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BUSINESS‘I will shoot GDP to $1trn in 8 years’ – New CBN Gov, Cardoso vows

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  The newly confirmed Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Dr. Olayemi Cardoso has disclosed plans to shore up the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, to $1 trillion in eight years . Cardoso spoke while answering questions from senators during his screening and confirmation as the governor of the apex bank. Those confirmed as deputy governors are: Emem Usoro, Philip Ikeazor, Muhammad Abdullahi-Dattijo, and Bala Bello. He assured that the ratified board will adopt a number of strategies including short term and medium terms goals to repair the economy. According to him, to achieve stability in Nigeria’s exchange rate, measures must be put in place towards ensuring a healthy balance of payment and diversification of the economy. “When you look at the dimension of inflation, we will be doing evidence-based monetary policy. We shall not be making decisions based on a whim. “We will significantly rebound the infrastructural demand with respect to ensuring that our data gathering c...

Bola Tinubu’s Chicago University Academic Documents: What Is True and What Is False?

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  Chicago State University (CSU) on Monday evening  released academic records of President Bola Tinubu to Atiku Abubakar , the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the documents confirm that Tinubu did attend CSU and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honours. However, the documents also raise several questions than answers. The discrepancies in the documents made public There is more than one discrepancy in the documents released by Chicago University. For example, Tinubu’s  replacement certificate , dated June 27, 1997, is missing the year “1867” from the logo, which appears on all other certificates issued by CSU during that period. Additionally, the words “With Honours” are included in Tinubu’s certificate underneath “Business Administration”, but none of the other samples provided by CSU show those words underneath the course of study. Another discrepancy is that Tinubu’s...