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…Cash suspected to have been diverted after payment approval By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor What happened to the $8.5 billion released by the Obasanjo government for the payment of compensation to host communities on which the ambitious multi-million power projects were to be sited? efcc This is the question which the Economic and Financial…
… Says 42,000 Tivs already displaced By Femi Bolaji Jalingo The Southern Taraba Tiv Youths Progressive Forum Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to give special attention to the ongoing feud between the Jukun and Tiv ethnic groups, claiming they risked being wiped out if nothing was done urgently. President Buhari The group in a statement…
President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan says that the 9th National Assembly will support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to achieve a better, prosperous and secure Nigeria. Senator Ahmed Lawan and President Muhammadu Buahri. PHOTO: Lagos Television Lawan made the declaration at a town hall meeting with members of his constituents in Gashua, Yobe….
OWERRI-THE Igbo National Council, INC, has cautioned members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, against the new modus oparandi recently adopted and urged them to change strategy if they are serious with their agitation. File: IPOB protesters INC particularly frowned at last week’s attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu by members of IPOB in German…
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Justice Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, declined to hear an application the convener of RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore, who has been in custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, since August 2, filed to be released on bail. Sowore The detained activist, who was…
ABUJA–THE Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has said the federal government will no longer tolerate bullying in the nation’s schools. File: One of the mega schools This came as he said the damage the act does to the mental, social and psychological well-being of victims calls for concern. Strike: NASU, SSANU give FG…
Barely 24 hours the United State of America, US, imposed a new visa fees on Nigerians seeking US visa, the federal government has bowed to pressure and reduced visa fee of US citizens seeking Nigerian visa. Visa Disclosing this on Wednesday, Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, said that the ministry’s attention was drawn…
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has disclosed that the agency is collating comprehensive data on the Nigerians indicted in the recently busted money laundering and cyber crime offences in the United States. Eighty suspects, most of them Nigerians, were allegedly involved in the crimes investigated by the…
THE Lagos State House Assembly on Tuesday raised a nine-man ad-hoc committee to investigate the purchase of 820 buses valued at N45 billion by the administration of the immediate past Governor of the State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. Chaired by Fatai Mojeed, the committee has Gbolahan Yishawu; Bisi Yusuff; Afinni Olanrewaju; Rasheed Makinde; Yinka Ogundimu; Mojisola…
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has forwarded 2019 revised supplementary budget estimate of N135.2 billion to the House of Assembly for approval. This is against N157.8 billion earlier approved by the 8th legislature as the state’s 2019 budget. The new budget estimate represents 15 per cent decrease. The supplementary estimate was contained in the governor’s…