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Buhari arrives in London today for 10-day private vacation thought to involve medical check-up

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will arrive in the UK today for a 10-day visit which is being described as private by presidency officials although they have not confirmed that it is for medical reasons.

 

Every year, President Buhari takes his annual leave in the UK, where he comes for medical check-ups and for treatment on an undisclosed ailment. In August 2017, President Buhari spent 105 days in the UK recovering, during which period he stayed at Abuja House in London.

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Policemen call on Buhari to pay them owed allowances for overtime put in during elections

SOME policemen who worked overtime during Nigeria's last general elections are yet to be paid the allowances and bonuses promised to them so have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to their assistance.

 

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Buhari to hold crunch talks with Goje and Ndume to get them to stand down for Lawan

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is considering holding face-to-face crunch talks with senators Danjuma Goje and Ali Ndume in a bid to get them to stand down for Ahmad Lawan the All Progressives Congress' (APC) candidate for senate president.

 

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Sole female aspirant for House of Reps speaker asks Gbajabiamila to stand down for her

ISIUKWUATO/Umunneochi Federal Constituency in Abia State member of the House of Representatives Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha has pleaded with her colleague Hon Femi Gbajabiamila to stand down for her in the quest to become the next speaker.

 

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Labour minister Dr Ngige unperturbed by trained doctors leaving Nigeria as over 6,000 sit UK medical exam this year

NIGERIA'S labour and employment minister Dr Chris Ngige has said he remains unperturbed with the practice of locally-trained medical doctors rushing abroad to seek employment because they can be replaced with the surplus available.

 

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Crystal Palace poised to put in a bid for Everton's Ademola Lookman in the summer

CRYSTAL Palace have stepped up plans to sign Nigerian-born winger Ademola Lookman from English Premier League rivals Everton this summer as a replacement for Ivorian star Wilfred Zaha who they are resigned to losing.

 

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Until we cure the national malaise called povertyphobia Nigeria will remain under-developed

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigerians are fond of blaming all their problems on poor leadership but for me, that is just a kop out. It is an intellectually lazy way of trying to explain a wider malaise that afflicts the world’s largest and most prosperous black nation. A handful of bad leaders cannot misrule 180m people for 60 years without their consent and full acquiescence

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Nigeria gets major boost after crude oil prices rise to six month high of nearly $75 a barrel

NIGERIA has received another minor boost to her economy after global crude oil prices climbed to a six month high of $74.25 a barrel in response to a decision by President Donald Trump to punish countries that buy petroleum from Iran.

 

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Police hunt for gang who murdered woman with hunchback sold by her son to them for ritual purposes

DETECTIVES from the Ondo State Police Command have launched a manhunt for a group of ritual killers who killed a 60-year old woman with a hunchback which the hoodlums who included her son thought would fetch them millions.

 

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