Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Osun Command, has confirmed the death of seven persons in a motor accident that occurred on Ilesa-Osu expressway on Wednesday. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr Paul Okpe, in a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo, said that a bus carrying some passengers from Zamfara lost control at about 3.45 a.m, around Osu area. “A white Toyota Hiace bus loss control and ran under a billboard, leading to the death of seven persons, four of whom were burnt beyond recognition,” he said. Okpe, who stated that the bus was carrying two motorcycles…
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The Senate has approved the sum of N633.39 billion as budget for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the 2022 fiscal year. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Communications on Wednesday during plenary. Chairperson of the Committee, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu (APC-Lagos), in her presentation, said out of the approved sum, N86,242,952 was for Recurrent Expenditure; N30,336,144 for Capital Expenditure, N42,445,864 for Special Projects; N466,868,323 was transferred to federal government while N7,500,000 as Transfer to Universal Service Provision Fund. She explained that the Commission’s Revenue of N633.3 billion consisted of Annual Licensing Fees (N1.5 billion);…
Nigerian government and French Development Agency have reiterated commitment to strengthening their cooperation to promote climate action and the low carbon economic development in the country. The commitment was made when the new Country-Director of the agency, Mr Xavier Muron, paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of State for the Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, in Abuja. Muron said the visit was to discuss the agency`s strategies and priorities for climate action in Nigeria, based on the just concluded COP-26 and the commitment of Nigeria in this regard. He also said the meeting was intended to provide an opportunity to…
The Senate on Wednesday approved the sum of $5,803,364,553.50 and a grant component of $10 million under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Local and Foreign Debts during plenary on Wednesday. Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Clifford Ordia, in his presentation, said the $2,300,000,000 would be sourced from the World Bank, $2,300,000,000 from the German Consortium, $90,000,000 from the Islamic Development Bank, $276,981,586.50 from the Bank of China, and $50,000,000 from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He recalled that President Buhari in a communication dated May…
President Muhammadu Buhari presides over a virtual FEC meeting at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja on December 15, 2021. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the review and upgrade of salaries of police personnel by 20 per cent. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, said this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting which was chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the newly renovated council chambers. According to the minister, the review exercise is expected to take effect from January 2022. Dingyadi further stated that the review is in response to the demands…
Nigerian government on Wednesday, arraigned 15 suspected invaders of the residence of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suspects were arraigned before Justice Nkeonye Maha on 18-count amended charge bordering on forgery, criminal trespass, intimidation, extortion, among others, contrary to the sections of the law. In the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/436/2021, they were also alleged to have threatened Justice Odili and members of her household with injury to her person and reputation with intent to execute an illegal search warrant. Although 22 defendants are on the charge, seven of them are still at large.…
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal today, December 15, 2021 set aside the judgment of Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court Abuja refusing the final forfeiture application of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in respect of the sums of $500,000 and N500m allegedly looted from the Zamfara state’s share of the Paris Club refunds made by the federal government to the 36 states. Justice Dimgba had on June 30, 2017 ordered the interim forfeiture of the monies following an ex parte application by the EFCC. But the judge on November 17, 2017 refused the…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill in to law. The Union’s president, Chris Isiguzo in a statement on Wednesday also said that cost should not be considered in entrenching true and acceptable democracy. According to him, the amended bill would give “the people the power to determine who should be their leaders as against imposition usually experienced through the indirect primaries where political godfathers are usually the sole determinants of winners without consideration for the people they desire to lead.” Isiguzo wondered why “politicians that spend billions…
By Abujah Racheal The World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), has observed that Africa was being left behind, with the receipt of only 450 million of the eight billion COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed. The Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme Coordinator, Dr Richard Mihigo made this known while speaking on “Vaccination in Africa: Research Capacity, Advocacy, Manufacturing and Distribution”, at the ongoing first International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021), on Wednesday. The African Union (AU) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) organised the first CPHIA 2021, with over 10,000 participants…
…Says bandits are enemies of humanity, they don’t have ideology Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal emphasised that Nigerian leaders must rise to save this country from the malady of insecurity. The governor made the statement on Tuesday when he received a delegation from the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, led by its chairperson and governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, who visited to commiserate with over the recent bandits attack in Sokoto. Calling on all to support president Muhammadu Buhari in the fight against banditry, Tambuwal said leaders must rise to save the nation. “We must rise as leaders to save…