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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that siting the University of Transportation in Daura, Katsina State, will boost local capacity, economy, domestic technology, enhance innovation in the nation’s transport system and create more job opportunities. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the university, President Buhari noted that the transport sector was in dire need of new […]
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State at the weekend relieved how the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) ‘wasted’ $7 billion of tax payers’ money on “nothing.” El-Rufai, who stated in Lagos that he was happy that the former national telecommunications firm “died”, added that the organisation had become a “dinosaur that failed to innovate when […]
The nation’s budgetary provisions for debt servicing could rise to N3 trillion if the Federal Government goes ahead with its $29.96 billion loan request. President Muhammadu Buhari had last Thursday re-submitted a request to the Senate seeking approval for a $29.96 billion loan. The Eighth Senate had in November 2018 unanimously thrown out the request, […]
The Senate yesterday declared that it would not recognise the Interim Management Committee (IMC) in processing the 2019 and 2020 budget proposals of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Consequently, the upper chamber ordered its Committee on Niger Delta to relate only with the board of the NDDC, members of which it confirmed recently. The […]
The Global Centre For Conscious Living Against Corruption on Thursday backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to present a bill seeking the creation of special court for corruption-related cases. It said the creation of such court will hasten the trials of those charged with corruption. The group’s Director-General, Dr. Nwambu Gabriel, said this at a press […]
A newspaper column written by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become the centre of discussion as his Conservative Party seeks votes in the December elections. The PM had written the article during his time as editor of the Spectator, in which he said young people had “an almost Nigerian interest in money,” The Guardian […]
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the approval of the Senate for the Federal Government’s 2016 and 2018 borrowing plan. Senate president Ahmed Lawan read the letter of request from Buhari during Thursday’s plenary session. Buhari had first sought the approval of the House of Representatives for the borrowing plan in October 2016. It was […]
The Founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has described the controversial hate-speech bill before the Senate a pathway to dictatorship. The legal icon, who chided the federal lawmakers for spending their time on such a bill, said that it was needless and unwarranted for anyone to contemplate another law to […]
The Federal Government has approved N19.52bn for three road contracts in Oyo, Niger, Kano states and the Federal Capital Territory. The approval also included N523m reviewed for the Efon-Elaaye-Erimo-Iwaraja road linking Ekiti and Osun states. It was first awarded in 2009. The approvals were made in Abuja on Wednesday by the Federal Executive Council presided […]
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday presented an appropriation bill of N208, 802,972,878 to the state House of Assembly for the 2020 fiscal year. Capital expenditure made up 47.9 per cent of the total budget estimate, while the total recurrent expenditure for the 2020 financial year stood at N108, 660, 282,832, representing 52.1 […]
The Sokoto state government has granted amnesty to about 8,000 suspected ghost workers and those collecting abnormal salaries under its payroll. Alhaji Abdussamad Dasuki, the Finance Commissioner and Acting Chairman, Sokoto state Steering Committee on Integrated Payroll and Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), disclose this in a news conference on Thursday in Sokoto. Dasuki said the […]