While working on an investment research project a couple of years ago during my graduate studies at the University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business, I built and ran a forecast model that showed how dangerously close Nigeria was to ballooning the trade deficit. Other financial benchmarks showed the country was on life support. […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says some aspirants for the presidency in 2023 should have been jailed if the country’s anti-graft were more diligent in their duties. Obasanjo said those who have no integrity in “small things” cannot have integrity in “big things” like the presidency. Speaking on Saturday in Ogun state during a symposium to
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Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have kidnapped 22 persons and injured four others, on Wednesday, at Idon town in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A resident of Idon community, Mr. Aboki Danjuma told DAILY POST on Wednesday evening that the criminals came around 12:30 a.m. He said the bandits began to shoot sporadically,
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Soldiers in Burkina Faso said they removed President Roch Marc Christian Kabore from power, a day after a military mutiny in the gold-producing West African nation. The country will return to constitutional order within a “reasonable timeframe,” according to the statement signed by Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and read by another officer on Radio Television
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Fighters suspected to be members of the Islamic State for West African Province, ISWAP, on Monday evening attacked the Nigerian Army University campus for Security and Strategic Studies in Buratai town, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State. It was gathered that two employees of the university were killed by the insurgents. Speaking with residents
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Even if 2021 was not as much of a dumpster fire year as 2020, it still had its moments. From continuing election drama in the United States to the ongoing challenges of a global pandemic and all the changes that came with it, we are all excited to ring in a new year and, hopefully,
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The action or inaction by persons or groups of persons to sit out the 2023 is complicity in the decadence of democracy in Nigeria. This point was highlighted by the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Professor Attahiru Jega. “We can’t all sit on sidelines and allow APC to destroy our nation”
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The opportunity to strengthen the failing democratic process in the country was dashed after President Muhammadu Buhari withheld assent of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and refused to sign it into law. Last Friday, The Guardian had extensively reported on concerns as hope dimmed on the electoral bill seeing the light of the day as
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