Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday unveiled his plans for Nigeria if elected as president in next year’s election, promising to offer a matching grant of $250 million each to the 36 States of the federation to challenge them to enhance their internally generated revenue (IGR)
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President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked security agencies to ensure peaceful elections, warning it might be difficult to conduct the 2019 general elections across the country, if conduct of hitch-free elections in one state is difficult to achieve.
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As parts of efforts to foster regional integration and reposition Odu’a Investment Company Limited for greater productivity, the Governors of Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Osun and Ekiti States on Tuesday approved the inclusion of Lagos State as co-owner of the company.
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Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL), Port Harcourt, and other companies under the Indorama operations in Nigeria contributed a total of $2.7 billion to the nation’s rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $509.9 billion, Manish Mundra, managing director of the company, has said. Already, the Eleme-based petrochemical company plans to invest additional $4.4 billion in its operations in the country by 2019, to become the largest petrochemical hub of Africa.
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The Debt Management Office (DMO) said, on Thursday, that it sold a combined N85.17 billion ($521.33 million) in three-year and 10-year bonds to mostly local pension funds and some offshore investors.
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World leader in communications technology and services, Ericsson has predicted 930 million mobile internet subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2019, with 557 million smartphone and 710 million broadband subscriptions. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/06/ericsson-predicts-930m-mobile-internet-subscriptions-2019/#sthash.nuEPesbw.dpuf
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The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has clarified issues regarding the altercation on May 8 between the popular musician, Mr. David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, and its staff at the Murtala Muhammadu International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, over the absence of the Nigerian visa on his American passport. The Public Relations Officer with the NIS, Mr. Chukwuemeka Obua, in a statement yesterday, debunked the allegation that Davido was denied an exit permit because he refused to bribe the immigration officials at the airport. Giving a detailed account of what transpired between NIS staff and the Skelewu crooner, Obua said he had approached immigration officials at the airport on the fateful day with the intention of travelling out of the country and presented a US passport with number 460918874 issued by the US State of Georgia on December 14, 2009 and valid till December 13, 2019.
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China's economy overtook Japan's in 2010 to become the world's second largest, but analysts told CNBC China still lags Japan in terms of the quality of its growth. The Japanese economy expanded 0.7 percent on year in the final quarter of 2013, substantially slower than China's 7.7 percent expansion. While growth in the mainland economy has slowed from double-digit levels in recent years it remains on course to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest economy as early as 2019 according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo youths on Monday described repentant Niger Delta militant, Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo, as a jester for saying in an interview that the Niger Delta people will support Igbo Presidency in 2019.
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2017 and January 2022 respectively will be maintained, while the coupon rate for the June 2019 was set at 16.00 percent, the DMO said in a statement.
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