News from the Tinubu/Shettima campaign trail
88 days to the presidential election Next rally: Kaduna flag-off, Sat 24 Oct Tinubu hails City Boy Movement: “That is not noise. That is organisation”
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Student loans, health, infrastructure, diplomacy and the programmes of the Renewed Hope agenda.
Policy Diplomacy
Nigeria’s UN envoy, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, who chairs the General Assembly’s budget committee, presents the seven-volume proposal from Secretary-General António Guterres.
Policy Student loans
More than ₦192bn has gone directly to 319 institutions as fees, and the first graduates in work have begun repaying, according to figures to 3 September.
Policy Infrastructure
The Works Minister rejects claims the Lagos–Calabar project has been abandoned, saying surveying is under way along the Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers axis.
Policy Independence @66
In his Independence Day address, the President says the economy has grown by over 4 per cent this year and promises to widen direct support to poor households.