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Budget 2020: Senate Tinkers With Timetable, Shifts Deadline

Budget 2020: Senate Tinkers With Timetable, Shifts Deadline

October 27, 2019 7:31 am

• May Suspend Plenary For Another Week
• Urgent Need For NABRO Re-echoes

Despite its avowed commitment to giving accelerated consideration to processing of the 2020 budget proposal, the Senate has run into hitches with its schedule for the exercise.

Consequently, it has reviewed its budget consideration timetable to allow most committees yet to conclude work, and process their reports, to do so within seven days.

It would be recalled that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, had warned that any minister or head of any government agency that failed to defend their budgets by the end of October would not …

Jeff Bezos Regains Position As Richest Man In The World

Jeff Bezos Regains Position As Richest Man In The World

October 27, 2019 7:28 am
Jeff Bezos is back as the richest man in the world after Bill Gates briefly earned the title as reported by TMZ.
After the markets closed Friday, Forbes says Jeff is now worth $109.9 billion, moving him back ahead of Bill and his $105.8 billion net worth.

Read Also: Saudis gained access to Amazon CEO Bezos’ phone

Briefly, before his Amazon stock increased, he was at number 2, looking up to Bill Gates. His drop in rank previously could be as a result of this year’s costly divorce with ex-wife MacKenzie, who took a huge chunk of his fortune.

MacKenzie’s

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Tiger Woods Extends Lead To Win 82nd PGA Tour Win

October 27, 2019 7:20 am

Tiger Woods closed in on a record-equalling 82nd PGA Tour victory Sunday with a third-round 66 to move to 16-under par at the weather-delayed Zozo Championship while Rory McIlroy leapt into the top 10 after a 63.

The US Masters champion extended his two-shot overnight lead to a three-stroke cushion over home favourite Hideki Matsuyama who had a five-under 65 to be 13-under.

A shot further back was US Open Champion Gary Woodland who carded a 68 before the leaders dashed into the clubhouse for a rapid lunch.

They were due to head straight back out to tee off their …

LG poll: Low Turnout Of Voters In Kebbi, As Voting Begins

LG poll: Low Turnout Of Voters In Kebbi, As Voting Begins

October 26, 2019 8:24 pm
Voting has begun peacefully at Dr Gulama polling unit 007, and G/Kundi Zouro polling unit in Nassarawa ward of Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area of Kebbi with a low turnout of voters recorded.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the local government election in Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area started as early as 7.00 a.m with the early arrival of materials and officials.Kebbi State Independence Electoral Commission (KEBSIEC) officials arrived at the polling unit at about 7:00 a.m, while the first voter cast his vote around 8:43 a.m.
The election began in most polling units visited at about
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Igbo Are Architects Of Their Political Fortune - Nakande

Igbo Are Architects Of Their Political Fortune – Nakande

October 26, 2019 8:24 pm

A former Minister of State for Information and stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, has berated politicians who have begun campaigning for the 2023 elections, describing them as political jobbers.

Nakande said such persons were neither governors nor the President himself but political gossips trying to be relevant in the scheme of things or those who have been schemed out in other dispensations, especially in the areas of their ambitions and aspirations.

“These are the people trying to bring the issues of politics to the front burner just barely eight months after the last …

Senate Clerk Chases Journalists Out of Budget Session

Senate Clerk Chases Journalists Out of Budget Session

October 26, 2019 4:32 pm

The Clerk to the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Kabir Yaba Umar, yesterday evening chased journalists out of the budget defence session the committee had with management of the North East Development Commission and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs.

Umar had earlier in the morning extended invitation to the Senate Press Corps to cover the Committee’s budget defence session with the two Commissions at Senate Committee Room 211 by 2p.m. and 4p.m. respectively.

Reporters from various media organisations got to the venue on schedule and started taking notes before Umar walked up to the reporters and ordered …

Spain’s Far-Right Vox Rallies Thousands In Central Madrid

Spain’s Far-Right Vox Rallies Thousands In Central Madrid

October 26, 2019 4:31 pm

Thousands of people joined a rally called by Spain’s Vox in Madrid on Saturday, with leader Santiago Abascal telling the crowds only his far-right faction could handle the Catalan crisis.

Shouting “Viva Espana”, they turned the city’s Columbus Square into a sea of red-and-yellow, as the crowds waved thousands of Spanish flags, cheering and chanting, among them many youngsters and families with children.

Addressing the crowds, Abascal took aim at the ruling Socialists, largely focusing on the crisis in Catalonia, which has been gripped by violent protests after the Supreme Court jailed nine separatist leaders over a failed independence bid.…

Women Groups Laud Kwara Gov over 56% Gender Inclusion

Women Groups Laud Kwara Gov over 56% Gender Inclusion

October 26, 2019 3:38 pm

Nigerian Women Groups have commended the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, for ceding 56 per cent of slot of state’s executive cabinet to women include youths.

The women said the governor had set a precedence for other state chief executives, including the federal executive and corporate bodies to emulate.

Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on gender inclusion in the state, National President, Women in Politics Forum, Mr. Ebere Ifendu, alongside other women groups said they considered Abdulrasaq’s gesture as a “great achievement not only for the people of Kwara State but for Nigerians as a whole and …

“Joker” Becomes Highest Grossing R-Rated Film Ever

“Joker” Becomes Highest Grossing R-Rated Film Ever

October 26, 2019 3:33 pm

“Joker” the film which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled man who turns into a killer clown is now the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.

Warner Bros confirmed on Friday that the film which centred on the origin of Batman’s crazed arch rival has made roughly $788 million at the worldwide box office thereby surpassing “Deadpool,” which made $783 million globally when it came out in 2016.

The dark themed film is quite a surprising success in spite of concerns over its depiction of violence.

In “Joker” Joaquin Phoenix features as failed comedian Arthur Fleck who seeks connection as …

Supreme Court Upholds Governor Wike’s Re-Election Victory

Supreme Court Upholds Governor Wike’s Re-Election Victory

October 26, 2019 3:27 am

The Supreme Court has upheld the victory of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in the 2019 gubernatorial election.

The Apex Court, in a judgment delivered by a panel of three Justices, upheld Wike’s appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal which reinstated the petition of the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Biokpomabo Awara.

The Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal had earlier in October dismissed the petition of AAC candidate, Awara, declaring Wike winner of the poll, which was later challenged by the AAC candidate at the Court of Appeal.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court, in a …

We Don’t Need Another War To Actualise Biafra - Kanu

We Don’t Need Another War To Actualise Biafra – Emma Kanu

October 26, 2019 3:19 am

Younger brother of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Emma Kanu, has asserted that actualising an independent Biafra this time would not need or require fighting another civil war.

Speaking yesterday in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, while reacting to the chieftaincy title of The Africa (Light of Africa) conferred on his brother (Nnamdi) on Thursday at Amakwo in Orsu Council of Imo State by a group of traditional rulers in the state, Emma, who received the title on behalf of Nnamdi, said: “The struggle for Biafra is a non-violent movement that has gained …

Flood Disaster Record In Delta Nearly Double Of 2018 Figure

Flood Disaster Record In Delta Nearly Double Of 2018 Figure

October 26, 2019 2:40 am

Delta State Government has expressed worry at the increasing number of persons displaced from their homes by ravaging flood, noting that the number of such persons being sheltered in many camps set up for displaced persons by the state government has almost doubled that for the same time last year.

Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG) and Chairman of the State Flood, Risk Alert and Management Committee, Mr. Chiedu Ebie, who stated this when he visited six camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Delta South and North senatorial districts.

Ebie, however, warned of stiff penalty for camp …

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