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Wednesday, 10 November 2021 06:04

FG proposes new formula for sharing federally collected revenue

Federal government has proposed 50.68 per cent as its share of shareable national revenue. This is 2.03 per cent lower than the 52.68 per cent it presently receives. The government also proposed 25.62 per cent for states and 23.73 per cent for local governments. The two currently receive 26.72 per cent and 20.60 per cent respectively. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, announced the federal government’s position on Monday at a town hall meeting organised to determine a new revenue formula. It also backed the current 13 per cent derivation allocation. Represented by the Permanent Secretary Political…

Wednesday, 10 November 2021 06:03

Buhari’s pledge to the world to reduce carbon emissions in Nigeria goes up in smokes as firewood, charcoal replace cooking gas

Nigerians have been lining up to buy Adunni Abdul's moimoi - black-eyed peas steamed in leaves - for more than a decade in the vast tech accessories market in Lagos. Five years ago, she ditched the smoke that came with it; now it is back. High prices for smokeless liquid petroleum gas (LPG) have forced Abdul and many like her to add wood and charcoal to their cookstands. She had dropped them in 2016 amid a campaign to improve public health. "Gas is costly, that is why I am using firewood," she told Reuters in the teeming Computer Village, explaining…

Tuesday, 09 November 2021 05:50

There were 2m IDPs as at 2020. 1m Nigerians have been added as refugees in their own country over the past 12 months - Official

Over one million Nigerians have been internally displaced in the past 12 months, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons has said. Federal Commissioner of the NCFRMI, Imaan Sulieman-Ibrahim, disclosed this while defending the budget of her agency before House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons on Monday. Ms Suleiman-Ibrahim informed the committee that the total number of internally displaced persons in Nigeria is about three million. She also said Nigeria is host to about 73,000 refugees from 23 countries while over 500,000 Nigerians awaiting repatriation from Chad, Niger, Cameroon, Mali, Libya and other countries. As part…

Tuesday, 09 November 2021 05:46

Gold mine collapses, kills 18 in Niger

At least 18 people were killed on Sunday in an artisanal gold mine collapse in southern Niger, the local mayor said on Monday. The disaster took place in the southern Maradi region, near the border with Nigeria. The death toll is likely to rise, said Adamou Guero, mayor of the commune of Dan Issa. "When we arrived at the site yesterday, people were still searching for bodies," he said. "It's something which is common in gold mines. It's very difficult to control," Guero added. Artisanal miners often use old-fashioned and unregulated methods of digging, leading to frequent deadly accidents. Increasing…

Monday, 08 November 2021 06:05

In 13 years, 145 buildings collapsed in Lagos killing 213 persons without a single conviction. Here’s a chronicle of building collapse in Nigeria’s commercial capital

No fewer than 213 persons have lost their lives in seven major building collapse incidents in Lagos State in the last seven years. This is just as at least 145 buildings have collapsed in the state between 2007 and now. The 213 figure is the summation of casualties in seven different incidents between 2014 and 2020. It was learnt that while the state government had taken possession of the building sites and threatened sanctions, there has been no known conviction. In a bid to instil sanity in the industry, a former governor of the state, Babatunde Fashola, set up a…

Monday, 08 November 2021 06:01

Question to Adeboye: ‘Who do you think will be president in 2023?’ Answer: ‘President of where? How are you sure there will be Nigeria in 2023?’

General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday said politicians who were already jostling for political positions ahead of the 2023 general elections were eyeing uncertain future. Adeboye, while wondering why politicians had started making preparations, noted that no one should be certain about the future, stressing that the future belonged to God. He spoke during the church’s monthly first Sunday telecast monitored by our correspondent. Speaking on the topic ‘The great expectations’ Adeboye said expectations varied from individuals and situations. He said for a student, the expectation would be to graduate, adding that for…

Sunday, 07 November 2021 06:06

Latest on Ikoyi highrise collapse: Death toll rises to 42 as Sanwo-Olu provides cash support for survivors, burial of the dead

The number of survivors of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi has risen to 15 while the deaths recorded so far is 42, Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Saturday. Sanwo-Olu, while giving an update on the search and rescue operation at the scene, said four more bodies have been recovered making the total death toll 42. “Now, we have a total of 42 bodies that have been recovered and we have nine survivors, however, we have additional six people that we have also been able to identify that they were on-site and they were treated at the police…

