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A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has raised concerns over the 2023 National budget, describing it as “hopeless”. The PUNCH reports that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83tn along with the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. Buhari signed the 2023 transition budget Tuesday morning at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in …

The check-off dues deducted by the Federal Government from the November 2022 salaries of university lecturers were not remitted into the account of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH has learnt. Check-off due is the money deducted from an employee’s pay for membership in a union or an organisation that represents workers in a particular industry. Speaking with …

Lois Azurfa, a 21-year-old undergraduate, was among the 65 passengers in the Abuja-Kaduna  train kidnapped by  terrorists on March 28, 2022.  She shares her 191-day traumatic experience with FRIDAY OLOKOR and why she refused to marry the terrorist commander while in captivity We understand that you  were one of the victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train, who were picked by the Boko Haram terrorists. …

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, by an elder statesman, and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, on Tuesday has further confirmed that the party must reconcile with the five aggrieved governors. The party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said this …

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees. The new fees would allow USCIS to more fully recover its operating costs, reestablish and maintain timely case processing, and prevent the accumulation of future case backlogs. USCIS receives approximately 96 percent of its funding from filing …

Any Parent/Guardian whose ward (pupil/Student) is found loitering, hawking or engaged in child labour during school hours will be arrested and prosecuted in Edo State, the government has warned. The State Ministry of Education has said that its School O’clock exercise, which is aimed at checking the menace of out-of-school children, will resume on January 9, 2023. This was contained …

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered a streamlining of all police investigative processes to prevent duplication of investigation via indiscriminate petitions and transfer of cases. The transfer of cases referred to include the ones initiated by individuals and groups who have been indicted in initial investigations intended to frustrate diligent investigation process and truncate criminal justice …

Great Benin Royal Palace of Ewuare II, Oba of Benin Kingdom, has sacked the Enogie (Duke) of Egbaen, His Royal Highness Edomwonyi Iduoze as the Chief Coordinator to the Palace on Enigie matters in Benin Kingdom. According to a statement dated January 3, 2023 signed, and released by the Chief Press Secretary to Oba Ewuare II, Mr. Osaigbovo Iguobaro, the …

National Coordinator and Special Envoy of Ecology and Marine International Human Rights Organisation, Alhaji Musa Saidu, has cautioned against interference in the ongoing investigations of alleged fraud by the CBN Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele. Saidu told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the recent criticism against DSS investigations of N70 trillion alleged looted funds and hidden …

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83 trillion and the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2023 budget is the last to be prepared by the present administration as it winds up. While signing the budget, the president said the aggregate expenditures of N21.83 …