“We, the undersigned on behalf of the Senators from the 19 Northern States and the FCT, under the aegis of Northern Senators Forum (NSF), hereby state that Senator Ahmed Abdul Ningi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP, Bauchi Central), who also happens to be the chairman of our forum, was on his own in the claims he made on the BBC Hausa Service on the 2024 budget.
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President Bola Tinubu will on Monday inaugurated the renamed Minna International Airport, agro-processing zone, and agriculture equipment. The airport is…
When you critically look at Nigeria, or the North, and its situation, what is happening is not excusable. Take instances where warehouses or trailer loads of food were attacked and stripped of everything: Is it hunger where you see a purportedly hungry man hurrying away with two or three bags of rice on his shoulders and returning for more? Or able-bodied youths, both male and female, fighting their way through the madness to grab as much of the loot as they can, taking them somewhere for safekeeping and returning for more?
To begin with, President Tinubu on November 29, 2023, presented a budget of N27.5 Trillion to the joint session of the National Assembly made up of N9.92 Trillion recurrent expenditure, Debt Service of N8.25 Trillion, and Capital Expenditure of N8.7 Trillion.
“We have seen the huge damage that was done not only to the North but the entire country in that budget. We are supposed to sit with the Senate president to inform him about what we have observed.
Away in Doha, President Bola Tinubu has asked his host country’s potential Qatar investors to Nigeria, to report any government…
These days, the words dominating the air are “hunger” and “protest”. And that, we are told, is because of two others – “dollar” and “salary”. Unfortunately, those capitalising on the latter two words to push for the first two words hardly mention the words “production” and “security” which are fuelled by justice and fairness. And there can be no justice without the rule of law.
In spite of President Bola Tinubu’s move to cut down the cost of governance, and his recent move to merge, or eliminate some government agencies, the same president is set to visit Qatar with two of his children, Seyi and Yinka, as part of the delegation delegation to travel with him, between March 2nd and 3rd 2024, on a state visit to Doha, capital of Qatar.
President Bola Tinubu has met with private sector leaders, including Aliko Dangote, Abdulsamad Raniu, Tony Elumelu, and Wale Tinubu to discuss the economic hardship that has beleaguered the country with efforts to address the problem.
President Bola Tinubu is currently holding a crucial meeting with selected members of the organized private sector, including Tony Elumelu at the presidential Villa, Vanguard has reported.