No fewer than 106 women will serve in the 117th U.S. House of Representatives beginning on Jan. 3, according to ABC News projections. This represents 24 per cent of the total 435 lawmakers in the lower legislative chamber. It beats the previous record of 102 women set in the outgoing 116th session, the news outlet reported, citing the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP). Another record has also been set with an increase in the number of women of colour elected to the lower chamber in this election cycle. Out of the 106 female Reps elected in Tuesday’s polls,…
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The Plateau state government has proposed N133 billion Appropriation Bill for 2021, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Dan Manjang has said. Manjang disclosed on Friday in Jos at a news briefing after an emergency State Executive Council that the budget proposal would soon be presented to the state House of Assembly, described it as “realistic in view of the current economic downslide’’ in the country. He said the government budgeted N83.9 billion for capital expenditure N49.5 billion for recurrent expenditure. “If you place this against the revised budget of 2020, which was N122.8 billion, there is an increase…
The pan-African body, Trust Africa, will host the 8th Pan African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Taxation from 9-13 November, organisers said in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday. The conference, which will take the form of country events, virtual forums at both regional and continental levels, will be on the theme: “The Africa We Want Post COVID-19: Optimising Domestic Resource Mobilization from the Extractive Sector for Africa’s Transformation.” Due to the COVID-19 global health pandemic, this year’s edition of PAC will be a combination of in-country physical events (where possible) as well as virtual breakaway and plenary sessions. According to…
The National Council on Sports has recommended Dec. 3 to Dec. 18 for hosting of National Sports Festival tagged “Edo 2020” which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a communiqué issued at the end of its two-day meeting on Friday in Asaba, the Council, however, stressed that the Games would be held under strict COVID-19 protocols. According to the communiqué signed by Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, and other members of the Council, this year’s games will be held in two phases. “Competition days Phase 1, comes up from Dec. 6 to Dec. 10; break and…
Beneficiaries of the Federal government’s Anchor Borrowers Programme in Nasarawa state have received farm inputs to boost dry season farming activities. The farm inputs distributed to the 2,074 farmers was a partnership between Prime Global Synergy and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. Mr Dozie Chukwuji, Manager, Prime Global Synergy, said on Friday in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, that the gesture was geared toward increasing farming activities in the state. Chukwuji said that about 2,074 farmers from Obi Local Government were given water pumping machine and Knapsack sprayer each to enable them to cultivate four hectares, which would…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday in Abuja made virtual and public presentation of its `Report of the 2019 General Election’. The commission also made public presentation of the ` Review of the 2019 General Election: Report of the Commission’s Retreats and Stakeholder Engagements’’. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, while presenting the two reports said that the `Report of the 2019 General Election’ has 13 Chapters covering major issues. These according to him include challenges associated with the preparation and conduct of the election, lessons learnt and specific recommendations for addressing them. Yakubu said that the second report “the…
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture on Friday launched the commercial growing of Genetically Modified (GM) cotton after conducting trials in the past five years. Peter Munya, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, said that the move would revitalise the cotton value chain and the textile industry in the country. “This indeed is a historic milestone for Kenya’s agricultural sector, particularly the textile industry,” Munya said. He said the journey toward the commercialisation of the genetically- modified cotton variety had been accompanied by several hiccups that were later overcome. Munya said that delay in commercialising the seed had been…
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Friday said its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) as at September 30 stood at N1.4 billion as against N4.4 billion projection for 2020. Mr Fidets Okhiria, Managing Director of NRC, in a statement said the sum of N245 million was remitted to the TSA as at October 31. Okhiria said this at the 2021 Budget Defence to the Joint Committee of Land and Marine transport at the National Assembly in Abuja. He said that the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic affected its operations as train services were stopped during its peak, thus affecting the IGR projection for the year. “The Joint…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State behind closed doors where he received pictorial reports on properties damaged by hoodlums during #EndSARS protests in the state. Mr Sunday Aghaeze, the Personal Assistant to the President (Photography), confirmed this via pictorial reports on the meeting. “The governor presented a report on the extent of the destruction suffered by Lagos State in the aftermath of the ENDSARS protests,” one of the captions of the pictures indicated. NAN reports that the governor, however, declined to take questions from State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting.…
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno on Friday updated President Muhammadu Buhari on security development in the state and advocated for political solution to end what he described as “madness’’ afflicting the state. The governor, who stated this at the closed of a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja, on Friday, said, however, he also intimated the president of the gradual return of peace to Borno. He disclosed that the state government had successfully facilitated the return of over 100,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to their ancestral homes. According to him, the kinetic measures currently…