President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will spend a total of ₦3.327bn on foreign and local trips in 2020. The figure is contained in the details of the 2020 Appropriation Bill that Buhari presented to a joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday. The item was tagged Travel and Transport (General) under State House (President) and State House (Vice-President).
In the 2019 Budget, a total of ₦1.3bn was allocated for the foreign and local trips of the President and the Vice-President. While N1bn …
The Commissioner, Ministry of Youths and Social Development, Lagos State, Mr. Segun Dawodu has revealed the state’s willingness to implement the policy on sexual education across gender.
Making the disclosure in a media briefing in Lagos recently, he said the state opted for the 2019 National Youth Policy with a view to entrenching a sustainable youth agenda that would birth and enhance their quality of life.
He said: “This document outlines the range of activities necessary to translate the youth policy into feasible programmes for the overall benefits of our youths.
“The action plan and implementation strategy contain well …
Zuma, who is accused of taking bribes from French defence company Thales in the 1990s, sought to have the case permanently dropped in March this year on the grounds that it was politically motivated.
But the trial is expected to begin on Tuesday after High Court judge Willie Seriti ruled that Zuma’s “application for the permanent stay is dismissed with costs”.
READ ALSO: Iranian Tanker Hit By Suspected Missile Near Saudi Port
An Iranian oil tanker was hit by suspected missile strikes near the Saudi port of Jeddah on Friday, causing the oil to leak into the Red Sea, the ship’s owner said.
The National Iranian Tanker Company said in a statement that the hull of the Sabiti was hit by two separate explosions about 100 kilometres (60 miles) off the Saudi coast.
It said the blasts were “probably caused by missile strikes”.
READ ALSO: ₦10tn Budget Will Not Achieve Much, Agbakoba Tells Buhari
“All the ship’s crew are safe and the ship is stable too,” said NITC, adding those on board …
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has said the ₦10 trillion budget presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari will not take Nigerians out of poverty.
He also advised the federal government to consider legislation on criminal immunity to Nigerians who have plundered the country, as this will lead to a massive inflow of Nigeria’s money in foreign banks.
In a statement made available to newsmen yesterday, Agbakoba, who commended President Buhari for laying the budget estimates in good time, said the country cannot have an anemic budget of ₦10 trillion for 200 …
The federal government has set up a committee comprising of 89 persons to monitor the volume of petrol imported and consumed daily in Nigeria.
The team, according to a statement from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), was drawn from five key agencies comprising the corporation itself, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), and Department of State Services (DSS).
Their job, the statement, which was signed by the Acting Group General Manager Public Affairs of the NNPC, Mr. Samson Makoji, explained, would be to ensure transparency and accountability in the distribution …
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, Thursday attributed the challenges being experienced in reaching agreement on full implementation of the new minimum wage increase, caused by the present impasse over the consequential adjustment of the minimum wage for Grade Levels 7 to 17, to the wrong interpretation of the increase by the organised labour.
The minister, while receiving a delegation of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) who visited him in Abuja, accused labour of interpreting the minimum wage to suit its purpose.
He said: “Consequential adjustment of the minimum wage is the main issue. It …
Nigeria is planning to team up with Cameroon to agree on a premium for their cocoa with international buyers, following moves by the top producers – Ivory Coast and Ghana, to boost prices for their crops, the Vice President of the World Cocoa Producers Organisation, Sayina Riman, has said.
The plan, which was said to have been suggested by Nigeria, the world’s fourth-largest cocoa producer, is part of a drive-by cocoa growers in West Africa and Latin America to try to address a perceived imbalance between farmers’ incomes and money made by big commodities traders.
Newsmen reported that Ivory Coast …
The new Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. George Moghalu, has promised to continue all ongoing viable and justifiable projects of the agency as long they conform to due process and the Act establishing NIWA.
Moghalu made this known at NIWA headquarters in Lokoja while delivering his speech shortly after he assumed office as the substantive head of the agency.
He pointed out that the overall policy objectives of NIWA were to transform the inland waterways to make them not just economically, viable but also to provide a safe, reliable and alternate transport system to ease …
US President Donald Trump sounded an optimistic note at the end of the first day of US-China trade talks in Washington DC.
“We had a very, very good negotiation with China,” Mr. Trump told reporters after the talks wrapped up.
Mr. Trump will meet directly with Vice Premier Liu He at the White House on Friday. Earlier reports suggested the Chinese delegation might leave after the first day of talks. Asian markets followed Wall Street higher after Mr. Trump’s comments.
Thursday’s talks kicked off amid a backdrop of renewed tensions, as the US blacklisted 28 Chinese entities over human rights …
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has declared that he has zero-tolerance for corruption and expressed the readiness of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate and sanction judges across the country, who indulge in acts that are incongruent with judicial norms.
The CJN, who is also the Chairman of the NJC, advised any aggrieved member of the public offended by the conduct of any judicial officer to forward a petition to the legal body for appropriate action, saying his administration has zero-tolerance for corruption within the judiciary.
The CJN’s position is coming as the opposition …
As the World marks Day Against the Death Penalty, Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS) and Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) on Thursday drew attention to the negative impact of the death penalty on children.
October 10 has over the years been slated as World Day Against the Death Penalty. It is a day set aside every year to advocate the abolition of the death penalty and raise awareness on the conditions and the circumstances which affect prisoners on death sentence. The day was first organised by the World Coalition against the Death Penalty in 2003.
To commemorate the day, …
