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The 9th Assembly yesterday passed the 876 billion Naira 2023 budget for the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, after a thorough debate that tends to bring out the impact of the commission on the people of the Niger Delta region in past years. In the overall budget of the commission, personnel expenditure will gulp 34.2 billion Naira, overhead expenditure will gulp 17 billion Naira, internal Capital expenditure will gulp 3.7 […]
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu says the Federal Government has approved the licensing of 37 new universities in the country. Adamu in his revelation yesterday after the extraordinary Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osibanjo noted that the development brings the total number of universities licensed by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015 to 72. He didn’t name the universities but revealed that one […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will on May 22, 2023, inaugurate the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery expected to bring solutions to Nigeria’s perennial refining issues. The Special Assistant to the President on Digital Communications Bashir Ahmad who disclosed this in a tweet on his handle said efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the […]
The Air Peace flight carrying over 270 Nigerian students from the Aswan Airport in Egypt landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while the NAF C-130H jet conveying about 80 persons touched down moments later. After over a week of assurances by the Federal Government, the Nigerian evacuees were finally airlifted home, escaping the deadly conflict in Sudan which started on the 15th of April and has led to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to unveil the national and regimental colors for the new and operationalized units’ colors of the Nigerian Army ahead of Bola Tinubu’s inauguration. Director of Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu , who made the announcement in Abuja at the Trooping and Presentation of Colours Parade ahead of the President-elect’s swearing in on May 29, said the colours in the Army have been used in multiple […]
National Commandant Professor Dickson Akoh has on behalf of the Peace Corps Council declared that the officers and men of the Peace Corps of Nigeria have extended gratitude to the leadership and entire members of the 9th National Assembly for extraordinary and unanimous support given to the organization all through the legislative processes leading to the eventual passage of the Nigerian Peace corps bill. The commandant expressed his appreciation at […]
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama has revealed that Nigerians stranded in Sudan will be evacuated by road. Onyeama, during an interview with newsmen, had said that those stranded can’t be evacuated by air, as the airport is out of commission, stressing that the only viable way out is by road. He claimed that Nigeria’s situation is particularly challenging because the numbers are so great, with about 5,500 persons ready […]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved the appointment of six new permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service after the recently conducted selection process with the date for swearing-in to be announced in due course. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation HOCSF, Folasade Yemi-Esan disclosed this in a statement in Abuja through the Director of Communications of the Office of the HOCSF, Mohammed Ahmed. The appointees and their […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has urged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu to urgently seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offenses including bribery against any state governors and their deputies during the just concluded general elections. SERAP in a letter dated 25 March 2023 and signed by their deputy director Kolawole […]
