A budget proposal of $6.9 trillion in spending and a $1.8 trillion deficit has been released by the White House Office of Management and Budget on Thursday as the federal government budget for the fiscal year 2024.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The police command in Lagos State has confirmed the arrest of a 24-year-old security guard, Barnabas Job, over the alleged murder of a 26-year-old housemaid, Miss Tereza Ekibi.
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) said insufficient power allocation to the company by generation stations was responsible for the unstable electricity supply in the region.
The school was commissioned last year by the former Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Dr. Boboye Olayemi Oyeyemi, who described it as a significant step towards taming the menace of auto crashes involving articulated trucks in Nigeria.
Deforestation in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon rainforest hit a new record high in February, new data has shown, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration works to end years of widespread devastation.
The Bauchi Consolidated Youth Association has come down hard on ex-governor Isa yuguda’s recent comments that there are only eighteen doctors in all the hospitals in Bauchi state, saying he is a desperate frustrated inconsequential former leader out for mischief.
The Bauchi State chapter of the Northern Emancipation Network has called on security agencies to arrest the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Bauchi State, Siddique Abubakar and ex-House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara for allegedly masterminding the violence on innocent members of the public in Duguri Town, Alkaleri LGA of Bauchi State that resulted in the killing of one person and injuring 15 others.
ASHENEWS reports that a former Minister of Communications and General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 3rd Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, retired Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, has posed reasons the people of Lagos should break Bola Tinubu’s hegemonic control of the state by voting the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour in the March 18 polls.
The Managing Director, Nigerian Export and Import Bank (NEXIM), Mr. Abubakar Bello, and other stakeholders have stressed the need for gender equity and women’s empowerment to improve access to health, education, economic and political opportunities in the country.
Researchers scanned the bones of more than 9,000 women living in four different parts of the US. Each had a bone scan three times over a six-year period that was compared with the air they breathed. On average, air pollution accounted for a doubling of the speed of bone loss.