Nigerians Be Prepared: The Dollar Will Sell Above N220 After February Elections

The President, Association of Bureau de Change Operators, Mr. Aminu Gwadabe has added more pressure on the already weakened and devalued Naira by predicting that the Nigeria currency will take a very big hit after the February general elections. The Naira has been under pressure since the fourth quarter...

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Femi Aribisala: Why President Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Buhari

Between 1983 and 1985, Peter Onu of Nigeria was Acting Secretary-General of the OAU. At the 1985 Summit in Addis Ababa, statesmen like Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, lobbied for his election as substantive Secretary-General. However, there was a major stumbling block to Peter Onu's candidature:...

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Buhari: If I Am Elected, Basic Items Like Rice And Tomatoes Will Be Banned From Being Imported

Gen. Muhammad Buhari (retd), on Monday said if elected as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he would ban the importation of basic items like rice and tomato, which Nigeria has the capacity to locally produce. He also said his administration would focus on agriculture, mining, infrastructure...

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Arewa Consultative Forum Warns Ex-Militants Against Threatening Former Chief Of Army Staff

The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has warned Niger Delta ex-militants not to threaten a former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.). The northern group said neither Danjuma nor any citizen of the country for that matter should be threatened with attacks...

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President Jonathan Receives Forensic Report On NNPC

The number one citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Jonathan, yesterday received the forensic report carried out on the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The forensic report was presented to the president by an accounting firm referred to as PriceWaterHouse. The...

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Specially For Bloggers: Alexa Ranking Sucks and Here's Why. By Insidelab

Why Is My Alexa Rank So Low?As a member of the Web Design & Search Engine Optimization industry, Alexa is one of my least favourite topics of discussion with clients. I pride myself on being a man who has the answers. I'm more than comfortable answering questions like: How can I get more traffic to my web site?What can I do to improve my conversion rate?Can you explain the different online advertising...

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Election2015: Eight PDP Governors In secret Alliance With APC

Barely two weeks to Nigeria's presidential election, what can best be described as high-wire politics is playing out in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with about eight of its governors now in a secret alliance with sections of the leadership of the main opposition party, the All Progressives...

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Buhari Is Set To Become The Next President of Nigeria, Says Dele Momodu

Renowned journalist, social critic and former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu, has categorically stated that he envisages a landslide victory for the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). He made this statement in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES'...

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President Jonathan Builds Roads To The Future by Uko and Murphy

The Nwokolo family in Lagos had just lost their patriarch. For convenience sake, a decision was taken to promptly take the corpse home to the South-East and take care of its embalming there pending the fixing of the burial date. A vehicle was chartered and two kinsmen accompanied the body. By 11 am, they were at Ore. They found themselves in a traffic jam and assumed that in a matter of minutes, they...

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ChibokGirls: It's Ten Months Now BY Abdulbaqi Jari Katsina

It is now Ten months since the abduction of over 200 girls in Chibok town, Borno state. Going by the song "four week, make one month", it has been Ten months since their abduction ( 280 days). But going by the counts using actual days of each month since April 14, then by 2nd of February, that will...

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