorship tussle scheduled to be delivered next Friday (July 5), an Abuja-based civil society group, the Guardian of Democracy and Development Initiative, has alleged that some persons particularly top politicians have been dropping President Muhammadu Buhari’s name in …
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The General Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Baba Uthman Ngelzarma, says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s office is helping the herdsmen to create Ruga settlements across the country. Ngelzerma boasted that when the programme has been successfully completed, Nigerians would fully enjoy the benefits of animal husbandry. …
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A recent report of the slump in the price of crude oil to about US $60 from almost US $70 per barrel has really become worrisome for Nigeria’s implementation of the 2019 budget, despite some development in the Persian Gulf, which should not be a source of inspiration, after all. …
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A report the other day that President Muhammadu Buhari had instructed Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to work out modalities for the implementation of the report of a committee which was set up in August last year on police reform is …
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These are not the best of times for the average Nigerian citizen. At home the dire straits of the economy impose hardship hitherto unknown in our documented history. The social climate is akin to that of a season of war and anomie. Recent reports have shown evidence that Nigerians who …
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Nigeria’s power sector has gone through twists and turns over the years and the recurrent problems of the sector have become intractable, or so it seems. Governments come, read copiously from the book of lamentation on this and go. But the problems remain with the citizens who have been serially …
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent promise to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years is a tall order that requires critical thinking and more details about implementation strategy for service delivery. The target can only be achieved if government adopts a different socio-economic model. Unfailing commitment and resolve …
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States operating the Contributory Pension Scheme refused to remit about N3.4bn pension contributions deducted from their workers monthly remunerations into their respective Retirement Savings Accounts with their Pension Fund Administrators. The acting Director-General, National Pension Commission, Aisha Dahir-Umar, disclosed this during the second quarter consultative forum for states in Lagos …
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