Beyond the Headlines
CHAIRMEN of the 13 local government areas of Ebonyi State are under probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged road contract estimated at N2 billion. Documents obtained by Vanguard indicated that the anti-graft agency had invited the chairmen, following a petition that the amount meant for road projects was allegedly mismanaged […]
N19.76 trillion has been proposed by the Federal Government as budgetary expenditures for 2023 fiscal year. However, the budget may hit a fiscal deficit of between N11.30 trillion and N12.41 trillion, depending on the removal timeline of the subsidy regime. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this, yesterday, while […]
Chairman, Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Yabagi Yusuf Sani, has raised the alarm that the insecurity in parts of Nigeria is capable of aborting the 2023 general elections. Sani, according to a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Ayuba Ahmad, spoke in Abuja weekend when he visited the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS),Yusuf […]
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, has said that over 216 illegal refining sites were deactivated in the last five months, Gambo, who spoke exclusively on Channels Television’s NewsNight aired on Monday, said over 41 million litres of diesel equivalent of N27bn were saved as a result of naval operations […]
A house of representatives committee says the office of the accountant-general operates an analogue system. James Faleke, chairman of the committee on finance, said this on Monday at an interactive session on the 2023-2025 medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF). The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), which was among the government agencies that appeared before the […]
By Sola Ebiseni LIKE him or not, Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo, veteran of wars, former Nigerian Military Head of State, eight years elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is an enigma. According to Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em”. […]
Five metres beneath a Kyiv classroom, headmaster Mykhaylo Aliokhin puts the finishing touches on the bunker where his students will spend much of their time once Ukraine’s school term starts later this week. The study hall above is still littered with school bags abandoned since February 23 — the last day before Russia invaded […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed dissatisfaction with the Federal Government over its response to its demands and declared a “comprehensive, total and indefinite” strike. Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU President made this known in a statement issued at the end of the Union National Executive Council (NEC) emergency meeting on Tuesday […]
Nigeria’s biggest lender by assets, Access Holdings, has gotten the greenlight of the approving authority for the bid to acquire the controlling stake in First Guarantee Pension, the financial services group said Monday, after first announcing the deal three months and ten days ago. If the transaction goes through, it will mark the corporation’s […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said its declaration of indefinite strike after over six months of warning and roll over strikes, was meant to save public universities. The union, in a statement, late Monday night, by its president, Emmanuel Osodeke, said it was compelled to carry out the action because it […]
