Senate passes N8.916trn budget

Fred Itua, Abuja The Senate has passed an N8.916 trillion 2019 budget. It was passed after a thorough debate and deliberation by lawmakers. President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the budget on the 19th of December, 2018. With the passage, the President is expected to assent to the Bill any time soon . -Sun wp_posts

2019 polls: How South East APC leaders sabotaged party –Kalu

Magnus Eze, Enugu Former governor of Abia state and senator-elect, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has flayed some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for frustrating the efforts of committed party members in the zone during the just-concluded elections. This was as Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, and his Labour and Employment counterpart, […]

N19.4bn arms funds: Court fixes June 11 for trial of Dasuki, others

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court, on Monday, fixed June 11 for trial to begin for former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Amb. Bashir Yuguda, in the alleged misappropriation of N19. 4 billion arms funds. The EFCC charged Dasuki, Yuguda alongside former Governor of Sokoto State Attahiru Bafarawa, his […]

CBN targets 20% increase in micro-credits by 2020

Omodele Adigun, Uche Usim and Chinwendu Obienyi In a bid to increase access to financial services for the nation’s economically active poor, enhance job creation and reduce poverty, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it will be targeting an increase in total micro-credits to at least 20 per cent by 2020. This was even as it […]

CAN to FG: Release El-Zakzaky, Dasuki now

Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle, has urged the Federal Government  to release  the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and former National Security Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). Ayokunle, who is the president of Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC), also enjoined government to ensure the release […]

9th Senate: Crack in APC widens

Fred Itua, Abuja and John Adams, Minna Cracks in the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the zoning of the various positions in the incoming 9th National Assembly has widened, as some members of the National Working Committee (NWC), have moved against the national chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole. The party recently zoned the position of the senate president […]

Adams to Buhari: Operate economic policy that will guarantee three square meals for Nigerians

Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to operate an economic policy that will ensure that Nigerians can afford three square meals, saying the current economic policy has been very harsh. He gave the advice in an interview with journalists, after the public lecture and […]

My parents from Sokoto, Jigawa –Atiku

Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential poll, Atiku Abubakar, has debunked claims of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that he was Cameroonian by birth and was, therefore, not qualified to contest the election. Atiku, who was born in Jada, in 1946, in present day Adamawa State, which was then part […]

APC adopts Gbajabiamila as Speaker

(NAN)  The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has adopted Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as its candidate for the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 9th National Assembly. The Spokesman of the party, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said the decision was reached after an intensive deliberation with the APC’s House of Representatives members-elect at […]

Supreme Court dismisses suit seeking Gov. Fayemi’s disqualification

Godwin Tsa, Abuja The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by former Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni challenging the eligibility of Governor Kayode Fayemi to stand as a candidate in the July 14, 2018 governorship poll. In a unanimous judgment by the apex court, Justice Amirul Sanusi dismissed the case on the grounds that it […]

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