Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed A total of N13,805,814,220 has been proposed for the payment of pensions to former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Heads of State, Chiefs of General Staff, retired heads of service, permanent secretaries, as well as retired heads of government agencies and parastatals in the 2023 fiscal year. The beneficiaries…
The Lagos State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, speaks to ALEXANDER OKERE about his recent endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, amid the lingering resentment by Christians against the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party Some clerics have cautioned their colleagues against turning their pulpits…
The Deputy Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Hon Adesegun Abdul-Majid Adekoya (Attacker) representing Ijebu-North/East Local/Ogun Waterside Federal constituency has laid the foundation of a shopping mall for the people of Ijebu-Imusin to boost the economy status of the area. Adesegun, during the laying of the foundation of the shopping mall tagged “IMUSIN AJINA…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed Amid Nigeria’s fiscal crisis, the Federal Government is compiling the list of assets that will be either sold or ‘concessioned’ to fund the 2023 budget deficit of N10.7tn. Sources at the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning told…
………he died of cardiac arrest Use Hon. Funminiyi Afuye, speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, is dead. Gathered that Afuye died at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Wednesday. He died of cardiac arrest. It was learnt that Afuye was rushed to the hospital in the early hours…
Lagos, Nigeria – October 17, 2022: The Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations today unveiled members of faculty who would be speaking at the seventh Lagos Digital PR Summit, tagged: Digital Communities: New Frontier Building Relationships, holding at the L’eola Hotel, Maryland, Ikeja, Lagos starting on Wednesday 26th through Thursday 27th,…
In a bid to uncover, stimulate and promote creativity amongst Nigerian youths, Arts for change in conjunction with the National Council For Arts And Culture (NCAC), under the leadership of its Director General, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe have unveiled a creativity competition tagged Creativity Talent Challenge. NCAC is a Nigerian agency saddled with the responsibility of…
Emefiele, Alawuba, others Lead Discourse as UBA America Hosts International Banking Conference October 17-21, 2022 The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Oliver Alawuba and other experts from the global international markets will lead the discussions on global economic trends at…
•How Sylva, Kyari convinced Buhari to hire Tompolo For many years, security personnel deployed in the Niger Delta to guard oil installations and stop crude oil bunkering had turned themselves into oil bandits in collusion with some International Oil Companies, IOCs, government officials and oil bunkers. They all blamed community folks and minor bunkers for…
Marine Intelligence Consultant to TSSNL, Captain Warren Enisuoh, who briefed journalists in Ogulagha on the discovery, yesterday, said: “What has happened was that the perpetrators of this organized crime attached pipeline into a Shell Petroleum Development Company 48-inch export line. The crude in this line has been cleaned up and is ready to go. “So,…
