President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that Nigeria’s strongest selling point remained an “intellectually aggressive and economically ambitious’’ populace that always seeks self-improvement and self-actualization in any part of the world. Speaking in Rabat, Morocco during an audience with Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, Mr Saadeddine Othmani, at Royal Guest Palace, Mr Buhari said Nigeria’s “visionary and resilient population’’ works hard to always position the country for more growth, fueled by a largely youthful group that continually wants to contribute to development. In a statement by Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, the President…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump shook hands, smiling cautiously at the outset of their historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday, in which they will look for ways to end a nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula. "Nice to meet you Mister President," Kim said moments later as he sat alongside Trump, against a backcloth of North Korean and U.S. flags, beaming more broadly as the U.S. president gave him a thumbs up.With cameras of the world's press trained on them, Trump and Kim built an initial atmosphere of friendship. "I feel really great. We’re…

It's the summit eve in Singapore. Global anticipation of the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's third-generation autocrat Kim Jong Un is close to feverish. It's the biggest, and most mind-boggling, summit of its kind this century — and probably for several decades. Imagine if President George W. Bush had met Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for face-to-face negotiations in January 2003 in Egypt instead of the U.S.-led invasion going ahead two months later and you get a sense of how remarkable this summit is. As the hours count down to the Tuesday morning meeting, here's a look…

Workers in the country under the aegis of All Workers Convergence (AWC), on Monday, issued a 21-day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari to rescind the decision that the new minimum wage promised by September will not be feasible. National Coordinator of AWC, Mr Andrew Emelieze, who addressed journalists in Ibadan, after a meeting attended by labour leaders and representatives of various labour unions, while condemning a statement credited to Minister of Labour, Mr Chris Ngige, that the Federal Government may not be able to pay the new minimum wage in September as earlier promised despite setting up of the new…