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Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said on Saturday that Nigeria was gradually moving out of recession.


Mohammed, represented by the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Bayo Onanuga, made the assertion at the biennial convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Lagos.


He said that going by a recent statement by the Central Bank Governor, the country would exit recession by the end of June.


“ There have been other pointers for the good news as well. For two consecutive months, the National Bureau of Statistics has also reported a fall in inflation rate.


“ The exchange rate is regaining some sanity.


“ As I said earlier, the worst appears to be over. We are clawing out of the woods of recession in weeks from now, “ the minister said.


Mohammed said that the Buhari administration and collective will of Nigerians had shamed doomsday prediction that our recession could worsen into a depression.


“ I hope, in our various media, we shall begin to focus more on the positive developments in our economy, the growth in agriculture and mineral development, since the NBS last year, let out the secret that the Nigerian economy recorded a negative growth in the first quarter of 2016, “ he said.


The minister said that recession was not peculiar to the country.


He said that the United States of America had experienced 47 recessions, some regressing into depressions.


“ Between 1980 and 2007 alone, the American economy experienced five recessions. The last one in 2007 was caused by the subprime mortgage crisis and led to the collapse of the US housing bubble,” he said.


Mohammed urged the media to stop the blame game and educate Nigerians on the efforts being made to end recession.


“ Informing the people that the government is working hard to end the

recession will go a long way to give hope to the people.


“After all, it is said that ”if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive” the minister said. (NAN)

Today marks three years since the Chibok girls were abducted
- The Bring Back Our Girls Group (BBOG) marked the anniversary with a march in Nigeria's capital on Thursday, April 13
- A lecture to commemorate the anniversary will also be held today, April 14
On the night of April 14, 2016, 276 girls were kidnapped in a girls secondary school in Chibok community, Borno state.
57 of the school girls managed to escape over the next few months, a further 21 girls were freed in October 2016, and some others were rescued the next month.
Today marks three years since the Chibok girls were abducted. 195 of the girls are still being held in captivity.
Despite promises by the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rescue to the girls, majority of them are still held captive by terrorist group, Boko Haram.

The BBOG marked the anniversary with a march around the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Thursday, April 13 to demand for the government's action to free the remaining girls held captive.

The German government plans to deport 12000 Nigerians who are seeking asylum in the country

- Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on diaspora affairs, says the German embassy in Nigeria has intimated her office about the plan

- She describes the development as unfortunate, adding that 128 Nigerians died, while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea
The German government plans to repatriate 12,000 Nigerians who are seeking asylum in the country.


This was disclosed by Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Affairs, on Tuesday, April 4, at the public presentation of two books “From Libya with Tears’’ and “Practical News and Feature Writing’’ written by former Managing Editor/Director of News Agency of Nigeria, Mr Dele Bodunde.

Germany set to deport 12,000 Nigerian asylum seekers as 128 others die in Mediterranean Sea

According to a report on NAN, Dabiri-Erewa said that the German Embassy in Nigeria had intimated her office on plans to repatriate at least 12,000 Nigerian asylum seekers from the European country.

Dabiri-Erewa, represented by her Special Assistant on Media, Mr Abdul-Rahman Balogun, also noted that about 128 Nigerians died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

She described the situation as unfortunate, noting that it showed Nigerians desperation to get to Europe by all means.


Abike Dabiri-Erewa says Germany is set to deport 12,000 Nigerian asylum seekers as 128 others die in Mediterranean Sea
“Just some days ago, 128 Nigerians died in the Mediterranean sea out of 576. Most of them were from West African countries and they were on their way to Europe.

“Now, this is an unfortunate incident and I think it is better to remain in Nigeria and keep struggling, instead of making desperate journeys that could take their lives,’’ she said.

Meanwhile, our reporters also gathered that some Nigerians had been trapped in Libya and were subjected to various inhuman treatments.

According to Dabiri-Erewa, it took the intervention of the federal government which ensured the return of many of them.

- A certain Mrs Sola Aregbesola was allegedly brutalized by policemen in Ekiti state
- The police command in the state has been asked to pay N20.25million in damages.

- A High Court in Ekiti deemed it fit that the 51-year-old woman be recompensed, after she was illegally detained and brutalized.

A state High Court sitting in Ikere Ekiti on Monday, April 3, has awarded a sum of N20million damages against Ado-Ekiti zone of the Ekiti state police command, over illegal detention and brutalization of a 51-year old woman, Mrs Sola Aregbesola.

Vanguard reports that the presiding Judge, Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi, also awarded another two hundred and fifty thousand naira cost against the police, an amount which covers the expenses spent on medical treatment as a result of the unlawful detention and beating she suffered in the hands of the cops.

The reporters gathered that the plaintiff, Aregbesola, a resident of Okebedo in Ilawe Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government Area, was beaten, tortured , wounded, chained and detained for seven two hours at Ilawe police station last year October over an issue that bordered on an illicit love affair between her husband and another woman.

Aregbesola who was subsequently picked up by the police, following complaints lodged by her suspected husband’s mistress, had before the arrest, suffered an attack from the accused who allegedly poured hot soup on her face, which inflicted serious bodily injuries on her, causing deformation to her person.