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Breaking! Seven African Presidents Join Buhari to Open Dangote Refinery, Continent’s Game Changer

* 650,000bpd facility to alter international energy landscape, end petrol smuggling in Nigeria 

*Tinubu, Emefiele, governors, ministers, top business leaders to witness epoch event *Refinery, a significant achievement for Africa, Adeleke declares  

Oramah: Afreximbank proud as its largest financier  

*Rewane: Refinery will strengthen Nigeria’s macro-economic stability.

Daily Post

Swear with Qur’an you didn’t steal govt money – El-Rufai challenges ex-govs

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufa has challenged his predecessors to come out and swear with the Holy Quran as a proof that they did not embezzle public funds while in office.

The Guardian

70% of food exports from Nigeria rejected abroad, says NAFDAC

Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, yesterday, lamented that over 70 per cent of food exports from Nigeria are rejected abroad, with huge financial losses to exporters and the country.

Vanguard 

Election Tribunal shouldn’t be ‘like secret meeting,’ Onaiyekan backs live broadcast 

The Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Abuja Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has backed the call for live broadcast of Presidential Election Petition Tribunal proceedings.

The cleric noted that the proceedings of the Election Tribunal should not be ‘like a secret meeting,’ because the voters needed to follow up on how their votes were being defended.

Channels

Resident Doctors Suspend Strike

The leadership of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its one-week warning strike which it embarked upon on Wednesday, May 17.

Punch 

Don’t judge me based on performance as minister – Akpabio

The former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has called on Nigerians and members of the incoming 10th National Assembly not to assess him using his brief tenure as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.

Akpabio said he preferred to be judged by his record as a lawyer of 36 years, commissioner for six years and a governor for 8 years.



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