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2020: APC Won’t Lose Edo – Oshiomhole Declares

December 6, 2019 1:17 pm

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday declared that the ruling party is not at risk of losing in Edo State in 2020 governorship elections in the state.

Oshiomhole made the declaration while briefing State House correspondents on the purpose of the meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with the 36 states party chairmen at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to him, those  in the opposition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that could serve as stumbling block in the state have joined their ancestors.

Oshiomhole insisted that in defense of the party, had accepted the APC …

Edo 2020: Isaac Osahon’s House Attacked In Edo

November 30, 2019 4:40 pm

The residence of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and a former member representing Ovia federal constituency, Hon Engr. Isaac Osahon was attacked Friday afternoon while holding a meeting with some of his loyalists.

The ugly incident saw the destruction of property worth millions of naira in the residence of the Honourable who represented Ovia from 2011 to 2015 at the federal house of representatives.

Mr. Osahon alleged that the suspected thugs who besieged his residence in their hundreds were led by one Mathew Ekhibiorobo, disrupted the peaceful meeting and engaged in gun dwell with the policeman guarding the …

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 …

2020: Petroleum Ministry Budgets ₦42M For Sewage Disposal

2020: Petroleum Ministry Budgets ₦42M For Sewage Disposal

October 21, 2019 5:27 am

Ministry of Petroleum Resources has budgeted a sum of ₦42,980,935 for disposal of sewage in the 2020 appropriation bill. The ministry also budgeted ₦104 million for local travel, transport and training.

This was contained in a document which gives a breakdown of the ministry’s 2020 appropriation bill obtained by newsmen.

In the proposed budget tagged: ‘Deliverables of the Next Level Agenda,’ the ministry promised to eradicate smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) across Nigerian borders and also implement reduction of government stake in oil ventures to 40 percent.

The ministry also promised to complete gas flare commercialisation programme, and …

Willie Obiano Budgets ₦137bn For 2020 Fiscal Year

September 26, 2019 11:25 am

The Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, on Thursday laid a budget of ₦137.1bn before the Anambra State House of Assembly for the 2020 fiscal year.

The budget had ₦57.69bn as recurrent expenditure and N78.3bn as capital expenditure, representing 43 and 57 per cent of the budget respectively.

Tagged budget for “Accelerating Infrastructural Development and Youth Entrepreneurship”, the governor said it would take into consideration, the state’s revenue and expenditure trend.

Obiano said, “This is expected to drive the 2020 budget theme of Accelerating Infrastructural Development and Youth Entrepreneurship.

“We hope that the budget allocation will facilitate the intended improvement in …

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