‘FG budgets N1,000 daily feeding allowance for prisoners, corpers get N650’ NYSC DG, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim The National Youth Service Corps has lamented that inmates in the facilities of the Nigerian Correctional Service feed better than corps members. The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, who stated this when he appeared before … [Read more…]
#AnambraDecides: Soludo extends lead to all eight LGAs announced by INEC The candidates of APC and PDP are the runners-up so far. Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance has garnered more votes than his main challengers in Saturday’s governorship election, winning all the eight local government areas results announced so far by the … [Read more…]
Frontier Discourse; All You Need to Know The Pacesetter Frontier Magazine is a privately owned, quarterly published, multimedia, multi-connect, cosmopolitan, print and online magazine established in 2003 and based in Enugu with a market audience and base cutting across the Southeast and Southsouth geopolitical zones. As part of our efforts to have a sane, orderly … [Read more…]
CBN spends N58.6bn to print 2.52bn Naira notes The Central Bank of Nigeria spent the sum of N58.6 billion to print 2.52 billion Naira notes valued at N1.1 trillion in 2020. Disclosing these yesterday in its Annual Currency Operations report for 2020, the apex bank also said it utilized $1.83 billion within the same year … [Read more…]
Nigerians, not Buhari, responsible for insecurity: Yahaya Bello “Who are we ready to do political hallelujah boys for? Take the facts and tell ourselves the truth that the situation that we find ourselves in today, we exactly called for it.” Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has blamed Nigerians for the worsening insecurity in Nigeria, insisting … [Read more…]
AnambraDecides: APGA now like a secret cult, says Bianca Ojukwu “APGA is now like a secret cult, and this has reduced our once vibrant party to a shadow of its former self,” she lamented. Widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu, has described the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as a secret cult, expressing … [Read more…]
Police rescue abducted UNIABUJA profs, others The police have reportedly rescued the six staff of the University of Abuja abducted by gunmen on Tuesday and reunited them with their families. Details of the rescue operation were sketchy but the Federal Capital Police Command spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, confirmed the development in a statement this morning. The … [Read more…]
The Supreme Court has described the raid on the Abuja residence of Justice Mary Odili by security operatives as an impunity taken too far. This came as the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) met with the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) where they … [Read more…]
Angry Igbo youths, yesterday, accused the Federal Government of deliberately arresting successful Igbo sons for selfish and political motives. Their anger followed the recent arrest of Igbo billionaire entertainer, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged money laundering and tax evasion. … [Read more…]
The total amount of money owed to the Chinese government by the Federal Government as at March last year rose to $3. 121 billion (N1,126.68 trillion at USD/N361). The amount represents only 3.94 per cent of Nigeria’s total public debt of $79.21 billion as at September 2021. Similarly, in terms of external sources … [Read more…]
THE All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government must accept the blame for the fact that after six years in power, we are still deeply mired in our intractable petrol subsidy regime. As the leader of the then opposition party, Muhammadu Buhari had intensely argued that there was no fuel subsidy; that the subsidy … [Read more…]
EFCC Arrests Socialite Obi Cubana The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a socialite Obinna Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana. Obi Cubana is being questioned at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. He arrived at the EFCC office around noon on Monday. Although details of allegations against the Anambra-born tycoon are still sketchy, … [Read more…]