Tag: sign
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Negotiating with bandits not a sign of failure – Zamfara Governor
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle on Monday said negotiating with bandits is not a sign of failure. He disclosed this at the Government House in Gusau while receiving some repentant bandits who surrendered their weapons and embraced his administration’s peace deal. Governor Matawalle believes the only way to put a stop to the current insecurity…
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Buhari, Saraki, Dogara trade words over 2018 budget, poor executive-legislature relationship
President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the National Assembly on Monday heaped blames on themselves over delay in the passage and signing of the 2018 Appropriation bill. While the president feels that the bill was not given the immediate attention it deserves despite submitting it to the National Assembly in November 2017, the National Assembly…
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We’ll be guided by national interests in signing Free Trade Agreement – Buhari insists
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will only be signatory to the Continental Free Trade Agreement if the nation’s national interests, as well as regional and international obligations, are balanced. The President reiterated this position at the 2018 Annual General Meeting/25th Anniversary of the African Export-Import Bank held in Abuja on Saturday. President Buhari stated that…
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AfCFTA : Four months after, Buhari promises to sign African trade deal
…says I’m not a slow reader President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that he would soon sign the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA). Recall that on March 21 in Kigali, Rwanda, a summit attended by 44 African leaders adopted and signed the agreement establishing the AfCFTA. Recall also that the Nigerian Office for Trade…