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Number Of Dead Persons Appointed By Nigeria's President Buhari Into Boards Of Government Agencies Has Increased To 8 Some Nigerians yesterday expressed outrage over the inclusion of no fewer than eight dead Nigerians on the list of appointments into the governing boards of agencies and parastatals describing the gaffe as a reflection of how the APC-led government administers the country. A former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, in a groupWhatsAppp post, queried the rationale behind the error, saying “You just appointed Donald Ugbaja as member of the Consumer Protection Council. You also appointed Chris Utovas a member of the Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research. by Olakunle Olafioye and Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja Dec 31, 2017 Some Nigerians yesterday expressed outrage over the inclusion of no fewer than eight dead Nigerians on the list of appointments into the governing boards of agencies and parastatals describing the g...

Top of Form Bottom of Form 25th Aug,2017 One Nigeria Summit One Nigeria Summit Date:  16 September 2017 17:00 Venue:  Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, (Knafel Center) 10 Garden Street, City: Cambridge , Ma 02138,United States. One Nigeria Summit: Theme: Towards A More Perfect Union. Within a decade of gaining its independence from Colonial-Britain, Nigeria suffered a setback: it endured, from 1967-1970, what came to be known as the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War. An untold number of innocent civilian were killed, and the human suffering that suffered lasted many decades. Forty-seven years after the end of the war, Nigeria has yet to coalesce as an invisible nation-state. In the last two decades – and more so in the last decade – groups and groups of individuals in all the six geo-political regions have been calling for and working towards the breakup of Nigeria into four or five autonomous nation-states. The most vocal of t...

Nigeria: The Senate’s Insensitivity Posted: 01 Aug 2017 07:23 AM PDT By Ray Ekpu The failure of the Senate to approve the devolution of powers from the centre to the federating states is a colossal misreading of the country’s temperature. It sends the wrong message to the agitators campaigning for ethnic self determination, total resource control and confederation. It says to them that the Senate thinks everything is okay in the country; that there is nothing to worry about and that the country as it is, is working just fine. This is a most regrettable decision and if the current tension arising from the dysfunctional state of Nigeria reaches an irreversible crescendo the Senate should hold itself largely responsible. *Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki Here are the facts: there has been a massive agitation by some Igbo youths for a Biafra Republic . The numbers are increasing and on May 30, they grounded all the five Igbo states as a show of their streng...

House Says Rejection of Power Devolution, A Mistake August 2, 2017 Femi Gbajabiamila 5 • To be reconsidered in September James Emejo in Abuja Apparently feeling the heat of public anger against the killing of the devolution of powers bill by the National Assembly, the House of Representatives has said the legislative act was a mistake that would be corrected upon its resumption from summer vacation in September. The House spoke thorough its Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, who said the rejection was occasioned by the mistake of lumping many of the powers to be devolved into one single bill, leading to confusion among many members. Entitled Constitution of the Federal Republic of N...

Finally, Nigerian govt. releases details of Paris Club refunds to states June 9, 2017 Press Release Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun Related News The federal government has finally released a breakdown of the first tranche of Paris Club refunds paid to states to date. The payments, totalling N516.38 billion, were made to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory upon the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari on November 21 2016, a statement by Salisu Danbatta, director of information in the Ministry of Finance said. The payments were in partial settlement of longstanding claims by State Governments relating to over-deductions from their Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocation for external debt service arising between 1995 and 2002. The debt service deductions are in respect of the Paris Club, London Club and Multilateral debts of the FG and States. While Nigeria reached a final agreement for debt relief with the Paris Club in October 2005, s...