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The National Assembly may pass the 2024 budget of N27.5tn on Saturday as the about 541 ministries, departments, and agencies of the Federal Government conclude their defence. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Adeola Solomon, in an interview with The PUNCH on Monday, said the Senate would resume plenary on Wednesday. According to him, his committee has …

The political crisis in Rivers State may have ceased as parties reached a truce on Monday night. This followed about three hours of the talks at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, between President Bola Tinubu, Rivers Governor, Mr Siminalayi Fubara; his Deputy, Mrs Ngozi Odu; a former governor of the State, Peter Odili and the immediate past governor now Minister …

The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has barred former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development Pauline Tallen from holding public. In a judgement delivered on Monday, the court condemned Ms Tallen’s disparaging comments against the judiciary concerning a decision of the Federal High Court in Adamawa State last year. The Federal High Court in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, …

BEIJING — A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, destroying homes, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 127 people in the nation’s deadliest quake in nine years. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight on Monday, injuring more than 700 people, damaging roads and knocking out power and communication …

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday charged Nigerian businessman Dozy Mmobuosi and his three companies including New Jersey-based Tingo Group with “massive fraud”, alleging they overstated their financials and those of their key subsidiaries to swindle investors. The  SEC disclosed in a statement that Mr Mmobuosi, who this April tabled an offer of £150 million to acquire English football club Sheffield United, …

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Robert Clarke, has called for the review of the 1999 Constitution, saying the Constitution is the cornerstone of the nation’s problems. Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Robert Clarke Clarke stated this in an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday. He said, “The 1999 constitution is the cornerstone of our problems. In every area of political line, especially …

The Nigerian Communications Commission has directed MTN Nigeria, Airtel and other telecommunications firms to fully bar phone lines without National Identity Numbers and those whose NINs have not been verified. This was disclosed in a corporate notice that MTN Nigeria filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited revealing the directive from NCC and the attached deadlines for the barring. In the statement signed …

• Deforestation may worsen as cooking gas soars by 164% in five years• Waivers to cost govt N10.5 billion in revenue loss• N250b CBN intervention fund fails as import continues• Stakeholders seek new interventions to halt importation  Nigerians spend about N1.5 trillion on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) yearly, an amount that may be exceeded next year on account of rising …

The front lines where Ukraine and its allies had hoped for a summer breakthrough now epitomize the bleak, dark winter ahead — of Russian resurgence and Kyiv’s mounting losses. “As we like to say in the army, the plan was good on paper, but we forgot about the trenches,” joked Ihor, a commander in the 15th National Guard. CNN is only using his …

A meeting convened by President Bola Tinubu to address the political crisis in Rivers State has instructed the immediate cessation of the impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara. It also mandates the withdrawal of all court cases initiated by the governor, while recognizing the leadership of Hon. Martin Amaewhule and the defected 27 lawmakers. According to a document emerging from …