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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja thanked his ministers and State House staff who worked with him in the past eight years as he prepares to hand over to the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu on Monday, May 29. At a valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council FEC at the State House Council Chamber, Buhari who said he was proud that he and his cabinet gave their best to Nigerians thanked […]
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide yesterday joined those calling for the removal of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa. The Igbo social-cultural group in a statement by its National President Okwu Nnabuike said the call became necessary as the EFCC was wandering off its known credibility, adding that they were not surprised owing to an earlier alarm that Bawa was compromised. Nnabuike said this […]
The 9th Assembly has ordered the Federal Ministry of Works to refund a whopping sum of 692 million Naira allegedly spent on fictitious contracts into the nation’s purse as contained in the 2018 report of the Auditor General for the Federation AuGF. The Senate decided after the consideration of the report by its Committee on Public Accounts, which discovered that a contract of 343 million Naira was awarded for the […]
The Police Command in Anambra State has arrested two suspects in connection with Tuesday’s attack on the United States US Consulate Convoy in Ogbaru Local Government Area. The Commissioner for Police in Anambra state, Echeng Echeng, during a press briefing at the Command’s headquarters in Amawbia, said Preliminary investigations revealed that seven persons who were on a mission to assess the impact of erosion in Ogbaru were killed in the assault, […]
Five hundred and eleven 511 Boko Haram terrorists and their families have surrendered following a recent offensive by troops of the Nigerian Army in the Northeast region. The figure comprised 99 adult males, 161 adult females, and 251 children who surrendered to troops at different locations within the theatre of operations. The Director of Defense Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami said during one of the operations, troops killed 26 […]
The United Kingdom UK has appointed Richard Montgomery as the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria. Montgomery yesterday presented his credentials to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja as he takes over from Catriona Laing who recently concluded her four years as High Commissioner in Abuja. Richard was the UK Executive Director at the World Bank Group Board from 2018 to 2022 in Washington DC, USA before […]
The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika has announced that the Federal Ministry of Aviation has been renamed as the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace of Nigeria. Sirika in his pronouncement yesterday in Abuja moments after the Federal Executive Council FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari explained that the alteration became expedient because it is on the exclusive list, linking the development to the establishment of the African Aerospace […]
The Director-General of the World Trade Organization WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has counselled incoming governors to stop depending on crude oil and diversify the sources of revenue in their respective states. Speaking during an induction organized for elected governors in Abuja, the former Minister of Finance highlighted that states that heavily depend on the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC would be badly affected when the country’s oil and gas no […]
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 […]
