Tag: President
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Kim’s resignation: World Bank commences selection process for new President
The World Bank on Thursday said it has commenced a process that will lead to the selection of a new president. The commencement of the process follows the sudden exit last Monday of the incumbent president, Jim Yong Kim, who announced he would be stepping down from his position effective February 1. Kim’s announcement came…
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SDP crisis: Gana throws out VP offer, insists on running for president
The embattled former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana on Saturday disclosed that he is in the Social Democratic Party (SDP), to win the forthcoming 2019 presidential election and not to be running mate to former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke. Gana, at the unveiling of his campaign programme tagged ‘SWIFT’ said the leadership…
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Alleged fraud: NBA President docked, gets bail
…Court rejects request to transfer case to Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the President of the Nigerian Bar Association ( NBA ), Mr Paul Usoro (SAN), at the Federal High Court, Lagos, for an alleged N1.4billion fraud. Usoro pleaded not guilty to a 10-count charge of fraudulent conversion of N1.4bn…
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Alleged N1.4b fraud: NBA president speaks on alleged ‘resignation’ plans
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Paul Usoro has said he would not resign his position despite the pending fraud case against him. The EFCC, last week, filed an alleged N1.4 billion fraud charge against Usoro before the Federal High Court in Lagos. It was announced that Usoro will be arraigned today. But,…
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2019: I’ll sell 90% of NNPC if elected president – Atiku
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said he will sell the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and retain just 10 per cent of the company for the Federal Government. Atiku said this in an interview with ‘The African Report’, a monthly publication. The former Vice-President, who presided over the National Council…
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You can’t ‘combine’ functions of president, petroleum minister, Court tells Buhari
The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot legally double as the Minister of Petroleum Resources. The court made the declaration on Thursday while giving judgment in a suit filed last year by a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN). Agbakoba had, in the suit,…
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2019: Atiku will crash fuel price if elected president – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, revealed that its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has a pricing template that will crash the pump price of fuel in the country, if elected Nigeria’s president. PDP made this known in a statement, signed Kola Ologbodiyan, its National Publicity Secretary and shared on its verified Twitter handle, @OfficialPDPNig.…
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Why I chose to let go of Atiku’s ‘sins,’ endorse him for president – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday explained why he decided to leg go of the misdoings of his esrtwhile deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Obasanjo spoke when Atiku Abubakar and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party visited him at his Abeokuta home. He said he believed Atiku has ‘re-discovered and re-positioned himself’ and is now good…
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2019: Nigeria needs a president who understands economy – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday harped on his argument that Nigeria requires a President with a sound knowledge of the economy to make a headway. This, he said, was what a former German Chancellor, the late Helmut Schmidt, who was one of his international friends, told him during a discussion about African countries. He…
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No President in the world can be as irresponsible as the Nigerian president – Bishop Kukah
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said that no President of any country in the world can be as irresponsible in the usage of power as a Nigerian president. He made this known in Akure, Ondo State on Friday while delivering the annual Ulefunta/Oyemekun Festival lecture entitled “Building blocks for…