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Jubril has good intention for Nigeria says Gov. Masari

February 11, 2019 11:27 am

The Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency, Aminu Masari has urged Nigerians to vote for the impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani (being paraded in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor who was once involved in certificate scandal as Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007 ) because the impostor has good intention for Nigeria and making sacrifices for the country.

Jubril’s administration is the worst so far in Nigeria- PDP

February 11, 2019 2:36 am

The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Buhari has failed his integrity test and has no moral rectitude whatsoever to pontificate on corruption, his administration having been enmeshed in high-profile corruption.

Vanguard reports:

The party said if there is any person whose activities of corruption have become a threat to the coming election, it is President Buhari, who it alleged is financing his campaign with looted funds, while surrounding himself with politicians indicted for corruption.

The statement read in part: “The PDP, out of respect for the …

Conduct credible, free, fair elections, UN tells Nigeria

February 11, 2019 12:04 am

ABUJA — United Nations, weekend, challenged the Federal Government and all stakeholders in the upcoming general elections to work harder at ensuring that the outcome of the exercise was acceptable to all and sundry.

UN Special Representative of Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohammed Ibn Chambers, gave the charge at a national workshop on broadcast media coverage of 2019 general elections with the theme: Fake News, Hate Speech, Vote and PVC Buying, in Abuja.

Chambers, who was represented by Takwa Zebulun, said Nigeria, as the big brother that had played a stabilising role in many parts of Africa …

Foreign Investors leaving en masse from Nigeria

February 10, 2019 10:17 am

A sizable chunk of investment capital belonging to foreign investors found its way out of the shores of Nigeria through the equities market in 2018 compared to 2017. But the Central Bank of Nigeria has expressed the hope that the trend would soon be reversed with renewed efforts to put the economy in proper shape, reports Bamidele Famoofo

In the last three years, the rate of outflow of foreign portfolio investment from the equities trading segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange has maintained a sustainable increase. Data churned out by the NSE in January which captured the activities in …

Weststar to Introduce Mercedes new GLE in Nigeria

February 9, 2019 1:59 pm

The new GLE, Mercedes-Benz SUV trendsetter is set to debut in Nigeria by the 1^st quarter of this year, Weststar Associates Limited, the authorised general distributor of Mercedes-Benz in the country has said.

Weststar’s statement said the Mercedes-Benz GLE has marked a new era for the mid-sized SUV segment. Years after getting a new identity with a change from the M-Class nomenclature to the GLE, the best-selling Mercedes-Benz SUV continues to set the pace. In October 2018, the latest installment of the GLE was presented to the public for the first time at the Paris Motor Show with a …

EU not here to select leaders for Nigeria – Envoy

February 9, 2019 10:24 am

THE Head of the European Union delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West Africa States, Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, has said that the mission of the EU delegation to Nigeria is not to select a leader for the country in the February 16, elections.

He made the comment, weekend in Yenagoa, during a courtesy visit to the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson. Karlsen who stressed that the EU did not have any political aspiration in the country noted that the body was only committed to the conduct of free and fair elections in Nigeria.

The EU Ambassador said …