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The Nigeria’s House of Representatives is working tirelessly to expedite legislative actions in passing the 2024 Appropriation Bill, Spokesperson, Hon. Akin Rotimi (Jnr) has revealed. According to the Spokesperson of the House, the move was in line with the mandate given by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to sustain the January-December budget cycle system. On Wednesday, President Tinubu presented a record N27 trillion as the proposed budget for 2024, before a joint session of the senate and House of Representatives. Tinubu asked the lawmakers to expedite the consideration of the budget and ensure that the Appropriation Bill is passed before January…
Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago has signed an Executive Order on the Green Economy. The Executive order which was cited as “the Niger State Green Economy Initiative Order (No.3), 2023 orders that the Green Economy Initiative shall be driven by the State Blueprint that details the strategic pillars and outlines the strategic key performance indicators, targets and timelines of the transition into a green economy. Also enshrined in the Order, Niger State Government shall produce a State-Wide Land Use and Economic Development Plan to guide investment decisions and ensure investments that would stabilize the green transition is properly coordinated…
President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria’s national defence and internal security, local job creation, macro-economic stability, investment environment optimization, human capital development, poverty reduction, and social security are some of the top priorities of the 2024 Budget of Renewed Hope. Addressing a joint session of the National Assembly on the 2024 Federal budget proposal on Wednesday in Abuja, President Tinubu said the nation’s internal security architecture will be overhauled to enhance law enforcement capabilities with a view to safeguarding lives, property, and investments across the country. He said the proposed budget prioritizes human capital development, with particular attention given to children,…
Sheila, the spouse of Davido’s Logistics Manager, Israel Afeare, known as Israel DMW, has stated that her husband should be held responsible if she or any of her family members are harmed. The former beauty queen raised the alarm on Saturday, expressing concern for her life and the safety of her family members. She alleged that Israel, along with hoodlums, invaded her mother’s shop to harass her. Sheila made the allegation while responding to Israel DMW’s claims of fraud and his assertion that she left their marriage upon gaining fame. Contrary to Israel’s depiction of her family as “gold diggers,”…
The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria on Monday ordered their affiliates to withdraw their services nationwide from midnight on November 14, 2023. While addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, the TUC President Festus Osifo disclosed that the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility.” The strike is also to protest the battering of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and some other executives of the congress in Owerri, Imo State, on November 1. Ajaero lamented that the police after arresting him ahead of a state-wide protest in Imo, handed him…
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero on Friday said that he was arrested in Owerri by the Nigerian Police Force, but was handed over to waiting thugs that got him mercilessly beaten. According to him, the thugs who were about seven in number dragged him on the floor like a common criminal. Briefing journalists in Abuja, he stated that the NLC wrote to all the security agencies before they went to the state for the protest on November. He noted that workers who arrived at the venue of the protest on that day around 7 am…
A huge congratulations to His Excellency, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah,his team and Ndi Enugu as a whole on the well deserved victory at the court of Appeal, Lagos today. I once more implore any unsatisfied opponent, to kindly embrace peace and join the government in moving Enugu state forward. We are so tied together that we cannot waste more scarce resources on unnecessarily bitter litigations. The development and growth of Enugu should be the primary responsibility of all of us and we affirm that His Excellency, Peter Mbah and his team have started very strong. Enugu’s tomorrow have since started in…
The court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has declared Dr. Peter Mbah as the winner of the March 18th, Enugu State Governorship election. This is coming after the Tribunal had upheld the election of Mbah as the duly elected Governor of Enugu State. Dissatisfied with the outcome of the Tribunal, Mr Chijioke Edeoga of Labour party proceeded to Appeal court. On the ruling of the Appeal court, the case was dismissed as lacking in merit.
At least 14 persons mostly children have been killed and 19 others wounded after bandits invaded Maulud Celebration Ground in Rugar Kusa Community, Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. During the attack, which appears to be a reprisal and lasted for over an hour, the hoodlums abducted at least 20 residents to an unknown destination. Residents said that the bandits who were coming from the southern part of the celebration venue upon their arrival on Sunday night, started shooting sporadically with sophisticated weapons to scare the residents. Six of those killed were from the Rugar Kusa Community, two from…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on Monday in Abuja refused to produce former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Emefiele before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory. The release order made on November 2 was said by to have been ignored by some alleged confusions in the interpretation of the court order. But Justice Olukayode Adegbola Adeniyi who was taken aback by the claim of the EFCC rejected the claim and reaffirmed his order that Emefiele be either released on bail or be produced in Court on Wednesday November 8 for the purpose…
