President Bola Tinubu has asked the national assembly to approve the sums of $7.8 billion and €100 million in his administration’s proposed 2022 – 2024 borrowing plan. Tinubu’s request was contained in a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on the floor of the upper legislative chamber on Wednesday. A similar letter from […]
Nigeria’s federal government has, in the 2023 supplemental budget, proposed the allocation of N5.5 billion for the education loan fund and N5.095 billion for the Nigeria Navy, which would be used to acquire a presidential yacht. The 2023 supplemental appropriation details for MDA expenditures include this information. The Nigerian Navy suggested spending N20.42 billion […]
The Rivers State Police Command has said that its operatives did not launch a deliberate attack on Governor Siminalayi Fubara during a protest at the State House of Assembly complex in Port Harcourt on Monday. On Monday, Police operatives fired water cannons, gunshots and tear gas on the at the direction of Governor Fubara […]
The mayor of the City of Newark, New Jersey, in the United States of America, Ras J. Baraka has honoured fourteen-year-old Nigerian Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo Okeke living with autism with the Young CEO Award. The mayor honoured Kanyeyachukwu on Sunday during the 8th Annual Nigerian Independence Day celebration and the grand event titled ‘The New […]
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, consider Ideato North/South federal constituency of Imo State, as an erosion disaster threatened area, and come to the aid of the people by reconstructing and including the roads in the area in the ongoing rural road development projects. […]
The Canadian Government is billed to announce its annual immigration plan on Wednesday in non-election years under the Immigration and Refugees Protection Act (IRPA), which is Canada’s main immigration law. This was disclosed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on its website adding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government will announce the Immigration Levels […]
Dozens of pro-democracy activists have stormed the National Assembly in protest to demand the removal of the Minister of Defence over growing insecurity across Nigeria. The protesters carried several banners with inscriptions demanding the sack of the Minister of Defence, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, over alleged complicity in the crisis especially in Zamfara state. The […]
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday, expressed optimism that the political crisis, involving himself and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, will be resolved. He said there is nothing wrong for a father and a son to have problems, stressing that all issues, if any, will be resolved. The governor spoke when the Chief of […]
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Senator Emmanuel Udende as the validly elected Senator for the Benue North-East senatorial district. Consequently, a three-member panel of the appellate Court, led by Justice Abimbola Adejumo, set aside the judgment of the State National Assembly Election Tribunal that nullified his election in […]
President Bola Tinubu has warned his son, Seyi, and other persons from interrupting meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The president said he observed Seyi and other unauthorised persons breezing in and out of the federal cabinet meeting convened every week to discuss the most crucial issues of national importance. He cautioned specifically […]
