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President Muhammadu Buhari seeks foreign loans to fund projects and programmes Nigerians benefit from, the Presidency has said. In a statement on Saturday, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu listed projects and beneficiaries of the loans. The Buhari administration is under fire after the President wrote to the Senate to approve $4.054bn and €710million credit. The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) warned that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government is trying to sell the country. The opposition said if the legislature approves the latest request, and an additional N5.62trillion loan proposed for…

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  Veteran Christian film-maker, Evangelist Mike Bamiloye, has advised young men against ‘changing ladies like handkerchiefs,’ stating that such men would be losers in the end.   In a recent Instagram post, the founder of Mount Zion Faith Drama Ministry warned men to make the right decisions in their marriages, citing examples from the Bible.   The post reads, “Get it right from the start. Right from the foundation of Samson, he had been falling in love with a wrong woman.   “The first woman he would ever fall in…

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  The Lagos state judicial panel on police brutality has suspended its sitting until further notice.   Doris Okwuobi, the retired judge heading the panel, made the announcement on Saturday.   Okwuobi said the panel is expected to work on two reports before the expiration of its tenure — but little progress has been made on them.   The chairperson appealed to petitioners and counsels to bear with the panel, adding that notice of hearings will be sent out for petitions that have not been concluded.    “There are two…

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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has taken to social media to laud his ‘friend’ Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami for inviting him to dinner in his (Pantami) home on Friday. Recall that Fani-Kayode had in April 2021, labelled Pantami as a terrorist who does not deserve to hold public office following the minister’s past comments that indicated a tie with a terrorist group. “He (Pantami) is a religious bigot, an ethnic supremacist, an unrepentant jihadist, a lover of bloodshed, carnage and terror and a psychopathic and clearly…

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  Oghenero Ozobeme, a sacked staff of TOTAL E&P has cried out over the alleged treatment meted to her by the company after she had brain surgery.   Ozobeme who hails from Orogun, Delta State, disclosed that the trip and medical treatment was funded by her husband.   In an SOS to the media, Ozobeme recalled that on April 30, 2020, amid the COVID-19 lockdown, TOTAL communicated that her services were no longer required.   She said the sack letter was dispatched after the management of the oil giant got…

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  Grammy award-winning singer, Burna Boy, has stated that he will not release any album till further notice.   He made this known on his verified Instagram page via his story on Saturday, stating that he might not drop an album for a long time.   The story read, “I might decide to NOT drop an album for a long time. In fact, you know what, no album till further notice.”   This comes two days after the release of his song, ‘I feel it’, in collaboration with popular American…

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  Disturbed by frequent killings, maiming and destruction of properties almost taking over the region, the Arewa Youths Consultative Council, has unveiled a new sustainable security project for the entire 19 states in the north.   The projects, tagged, “Project SUSPRONS 2021-2031”, which targets 2,750,000 youths across the 19 states, was also aimed at rejuvenating the psyche of the northern youths to rise above being allowed to be used as veritable tools for political thuggery, joining banditry, and other criminal groups that today helps in the near destruction of the…

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  A former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has warned the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party against presenting a northern candidate for the 2023 presidential election to avoid another major defeat.   The PDP chieftain stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday.   Okupe argued that the zoning arrangement in the PDP ended with the 2019 presidential election but that some people within the party are insisting on presenting a northern candidate for the 2023 poll.   He said major politicians were defecting from the party…

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Chairman of Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, Dr Josef Onoh has refuted the insinuation by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is among some governors of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, expected to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, sooner than later. Onoh described Fani-Kayode’s gaffe as a “figment of his imagination” and borrowed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s words to say that “Governor Ugwuanyi dey PDP kamkpe!” Onoh said that if anybody was in doubt of Governor Ugwuanyi’s stable and courageous character, such a person should refer…

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will launch a digital currency, e-Naira in October to coincide with the nation’s independence anniversary. Governor Godwin Emefiele has assured that the advantages of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) are enormous. The apex bank chief urged Nigerians to embrace the e-Naira and explained it is safer than cryptocurrencies. Things to know and the benefits: Digital currency is the electronic form of fiat money issued by governments. However, many confuse it with cryptocurrency which is a store of value secured by encryption. The central…

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