IMF raises growth forecast for Africa to 4.2%
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reviewed upwards its growth estimate for Africa to 4.2 per cent.
The Fund predicted last October that Africa will grow by 4.0 per cent. It also raised its growth estimate for 2011 to f.3 per cent from 5.2 per cent.
Candidates disrupt Anambra guber debate
By  Dayo Benson and Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—THE much publicised political debate for governorship candidates participating in the February 6, governorship election in Anambra State, was temporarily disrupted yesterday, when some of the candidates, who were not invited by the organisers, forced themselves into the podium to protest their exclusion. The event was put together by […]
Anambra: Appeal court clears Soludo
…asks aggrieved PDP members to quit By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the nomination of former Governor of Central Bank, Professor Charles Soludo as the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forth coming Anambra gubernatorial poll scheduled to hold on 6 February, this year. The […]
Ibru: EFCC seals more properties
* She says SSS refuses to release her passport By Innocent Anaba & Emma Ovuakporie ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, sealed off 17 more properties linked to the former Managing Director of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs Cecilia Ibru in Abuja and Lagos. This was coming as Mrs Ibru told a Federal High […]
FG saddened by Jos mayhem — Jonathan
…promises to find solution to ethno-religious crises By Taye Obateru Jos—Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan visited the crisis-ridden parts of the Plateau State capital yesterday, promising that necessary steps would be taken to avoid a repeat of the violence in the state or elsewhere in the country. Speaking to newsmen after going round the areas devastated […]
Abuja Court washes hands of 76 oil wells case
By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, threw out a request by the Government of Rivers State to pronounce on the legality of the cession of about 76 oil wells, allegedly belonging to it, to Akwa Ibom State for want of jurisdiction. The trial high court judge, Justice Adamu Bello, in […]
