Politics

The Nigeria Senate has lashed at the Federal Government for embargoed employment in Nigeria and yearly increase in workers’ salaries, saying that the development was creating a ticking time bomb.

The Senate Committee on Establishment pointed out this on Thursday during a 2022 budget defence at the National Assembly, Abuja.

Senate’s anger was triggered by yearly increase in the recurrent expenditure component of the budget which was submitted by the Chairman of National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission ( NSIWC), Mr Ekpo Nta before the Senate Committee on Establishment.

Failure of Nta to tell the committee the total amount of …

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the status of all recovered loots, movable and immovable assets from 2002-2020 has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against Mr. Innocent Ike, the Managing Director of Polaris Bank.

The committee issued the threat over the failure of the bank chief to appear before it to account for over $32 million unremitted to the federation account.

The Chairman of the committee, Adejoro Adeogun, expressed displeasure over the non-appearance of the Managing Director of the bank.

Adeogun at the resumed hearing said the Accountant General of the Federation, NNPC, Polaris, Unity, Sterling, …

Former Minister of Works and National Chairman, Southwest Agenda for Tinubu presidential ambition codenamed SWAGA 2023, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has claimed that no fewer than 16 All Progressives Congress (APC) governors are covertly supporting the presidential aspiration of the former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Adeyeye made this claim on Thursday in Ado Ekiti while inaugurating the factional executives belonging to SWAGA group across the two strata of the party.

While addressing the factional APC and SWAGA members, Adeyeye said: ‘Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will be the next President of this country and one of us will …

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Thursday presented a budget proposal of ₦469.5 billion for the 2022 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for approval.

Okowa, while presenting the budget, Christened “Budget of inclusive growth and accelerated development” to the state Assembly in Asaba, showed an increase of ₦85.54 billion over that of 2021 approved budget of ₦383.9 billion.

He said that the increase was based on anticipated exchange rate gains, increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) collection and other capital receipts.

‘There is also a corresponding improvement in our Internally Generated Revenue, (IGR) which gives allowance to

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has suspended its operations after bandits detonated explosives on the tracks serving the Abuja-Kaduna line.

The attack, which took place between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, left passengers traumatised, with reports that the attackers also fired live rounds into driver compartments.

Confirming the incident, Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, revealed that the train he boarded ran into a portion damaged by explosives used in attacking a Kaduna-Abuja train, adding that he narrowly escaped death.

The former lawmaker alleged that terrorists had attacked a Kaduna-Abuja train on Wednesday with explosives.

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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has called security agencies and political leaders to deal decisively with all those who think they can turn the country upside down through misinterpretation of religious teachings.

Speaking at the 2nd National Education Summit of the Nigerian Army, holding in Sokoto, the monarch highlighted the problem with extremism.

‘So many people turn religious upside down to suit them because they have not been properly guided on what should be the teachings, especially of the two major religions.

‘This has been a serious challenge to us. So education is one area where …

Turkish President, Recep Erdogan, has asserted the terrorists who tried to remove him through a coup in 2016 are still active in Nigeria.

Erdogan said this on Wednesday at a joint press conference with the President, Muhammadu Buhari, on the occasion of his two-day official visit to the country.

After recalls that Erdogan had in 2016 accused allies of renowned cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who own Turkish schools and hospitals across Nigeria, of sponsoring the coup.

Turkish envoy in Nigeria, Mr. Hakan Cakil, had at the time called on Buhari to close the Turkish schools and hospitals in Nigeria belonging …

Members of the UN Security Council will travel to the Sahel this weekend to push Mali to return to civilian power after two military coups in nine months in a region plagued by jihadist violence.

‘The Sahel region is exposed to all kinds of challenges,’ Niger’s ambassador to the United Nations Abdou Abarry told Newsmen.

‘This is where the stakes are in the fight against terrorism, humanitarian issues, the impact of climate change and good governance,’ said Abarry.

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‘The situation in the Sahel remains very fragile’, said French ambassador to the …

The Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has asked the Federal Government to declare bandits in the North-West geo-political zone of the country as ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’.

The declaration, the governor said, would able the Nigerian military to attack and kill ‘these bandits without any major consequences in the international law.’

The governor who spoke shortly after receiving the third quarter security report from the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna on Wednesday, also said the recruitment of 1,000 youths each across the 774 local government areas of the …

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has claimed that there is no evidence to show that any protester was killed at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020.

He made this assertion during a press conference held in Abuja as young people took to the streets nationwide to mark the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protests.

Mohammed also faulted the claim by Amnesty International that no fewer than 12 protesters were killed in Lagos State by security operatives during the EndSARS protest.

He described the claim as a ‘phantom’.

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As the people of the South-East anxiously await the expected trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has told the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to ensure that it doused the rising tension in the zone.

Kanu is expected to appear in court tomorrow, Thursday, October, 21, as the Court begins hearing in a case of treason filed against him by the Federal Government.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the Court already served a hearing notice on both parties, with the Federal Government also …

The Nigerian and Turkish governments on Wednesday signed eight major Agreements/MoUs on a number of key sectors including Energy, Defense Industry, Mining and HydroCarbons among others.

This development was made known in a statement issued by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, and made available to journalists.

President Muhammadu Buhari heaped praises on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for opening his country’s borders to accommodate millions of refugees in dire need of humanitarian support.

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At a joint press conference on the visit, Buhari said his Turkish …