Latest News in Nigeria Today Thursday 2nd January 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Thursday 2nd January 2020 .
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Lekoil gets $184m to finance drilling at OPL 310
By Udeme Akpan LEKOIL, the oil and gas exploration and production company with a focus on Nigeria and other West African nations has secured $184 million to finance the appraisal drilling and initial development programme activities on the Ogo field within Oil Prospecting Lease, OPL 310. In a statement sent to Vanguard, the company stated:Read More
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Fayose urges ‘haters’ to hug transformer, says he’ll remain their headache
By Emmanuel Okogba Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has urged those he refers to as ‘haters’ to hug transformers. This is coming as a result of a released video that had him dancing salsa in the Caribbean. Fayose’s comment may be connected to the statement of Lauretta Onochie who is a media aideRead More
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Don stresses need for elimination of gender discrimination in workplace
A PROFESSOR of Counselling Psychology, Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Prof. Eunice Modupe Hassan, has advocated constant training for top management of companies and organizations to educate them on the need to eliminate gender discrimination, saying this will contribute to national productivity and economic growth in the country.
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Tambuwal assents Sokoto fiscal responsibility, revenue integration laws
Sokoto state Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has signed into law the Fiscal Responsibility Agency and for Other Connected Purposes (FRAC) to provide for the establishment of Fiscal Responsibility Agency in the state. Tambuwal signed the document Tuesday. At its plenary the Sokoto State House of Assembly (SOHA) presided over by its Deputy Speaker Abubakar MagajiRead More
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New Year: President Buhari’ll lead from the front
THIS year, 2020, will be a very crucial one to watch as the economic advisory team deepen work on transforming Nigeria’s huge needs for money infrastructure, schools, hospitals and lay the foundation for welfare to beleaguered Nigerians.
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Natasha Akpoti: Heroine of the Kogi election
AS I write now, I am not too sure that I will be able to readily remember the full name of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate – the major opposition contestant in the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Kogi State.
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Unimaginative brinkmanship and a country on the brink: Nigeria in 2020
The year 2020 which commenced yesterday, holds a lot of promise for Nigeria despite the dark clouds cast on it by its leaders in the departed year. The year 2019 had a lot of trying moments for the country. Even when might terrorized the basic rights of Nigerians, there were still quite a number of hands clapping on the sidelines. The 2019 elections that were expected to build on the significant gains of 2015, rather, dug the grave for those gains to be buried. Murder became an acceptable electoral tool especially as we moved into the Kogi State elections where people composed lyrics in praise of the centrality of the gun in electoral contests.
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2020: We’ll create new opportunities in agric, other sectors — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will create new opportunities in agriculture, manufacturing and other long-neglected sectors to address the challenges of poverty among Nigerians in 2020. The president stated this in a letter addressed to Nigerians, released by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Wednesday, to markRead More
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China and Africa in 2020 and beyond
ONE of China’s foremost and strategic thinkers, Zheng Bijian, coined the phrase of “peaceful rise” to describe the exponential growth of modern China following reforms and opening-up to the outside world in the early 1980s and 1990s. The phrase was later modified to “peaceful development,” since a “rise” implied that someone else is on the “fall”.
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Constituency project monitoring team
IT is gladdening to know that the Federal Government has decided to monitor and verify constituency projects before paying contractors. It is shocking that such a mechanism was not put in place in when the idea was conceived and only had to be done after the nation lost over a trillion naira in the pastRead More
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