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Buhari unveils SDG financing framework
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Buhari justifies cashless economy policy

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has reiterated the need for a cashless economy in Nigeria. According to The Nation, Buhari said this in Lagos, on Tuesday, at the luncheon and official unveiling of the National Institute of Credit Administration Act. He stated that a cashless economy remains one of the enduring legacies any […]

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Business

Buhari enhanced Nigeria’s businesses, says BMO

The Buhari Media Organisation has described the provision of about N785 Billion to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in the country by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), regime through the Bank of Industry as a big boost to various business concerns in Nigeria. The group said in a statement signed by its Chairman […]

WTO boss Okonjo-Iweala reacts to GCON honour
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WTO boss Okonjo-Iweala reacts to GCON honour

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has on Tuesday conferred on the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the second highest honour in the land, the Grand Commander of the Niger. Okonjo-Iweala was among the over 400 Nigerians and foreigners who received the national honours at the Award Ceremony which […]

Buhari unveils SDG financing framework
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Buhari unveils SDG financing framework

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has unveiled a national template for advancing its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals and the nation’s development aspirations. According to Nairametrics, Buhari while launching the Nigeria Integrated National Financing Framework Report on Sustainable Development stated that achieving the SDGs will mean ending poverty and hunger, safeguarding the […]

Buhari unveils SDG financing framework
Economy

Buhari, Bill Gates, others to speak at global investment forum

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will be delivering a keynote address at the second edition of the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum. NIEPF, a global economic investment platform organised by the Federal Government in partnership with the Africa Business Roundtable will hold 22 September, 2022. Disclosed in a statement by the Senior Special […]

Appointments

Buhari reappoints Patience Oniha as DMO DG

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has reappointed Patience Oniha as Director-General of the Debt Management Office. Oniha’s reappointment extends her tenure by extra five years, according to a statement on Thursday by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. Shehu said the reappointment of the DMO boss was […]

Tweeps knock FG as fuel scarcity leaves commuters stranded
Oil and Gas

Abuja queues: Buhari increases freight rate for fuel transporters

In a bid to clear the persistent fuel queues by motorists in parts of the country, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has approved an increase in the freight rate being paid to transporters of petroleum products. Oil marketers had repeatedly complained that the lingering fuel queues in Abuja and neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger […]

Naira redesign: CBN has my approval, Buhari clarifies
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Russia-Ukraine crisis fuels surge in food prices – Buhari

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday in Accra said ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia had led to a surge in the prices of many commodities, including foodstuffs. He, therefore, stressed the need for African countries to devise means of sustaining their economies to cushion the impact of the war. According to […]

Naira fall'll worsen Nigeria’s food, energy crisis — W’Bank
Economy

Inflation, others threaten Buhari’s poverty reduction scheme –World Bank economists

World Bank economists, Jonathan Lain and Jakob Engel, have said that rising inflation, persistent population growth, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine are threatening Nigeria’s poverty reduction aspiration. These economists said this in a post published on the bank’s blog on Tuesday. The post read in part, “Nigeria’s aspiration to lift all of […]

Let NNPCL buy me out, Dangote offers to sell refinery
Economy

Investment in agric, oil sectors’ll boost economic growth –Dangote

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said that investment in agriculture and oil sectors will boost economic growth. A statement said he spoke when he led board members of Dangote Group on a visit to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rted.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also said the group  would […]

Electricity Energy News

Grid collapse: Group demands audit of power sector under Buhari

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Sunday, said it is disturbing that under the watch of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the national power grid is collapsing intermittently even after humongous investments. HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, lamented that despite trillions of dollars […]

FG owes road contractors over N11tn – Fashola
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Fashola restates 2nd Niger Bridge 2022 completion date, blames IPOB

The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the Second Niger Bridge (now named Muhammadu Buhari Bridge) and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be completed before the end of 2022. This came as the government said there were no existing contracts to impose tolls on federal roads constructed under the Sukuk fund. The Minister of Works and Housing, […]