ASHENEWS – Jan. 26, 2022 – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has requested N3,000,000,000,000 as fuel subsidy for 2022, an average of ₦270,000,000,000 per month. Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning Zainab Ahmed disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting, preaided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. “In 2022, because of the increased crude oil price per barrel in the global market, now at $80 per barrel, and also because NNPC’s assessment is that Nigeria is that the country is consuming 65.7 million litres per day, that we would end up with an…
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The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Wednesday, engaged top executives and editors of major media organisations to solicit support for the operations of the Armed forces of Nigeria. The meeting has the theme, “Role of Media Executives and Editors in National Security and Conflict Sensitive Communication”. Irabor said the meeting was informed by the fact that both the military and the media pursued common cause of freedom and liberty. He said that it also secure environment as well as looking forward to fulfilling individual desires and as a comity of nations. He said the engagement would…
The House of Representatives has condemned the creeping resurgence of military coups in the West African Sub-region. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep. Julius Ihonvbere on the floor of the House on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that with high apprehension the frightening emerging trend of Military coups in the West African sub-region, the most recent coup in Burkina Faso being part of a resurgence of ‘’a Coup Culture’’ in West Africa. He noted that for the fourth time in only six months, violence had facilitated the transfer of power in West Africa…
South Korea’s daily COVID-19 infections reached yet another grim milestone of 13,012 on Wednesday as worsening fears over the rapid spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant continued to grip the country, Yonhap reports. The country added 13,012 new cases, including 12,743 local infections, taking the total caseload to 762,983, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The latest count is a big jump from Tuesday, when daily infections hit a record of 8,571 since the country reported the first COVID-19 case on January 20, 2020. The daily figures have spiked from around 3,800 to over 7,500 since…
Borno state governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum on Tuesday charged stakeholders to work together in developing an ambitious, realistic and achievable master plan for the stabilization and development of the Northeast region. The northeast geopolitical region include Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states. Zulum who chairs the forum of northeast governors, spoke as special guest of honour of a multi-stakeholder consultation with the theme: North East Stabilization and Development Master Plan (NESDMP) project. The meeting was hosted by the Northeast Development Commission, NEDC at the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton in Abuja. “Let me start by thanking President Muhammadu…
President Muhammadu Buhari has told Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom to stop blaming the federal government for his alleged failures in the state. Ortom in recent times, has been attacking President Buhari on the governor’s perceived notion that the presidency has performed below average. However, Buhari in a statement by his presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu on Tuesday, said Ortom should stop blaming him for his failures in Benue State, including “unpaid salaries and pension arrears,” which according to the statement, “rather than find a way to raise the funds to pay them, he has blamed the President.” According to Buhari,…
… say ‘All we’re awaiting is for you to declare’ It was a mammoth crowd in Abuja on Tuesday, as women from across Nigeria gathered in the Federal Capital Territory for a solidarity walk in support of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, who they said had all it takes to be President of Nigeria after President Muhammadu Buhari. The women, who gathered under over 600 groups across the six geo-political zones of the country, and across key sectors, including Non-Governmental Organisations, Civil Society Organisations, religious, professional bodies, women in media, politics, Nollywood, market women, as well as top women…
The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani has said that the fight against corruption in Nigeria must be holistic and collective. He stated this at the release of the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, CPI, by Transparency International (IT). According to Rafsanjani, the CISLAC the findings in the index were solely an assessment of the entire public sector and not performance measuring of Nigeria’s government, its agencies, or anti-graft agencies. “We are not measuring the performances of the federal government, its agencies or any anti-graft agencies. It is solely a public sector assessment. “We spend billions…
…Told four killed, 110 buildings burnt By Babagana Wakil, Maiduguri Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday meets families of 24 abducted persons and recent attack on three communities in Chibok. Recall that insurgents recently attacked Kawtakare on January 14, 2022, Pemi on January 21 and Korohuma on December 30, 2021. The governor met families of 22 women and two men abducted by Boko Haram/ISWAP during the attack on Kawtakare, Korohuma and Pemi communities. “We are here in Chibok to commiserate with you, the immediate families of our sisters and brothers abducted as well as four of our brothers killed…
Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project, KSADP, has budgeted N10,934,005,270 for the 2022 fiscal year, the State Project Coordinator, Ibrahim Muhammad has announced. The financial plan was approved late Monday evening, during a meeting of the project’s Steering Committee, chaired by the State Deputy Governor and Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Nasiru Gawuna. According to the Project Coordinator, the lion share of about nine percent of the total money was budgeted for crops and legumes value chain interventions, for small holder farmers across the state, to be conducted with technical cooperation of Sasakawa Africa and KNARDA. Although he did not give specific…