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…Education gets 33 per cent, as healthcare, infrastructure, water, agriculture, also top budget …Speaker assures on thorough scrutiny, speedy passage Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has presented a N521.5 billion (N521,561,386,000) budget for the 2024 fiscal year before the Enugu State House of Assembly. The budget proposal, which he entitled “Budget of Disruptive … [Read more…]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the commencement of negotiation of the new National Minimum Wage in 2024 would be based on the prevailing cost of living in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President, said this at the ongoing 19th edition of the NLC 2023 Harmattan School, organised by the Congress on Tuesday … [Read more…]

…Atiku calls for investigation, as Obi tasks military to exercise utmost caution, professionalism  Following Sunday’s reported bombing of residents in the Tudun Biri community of Kaduna by the Nigerian Army, Nigeria’s former Vice President and PDP’s 2023 presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi have both lamented the ugly incident. … [Read more…]

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called for a thorough investigation into a military drone attack that the state emergency agency in northern Kaduna state said killed at least 85 people at the weekend. The state’s governor, a religious leader and witnesses told Reuters on Monday that dozens of civilians were killed following the military drone … [Read more…]

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters has said that terrorists were among the civilians slain by an army drone on Sunday in Ligarma village, Igabi local government area, Kaduna State. A statement released by the Director of Defense Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said that the attack was executed following the observation of group movements through aerial surveillance that … [Read more…]

Nigeria’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, says the unveiling of the National Policy on Welding and Welding related Fields and a Strategy Implementation Action Plan will end the $10 billion annual revenue loss in Nigeria. He said that despite having one million welders, Nigeria still loses an estimated $10 billion annually in … [Read more…]

A Federal High Court sitting in Sokoto has dismissed a suit filed by a former Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, over ownership of official vehicles he took away on leaving office last May. In June, the police raided Matawalle’s residences and seized the vehicles as ordered by the court. A statement on Monday by Governor … [Read more…]

The Labour Party Presidential flag bearer in the last general election in the country, Peter Obi has again screamed at the quantum of waste going on in the APC administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Obi who just chastised the regime for the large size of over 1400 delegates it took to COP28 as wasteful again … [Read more…]

Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to use his position to reject plan by the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nysom Wike, to spend N15 billion for the construction of ‘a befitting residence’ for the Vice President, Kashim Shettima. SERAP also urged him to assert the Senate’s … [Read more…]

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two notorious kidnappers who allegedly abducted and buried alive a former Community Development Committee Chairman in Kereken-Boue, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Praise Daakian. The police disclosed that the suspects collected N200,000 as part of payment for the ransom from the victim’s wife before burying him … [Read more…]

The Nigerian Army has taken responsibility for Sunday’s Air Strike that left many villager killed and several others injured at Tudun Biri village in Kaduna State. This development was confirmed by Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs at the end of an emergency security meeting on Monday. On Sunday … [Read more…]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised Nigeria’s large delegation of 1, 411 persons to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). PDP alleged that the country’s “over-bloated” delegation to the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) brimmed with President … [Read more…]