Senate Approves Pres. Jonathan’s $1 Billion Loan Request to Fight Insurgency

The Senate has approved President Goodluck Jonathan‘s request for a $1 billion external loan to fight insurgency in Nigeria.Punch reports that the loan would not be given  in cash, but through “the supply of military hardware to be paid for, over a seven-year period.”“The request is for a ceiling of $1bn and not that, at the moment, the whole amount would be utilised. Government will procure on the terms stated, based on needs assessment of...

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Pres. Jonathan to decide whether he will rerun with VP Sambo- PDP

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, says President Jonathan will be the one to determine if he would still like to run with his Vice, Namadi Sambo in the 2015 general elections.Metuh said this at a press conference yesterday September 21st in Abuja. He also said that President Jonathan is yet to respond to the decision the party members took on Thursday September 18th where he was adopted as the sole Presidential candidate of...

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Pres. Jonathan visits site of collapsed Synagogue church building

President Jonathan earlier today visited the site of the collapsed building at T.B Joshua's Synagogue church. He is currently in Lagos to attend a PDP rally which will hold later today at TBS. The traffic in Lagos today because of this rally eh...

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