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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