Sunday Aborisade30 April 2021Kindly share this story: The Ministry of Finance told the Senate Committee on Army on Thursday that the Federal Government spent N198.84bn to fight terrorism from 2019 till date. The Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, in the finance ministry, Aliyu Shinkafi, said all the funds appropriated for the war against insurgency had been […]
Continue ReadingSunday Aborisade29 April 2021Kindly share this story: The Chairman, Senate Public Accounts Committee, on Wednesday gave the Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Office of the National Security Adviser till Tuesday next week to explain an alleged ‘secret withdrawal of N7.5bn from the two per cent National Automotive […]
Continue ReadingOlalekan Adetayo,Sunday Aborisade, Leke Baiyewu and Solomon Odeniyi28 April 2021Kindly share this story: • Security situation very pathetic, Buhari should be told the truth, says Zulum Senators and three governors on Tuesday expressed concern about the nationwide ceaseless killings and kidnappings in the country, urging the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd,), to seek foreign […]
Continue ReadingJohn Charles28 April 2021Kindly share this story: Ortom, Buhari Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Tuesday lamented the continuous killings in the state by suspected herdsmen. Speaking on the attack on Abegana village, which house one of the eight designated Internally Displaced Persons’ camps in the state, Ortom said that 70 people had been killed […]
Continue ReadingAdelani Adepegba28 April 2021Kindly share this story: The Chandler Good Government Index has ranked Nigeria as the third worst governed country in the world. The report ranked the nation very low in governance, leadership and foresight, scoring the country 102 out of 104 countries with a score of 0.319 points, ahead of Zimbabwe and Venezuela. […]
Continue ReadingOlalekan Adetayo, Abuja NEC faults Obaseki, says N60bn not printed to shore up March allocationMinister fixes May date, CBN explains technical challenges in further shiftState governors on Thursday at the monthly meeting of the National Economic Council appealed to the Federal Government to postpone the repayment of the $2.1bn budget support facility to states which […]
Continue ReadingAdelani Adepegba and Edward Nnachi The United Kingdom has said that all asylum and human rights claims from Nigerian nationals are considered on their individual merits in accordance with its international obligations.The British government states that it has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with its international obligations […]
Continue ReadingFriday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Edward Nnachi, Leke Baiyewu, Dennis Naku, James Abraham, Raphael Ede and Peter Dada The Federal Government on Tuesday expressed anger over a plan by the United Kingdom to offer asylum to “persecuted” members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.The […]
Continue ReadingAdelani Adepegba, Dennis Naku and Adeyinka Adedipe Nigeria should subsidise production not consumption, says CRSLack of local refining capacity behind persistent subsidy – GombeThe Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Monday admitted that Nigeria’s economy was facing a difficult time, saying states must improve their internally generated revenues.Ahmed, who stated this […]
Continue ReadingOlalekan Adetayo The chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi, on Monday, disclosed that state governors and other stakeholders have reached an agreement on the implementation of financial autonomy for state legislature and the judiciary.Although he did not disclose the details of the agreement reached, he assured the nation that the implementation will start […]
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