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Sunday, 22 August 2021 06:04

Masari tackles critics of his arm-yourself directive to Katsina residents

Katsina state governor, Bello Masari, has urged critics of his recent pronouncement on state of insecurity in some parts of his state to channel their misgivings to the Federal Government. The governor had at a ceremony in Jibia directed residents to acquire arms to defend themselves against seeming end- less and bloody activities of bandits terrorising the residents. The directive has since generated diverse reactions with the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) asking Masari to resign his position as governor. But reacting in a press statement yesterday, Masari described the management of security matters throughout the country as the sole…

Sunday, 22 August 2021 06:02

Tunji Olurin, ex-military governor of Oyo, is dead

Tunji Olurin, a former military governor of Oyo state, is dead. Olurin, who hails from Ilaro in Ogun state, was said to have died on Saturday at the Lagos state University Teaching Hospital. His death was confirmed by his brother, Funso Olurin, on Saturday in Abeokuta. Olurin enrolled into the Nigerian army in 1967 as an officer cadet of the 3rd Regular Course where he obtained his NDACE (Nigerian Defence Academic of Education) and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Nigerian army in March, 1970. He was deputy defence adviser to the Nigerian high commission in India (1975–1978) with…

Saturday, 21 August 2021 05:57

Private jets flood Kano airport as Niger President, Nigeria’s political and business heavyweights attend Buhari son’s wedding

Niger Republic President, Muhammad Bazoum, on Friday joined Nigerian political and business leaders at the wedding ceremony of Yusuf Buhari, the son of President Muhammadu Buhari, in Bichi Local Government Area of Kano State. At the event were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and ex-President Muhammdu Isoufu of Niger Republic, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, many state governors, ministers and federal lawmakers. The wedding held at the palace of Emir of Bichi who is the father of the bride, was presided over by the Minister of Communication and and Digital Economy,…

Saturday, 21 August 2021 05:56

Southern govs, others blow hot over Buhari’s grazing route order

Again, Southern state governors, including those of Delta, Ifeanyi Okowa; Benue, Samuel Ortom; Rivers, Nyesom Wike; and Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, tackled President Muhammadu Buhari over the order to review with dispatch 368 grazing sites in 25 states across the country. Diverse southern groups, including Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere; Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze; and Pan Niger Delta Forum, also launched a heavy pushback against the President’s order. The Southern governors and groups expressed shock at the decision of the Federal Government to go ahead with the plan to review the establishment of grazing sites across the country despite the…

Saturday, 21 August 2021 05:55

Buhari reappoints Oloyede as JAMB Registrar, makes other appointments in Education Ministry

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday reappointed Is-haq Oloyede as Registrar/Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for a second term of five years. The President also approved the reappointment of Abubakar Rasheed as Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission for another five years and Hamid Bobboyi as Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission for a second term of four years. Director, Press and Public Affairs, Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, in a statement on Friday, said the appointments were based on the recommendation of Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu. Buhari also approved reappointment of Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe…

Saturday, 21 August 2021 05:54

FAAC: FG, states, LGs share N760.7bn for July 2021

Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Friday shared a total of N760.717 billion for July 2021 to the federal, states and local governments. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the virtual meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for August 2021. The N760.717 billion total distributable revenue comprised statutory revenue of N617.705 billion; Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N140.555 billion and Exchange Gain of N2.457 billion. In July 2021, N63.501 billion was the total deductions for cost of collection, statutory transfers and refunds. Balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was $60.855 million.…

Friday, 20 August 2021 06:00

Buhari constitutes panel to review cattle grazing reserves across Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the review of 368 grazing reserves across 25 states in the country. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, said in a statement on Thursday that Buhari gave the order, based on the recommendations of a committee chaired by Ibrahim Gambari, chief of staff to the president. Shehu said the committee also recommended the collection of field data on the grazing routes to assess levels of encroachment, stakeholder engagements, and sensitisation. The committee was also said to have recommended production of maps and geo-mapping/tagging of sites, analysis of findings and report preparations, as well as design of appropriate…

