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The Nigeria women national basketball team, D’Tigress on Sunday defeated hosts Senegal in the final of the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket to win their fourth continental title. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that victory for D’tigress meant that they also successfully defend the title they won two years
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Stories: Ganiyu Obaaro, Lagos The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged countries, particularly Nigeria, to refocus their expenditure in favour of infrastructure provision, like education, roads and technology. It also reiterated the need for Nigeria and other countries that still retain the policy of subsiding fossil fuel to put an end
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The number of Nigerian pilgrims that died while performing the 2019 Hajj in Saudi Arabia has risen to nine, the chairman, medical team of the National Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Ibrahim Kana, has announced. Mr. Kana stated this in Muna while briefing journalists on the activities of the medical team
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By Gabriel Atumeyi, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Nigerians to reject the messages and antics of some individuals and partisans who have embarked on a campaign of calumny against the government and are calling for a forceful takeover of government. They are cowards and enemies of
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The World Bank has sunk a princely $11bn into Nigeria's economy and development since its engagement with the country over the years. Country Director, Rachid Benmessaoud, who disclosed this Thursday, in Abuja at the maiden edition of the Nigeria Portfolio Performance Award organised in partnership with the Ministry of Finance,
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The Presidency has described as untrue, the Peoples Democratic Party’s assertion that the Nigerian economy is in trouble. A presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, who debunked the PDP assertion in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, lectured the party on the Buhari administration’s economic score card. Shehu noted that in
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Mrs Toure Maman, Ambassador of Cote d’Ivoire to Nigeria, has called for deeper economic cooperation with Nigeria to strengthen trade relations between the two countries. Maman said this while addressing participants on the occasion of the country’s 59th Anniversary of the Independence of Cote d’Ivoire in Abuja on Wednesday. She said that
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By Orji Sunday The tapping noise from Ima Nwachukwu’s footsteps breaks the solemn silence as the 49-year-old rabbi walks among worshippers draped in white robes, prayer shawls and yarmulkes at a synagogue in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s third-largest city. “Remember you are not the only one persecuted. Jews all over the world
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By Orkula Shaagee, Abuja Members of the House of Representatives yesterday called on the Federal Government to come up with a conscious and a clear cut policy to check the rising and alarming tides of the geometrical rate of Nigerian population. The House also urged the Government to aggressively move and
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By Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday, predicted a 3.4 percent Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth for Nigeria, Angola and other oil producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa in 2019 and 3.6 percent in 2020. According to IMF, 0.1 percentage point lower for both years than in the April forecast, as
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