The ECOWAS Parliament has solicited President Buhari’s support towards the realisation of its Direct Universal Suffrage which will enable the parliament to function more effectively and independently. Hon. Sidie Tunis, Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament called for support on Tuesday at the ongoing ECOWAS Parliament’s 2021 Ordinary Session in Abuja. “We brainstormed on the possibility of attaining this democratic reform and setting the parliament up as a truly democratic body. “We also used the visit to sensitise the Nigerien authorities on the mode of election and facilitated deliberations on the strategy to have it…
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As Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges across the globe, Nigeria has confirmed three cases of the variant. The Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa explained in a statement on Wednesday that the agency had conducted case and genomic surveillance for inbound international travellers arriving in the country at its National Reference Laboratory (NRL) in Abuja, and a network of other testing laboratories. According to him, sequencing of samples from COVID-19 positive inbound travellers was conducted in laboratories with sequencing capacity in the country while all the sequencing data were shared in publicly accessible databases.…
Idea, conception, or opinion is like an object in a space, which can be watched in thousands of different directions. Imagine a 1-point object that has 360 directional views, a 2-dimension (X-Y) object has 360X360 directional views; 3-dimension (X-Y-Z) object has 360 multiples compared to the 2-dimension object. However, in all these thousands of directional views, there is one, which is better, focus and shortest in distance and effort to reach the target and there are many other directional views in the opposing direction of the target. This is the guiding principle on how opinion should be treated irrespective of…
… 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…
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…