… Allocates 64% to capital projects, education 20% Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum on Tuesday, presented the 2022 budget of N267,921,484,000 billion to the House of Assembly. The budget is made up of N172,535,634,000 for capital expenditure, and N95,385,850,000 for recurrent expenditure. Titled the budget of “Hope for Post-Conflict Stability”, Zulum said the budget aims to fasttrack ongoing reconstruction of destroyed communities for safe and dignified resettlement of IDPs, as well as the provision of livelihood and social support to citizens. The budget, which also aims to fund completion of all ongoing capital projects, has 64 percent for capital projects…
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Zamfara state governor, Bello Muhammad has presented a budget of N160 billion for 2022 to the State House of Assembly. Presenting the budget on Tuesday, the governor said that the figure was higher than the revised 2021 budget of N117 billion by 36 per cent. According to him, the budget was made up of N63 billion recurrent and N97 billion capital expenditures. Muhammad said that the budget was targeted at addressing socio-economic challenges facing the state, while listing some of the challenges to include insecurity, poverty, unemployment and infrastructure deficit. He said that the budget was drawn based on the…
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 17, 2022 for the arraignment of former governor of Imo state, Ikedi Ohakim. The federal government is prosecuting Ohakim and Chinedu Okpaleke for allegedly threatening to release nude photographs of Abuja-based Chinyere Amuchienwa, if she failed to drop charges of attempted kidnap against them. The police had relied on Amuchienwa’s petition to file criminal charge No. FHC/ABJ/CS/287/2020 against the duo but discovered that the petition was false and misleading. It however failed to withdraw the charge from court because the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister…
First Bank Nigeria Plc says it will leverage its vast experience in supporting trade businesses, especially the SME to support the federal government’s efforts to diversify the revenue base of the economy. Dr Adesola Adeduntan, Chief Executive Officer, FirstBank, said this during the bank’s Non-Oil Webinar Series on Tuesday. The webinar was titled; “Roadmap to Building Sustainable Non-Oil Export in Nigeria: Harnessing AfCFTA and Agro Commodities.” Adeduntan noted that the bank would leverage its expertise to drive discussions that would enable existing exporters to expand their export businesses and also encourage new entrants into the non-oil export industry. According to…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says 257 projects amounting to N20.138 billion were duplicated in the 2021 budget. The Chairman of ICPC, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, disclosed this at the 3rd National Summit on Dimishining Corruption in the Public Service in Abuja on Tuesday. The summit has the theme: Corruption and the Cost of Governance: New Imperatives For Fiscal Transparency. He said the money was discovered through the agency’s projects tracking initiative, designed to ensure accountability and transparency in the conception, execution and management of public funded projects. The ICPC chairman, however, said that the anomaly…
Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declared as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional, the banishment of the deposed Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi to Awe in Nasarawa state. The court held that the restrictions placed on Sanusi after his deposition on March 9, 2020, on allegations of insubordination were arbitrary violation of his right to freedom of movement and personal liberty granted by the Nigerian constitution. Justice Chikere agreed with Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), counsel to Sanusi that his client was moved out of Kano to Abuja and later to Awe, in Nasarawa state against…
Nigerian government says its population projection is scary and must make urgent moves for control measures to keep the country’s population growth in check. Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), stated this on Monday in Abuja during a book launch. The book, written by Dr Manassah Jatau, a retired Deputy Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, is titled, “A Sociology for Medical Practice.” Mustapha said, “Given one or two decades from now, Nigeria will become the third most populous country, coming after China and India. “There is an urgent need for us to begin to…
Dr Jonathan Obaje, a Nigerian Research Scientist based in Singapore, says based on preliminary clinical data coming from South Africa on the “Omicron” variant of the COVID-19 virus, African innate immunities may have already weakened COVID-19 virus significantly. Obaje, a former Vice President of Nigeria in Diaspora, Singapore, said this on Tuesday in a telephone interview. He quoted various media reports across South Africa, saying Hospitals across the country reported that symptoms of “Omicron”, the new COVID strain, are very mild and no record of death associated with it so far. “Around 90 per cent of all new infections in…
Stakeholders in the North-Central zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have resolved to produce sole candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Prof. Yorwuese Hagher, a stakeholder and leader of the movement for north central presidency, hinted that former Senate President, Bukola Saraki would be the zones’s sole candidate. He told newsmen in Lafia that the zone was working towards the objective. Prof. Hagher, former Nigeria’s ambassador to Canada who described North- Central zone as the bleeding wound on the conscience of Nigeria, said it was time for the zone to lead the country. According to Hagher, the zone has…
Armed robbers killed a policeman and a Special Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday in Aramoko-Ekiti when they raided an old generation bank. A source who requested anonymity said that armed robbers stormed the bank through Igede-Ado-Ekiti Road after work had closed. According to the source, the armed robbers blew the main door to the banking hall with explosives believed to be dynamite to gain access. He added that the gun-wielding robbers had earlier opened fire on a police officer on guard before blowing up the main door. “The Special Marshall who was in his private vehicle…