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In June 2016, members of the Economic Community of West African States convened for a two-day workshop in Abuja.
The sole aim was to chart ways to transit into using low sulphur fuels in their respective countries.
At the end of the event, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte D’Ivoire agreed to ban the importation of Europe’s dirty fuels, thus limiting sulphur in fuels from 3000ppm to 50ppm.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said the move would help to drastically reduce vehicle emissions and help over 250 million people to breathe safer and cleaner air.
By the end of that year, Nigeria again hosted a
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Mu‘azu’s latest game
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By Emmanuel Aziken
When news portals on Thursday broke the ‘news’ of the return of Adamu Mu`azu to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it immediately set a frenzy as to the ways and manners of one of Nigeria’s ‘sharpest’ political actors.
Welcomed as the game-changer as he stepped in as national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2014, he truly changed the game for the PDP as he took the party from its ascendancy into the ranks of the opposition.
In the 2015 presidential election, Mu‘azu as national chairman lost his state by a horrendous 86,085 votes to the 931,598 votes polled by the All Progressives Congress, APC. The proportion of votes for the PDP’s Jonathan was about 8.4%.
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