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Federal Executive Council Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a cabinet dominated by politically connected loyalists, in a sign that Nigeria’s president intends to push harder on a series of reforms that are widely regarded as overdue.Mr Buhari was easily re-elected in February despite what critics regarded as a lacklustre first term in which his cabinet, his …
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Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki. AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI I haven’t met the governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, before. My closest to “meeting” him is seeing him speak on television. I also read stories about him in the print media. Until anointed governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in …
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Foreign-owned start-ups are driving an African tech revolution — and prompting old fears of exploitation Credit: Paul Garland © Paul Garland In 1886, barely a year after Europe’s great powers met in Berlin to carve up the continent of Africa, Queen Victoria granted Sir George Goldie a charter for his Royal Niger Company. The charter …
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Illustrated | AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, the8monkey/iStock, final09/iStock America's ongoing expansion is now the longest on record, a whopping 121 months of economic growth. But what else can we say about it? For sure not this: "The Economy is the BEST IT HAS EVER BEEN! Even much of the Fake News is giving me credit for …
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Police forces reveal how fast you ACTUALLY have to go to get caught speeding EVER wondered what speed you actually have to be doing to get caught by a speed camera? Could even 1mph over the limit do it? Or maybe you heard it was 10 per cent? Forces across the country have now cleared …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 