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Mr Abebe Selassie, Director of the African Department at the IMF (right) with Ms Meera Louis, a Communications Officer at the Fund, during the media briefing. Photo: NAN The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed Nigeria’s closure of its borders with some neighbouring countries over issues bordering on illegal trade. Abebe Selassie, the Director of the African Department at the IMF, gave the position at a media briefing on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington. He was responding to a question on whether the closure negates the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). Mr Selassie said although free trade was critical to economic growth of the continent, it must be legal and in line with agreements. “On the border closure in Nigeria which has been impacting Benin and Niger, our understanding is that the action reflects concerns about smuggling that has been taking place. “It is about illegal trade, which is not what you want to facilitat

The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, has tongue-lashed Olusegun Obasanjo over the former Nigerian president’s recent open letter  to President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Obasanjo on Monday released a letter to Mr Buhari, warning him of issues around national security and unity. Mr Obasanjo accused the president of negligence and not rising to the contemporary challenges bedevilling the country. But Mr Yari in a statement by his media aide, Ibrahim Dosara, lampooned Mr Obasanjo and unnamed “Yoruba leaders” for recent criticism of Mr Buhari’s handling of security issues. The former governor accused Mr Obasanjo of using the opportunity to pour “encapsulated anger” on Mr Buhari, saying the former president has no better records.

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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai On his mission to the villa? A: I came to see Mr President to brief him on the general security situation in Kaduna, which I do from time to time and also to update him on the various initiatives by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), the SSS, and the Army with a view to improving the security situation in Kaduna in general and particularly along the Abuja-Kaduna road. I want to say that the initiatives put in place have made the road quite safe now. I don’t want to go into details of the measures that have already been put in place, but I am confident with the security system in place now that people can be confident to drive on the Abuja-Kaduna road without any fear. On APC leader, Bola Tinubu A: There is no dispute between me and anyone in the APC. The APC is one family, I don’t dispute with my own party. They may dispute with me but I don’t. I made comments in Lagos about how to retire godfathers, it’

May 1, 2019 Agency Report A market used to illustrate the story [Photo Credit: Daily Post] Nigeria is not the poverty capital of the world, Abiodun Adedipe, an economist and member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, has said. Mr Adedipe, a management and financial consultant, said this at the annual forum of The Platform on Wednesday in Lagos. The News agency of Nigeria reports that the programme was themed: “The Drivers, Enablers and Obstacles to our Growth.” Mr Adedipe was reacting to a report by the World Poverty Clock, published in June 2018, which indicated that Nigeria had overtaken India as the country with the largest extreme poverty population in the world. “As a Nigerian, economist and someone who deals with data, I challenge them because none of those who made such claims has been able to prove it. “When you talk about poverty, you also talk about how you measure it. “If you say you conducted a survey, then I want to know where it w

The leader of traders in Lagos and the Iyaloja General of Nigeria , Mrs Folashade Tinubu - Ojo , has said that some traders in the Computer village market who protested against the appointment of Iyaloja and Babaloja in the market on Tuesday were ill -informed . Addressing a press briefing on Wednesday , Tinubu -Ojo , said all the markets in the state were under her control and the computer village market canno t be an exception . According to our constitution , I can choose anybody from any local government in the state to head the market , all the iyaloja and babaloja in all the Lagos markets are my representatives in the market where they operate. Kindly educate them that phones , handsets , computers are commodities . “ They cannot tell us they are not pepper sellers, everybody cannot be textile dealers ; they can ’t tell us that computer village will be exonerated from other markets . We have the right to choose for them Iyaloja and Babaloja . “ Those people