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President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to permit his administration to go ahead with the processing of a $800m loan facility from the World Bank requested by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari to finance the National Safety Net Programme. The president’s request was in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the plenary on …

…to distribute free grains to farmers, households ⁣Tinubu also approved that all matters pertaining to food and water availability and affordability, as essential livelihood items, be included within the purview of the National Security Council.⁣ ⁣Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after consultations with key stakeholders …

Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has called for the immediate dismissal and prosecution of the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, over the role he played in the 2023 presidential elections. Osuntokun also demanded that a forensic financial investigation be conducted on all expenditures and donations received by the …

Agency Report Oyo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Ibadan on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by the Allied Peoples’ Movement against the March 18 victory of Governor Seyi Makinde of the State. The APM had challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission declaration of Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner after polling 563,756 votes. The News Agency …

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has approved the request of President Bola Tinubu for an amendment to the 2022 appropriation act. The approval followed Tinubu’s request for N500 billion for palliatives to Nigerians in order to reduce the hardship caused by subsidy removal. The amendment passed the first, second, and third readings during plenary on Wednesday. However, the House on Thursday …

Following revenue earnings shortfall in Edo State, the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has directed that all revenue collection functions of Government will now come under the direct supervision of the Governor’s Office. This new development was contained in a statement released today by the Special Adviser to the governor on Media Projects, Mr. Crusoe Osagie. According to him, at …

A high court of the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday issued a one-week ultimatum to the Department of State Security Service to either charge the detained suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele to Court or release him. Justice Hamza Muazu gave the order while delivering a ruling in a fundamental human rights suit instituted against the …

•Reps sit on N500bn subsidy relief request today, FG, Labour for fresh negotiations •N500bn not enough for 125 million poor Nigerians affected by deregulation – NLC, TUC The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have thumbed down the N500bn palliative proposed by President Bola Tinubu, stating that it is grossly inadequate to assuage the hardships confronting workers sequel …

President Bola Tinubu has asked the House of Representatives to amend the 2022 Supplementary Appropriations Act to provide N500 billion to fund palliative measures against the impact of fuel subsidy removal. The request was convened in a letter read by the Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, during the plenary on Wednesday. President Tinubu is seeking to extract N500 billion …

While the adoption of technology has made many human endeavors easy, its crooked use also does significant harm to the system. Only recently, the issue of who scored the highest mark in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, shook the country. Students writing exams Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme claimed to have …