Friday, 20 August 2021 05:58

Oil companies owe NDDC $4bn, minister says

International oil companies operating in Nigeria owe $4 billion to an agency responsible for fostering development in the Niger Delta, the impoverished wetlands region where much of the industry is located, a minister said on Thursday. Tayo Alasoadura, minister of state for Niger Delta Affairs, said the debt to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) had been accumulating over a long period of time, but did not name specific companies. “International oil companies are expected to pay 3% of their annual budget to NDDC as their major income but they have been defaulting for a long period of time,” Alasoadura…

Friday, 20 August 2021 05:54

Edo govt denounces plan to turban ‘Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo’

Outrage has greeted plans by Shuwa Arabs ethnic group from Borno, to crown Idris Adanno as Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo State. An invitation card circulated online indicated that the coronation is slated for tomorrow at Rialto Hotel, Eyaen, owned by Osazuwa Iduriase, Enogie (Duke) of Eyaen in Benin Kingdom. It was learnt that Shehu of Borno had on August 4 turbaned Adamu Harun and gave him the same title. However, Edo State Government has describing the purported move as sacrilegious and a threat to peace and security in the state. In a statement, Secretary to the Edo State…

Friday, 20 August 2021 05:51

Taliban urge Afghan unity as protests spread to Kabul

The Taliban called on Afghanistan’s imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to more cities on Thursday, including the capital, Kabul. Several people were killed when Taliban militants fired on a crowd in the eastern city of Asadabad, a witness said. Another witness reported gunshots near a rally in Kabul, but they appeared to be Taliban firing into the air. On the day Afghanistan celebrates its independence from British control in 1919, a social media video showed a crowd of men…

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Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:57

International passengers arriving Nigeria coughed out N40bn on Covid-19 tests in 9 months - Report

Passengers arriving at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, spent N40.212 billion on Covid-19 test. The payments, according to a Thisday report, covered September 2020 to June 2021. As part of Covid-19 rules, they are compulsorily collected on arrival from passengers to test for the virus, which they are expected to do after seven days of quarantine. In September, the federal government announced resumption of international flights at the Lagos and Abuja airports. It followed the suspension of commercial flight operations in March 2020. Citing industry data, the newspaper said 575,175 passengers arrived in…

Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:55

FG approves N658.8m for deployment of dogs to Abuja, Lagos airports

Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, approved N21,107,212,510 billion for various projects in aviation, education ministries, and other sectors. The government also earmarked N658.8m for deployment of dogs to Lagos, Abuja airports, just as it voted N985 million for installation of body scanners for four international airports. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, alongside Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, disclosed this to journalists at the end of the meeting. Sirika said Council approved four memoranda for his ministry, the total cost of…

Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:51

Kaduna authorises school resumption for JS III students who are to dress in mufti

Kaduna State Government has announced that schools in the state would re-open on Wednesday, 18th August, 2021. It, however, said the resumption affects Junior Secondary School (JSS) III students only. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Shehu Muhammad, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. He said the affected students would appear in mufti. The state government had, last week, shut schools due to ongoing military operations against bandits in northwestern states. “Government has approved the resumption for JSS lll students, who were scheduled to write their National Examination Council Basic Education Certificate Examination (NECO BECE) scheduled for 23rd August to…

Wednesday, 18 August 2021 06:06

Obaseki was right; CBN has so far ‘printed’ N14.86trn to fund Buhari’s budgets. Here are the details

Federal Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances has ballooned to N15.51tn, rising by 2,286 per cent in six years, data collated from the CBN have shown. The N15.51tn owed by the Federal Government to the central bank is not part of the country’s total public debt stock, which was N33.11tn as of March 2021, according to Debt Management Office. The public debt stock comprises the debts of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory. Ways and Means Advances is a loan facility used by the…

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