FG Hires Foreign Experts for N458m to Drive ERGP Implementation Negotiates release of $4.92bn Mambilla Plant loan FEC approves N27bn for construction of Gombe-Biu Road Omololu Ogunmade and Chineme Okafor in Abuja The Federal Executive Council (FEC) rose from its weekly meeting in the State House, Abuja yesterday with a resolution to engage foreign consultants from Malaysia to
conduct a forensic study that will boost the implementation of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). The meeting, presided over by Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, which approved N458 million for the exercise, put the duration of the forensic study at three months to be undertaken in three phases.
The council categorised the three phases of the study as pre-laboratory, laboratory and post laboratory stages, which it said would include the involvement of 100 persons
from both the public and private sectors. The foreign consultants are expected to bring into the economic plan their international experience,
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which the council believes will enhance the credibility of ERGP. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Continued on page 6
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Zimbabwe Moves to Set Up Interim Govt as Mugabe is Apparently Ousted Nigeria, UK, US others call for calm, respect for Zimbabwe’s constitution Okechukwu Uwaezuoke, Tobi Soniyi in Lagos, Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja With the Zimbabwean military insisting that its intervention in the southern African country’s politics
yesterday was not a military coup d’état, indications were that the troubled nation might be exploring an interim administration as an option out of the apparent political logjam. Continued on page 6
My Ministers Are Performing Well, Says Buhari Orders Police to restore Obiano’s security aides Senate upbraids IG Omololu Ogunmade in Abakaliki Nigerians clamouring for the sack of some members of President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet over perceived inefficiency, might have to tarry a while before their wish would come true
as the president on Tuesday night said he had confidence in his team. The president who spoke in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, while making closing remarks at a dinner organised in his honour by his Continued on page 6
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Founder and Chairman, Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG), Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede; (L) and President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, during a courtesy visit to the Ghanaian president in Accra… recently