The presidency has assured Nigerians that the country’s economy will witness major turn around in 2024 with efforts being made by President Bola Tinubu to change the narratives. The senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Temitope Ajayi said that the federal government was working round the clock to revamp the […]
The High Court of Enugu State has restrained Senator Samuel Anyanwu from parading himself as National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to TheSun, the restraining order was handed down in a judgment delivered on Thursday by Justice C.O. Ajah, in a suit with number E/882/2023, filed by Aniagu Emmanuel. The court […]
No fewer than 962 bills and 500 motions have so far been considered by the 10th session of the House of Representatives over the past six months. Speaker Tajudeen Abbas disclosed this during the special plenary session held on Saturday, organised to pass the 2024 appropriation bill. While giving the stewardship account of his […]
A fire incident at Magaji Are quarters of Idi Ape community in Ilọrin East Local Government Area of Kwara State has destroyed shops, and a football viewing centre. The incident, which occurred around 11:00 am on Saturday, also burnt part of a telecom mast. It was learnt that the fire started from a […]
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has donated the sum of N10 million to the victims of the Christmas eve attacks in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi local government areas of Plateau State. Obi announced the donation when he visited the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs’) camp […]
The House of Representatives has passed N28.7 trillion as the 2024 appropriation bill. The bill was passed during plenary on Saturday, shortly after the Senate approved same amount as the 2024 appropriation bill. In the passed bill, the sum of 1,742,786,788,150 is for statutory transfers, 8,270,960,606,831 is for debt servicing, 8,768, 513, 380, 852 […]
Spanish authorities on Saturday said they had arrested a French couple earlier in December for planning to “sacrifice” in the Sahara their five-year-old son, who they believed to be “possessed”. The couple was arrested on December 21 in the southern Spanish port of Algeciras, as the family was about to board a ferry to […]
The Senate has approved the sum of N28.7 trillion as the 2024 appropriation bill. The upper chamber passed the bill at the plenary on Saturday. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, assured that the bill will be transmitted to the President for expedited passage into law. Details shortly…
The Senate has increased the 2024 budget by a total of N1.2tn, moving the budget from N27.5tn to N28.7tn. According to the report submitted by the Appropriation Committee led by Senator Solomon Adeola, aggregate expenditure was pegged at N28,777,404.073.861; statutory transfers -N1,742,786,788,150; recurrent expenditure- N8,768.5330,852; capital expenditure-N9,995,143,298,028 and GDP at 3.88%. President Bola Tinubu, […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has issued an interim order, restraining Kano State Government from further managing, controlling, administering, disbursing the funds and allocations belonging to the 44 LGAs of Kano State in the State Local Government Account, pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice. However, the judge of the […]
