The House of Representatives on Saturday approved a total of N28.78 trillion in expenditure for the 2024 fiscal year. This was N1.2 trillion more than the N27.5 trillion budgetary proposal presented to the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives by President Bola Tinubu on November 30, 2023 A breakdown of the […]
Sunday 31 December 2023 N37bn fraud: Buhari’s minister faces EFCC interrogators Wednesday Amotekun’s many battles with herdsmen, bandits No going back on demolition of Lagos POWA complex -Police Ganduje making no impact in APC – Lukman Protest Rocks Kano LGA Over Gov Dispute Plateau Killings Beyond Herder-Farmer Clashes, Murderers Want To Take Over Nigeria […]
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it’s aware of the diversion of United Nigeria Airlines flight UN542 Lagos-Anambra to Asaba which occurred on 30th December, 2023. According to the agency, while flight diversions are not uncommon in air transportation business, NCAA is investigating this incident and wishes to assure the general public of […]
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, says the repeated and unending killings on the Plateau is beyond herder-farmer clashes, adding that the murderers “want their own kind of Nigeria according to their ideology”. The cleric, in a statement on Saturday, charged the government to resist the agenda of the marauders […]
The Senate has approved President Tinubu’s request to borrow $7.8billion and €100 million as part of the 2022 – 2024 borrowing plan of the Federal Government, DailyTrust reports. The request was approved after the Senate considered and adopted the report of its committee on Local and Foreign Debt during Saturday’s plenary. Tinubu had said […]
Three people have been my murdered in a fresh attack in the restive Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau state on Friday. The latest incident, which has raised fears of reprisal, came less than three days after more than 195 people were killed in Christmas Eve attack in Barkin Ladi, Bokkos and Mangu local […]
The national assembly on Saturday approved President Bola Tinubu’s request for the securitisation of outstanding N7.3 trillion ways and means debt balance. Ways and Means is a loan facility through which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) provides short-term financing to cover the government’s budget shortfalls. Also, securitisation is the practice of pooling together […]
The 21 persons kidnapped along the Ajaokuta-Itobe Road in Kogi State on Thursday have been rescued. They were rescued by a team of security operatives, comprising personnel of the Nigerian Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and local vigilantes. A statement issued on Saturday by the state governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu […]
ANigerian legal practitioner based in Alberta, Canada, Ayokunle Odekunle is dead. Odekunle, popularly known as Oddy4real on “X”, died on Friday after a prolonged battle with cancer which was diagnosed in 2020. He lost his life to stage 4 cancer. Announcing his death on Saturday, one X user, @KayceeMaduYEG, tweeted: “It is with profound […]
Ebonyi State Government through the office of the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the governor on Petroleum, Nnaemeka Nwafor, has confirmed a petrol tanker accident, along the popular Abakaliki-Afikpo Expressway. The incident resulted in a fire outbreak that engulfed a tanker and other property. Vanguard gathered that two persons died instantly following the […]
