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How Buhari should tackle poverty issues – Experts

Standard News September 3, 2019

By Cynthia Kama, Abuja Cross section of economic experts on Tuesday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to assemble a team of versatile economists who are vast in policies and implementation to tackle issues of poverty and unemployment ravaging the country. The experts, who converged on Abuja at

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FBI, EFCC, ICPC urged to go after ‘Yahoo politicians’

Standard News September 2, 2019

A former deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to prevail on the nation’s anti-corruption agencies to clampdown on politicians he identified as ‘Yahoo Yahoo,’ most of whom are currently in the present administration. Frank, while commending FBI and other

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What AU chairperson, Moussa Faki said at TICAD7

Standard News August 31, 2019

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki has urged all participants of 7th edition of TICAD that held in Japan to maximise the opportunity gained. Faki stated this while delivering his keynote address. Read the detailed speech below: It is an honour for me to paticipate in this meeting in the beautiful city […]

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UBA announces profit, releases audited account

Standard News August 31, 2019

The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has announced its audited half-year financial results for the period ended June 2019, showing impressive growth across key performance indices as well as a significant contribution from its African subsidiaries. In spite of the increasingly unpredictable environment witnessed in some of its countries of operations, the pan African […]

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Buhari’s economic programme, reliable – Dakuku

Standard News August 30, 2019

Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said that the economic programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not only succeeding, but it is also reliable. Dakuku stated this at the seventh edition of the Pan African International Recognition Awards/Annual Discourse held in Accra, Ghana.

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Photo Speak: Nigerian Ministers of Transportatiom

Standard News August 29, 2019

(L) Senator Gbemisola Saraki,Minister of State ,Transport;Hon Rotimi Amaechi,Minister of Transporation;and Mallam Zakari,Permanent Secretary,Federal Ministry of Transportation at a minitry’s retreat

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It’s time to invest, Ramaphosa tells Japanese firms

Standard News August 29, 2019

President Cyril Ramaphosa has encouraged Japanese businesses to reach out to South African companies to find areas of cooperation at the Japan-Africa Business Expo on Thursday. “The Japan-Africa Business Expo is an opportunity for companies to meet one another, find points of mutual understanding and work together on new projects… Speak to us about your […]

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Opinion: Railways as Facilitator of African Continental Free Trade

Standard News August 29, 2019

African railway system must be rapidly developed to serve as requisite platforms for trade facilitation and movement of goods and services,writes Olawale Rasheed

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Need for Valuers’ Certification in Asset Declaration

Standard News August 28, 2019

In a bid to invoke transparency, earn the citizen’s trust and fight corruption (in its many forms), virtually all the countries of the world (world bank puts the statistics at over 150 countries) provide a structured medium for ensuring that elected, appointed, recruited or contracted public officials make their assets known to the public (For […]

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Brexit won’t Dictate France,UK Relations -UK Secretary of State,Steve Barclay

Standard News August 28, 2019

"In recent years some have tried to frame the UK/ France relationship in purely Brexit terms.Yet the reality is that our historic, cultural, geographic and indeed economic ties are far too deep and broad to be defined by any one event."