Day: 21 February 2017

Xenophobia: Nigerian auto mechanic loses N240.6m

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Simon Adeoye, a 42 year old South African based Nigerian automobile mechanic, said on Tuesday that he lost N240.6 million (R10m) to the Xenophobic attack on his workshop on Saturday. Adeoye told newsmen on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa, that he got a call on the day of the incident that his workshop had been set ablaze and rushed to the place. “ By the time I got there, 29 cars of different make, some Nigerian passports, documents of the workshop, money and other personal effects had been destroyed by…

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Nigeria’s Naira now Africa’s worst currency – Sen. Ekweremadu

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Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu,has berated the economic policies of the All Progressives Congress led Federal Government for turning to what he called the ‘worst currency’ in Africa. Senator Ekweremadu was speaking in Abuja at a PDP stakeholders meeting hosted by Ekiti State Governor and chairman of the PDP governor’s forum, Ayodele Fayose to discuss the way forward for the party after the Appeal Court judgment that conferred legitimacy on the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the party. He said with the worsening economic situation in the country, it was…

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PDP not factionalised – Ex-Prez. Jonathan, endorses Sheriff as PDP leader

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Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, yesterday, continued his appeal for acceptance as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with a high level interaction with former President Goodluck Jonathan, who endorsed him as the leader of the party. Dr Jonathan, who received Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff in his Abuja residence at the end of the meeting, yesterday, declared that despite the problems in the party, it was not factionalised as being touted. Speaking with newsmen shortly after closed door meeting with Sheriff, Jonathan said the former Borno State governor…

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