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EU, ECOWAS sign €212.5m agreements on trade, food security, others

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2023

The European Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday signed seven agreements worth €212.4 million on promotion of trade and regional integration, energy interconnectivity and renewable energy. The agreement also covered affordable and clean energy,

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Pantami, Kashifu and Nigeria’s Digital Economy

Daily Dispatch October 2, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya suleimanuba1@gmail.com 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) As Nigeria clocks sixty years since its attainment of independence from the Great Britain yesterday, it is apt that we examine the journey so far in at least one key driver of indispensable importance for the acceleration of our national economic growth […]

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Governor Zulum and COAS Buratai’s exemplary acts of compassion

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya suleimanuba1@gmail.com 0809 413 4069 (Text Message Only) For the family of Paul Ojo, an 85-year old Nigerian who retired as Warrant Officer in the Nigerian Army, Monday, August 17, 2020, started like any other day. Mr. Ojo had served Nigeria meritoriously and retired peacefully from the military decades ago. […]

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Maryam Shettima’s take on Fuel Subsidy Removal

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya suleimanuba1@gmail.com 0803 567 6295 (Text Messages Only)  To start with, I know Maryam Shettima, and if anyone is looking for any young Nigerian who has worked her heart out towards the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in last year’s presidential election, Maryam is it. She is the elegant […]

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On Army’s ‘controversial’ killing of Benue’s most-wanted criminal

Daily Dispatch September 11, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya suleimanuba@gmail.com 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) About a year ago, Nigerians woke up to a frightening-looking pictures, published by virtually all the nation’s newspapers, showing the respected Governor of Katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari in a thick jungle surrounded by well-armed outlaws, who he bravely visited […]

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NITDA, Digital Economy and Covid-19 Initiatives

Daily Dispatch August 14, 2020

BRASS TACKSwith Suleiman Uba Gaya (suleimanuba1@gmail.com) One of the key federal agencies that have continued to prove that there is always light at the end of a dark tunnel is the Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi-led National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).  From the time the Buhari Administration appointed Dr  Isa Ali Pantami to last year when […]