Sunday, 07 November 2021 06:05

99 killed in fuel tanker explosion in Sierra Leone capital

At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said. Emergency crews worked to clear the scene on Saturday in Freetown's eastern suburb of Wellington where a burnt body and the blackened shells of cars and motorbikes blocked the road following the crash, a Reuters reporter said. The wounded were treated in hospitals and clinics across the capital, deputy health minister Amara Jambai told Reuters. Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle,…

Sunday, 07 November 2021 06:04

US orders non-emergency govt employees in Ethiopia to leave; Denmark, Italy also

The United States has ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees in Ethiopia to leave because of armed conflict and civil unrest, its embassy in Addis Ababa said on Saturday. Denmark and Italy also asked their citizens in Ethiopia to leave while commercial flights were still available, as rebellious Tigrayan forces and their allies have advanced towards the capital Addis Ababa. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government, which has been embroiled in a year-long war against Tigrayan forces, has promised to keep fighting despite calls for a ceasefire from African nations, Western states and the U.N. Security Council. "Incidents of civil unrest and…

Saturday, 06 November 2021 06:06

Court restraints FG from deducting $418m Paris Club refund from states' accounts

A federal high court in Abuja has stopped the federal government from deducting $418 million from the bank accounts of the 36 states of the federation. The court, in a ruling delivered by Inyang Ekwo, the judge, ordered FG to suspend the planned action, pending the determination of a suit brought before it by governments of the 36 states. Last week, Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti, said state governments will not accept arbitrary deductions of funds by the federal government. Jibrin Okutepa, who led the legal team of the states, told Ekwo that the 36 states would be completely crippled…

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Saturday, 06 November 2021 06:02

Insisting on grazing routes is ‘to live in the past’ - Akeredolu

Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has declared that grazing routes would not work in Nigeria because the country can no longer continue to live in the past. He stressed that the country needs a multi-levelled policing with special attention to state police to effectively secure the lives and property of the citizens. The governor said many states in the country have signed the anti-open grazing laws to protect the people and their means of livelihood. Akeredolu declared that the Western Nigeria Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun Corps was effectively filling the vacuum created by the overstretched conventional security agencies, particularly…

Friday, 05 November 2021 06:00

Court papers in Kenya confirm Nnamdi Kanu wasn’t extradited lawfully, brother says

Kingsley Kanu, younger brother of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, alleged that the defence filed by Government of Kenya to his earlier suit in the country on behalf of his brother, has confirmed that Kanu’s rendition did not follow the extradition proceedings. Following the IPOB leader’s extraordinary rendition in June this year, the Kenyan Government had publicly issued series of statements, denying its complicity in the illegal act. According to Kanu, Kenya in its defense filed in Court on November 2, not only persisted in its denials, but “it went further to confirm that…

Friday, 05 November 2021 05:59

Latest on Ikoyi highrise collapse: Project owner’s corpse recovered as death toll hits 40

Corpses of the Managing Director, Fourscore Heights Limited, Femi Osibona, and his friend, a United States of America-based Nigerian businessman, Wale Bob-Oseni, have been recovered from the 21-storey building that collapsed on Gerrard Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Their bodies were found on Thursday by responders during the recovery operation at the scene of the incident. Bob-Oseni, a real-estate dealer, was on his way back to the US on Monday when he got a call from Osibona to check out the project. Both friends were subsequently trapped when the building collapsed. Our correspondents had reported that the…

Friday, 05 November 2021 05:58

Police officer’s demand for N100 bribe from tricycle rider leads to protest that claimed 3 lives in Lagos

There was pandemonium on Command Road, Meiran, Lagos State, as a clash between men of the state police command and tricycle operators in the area left no fewer than three persons dead. Trouble started when a yet-to-be-identified traffic warden allegedly stabbed a tricycle operator, identified only as Eleyele, to death for refusing his demand for N100. Angered by the development, the victim’s colleagues ran after the policeman, who fled the scene. After the cop escaped, the protesting crowd carried the victim’s remains to the front of the Meiran Police Division, where it was deposited. The tricycle operators were said to…

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