The Federal Government is to reduce capital vote from the current 32 per cent to 17 per cent in the 2020 appropriation bill. Conversely, it plans to raise recurrent expenditure to 79 per cent from 68 per cent in the ...
Read More »Allison-Madueke forfeits $40m jewelry to govt as EFCC, FBI arrest 167, recover $170,000, N92m, others
A Federal High Court, Lagos has granted the application for final forfeiture of $40million worth of jewelry allegedly belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Nicholas Oweibo in his ruling yesterday held that the respondent failed ...
Read More »Osinbajo launches livestock project in Adamawa State amid protests
The protest in Gongoshi village of Mayo-Belwa council area of Adamawa notwithstanding, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday inaugurated the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in the state. Commending their peaceful conduct, Osinbajo, however, informed the protesters that the policy was ...
Read More »Operation Crush Arrest Nine Cult Leaders, Arrest Two For Armed Robbery
The Lagos State Police Police Public Relations Officer DSP Bala Elkana In a press release said On 6th of September, 2019 at about 9:000, Imota Police Station received a piece of information from a reliable source that some cultists on ...
Read More »Don’t engage in reprisals against South Africans, PFN tells Nigerians
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigerian (PFN) has called on Nigerians not to engage in reprisals against South Africans in respect of the xenophobic attack on Nigerians in South Africa. It advised that Nigerians in and outside the country should rather exercise ...
Read More »Be fearless, courageous on presidential poll verdict, Frank tells justices
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, Timi Frank, has charged judges of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to be fearless and courageous, as they prepare to give their verdict on the petition challenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. ...
Read More »Kaduna elections tribunal affirms El-Rufai’s victory, quashes Ashiru’s petition as court sacks Ebonyi PDP Reps candidate
Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) thronged the Election Petitions Tribunal in Kaduna celebrating the victory of Nasir El-Rufai as the duly elected governor in the 2019 gubernatorial poll in the state. In its judgement, the tribunal struck out ...
Read More »FG, USAID move against tropical diseases in Cross River State, others
The Federal Government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have stepped up efforts to eradicate tropical diseases in 10 local councils of Cross River and over 490 other areas across the federation. Speaking during a meeting at ...
Read More »African commission mulls appropriate action against South Africa over xenophobia, cleric condemns attacks on Nigerians, others
Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Soyata Maiga has agreed to ‘take appropriate actions’ on request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to sue South Africa over xenophobic attacks on other Africans. The development, analysts ...
Read More »Bauchi auto crash kills driver, injures seven others
A driver has been confirmed dead and six students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) injured in a head-on-collision involving a Vectra car and a Sharon bus along the Bauchi-Jos highway in Miri village, few kilometers away from the Bauchi State capital. Public ...
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